Another year passed, and before I knew it, it was upon us again. That special time of the year where men across America put down that bottle of whiskey, and moderate the spankings to just twice-a-day. When the height of one’s lawn grass actually holds influence. The one day where everyone can feel safe that they made the right choice in refusing to pay for abortion fees. A day almost as momentous as Groundhog’s Day, but not as significant. Yes, it’s Father’s Day. more…

Fucking Capitalists.

I’m almost tempted to root for North Korea in this year’s World Cup. Unfortunately, they’re up against some decent teams, so I don’t see them making it into the top eight. But who knows?

Subtitle courtesy of Unlimited Translation Works.

Oh, and can someone explain to me Japanese Idol Videos? Some girl in a school uniform was whacking watermelons at a beach house. Then in the next scene she’s in a classroom doodling on the chalkboard in a bikini… Why?

Apologies for the gallery index that’s a bit messy at the moment, but it is functional.

Anime Gerad’s community hits four. This site was under the name Netherworld Void was founded one night on May 17th 2006 and grew its blog as the main page in 2007.

-Most commented blog post Saya no Uta
-A few of many interesting forum threads include ASL, End of Newtype USA, and our most viewed thread Best Cosplay Examples.
-Most viewed image is a Guild Wars wallpaper
-Highest clicked link in the link directory goes to Spotting Bootleg Figures

Many thanks to EhNani, Serimorph, Tenkyuu kage, animemeg, Raven, reddeath26, Agamum, ultimavirtues, Fate, and many others.

I’m sure everyone already knows that Nick Simmons pieced together his manga by cutting out pages from Bleach and Hellsing, and glued them onto pieces of construction paper. Now, I don’t really see why this is a big deal. After all, with all the style Bleach steals from American rock history; we should consider it karma that rock would want its piece of the pie back. In this case, through the proxy known as legendary rocker Gene Simmons’ son, whatever his name was…

Plagiarism happens all the time. For example, nobody seems to care that Ikkitousen is probably, and always will be a huge rip-off of Tenjou Tenge. I would not doubt that if you were to place pages of either over the other you’d notice elements of tracing. But because Ikkitousen’s artist doesn’t suck as bad as Nick Simmons, he can get away with it. On the other hand, Flower of Eden’s artist sucked at art. Or more specifically, sucked at art involving people doing something other than standing. So when Random Person A mentioned that she traces from Slam Dunk and REAL, people made it a big deal. Keiji Kawaguchi traces from photographs and magazines all the time. Like hell he wants to actually visit these places and take pictures on his own. But because his art looks somewhat decent, and because he’s so well-established in the industry, nobody pursues him.

Frankly, I never liked DeviantArt. And I don’t like Incarnate. That doesn’t mean I don’t like American comics. It just means I have good taste.

I have a German friend, whom I will refer to as “ribbon”. Now ribbon and I see eye to eye on an intellectual level. We have long engaging talks through the night on topics ranging from the health of the American economy to which child star we would like to bang. However, he revealed to me on one such night a certain anime series he was looking forward to for the New Year, and now we are no longer friends.

But that’s not what I wanted to write. Yesterday, I told ribbon to watch an ONA called “Ontama” since I thought the show was fairly entertaining and cute. He looked it up on youtube and told me that it was a children’s show and that the girl was too young. I was taken aback by the statement “too young” because as far as I know, I don’t watch anime to get a stiffy. He explained to me that is the only reason he watches anime. And also why he loves K-on.

Now, how do these two off-tangent blurbs tie together? Well, the anime he was looking forward to for January 2010 is none other than So-Ra-No-Wo-To. I took it to be nothing more than K-on! with less tea-time and more hay rides. Ribbon sees it as more K-on with less music. Well, at least we agree that it’s going to be another K-on! On the other hand, perhaps we’re both wrong and it is actually something worth watching. Whatever.

You guys suck.

More importantly, one of my good friends from way back is going to jail for child porn. Let’s wish him luck, wherever the court trials lead him. If you liked K-on, then you’ll probably be joining him in a few years. Say hi for me, you sheeps.

Oh yes, by the way, I’ve done gone and bought me one of them fancy television sets. I now have a use for the PS3 sitting in my closet.

Yes, my room is that dark.

A bunch of popular illustrators try to revive the infamous Sanrio franchise. It may work, or not. That will depend on you.

They’ve already stockpiled an impressive set of goods for Comic Market 77. And if I had the balls to leave for Japan, I’d probably buy one.

I mean honestly, is that hot or what?