The sphere’s abuzz with news of the impending closure of One Manga, one of the more prominent English-language manga scan sites, and my personal favorite. But of course the sphere never buzzes at a single pitch.
Lamenting, lauding, and otherwise considering the loss of One Manga
Posted by Pontifus on 22 July 2010
http://superfani.com/2010/07/22/lamenting-lauding-and-otherwise-considering-the-loss-of-one-manga/
Boobies of the Dead
Part two of my ongoing (slowly ongoing) exploration of fanservice! Part one can be found here.
A year after I wrote the first entry, I’m finally getting around to the second. Hurrah! Unsurprisingly, I want to take on the fanservice in High School of the Dead, the new zombie anime that’s taking the world of awesome by storm.
Posted by cuchlann on 17 July 2010
http://superfani.com/2010/07/17/boobies-of-the-dead/
Notes on rewatching Toradora! episodes 1-8
As I remembered this show being incredible, and as it’s on my list of things to buy at Otakon, I figured I’d give Toradora! another watch to fill in what holes exist in my memory. And because things like random rewatches basically mean free blog content, I decided to take some notes as I watched.
Said notes ended up longer than expected, so I’ll have to split them into three parts. I invite you to take advantage of the lag time between posts to rewatch Toradora! yourself!
Posted by Pontifus on 16 July 2010
http://superfani.com/2010/07/16/notes-on-rewatching-toradora-episodes-1-8/
To Race Chocobos in the Shadow of Sin
A great distraction.
I haven’t been watching much anime recently. I mean to post soon about the reason why, but the basic problem is that I’m doing something cool next semester that requires me to do a lot of advance reading over the summer.
I have, however, been playing a lot of video games, mostly Oblivion and Chrono Trigger, with some Pokemon Blue thrown in. Given that I’m playing an Elder Scrolls game, my mind’s been on side quests a lot. If you don’t know, all the Elder Scroll games are famous for having more sidequests than storyline – it’s not a sandbox game, but a game with a similar mindset, that you can go live in the world as an adventurer of sorts. You can enter the Mage’s Guild and work your way up the ranks or become an assassin (or, as thekittymeister has decided – to my wholehearted approval – to become the world’s greatest thief, in the grand tradition of Lupin III and Garrett). Everything’s a quest, from the rare plant behind the guild house to the missing artist in the little village a day’s ride from the capital. It’s good times. But given the contrast in the games I’m playing, it got me thinking.
As you already know, I watched my GF play Earthbound recently. In addition, I’m playing Final Fantasy XII, Oblivion, Chrono Trigger, Pokemon, and am in the middle of a playthrough (with the GF) of Final Fantasy VIII, inspired by Spoony’s review of the same. So I’ve been messing around with a lot of RPGs recently. Nearly all these games have sidequests.
Posted by cuchlann on 27 June 2010
http://superfani.com/2010/06/27/to-race-chocobos/
Interpretive strategies…in three distinct flavors
I haven’t been doing much in the way of nerdy Japanese media consumption. This will be rectified next week, when epic readings will be filmed (belatedly) and Slayers will be…thonned, I guess. But, for now, I have some thoughts on how different fans choose to interpret things, which may (or may not) interest you.
Posted by Pontifus on 4 June 2010
http://superfani.com/2010/06/04/interpretive-strategies-in-three-distinct-flavors/
The many Minmays to my Hikaru (but who is the Minmay here, and who the Hikaru?): A selfish reading of that one love triangle
Every once in a while, two lines of inquiry collide in my head, and the resultant reaction inevitably takes some sensitive tissue with it. The questions that led to today’s post were: 1. if fandom is socially constructed like the rest of our personalities — if fandom is indeed part of one’s personality, and not a “mere” result of hobby choice — which of our discrete attributes incline us toward specific branches of (specifically anime/manga) fandom, and 2. what does Hikaru Ichijou see in Lynn Minmay, anyway?
Posted by Pontifus on 27 May 2010
http://superfani.com/2010/05/27/the-many-minmays-to-my-hikaru-but-who-is-the-minmay-here-and-who-the-hikaru-a-selfish-reading-of-that-one-love-triangle/
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