Some of the die-hard otaku will lynch me for this, but I enjoy reading comics that aren’t just manga all the time.
Comics and Manga: The setting is different, but the stories are universal
November 22nd, 2009 — Australia, Australian anime and manga fandom, Comics, Manga, Uncategorized, blogging, dialogue, language, starman, why-we-read-comics, why-we-read-manga
Taking a Jerry Seinfeld approach to the Anime Industry
November 18th, 2009 — Japan, Uncategorized, anime, anime-industry, creators, moe, seinfeld
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.
The My Projects I’ve Worked On, LOL Project
November 15th, 2009 — Content Crunch, Cory Doctorow, First Impressions Are Often Misleading, Internet, Movies, Uncategorized, Welcome to the NHK, Writer's Thoughts, Writing, action figures, books, creativity, e-book, editorial, light novel, lulu.com, out of print
Avoiding Plot Bunnies: NaNoWriMo and the need to be oneself in your writing voice.
November 15th, 2009 — Adult responsibility, Andy Griffiths, Asperger's Syndrome, Australia, Flickr, Funnel Web Spider, Geek Philosophy, NaNoWriMo, Writer's Thoughts, Writing, books, creativity, editorial, essay, writing practice
This is so going to make me unpopular: On selling out, professionally, about licensed anime and manga.
November 13th, 2009 — Anime Blogging, Australian anime and manga fandom, Manga, Manga Reviews, Uncategorized
Ok, so my last post about MangaViews.com may have rubbed people the wrong way. I’m afraid that if I’m going to get anywhere in the blogosphere at all, I’m going to have to enter some minefields. One of the biggest minefields I’ve skirted with in my blogging career wasn’t actually the Screen Play entry where I attempted a proposal for a video game designed to teach dating social skills to socially disabled people, nor was it the ever controversial anti-twincest post I made for personal reasons but had to deal with a bunch of comments from twincest fangirls where I understood where they were coming from but I still didn’t agree with them.
Us Manga Bloggers Gotta Stick Together: Thoughts on MangaViews.com
November 12th, 2009 — Australian anime and manga fandom, Geek Philosophy, Manga, Manga Reviews, blogging, editorial
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.
Pimping Ain’t Easy (other new projects I’ve been working on)
November 11th, 2009 — Flickr, NaNoWriMo, Photography, Screen Play Blog, Uncategorized, blogging, books, light novel, stuff white people like
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 read my latest Screen Play entry I worked on click 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.
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Copyright © Jacob Martin 2009. All Rights Reserved.
Marvelous Melmo: A loli-character so vintage she’s not even a loli anymore.
November 5th, 2009 — Anime figures, Anime inspired design, Marvelous Melmo, Osamu Tezuka, Shoujo, vintage
NaNoWrimo, Flickr and Other things a Blogger can mess around with
November 5th, 2009 — An Education, Australia, Circular Quay, Dragonball, Flickr, NaNoWriMo
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.
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Copyright © Jacob Martin 2009. All Rights Reserved.
Yotsuba Kowai Revoltech Figure Review
October 27th, 2009 — Anime figures, Photography, Yotsuba
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.
