Here’s my take on the anime industry inspired by Jerry Seinfeld on Google Reader:
I see anime like Jerry Seinfeld sees construction sites, there is one guy who’s working on something and all the other guys are watching and saying “Is that a Phillips Head?” and the anime director, in interviews, says “You bet.” in his own way. In the end we can’t really do anything about creators not making non-moe shows, the only real change in anime comes when somebody writes down an idea and does something (arguably) productive. Studio 04C is an example of an inventive anime studio, and Satoshi Kon or however you spell his name creates rather interesting and deep work too. If you don’t like the anime Japan is making, make it yourself like the Animatrix guys.
You might have noticed if you read Manga Blog that there’s a new site called MangaViews.com which showcases a bunch of really interesting manga reviews. So far I reckon, after having become a member of the site to contribute stuff to it, it has the potential to really do good for the aniblogosphere in terms of reviewing licensed manga. The reviews can at the moment be accessed over time as more manga reviews are added, but it also provides news stories about recent manga publications which are relevant to newcomers and veteran manga readers alike.
As you may know, I’ve been away from blogging for an important reason: NaNoWrimo. It’s getting to the middle of the month, and I haven’t quite gotten to 25,000 words. My novel incorporates many internet elements to express plot, or, interactions between other human beings online as it happens in a race against time. I won’t reveal too much about it but if you want to see an excerpt from my NaNoWriMo novel, you can see the excerpt here.
If you want to see my reviews for The Ranobe Cafe, you’ll have to wait until I finish reading Brave Story (the 816 page toebreaker of a light novel that is so long, most reviewers on Goodreads.com have never finished it). I want to put in the real effort and get into the bones of it, but most of all I want to know how it ends before I review it. Because I don’t want to be a hypocrite.
If you want to see my Welcome to the NHK inspired photography series Welcome to the ABC click here.
If you want to see my post critiquing Stuff White People Like from an Australian perspective, you’ll have to wait a while as well.
Ok, so this month is NaNoWriMo, the gruelling exercise where you try and write a 50,000 word novel in a month.
I liked my start, I’m up to 11,000 words. Haven’t been able to blog anime much, but I have been enjoying watching Dragonball on my new Nokia 5800 XpressMusic phone for my anime fix. Of course this is all distracting me from increasing my word count, hopefully I will be able to reach 50,000 by the end of the month…
I also went out to Circular Quay this week and didn’t get to show you any photos of my trip out there. I was there to see An Education, the new Nick Hornby scripted film. It was a good movie, I recommend you see it if you can because it’s one of the most well written and plotted movies out there at the moment.
As well as that I uploaded the photos from my trip to Circular Quay on Flickr, check them out and leave your comments if you like my photos.
Yotsuba Kowai is represented well in this Revoltech figure, it out of all my anime figures shows a real sense of the childhood wonder Yotsuba possesses in her worldview, she comes with two heads, one really happy, one really angry. Yotsuba does get angry occasionally in the manga, but not often. Yotsuba’s strength is her almost unending cheerfulness in the face of a somewhat annoying world.
First of all, I’ve never really been able to cover anime seasons while they currently air because of my HSC, and now that that’s over, I am a Graduate lacking a Mrs. Robinson. For those of you who don’t know what I mean by that joke, rent The Graduate, it has Dustin Hoffmann in it for crying out loud. HE RULES.
All this happened in the past 24 hours. Having an amazing time - All looks like play but its actually hard work ^^; But fun - incredibly fun ^o^ Spoke at the Animation Asia Conference and met folks like the producer of Summer Wars and the Girl Who leapt through time (Mamoru Hosoda) and the CEO of Kadokawa (Haruhi/Lucky Star).Then there was a press conference […]
First photo from left to right:- Kaname, May'n, Uchiro Mizuki, Mamoru Hosoda, Danny Choo.Together with May'n backstage. Met her manager. Be expecting to see more of May'n at dannychoo.com - his office is in Meguro too! Just finished a day of presentations for the Animation Asia Conference. Need to dash to rehearse for my section tomorrow and g […]
Setting up at the Suntec International & Exhibition Center. The Bandai booth on the left and a bit of my booth on the right with the dannychoo.com orange carpet. Good Smile just arrived and brought over some Decoration Masters for you which you can see at the TFS Singapore Edition. Fun and games start for me tomorrow with my presentation at the AAC. Actu […]
After landing in Singapore and spending an hour to catch up on mails at the hotel, went with comrades at Sozo, 0ne and Genesis Frontier for some scrumptious hawker center food. Then went to visit the Sozo offices. Sozo are the folks organizing the Anime Festival Asia that is taking place from this Saturday 21st at the Suntec Convention Centre.The Sozo office […]
Been filming since this morning for AFA09. Think I broke my toe ^^; Currently at hotel resting for a wee bit. Heading off to Orchard road and am due to be at the Ion Orchard from about 18:30-ish. If you are interested in coming along then the film crew, folks at AFA and I will be around to meet you ^o^ More updates and photos later. Must dash!Oh - watch the […]
Absolute awesome progress by Illustrator KL in time for my presentation at the Animation Asia Conference where folks like the CEO of Kadokawa, Director of Summer Wars/Girl Who Leaped Through Time will take a look if they have not fallen asleep during my presentation ^^; Whats your fave production studio for anime titles?The GIF is in a loop now and just to g […]
Sorry to have kept you waiting! I have good news, bad news and then good news. First up is the good news. There were multiple correct answers who all guessed 2,950 yen. Looks like many folks have been paying attention to the previous Week in Tokyo and Japan related posts where I mention that I always get my business cards from Tokyo Meishi Land.Then its the […]
Been in Singapore for just a few hours and am already on my 3rd cuppa Teh Tarik ( en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teh_tarik ) Will miss this drink the most when I leave SG. Using Wireless SG - a free wifi service that can be found all over the island. FTW desu. Thanks to www.kodomut.com/ for organizing the connection. シンガポールに到着して数時間しか経っていないが、テ・タリックという紅茶系の飲料の3杯分を消費してい […]
The armor goes on board via hand luggage ^^; Walking though the duty free section where you can find souvenirs which are usually only available in different prefectures around Japan. I better dash now. Ping you again when I arrive in Changi airport. アーマーは手荷物と言うことで^^;This is a Tokyo Live Blogger post posted from the iPhone. You can read more by this and othe […]
Tokyo 06:34AM. About to leave for Narita airport. Going to miss my girls. Hope the relatives don't tease them while I'm away!Never been this swamped before - I know I've said it in the past before but it means that things are even more busier ^^; Apart from the Keynotes that I have been preparing for Singapore, we've also been working on […]
