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Geek Purgatory Article Wednesday, December 3, 2008 @ 8:07AMAbout six days after arriving in Japan, I found myself in Tokyo in the company of a suddenly homeless friend.
Artists’ Alliance of Sugar Land features ”Imagined Realities” art show Tuesday, December 2, 2008 @ 12:29PMMishta Smalley, a local computer arts illustrator and member of the Artists’ Alliance of Sugar Land, will combine her background in applied arts and 3-D animation in a unique multi-media art show entitled “Imagined Realities.”
A Passage From India Saturday, November 29, 2008 @ 12:20AMThe novelist Amitav Ghosh reimagines the lives of Indian peasants on the eve of the Opium Wars.
Tsubasa, RESERVoir CHRoNiCLE Thursday, November 27, 2008 @ 11:14PMThere are series that evolve slowly, there are those that evolve quickly, and there are many that devolve into various lower life-forms and spend their latter days squirming around in stinky muckholes of their own making.
The Glossy Gospel Thursday, November 27, 2008 @ 5:13AMShould porn addicts and manga fans get their own Bible?
Exploitation Cinema: Lone Wolf and Cub: Sword of Vengeance Tuesday, November 25, 2008 @ 3:39PMAn exploitation classic about honour, fatherhood, and, of course, revenge. Writer Kazuo Koike and artist Goseki Kojima first introduced the manga for Lone Wolf and Cub in 1970. It sold eight million copies in Japan and was renowned for its story of adventure and brutality during the Edo period. The tale led to six films starring the legendary Tomisaburo Wakayama as disgraced ronin Ogami Ittō, a ...
Exploitation Cinema: Lone Wolf and Cub: Sword of Vengeance Tuesday, November 25, 2008 @ 3:39PMAn exploitation classic about honour, fatherhood, and, of course, revenge. Writer Kazuo Koike and artist Goseki Kojima first introduced the manga for Lone Wolf and Cub in 1970. It sold eight million copies in Japan and was renowned for its story of adventure and brutality during the Edo period. The tale led to six films starring the legendary Tomisaburo Wakayama as disgraced ronin Ogami Ittō, a ...
Exploitation Cinema: Lone Wolf and Cub: Sword of Vengeance Tuesday, November 25, 2008 @ 3:39PMAn exploitation classic about honour, fatherhood, and, of course, revenge. Writer Kazuo Koike and artist Goseki Kojima first introduced the manga for Lone Wolf and Cub in 1970. It sold eight million copies in Japan and was renowned for its story of adventure and brutality during the Edo period. The tale led to six films starring the legendary Tomisaburo Wakayama as disgraced ronin Ogami Ittō, a ...
Exploitation Cinema: Lone Wolf and Cub: Sword of Vengeance Tuesday, November 25, 2008 @ 3:39PMAn exploitation classic about honour, fatherhood, and, of course, revenge. Writer Kazuo Koike and artist Goseki Kojima first introduced the manga for Lone Wolf and Cub in 1970. It sold eight million copies in Japan and was renowned for its story of adventure and brutality during the Edo period. The tale led to six films starring the legendary Tomisaburo Wakayama as disgraced ronin Ogami Ittō, a ...
Exploitation Cinema: Lone Wolf and Cub: Sword of Vengeance Tuesday, November 25, 2008 @ 3:39PMAn exploitation classic about honour, fatherhood, and, of course, revenge. Writer Kazuo Koike and artist Goseki Kojima first introduced the manga for Lone Wolf and Cub in 1970. It sold eight million copies in Japan and was renowned for its story of adventure and brutality during the Edo period. The tale led to six films starring the legendary Tomisaburo Wakayama as disgraced ronin Ogami Ittō, a ...
Exploitation Cinema: Lone Wolf and Cub: Sword of Vengeance Tuesday, November 25, 2008 @ 3:39PMAn exploitation classic about honour, fatherhood, and, of course, revenge. Writer Kazuo Koike and artist Goseki Kojima first introduced the manga for Lone Wolf and Cub in 1970. It sold eight million copies in Japan and was renowned for its story of adventure and brutality during the Edo period. The tale led to six films starring the legendary Tomisaburo Wakayama as disgraced ronin Ogami Ittō, a ...
JapanToday: Japan News and Discussion ジャパントゥデイ:日本のニュースを英語で読む Monday, November 24, 2008 @ 4:39PMHayao Miyazaki speaks at the Foreign Correspondents’ Club of Japan in Tokyo. PHOTO BY TARO FUJIMOTO Animation has become symbolic of Japan’s culture and industry thanks to the work of anime guru Hayao Miyazaki.
JapanToday: Japan News and Discussion ジャパントゥデイ:日本のニュースを英語で読む Monday, November 24, 2008 @ 4:39PMHayao Miyazaki speaks at the Foreign Correspondents’ Club of Japan in Tokyo. PHOTO BY TARO FUJIMOTO Animation has become symbolic of Japan’s culture and industry thanks to the work of anime guru Hayao Miyazaki.
9:19 a.m. Membership show winners announced Monday, November 24, 2008 @ 12:44PMSpiva Center for the Arts has announced the winners of the 61st annual membership show. Spiva members competed for $3,000 in cash prizes in the adult and children’s divisions. A total of 144 artists participated.
Recent Articles Sunday, November 23, 2008 @ 11:08PMThere is at least one aspect where Gantz lives up to the hype: it contains all the gore, nudity and depravity that everyone else was warning you about. As for the actual story ... well, when is it going to show up?
Video games shuffle from screen to page Sunday, November 23, 2008 @ 5:38AMVideo game stories used to be so blessedly uncomplicated. Take "Pong," for instance, the story of a ball being hit back and forth by two paddles in an endless black void. Or "Space Invaders," about a lone spaceship defending Earth and fighting off infinite waves of invading alien forces.
Inoue keeps it Real Saturday, November 22, 2008 @ 5:54PMTakehiko Inoue’s equilibrium and knack for human drama is what scores points for his manga.
Evyione: Ocean Fantasy Thursday, November 20, 2008 @ 11:08PMEvyione, the beautiful but independent-minded Princess of Emvonia, is coming of age this year, and to celebrate, her royal family fetes her on the decks of a handsomely appointed oceangoing vessel.
"Violent DS RPG gushing from the wounds of my wallet." Sunday, November 16, 2008 @ 8:21PMLots of promising looking DS RPGs have seen releases as of late and I was thinking of posting some brief thoughts on each one to let people know how I thought they turned out.
Graphic novels come of age Sunday, November 16, 2008 @ 5:33AMConsidered the younger, adolescent sibling of sophisticated fine art, cartooning continues its coming of age, gaining footing with a generation of fans. Stretched beyond comic-book length, graphic novels have amassed substantial real estate in bookstores in recent years, with no foreclosures in sight. They’re the subject of Graphic Language: The Art of the ‘Comic’ Book, an exhibit through ...
The Beano menaces on Thursday, November 13, 2008 @ 9:46AMThe genius of The Beano lies in the way it has reinterpreted characters for the modern age. Long live Lord Snooty the Third!
Walk Among the Shadows and Awaken the Power Within in the New Blue Dragon Role Playing Card Game Wednesday, November 12, 2008 @ 12:04PMBlue Dragon Role Playing Card Game is the First Ever Card Game from Legendary Gaming Company Konami Digital Entertainment , Inc.; First Release to be Hobby Only
(VIDEO) Mesquite: City council declares October Big Read month Wednesday, November 12, 2008 @ 12:39AMThe Mesquite City Council has declared October the month of The Big Read. Throughout the month organizations, ranging from the Mesquite school district, Eastfield College and various city departments are promoting reading.
Limp punch Saturday, November 8, 2008 @ 5:00PMRIKU lives in a small, unnamed town with foster father Rokuhara. Together, they run a small shop selling photos of movie stars. But they also have a side business – solving problems for clients, be it finding a runaway or bashing up unscrupulous debt collectors who tamper with loan contracts.
Loyal helper Saturday, November 8, 2008 @ 5:00PMSHE cooks, cleans, does the linens, helps out with the garden, brews fantastic tea and is even skilful enough with the needle to create new dresses out of old ones. And I’m not talking about a Stepford wife but 13-year-old orphan Shirley Madison.
Recent Articles Tuesday, November 4, 2008 @ 11:04PMHmm. A shoujo manga series about an insecure but otherwise ordinary girl whose love life is being sabotaged by a super-popular pretty girl? And her only recourse for assistance against this inexplicably cruel creature is an off-beat, black-haired boy?
The Manga Guide to Statistics Monday, November 3, 2008 @ 5:18AMNew from No Starch Press: Statistics Made Fun with First Title in New Educational Manga Guide Series
(VIDEO) Mesquite: City council declares October Big Read month Monday, November 3, 2008 @ 12:21AMThe Mesquite City Council has declared October the month of The Big Read. Throughout the month organizations, ranging from the Mesquite school district, Eastfield College and various city departments are promoting reading.
JapanToday: Japan News and Discussion ジャパントゥデイ:日本のニュースを英語で読む Sunday, November 2, 2008 @ 10:27PM“Kodansha’s Katakana Workbook” is an all-new, streamlined workbook designed for beginner-level students who want to learn katakana, the Japanese script used for writing loanwords, as efficiently as possible.
JapanToday: Japan News and Discussion ジャパントゥデイ:日本のニュースを英語で読む Sunday, November 2, 2008 @ 10:27PM“Kodansha’s Katakana Workbook” is an all-new, streamlined workbook designed for beginner-level students who want to learn katakana, the Japanese script used for writing loanwords, as efficiently as possible.
JapanToday: Japan News and Discussion ジャパントゥデイ:日本のニュースを英語で読む Sunday, November 2, 2008 @ 10:27PM“Kodansha’s Katakana Workbook” is an all-new, streamlined workbook designed for beginner-level students who want to learn katakana, the Japanese script used for writing loanwords, as efficiently as possible.
JapanToday: Japan News and Discussion ジャパントゥデイ:日本のニュースを英語で読む Sunday, November 2, 2008 @ 10:27PM“Kodansha’s Katakana Workbook” is an all-new, streamlined workbook designed for beginner-level students who want to learn katakana, the Japanese script used for writing loanwords, as efficiently as possible.
Court Stops Work on Chikelu’s Complex Sunday, November 2, 2008 @ 9:19PMAn Abuja High Court over the weekend granted an interim order stopping construction work on a multi-million naira complex in the FCT, belonging to former information minister, Chukwuemeka Chikelu.
That’s Odd Saturday, November 1, 2008 @ 6:26PMODD Thomas is your average 19-year-old with an unusual ability. He wakes up every morning to find Elvis hanging around his living room, and just the other day, ex-US President Lyndon B. Johnson mooned him on the street.
Public relations, manga-style Saturday, November 1, 2008 @ 6:25PMFOR 10 years, the US Navy base in Yokosuka, Kanagawa Prefecture, was the home port of the aircraft carrier USS Kitty Hawk . But the Kitty Hawk sailed away from Japan for what was probably the last time in May, replaced by the USS George Washington , which arrived in Yokosuka in September.
Boho in Tokyo Friday, October 31, 2008 @ 7:26PM Thick smoke and swirling jazz fill the air as a silver-haired man with melancholy eyes sitting at a nearby table removes the pipe from his mouth and looks sharply in my direction. We may be sitting in a tiny, windowless café on a sunny Tuesday afternoon but the message is clear: "You are talking too loudly for me to appreciate the music. Please be quiet."
Japanese man petitions to marry comic-book character Thursday, October 30, 2008 @ 10:05PMA Japanese man has enlisted hundreds of people in a campaign to allow marriages between humans and cartoon characters, saying he feels more at ease in the "two-dimensional world."
Japanese man launches campaign to marry manga girl Thursday, October 30, 2008 @ 8:09AMTokyo - More than 1,000 Japanese signed an online petition to legalize marriage between humans and comic-book characters launched by a man who wants to marry a girl from a poplar Japanese manga comic series. Taichi Takashita said he wanted to collect...
Reviews: Fashion Wednesday, October 29, 2008 @ 6:44AMFashion feels like a story that has been told by someone with minimal first-hand experience of the world. Sure there are anecdotal references but it never feels like this is what it must really be like, behind the scenes in the fashion world.
Japanese Box Office, October 25-26 Tuesday, October 28, 2008 @ 10:49PMThe manga-based Tsuri Baka Nisshi 19: Yokoso! Suzuki Kensetsu Go-Ikkō-sama comedy film opened at #4 at the Japanese box office during the October 25-26 weekend.
If one was asked which racecourse was likely to host the seasonal reintroduction of Kauto Star, the 2007 Cheltenham ... Monday, October 27, 2008 @ 7:49PMRichie Ramsay is taking up an offer of help from an old friend from his days as a caddie at Royal Aberdeen to help him make his first tentative steps on the European Tour.
A dark and brutal world Saturday, October 25, 2008 @ 6:23PMSTARCRAFT ! Oh, just the mention of the name takes me back to the heyday of my misguided youth when I’d challenge my friends to a few rounds of Blizzard’s immensely popular computer game.
Fine art Saturday, October 25, 2008 @ 6:23PMKASUMI Morioka is a budding magician and an all-round sweetie with a positive, eager outlook and an insatiable curiosity. Her mother passed away when she was little, and her nomadic father travels all over the world conducting research on plants, often uprooting her from her friends and her life.
Ten Contemporary Artists Invited By The Guggenheim Friday, October 24, 2008 @ 9:54PMJorge Pardo, Untitled, 2002, Walnut wood tables and chairs, colored spackle inlay, blown colored glass, polished aluminum, and 186 light fixtures, Overall: 10 x 20 x 20 m, Installation view, Abgeordneten-Restaurant, Paul-Lobe-Haus, Berlin. © Jorge Pardo, courtesy neugerriemschneider, Berlin.
JapanToday: Japan News and Discussion ジャパントゥデイ:日本のニュースを英語で読む Friday, October 24, 2008 @ 5:42PMThe pundits are betting that the prime minister, Taro Aso, will dissolve the Lower House of Representatives and call a general election at the end of November—while he is still enjoying his “honeymoon” with the Japanese media and the public.
JapanToday: Japan News and Discussion ジャパントゥデイ:日本のニュースを英語で読む Friday, October 24, 2008 @ 5:42PMThe pundits are betting that the prime minister, Taro Aso, will dissolve the Lower House of Representatives and call a general election at the end of November—while he is still enjoying his “honeymoon” with the Japanese media and the public.
JapanToday: Japan News and Discussion ジャパントゥデイ:日本のニュースを英語で読む Friday, October 24, 2008 @ 5:42PMThe pundits are betting that the prime minister, Taro Aso, will dissolve the Lower House of Representatives and call a general election at the end of November—while he is still enjoying his “honeymoon” with the Japanese media and the public.
(VIDEO) Mesquite: City council declares October Big Read month Friday, October 24, 2008 @ 12:34AMThe Mesquite City Council has declared October the month of The Big Read. Throughout the month organizations, ranging from the Mesquite school district, Eastfield College and various city departments are promoting reading.
Movies coming soon Thursday, October 23, 2008 @ 7:30PMQuantum of Solace - Betrayed by Vesper, the woman he loved, the dashing James Bond fights the urge to make his latest mission a personal one.
Gamescampus Announces Halloween Plans for Its MMO Titles Thursday, October 23, 2008 @ 12:00PMEach Gamescampus game offers fun Halloween-themed events and prizes. October 23, 2008 - San Jose-based online game publisher, GamesCampus (run by OnNet USA), announced today a slew of Halloween-themed events for its online games.