With five $5 you can get someone to tell you something that you can easily find on Google.
“I will give your the URL to the best “Hentai” Site for $5”

You can pay someone to do something that can be easily done on an anime forum.
“I will talk anime, manga, comics (Marvel, DC, etc.) with you for $5”

Make yourself ugly with…
“I will turn you into an Anime character for $5”

Force an innocent person to watch Boku no Pico and have them tell you about their thoughts on the anime.
“I will watch an amime series of your choice for $5”

…oh my, why would anyone normally care?
“I will say anything you want in an angry voice in Japanese (in an anime way) for $5”

The site is called Fiverr and it basically is a site where you can do things for other people for the fixed price of $5 USD. Payments are done both via credit card or Paypal. Each offer has an image and a description of what you’ll be getting. After you get your product or service, you may leave a review. Perhaps this is your chance to make money on something you can do well.

You can also find people to translate manga, teach you Japanese, review your fan art, and people who will put advertisements up of your site or blog. Those aren’t fun, though.

A Democratic American State Representative on the social networking site Facebook stated “anime is a prime example why two nukes was not enough” during World War II. These comments from Nick Levasseur are very recent, as the footage above aired on March 25th and 26th of 2010.

I'd hit it.

I start to question my impeccable taste in anime/manga when crap like this is listed on anyone’s top 10 anime… So of course, being the cautious idiot, I had to go and download this series to see if I had indeed missed out on anything great. To my surprise, and to none of yours, I realized I had not.

There is no reason as to why I should be surprised, because I read a few chapters of the comic that goes along with this marketing gimmick over a year ago and I did not like what I read. So now a few questions come to mind:

Why did you watch all twelve episodes?

Because I’m an idiot.

What made you think this was going to be any good?

I really don’t know. Just shoot me, please…

It’s because you whacked off to those doujins, right? You thought it’d be more arousing if you knew the backstory to those shitty comics that you’ve been getting a stiffy over?

What the hell? Are you an esper!?

You make me sick.

I can’t help it!

And so, I leave you with today’s Japanese lesson: Tajuujinkaku – Split Personality

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.

Speak for yourself
Linking to sources is fine, but most visitors came to visit your blog or site to know what your take is on something, not to read what Wikipedia or Anime News Network thinks.

Take a step back to have a better look
After writing your blog entry, don’t publish it yet. Take a step away for a few hours or even a few days. When you return the post will seem fresh and you’ll be better able to see mistakes, grammar errors, and areas that can be expanded on better.

Easy reading for tl;dr posts
Large detailed and informative posts can be amazing, but many times they aren’t easy to read. Perhaps try to have a summary of what is said at the start or end for readers to better know what the wall of text is about. Maybe bold key points or experiment with separating the different aspects of the post better.

Be easy to find…and easy to find again
Show off that you have RSS feeds, add a feature that allows people who comment to know there are new comments for entries they commented on, or have a Twitter to interact with readers and other anime and manga bloggers.

Know who you’re attracting
Most blog software, hosts, and such have ways of finding out which sites linked to you and what search engine terms people used to find your site. Knowing who your readers are can help you fulfill the needs ‘n wants of your current readership. If you’re an anime fan from Thailand, you can include bits or whole posts that effect your area. Having a post about a new manga scanlation group on a blog that mainly discusses licensed manga will be a turn off for many.

Be appreciative
Reply to comments, add a latest comment widget to a sidebar, comment on reader’s blogs, or contact them. To add to this, don’t make it difficult to leave comments with registrations or heavy duty spam prevention. You’re showing appreciation because you do appreciate what they say.

Be an epic win
Spice up your adjectives, be current, tap into nostalgia, decide to write casual or professional, give personal experiences, know when to add images, have contests, give things, and most importantly be an interesting writer. Feel free to take up designing graphics, using a digital camera, or take a trip to some interesting places like conventions and events.

You is a very short chapter sized shotacon manga with Kazuma and Kenji of the Summer Wars anime. Kenji is the aggressor and also seems a bit more developed than poor little Kazuma. The character designs are great for being what it is, but the tan line of Kazuma was a bit too strong when in black ‘n white. Pages become wonderfully noisy as sounds begin and the ending is sweet. It’s untranslated by the dojinshi circle Ego Dance with the author Nanamatsu Kenji. Worth checking out if you just watched the movie. Hopefully the anime will be licenced.