One nice thing about the way manga properties spread across various media in Japan is being able to see an anime adaptation of one of your favorite manga. I don’t tend to watch much anime on my computer because of my ancient eyes, but I decided to seek out the first episode of the Paradise [...]

Joystiq on video games and anime popularity
You can get your webcomics fix with Lea Hernandez two ways soon, she’s starting up another Texas Steampunk series and Rumble Girls returns.

Meru Puri (amazon)
I think I’m rapidly reaching a saturation point with all the shojo manga that I’ve been reading. After rediscovering manga and anime around 3 years ago, I’ve been a fairly uncritical consumer. I was just happy to have some fun manga to read. For the most part, that’s still true but some [...]

Some of the anime I’ve been watching recently:
Someday’s Dreamers
This a three disc series about Yume, a girl who moves to Tokyo to complete her training to become a mage. The series is set in modern day Tokyo, but there is a special branch of the government that certifies mages and authorizes magical actions. I thought [...]

Sarah Writes, “Do you know where I can subcribe to free japanesse anime/movie catalogs that can be sent to my house?”
If I get any catalogs, usually they are from online stores where I’ve ordered anime in the past. One good catalog is from rightstuf, they often have great deals. It looks like their print catalog [...]

I finally got around to watching Samurai Champloo. I’d heard that it was great, but I never remember to watch it on Cartoon Network, and I finally got the first disk from Netflix. What a lovely show! Every samurai fight should be backed by bongo drums and jazzy keyboards. If you liked Cowboy Bebop, there [...]

The craftster blog linked to a section of this site showing how to make underwear, but I explored a bit and stumbled across this gallery of handmade anime dolls. I do think that the little Vampire Hunter D doll is cute.

Some anime stuff….

Powerpuff Girls, the anime?!! The character designs actually look cute.

Unhappy: I checked out Jacqueline Carey’s book Banewreaker out of the library. I was hoping that I’d like this because I did enjoy the Kushiel triliogy. But I’m around 32 pages in and I’m struggling because the book seems to have contracted a horrible case of High Fantasy disease, what with having to suffer through [...]