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Author Archives: J Sensei
Been under the weather lately…
That’s why my post count dropped off a lot. It’s not that I forgot about the blog. It’s that I came down with a cold, and the first few days of a cold really hurt my energy, so it was … Continue reading
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Heroman, Ep. 24: The Beginning of the End
Rather than attempt some kind of play-by-play, I will be doing something more practical and useful: focusing on the underlying currents and where we are and where we are going. Obviously someone who hasn’t been watching this show since the … Continue reading
Nurarihyon no Mago, ep. 10
If time truly permitted I’d relate from the beginning but, this is a transition to a new arc so it’s as good a place as any. Spoilers: show So Rikuo finally ascended to take over the Nura-gumi as “The Third” … Continue reading
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Tamayura, Ep. 1: An Attack of the Adorable
And So, The Fall 2010 Season Begins Tamayura is a tale about a girl in what in the West we might call “10th grade,” the first year of “high school,” who loves photography and has moved to a school in … Continue reading
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Kaz Hirai Admits PSPgo Is Too Expensive
Original source here. The gist, PSPgo is a new design so it doesn’t benefit from savings for the PSP. Maybe that’s holding it back. Ah, you think? Not coincidentally, Sony has been doing great with the PS3 since releasing a … Continue reading
Nurarihyon no Mago
Theme: Friends & Family In actual Japanese mythology, Nurarihyon is a “youkai” (妖怪) believed to be an old man with a gourd-shaped head residing in Wakayama Prefecture. We might think of youkai as spirits, though “demons” is not really much … Continue reading
Knights of the Old Republic
Retro Gaming Actually Not About Japan For Once. Actually, it’s only in the last, oh, two weeks, that I was able to get a copy of the old Knights of the Old Republic role-playing game for Xbox functioning on my … Continue reading
Asobi ni Iku Yo, Ep. 8
A Series That Embraces The Crazy “Asobi ni Iku Yo” is one of a certain style of recent anime that embraces all manner of cliche “anime content” – in this case, we have an a) alien b) catgirl c) with … Continue reading
Gundam 00 Movie Screenings – With English Subtitles!
Eye Candy On Parade The upcoming Gundam 00 (Double-Oh, think James Bond) movie will probably be screened in Singapore on Sept. 18, 2010. While no venue has been announced yet, the Gundam Fiesta there is kind of hard to miss, so … Continue reading
Dragonball Z Kai, Episode 71
Not New, But Much Improved So now that I have proper spoiler tags, I wanted to test them out on something that, in and of itself, requires no spoilers at all. Dragonball Z Kai is a remake of the original. … Continue reading