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To other worlds with Yoshitoshi Abe

Yoshitoshi Abe is one of my favorite Japanese illustrators. He is famous for his work in Serial Experiments Lain, NieA_7, Haibane Renmei and Texhnolyze. One thing that I like about his art is the degree of realism in it. Compared with most anime/manga art which are simplistic in portrayal, Yoshitoshi Abe's art has a lot of detail. It takes you to worlds beyond ours!

[Round-Robin] Anime and Escapism: Living in and Out of Your Comfy Anime Burrow

While I initially didn�t intend to post about our 1st Round-Robin topic about the subject of anime and escapism, I had a sudden burst of inspiration after reading Hinano�s entry, and I found myself empathizing with, and pondering upon this escapism issue. Then comes Soshi�s write-up on this topic, and once again I am inspired.

Alternative Universe: Flirting with Fire

Meet two of our young flame wielders from the Kannagi Clan of Kaze no Stigma. Ayano looking cooler than usual and not in her hot-tempered mode, with Ren looking more mature for his age and not in his usual cutesy look. That, and the change of costumes in this pic are more than enough to think of this as an "Alternative Universe". Ayano, especially, looks as if she's an Amazon who came from some oriental action movie, whose costume is somewhere in the line of Yuna of FFX's.

WordCamp Philippines 2008: On Being a Remarkable Responsible Blogger

September 6 will forever be remembered as the day the 1st ever WordCamp Philippines was held (to all those who attended it, that is). Needless to say, and it was awesome! Fun and insightful, and I got to spend it with fellow anime bloggers hazy and Zeroblade too. I�m pretty slow so both of them have already given their respective reports on the event, while mine is days late orz.

Alternate Universe: The Little Prince

I found this picture of Son Goku, reminiscent of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s The Little Prince. かわいい! Popularity: unranked [?]

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By usagijen ⋅ November 7, 2009

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Remembering Love On Halloween: Daa! Daa! Daa! and Aka-chan to Boku <3

By usagijen ⋅ November 5, 2009

I was in the mood for some Halloween anime/manga treat a few days ago (back when it still WAS Halloween), but somehow, I ended up rewatching the Halloween episode of two of my timeless favorites instead -- Daa! Daa! Daa! (aka UFO Baby) and Aka-chan to Boku (Baby and Me) -- both of which also happens to involve one or more babies. I haven't talked about these two series in the blog, or rather, they aren't really talked about in the 'sphere, period. I'm not even betting my hopes on it happening any time soon, because y'know, the new season is all the shizz, and who would even go out of their way to discover them antiquated animus, right? So I thought, why not trick and treat myself into writing about them?

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On nensha, Mouryou no Hako, and the Ring cycle

By absolute0 ⋅ November 3, 2009

Last week as I was browsing Wikipedia, I came upon an article on nensha (念写). It is the ability to psychically imprint an image from one’s mind onto surfaces or the mind of others. In 1910, an assistant professor from Tokyo University named Fukurai Tomokichi conducted a well-known research regarding ESP. His first subject was [...]

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A Tale of Geo-Cities

By absolute0 ⋅ October 30, 2009

A Eulogy for Geocities... Earlier this week, GeoCities became officially unavailable, a few months since YaHoo! announced its closure. GeoCities began in the mid 1990’s providing free web hosting and later on, paid premium service. GeoCities was initially organized into “cities” or neighborhoods, such as Tokyo for anime and other Asian topics, or SiliconValley for tech topics. When Yahoo! acquired GeoCities in 1999, they switched from the neighborhood based URLs to a customized ones. I first learned of GeoCities in high school, around a couple of years after the city was introduced to the World Wide Web. I was fascinated with Yu Yu Hakusho then and I would research about the anime in the Net. Information regarding Yu Yu Hakusho, however, was limited and so I thought of creating my own YYH website. After deliberating which web host to use, I settled for GeoCities. I learned HTML and came up with a crude lay-out filled with marquees and Java applets (they were all the rage then). I couldn’t exactly remember that site’s URL but I think it was www.geocities.com/yyh_profiles.

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