I recently took up a new writing project with fellow JapanSoc member, Per-Gunnar. He runs a blog called NinjaTofu, which was originally intended to be an all-Japan blog, but decided to go on the Anime blog route and has asked me to write for it! The blog has been around for a month, and things [...]

Yes, there are Anime fans in South Korea, too–and there’s a store to prove it, thanks to Akibanana! In Seoul, Haruhi is a national icon. There are other familiar faces as well, but you can’t help but notice the many Haruhi figures the store has to offer. The store has a huge selection that’s as [...]

Back in January, I wrote that the blog would get a new makeover a little before or after the Spring–or by late March, to be precise. Now that the end of March is drawing closer, as promised, here’s a preliminary snapshot of the upcoming blog design. Codenamed, “Sherbet News”. I hope to have it launched [...]

There’s something that’s been bothering me for a while that I really need to get off my mind. It’s something to do with this blog, and how people mistaken it for another thing when it’s not what it claims to be: either it’s an “Anime Blog”, an “Otaku Blog”, or a “J-Blog”. When I started [...]

Less than 2 weeks remain until the premiere of the new Fullmetal Alchemist anime. We’ve already seen not one, not two, not three, but four 30 second commercials, but they didn’t tell us anything. Here’s a 2:30 clip of the new series that was taken at the recent 2009 Tokyo Anime Fair.