An Eternal Thought in the Mind of Godzilla

You guys, try to move the bar

Hey I was on the Anime 3000 podcast talking about all things TOKUSATSU (Godzilla, Ultraman, Kamen Rider, Sentai, etc). Here is the link to the show.

Now pardon moi, but I'm going to go and watch the Denziman movie (above) now.

Bliss Bear @ club Atom Shibuya

Tokyo Wars 10/5-10/30

I'll be in Tokyo from October 5th to October 30th. I'm available for food, folks, and fun so hit me if anything apocalyptic (or otherwise) is going on. The ESPY Mission Objectives are still coming together, but I'm looking forward to lots of scowling hunched over my laptop in various places and running back and forth between Draft Two and the video rental shop. See ya down dere.

Podcast: Hot Tears of Shame x Episode Thirty-Three

Attention all Laser Disc and Old Magazine Otaku! Here is the complete audio of my lecture last week as delivered at California State University at Monterey Bay. While some of this territory was covered before in my speech earlier this year at Temple University Japan Campus, there’s a lot of new stuff here (including sections on American fandom and Hating the Otaku Wave) in this one hour-long recording.

Disclaimer: this lecture is not really about The Drifting Classroom manga...

Download here

Godzilla: Horsing around on the set, 1962

passionate exam warrior

On Mon/14, I’ll be presenting a lecture entitled “Drifting Classroom: Theoretical Perspectives on Manga, Anime and Otaku” for the ‘Manga, Anime and Modern Japan: the Reality of an Illusion’ course at California State University Monterey Bay.

Perhaps I’m piling too many toppings on my pizza pie, but I’m crafting it to be a survey of various economic, sociological, and psychological interpretations of Japanese cartoons and comic books -- and their admirers -- that have arisen in the academy and elsewhere over the years.

While the attendance will be limited to CSUMB students, I’m told the event will be filmed and I’ll be capping the audio with my trusty ZOOM, so it’s bound to leak out one way or another.

6%DOKIDOKI shop girl Yuka x Last Gasp

6%DOKIDOKI x Last Gasp

OTAKU USA x FAMITSU: "Otaku World Culture" explosion

Hear ye! Hear ye!  The long-awaited fruit of the most recent, and certainly most wall-shaking, collaboration between Otaku USA and Weekly Famitsu is on sale now! The 9/24 issue of Japan's venerable TV Game magazine offers readers a trip through "Otaku World Culture" via the results of the 2009 Foreign Otaku survey and special contributions from the OUSA staff. The Famitsu spin machine is promising a thorough look at the "rich and realistic" lives of Western otaku and gamers.  And since YOU supplied the raw data, this epic celebration of international-brotherhood-and-understanding is very much yours to enjoy as well!

(2009 is 1979) 9-9-9: Three Records and a Theme

Galaxy Express 999 movie theme by Godiego, Nolans and ABBA by Coke.

The '79 song chart-topper in blistering live version with rare English verse.

9-9-9: CR Galaxy Express Pachinko

Epic promo video for CR Pachinko Galaxy Express 999 here

9-9-9: otanjoubi omedetou

Bromide Idol Days: Watari Tetsuya

 

Happy Anarchy

More info here at New People website

2009 is 1979: Space Carrier Blue Noah Notebook