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MARUI x KERA / May 08
Bringing you KERA Magazine's popular "Street Snap" corner, with snapshots of fashion from the streets of Harajuku.
"I like Visual-K and Metal :D
Finally going to do some serious gigs
I’m gonna SIIINNNGGG!!!! As much as a heavy metal band can anyway. LOL
Hope to cross over to the Visual-Kei scene too Yoroshiku!!"
Hey look around today, everything don't need to be the same
Ok. Another couple of months, another issue of OUSA…and here is sexy ISSUE 6 to smack you upside the head cha-la with hot fierce fighting. “Why duh Dragon Ball Z on da cover?” the dullards moan and groan. Well, it’s only the best selling anime in the USA and I knew that Daryl “Super Saiyan” Surat and Joseph “Broly Again” Luster were born to team up, power up, and destroy the world with their combined Toriyama-taunting prowess.
Also inside, Dave Merrill delivers THE Speed Racer retrospective of our times, while Masaya Honda and myself interview Tatsunoko honcho Ippei Kuri about inventing and directing Speed all those years ago. Question: Is anyone else out there likely to interview Ippei Kuri aside from OUSA? Answer: no! There’s also our legendary manga coverage overseen by Jason Thompson and Ed Chavez and contribs from the usual cast of characters including Clarissa Graffeo, Paul Thomas Chapman, Mike Dent, Shaenon Garrity, August Ragone, Dave Riley, and so on. And we also welcome all new contributors Gilles Poitras, (we got him at a fire sale) and zany Zac Bentz of Japanator.com. Also in this issue: maids, maids, maids, and the return of wildarmsheero and his all-moe, all the time hug pillows!
Don’t delay, buy it today!
1954: Kurama Tengu Vs. Godzilla
The Black-Masked Reformer meets the King of the Monsters.
Koakuma ageha - Ningen janakute ningyo ni naritaino
"We Want to Become Dolls, Not Humans" feature in the April issue of Koakuma ageha magazine.
Godzilla Just Horsing Around
1954: With co-stars Akira Takarada and Momoko Kochi...
1955: With Toho staff, getting ready for the big show...
MACIAS MONDO TOKYO show: SF Sat/19
'Mondo Tokyo' at Other Cinema in San Francisco, April Sat/19
Here's the national magazine editor of 'Otaku USA', Patrick Macias, with his outrageous subcultural survey, taking us on a breathlessly wild ride through Weird Tokyo. Macias has become the main agent for interpreting Japanese youth genres like anime, manga, and cult films, and his years of trans-Pacific travel have generated a veritable encyclopedia of bizarre fan-boy obsessions. Among the features of the feverish J-Pop imagination are the “maid cafes” of Akihabara, the action-figure fetish cults (both erotic and warrior), costume role-playing, and delinquent bikers, revealed in all their exotic detail through Macias’ anecdote-rich live narration. Consummating the program is a monstrous sample of old-school exploitation, the incredible last reel of 'Gamera, the Invincible', in glorious 16mm B/W, with live audio “enhancement” by Hans Grusel-san and the Anti-Ear. Free robot model-kits, and magazines, too!
Come in COSPLAY costume for a dollar off admission price.
SAT. 4/19: MACIAS' MONDO TOKYO + GAMERA (AMPLIFIED) +
April 19, 2008
08:30 PM - 10:30 PM
Other Cinema
992 Valencia Street at 21st
San Francisco
www.othercinema.com
Cost:
$8
STUDIO VOICE - Gravure Magic
The May issue of "Multi-Media Mix Magazine" STUDIO VOICE features a scintillating 40+ page feature on "Gravure Magic". Lots of photo (ahem) spreads, interviews with models, photographers, and a dizzying history of the genre since the '80s.
The mag also features my monthly "Paranoid States of America" column. This time, I'm on about RFID "Spy Chips" which, co-incidently, are going to be used shortly at an Ohio anime con to "track attendees."
MARUI X KERA / APRIL 15
Bringing you KERA Magazine's popular "Street Snap" corner, with snapshots of fashion from the streets of Harajuku.
Aoki Misako （From Chiba） Blood Type O, Nurse, Height 157cm
Today's Fashion Theme: Pink Heart Bag ♥
'Town of Evening Calm' Nominated for Eisner Awards
Fumiyo Kouno's manga Town of Evening Calm, Country of Cherry Blossoms has been nominated for a pair of 2008 Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards in the following categories.
Best Short Story
Best U.S. Edition of International Material—Japan
'Town of Evening Calm, Country of Cherry Blossoms' was published by my company japRESS in association with Last Gasp. I also co-edited it. The jaPRESS has already begun on its next manga project.
Podcast: OTAKU USA - Episode #3
As the New York Comic Con looms on the event horizon, Peerless Pat of OTAKU USA magazine interviews Stan “The Man” Lee about ULTIMO, his upcoming manga collaboration with Hiroyuki Takei (Shaman King) for Shueisha. The comics legend also waxes rhapsodic about the Japanese live-action Spider-Man, sumo wrestlers, and the lasting appeal of heroes in a world gone mad! Jolly Joseph Luster dons a long blond wig to read aloud from Thor #171 (written by Stan, natch) and confesses his love for the Black Cat, while the all-new, all-different OTAKU USA theme song arrives like you always knew it would courtesy of the sensational sounds of Marxy.
IF THIS BE PODCASTING...THEN SO BE IT!
HOT LINKS
OTAKU USA magazine
Marvel's Stan Lee, Shaman King's Takei to Join Forces
Stan Lee, Bones Confirmed to be Working on Hero Man
New York Comic Con
Thor #171
Iron Man villain Ultimo
The Merry Marvel Marching Society
Mata Ashita
See you tomorrow at the JAPAN: Games for OTAKU and EVERYBODY lecture/demo!
Terror of Mechagodzilla: Shinto Purification Ritual
With Tomoko Ai, 1975.
New Category: GODZILLA
With Kobayashi chan in front of Mt. Fuji for Destroy All Monsters...
Koakuma ageha - Mori DS Battle
The current issue of Koakuma ageha has a pair of styling suggestions on how to make your Nintendo DS Lite the "sweetest" with the help of possibly-affordable "love dot" and crown encrusted deco-cases and custom jackets. Just don't play it, or that Brain Age game, on "the job"!
Games for OTAKU and EVERYBODY: San Francisco 4/13
Sun/13, I'll be delivering a presentation in San Francisco sponsored by the Consulate General of Japan as part of the Northern California Cherry Blossom Festival.
Lecture- "JAPAN: Games for OTAKU and EVERYBODY" by Mr. Patrick Macias
Together with anime, manga, J-pop and fashion, computer and video based gaming is another major aspect of contemporary Japanese pop culture. Popular writer, editor, and internationally recognized Japanese pop culture expert Patrick Macias, will give a power point presentation entitled "JAPAN: Games for OTAKU and EVERYBODY" In his presentation Mr. Macias will provide a broad overview of modern game-based culture in Japan beginning with a look at the uniquely Japanese cultural roots of gaming. He will discuss the emergence of otaku culture in the late 20th century and show how gaming in Japan has broken into new markets both domestically and internationally while still maintaining the public "Game Center" as a social gathering space.
WHEN: Sunday, April 13 1:00 - 3:00 p.m.
WHERE: Kabuki Hotel, 1625 Post Street, Spring Room 'B' (across from the Imperial Ballroom)
ADMISSION: Free!
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