By: Ian L
Fonts: - Futura (original) - Granite - Shattered Glass I agree about the all-caps treatment.
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>>Those games are still scammy and not fun though. You’re absolutely right someone should have mentioned compugacha. That was a huge deal this year. As a side note you’d think some of the bigger...
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Ah, I think phrase my Eva comment too close to the viewpoint of the “spiritually Japanese fan”. What I was trying to say was that Eva actually had a real wide release and earned the monies. Its not...
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Going offtopic, but Tim Rogers has a great, rambling essay about this kind of scammy, unfun videogames (not about Japanese developers, but most observations should apply).
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Re:8)Matthew Penny sez: “NHK seems to be doubling down on the budget of the soon to start Taiga Drama “Yae no Sakura”. After the Shinsengumi boom, however, do we really need another series about...
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Matt Alt sez in #16 “but Japan is traditionally at its worst entertainment-wise when it knows the rest of the world is watching.” Can’t agree more.Already see the image of EXILE singing Kimigayo as...
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>Matthew Penney Japan can put on fantastic mass spectacles and actually does every year — just check out the awaodori festival in Tokushima or Koenji — but as Matt Alt suggests, you just know that...
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I think that you guys are being a bit cynical. Japan has already put on three successful and well-received Olympic openers. Japanese consulates and the Japan Foundation also tend to prioritize...
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>>”Vile like Exile” I think you’ve just accidentally coined the world’s greatest band name. >>”Has there been some huge international event that Japan embarrassingly botched” Yes. It’s...
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I think Cool Japan looks very different overseas. Apart from that maid ambassador thing, which bequeathed an embarrassing Youtube clip or two, it isn’t at all representative of how Japan is being...
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For my money, the 2020 Tokyo Olympic opening ceremony should be an epic staged battle between a “life-sized” Godzilla and a Gundam mobile suit, and nothing else
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Nerd interlude – GUNDAMs are too short (unless you want to see it hacking at Godzilla’s shins with a beam saber). Evas are about the same size. I’m all for some giant robot, kaiju, and Ultraman battle...
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Shinzo Abe is back. Is not that newsworthy? The election of a new Japanese PM just doesnt seem to be…
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>> Eva actually had a real wide release and earned the monies. It did, but how much of that is due to it being the only game in town? Hosoda’s stuff is great but more innocent; Ghibli’s going off...
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Apart from all of the marketing and konbini ephemera drawing in “civilians”, I think that the success of this Eva film is due to broad support among male AND female otaku. I don’t think that it is a...
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Just a few casual observations on finance-related matters from the year. The prosecution of Nomura Securities for insider trading was a big deal in 2012. The company has fallen hard and fast. By all...
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Ah, but that’s the thing no? Eva is unifier among the varied otakus and even manage to pull in the civilians The next film will probably earn money then after that there be no more anime that has bite...
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“that there be no more anime that has bite / otaku unifier / civilian wrangler.” Forever is a long, long time. The 1990s cast a long shadow for original television (although I’ll take 2000s series such...
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