Anyone who loves anime as much as most of us otaku do know that the best way to enjoy it is to listen to it in the original Japanese. However, subtitles can be distracting from the art and storyline so the best thing to do is to learn to speak Japanese.
But who has the money for lessons or costly software? Not to worry. The Japanese Anime and Manga site has come to our aid. Not only can you learn Japanese for free but they teach you how Japanese is spoken by certain types of characters.
Ever wonder why certain characters like young girls say things a little differently than the samurai character? It has to do with politeness levels and a host of other things I have no business trying to explain to you. But the Japanese Anime and Manga site will explain how certain characters say certain things.
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As of this posting, you now have 13 days left until Valentines day. If you have a manga lover in your life and you haven’t gotten him or her that special gift yet, now would be the time. Fortunately, there are a myriad of genres and themes available for you to get the manga otaku that makes your heart beat faster.
A perfect gift for the otaku girl who has had some bad luck with love. The heroine, Riiko, acquires an android lover purely by accident and has to hide the fact from friends and others that her new boyfriend isn’t human.
One of my favorites, either in anime or manga, even though I’m a guy. Takasu Ryuuji, a high school student who scares almost everyone he meets because of his ’scary eyes’ meets Aisaka Taiga, a fierce and tiny classmate with a crush on a mutual friend. Ryuuji offers to help her get the guy she likes in exchange for help from her in winning over the girl he likes.
This story, based on a book, based on a conversation held on 2chan is part of what helped change the image of otaku in Japan from antisocial psychopaths to sensitive and lonely people. A must read for any otaku, male or female.
This is not manga but tell me that there’s not an otaku out there who doesn’t wonder what it would be like to be one of the characters in their favorite anime? I haven’t read this book, so if anyone has, I’d love to know what you thought.
Anyone who has seen the Japanese film “Battle Royale” can’t help but be changed by the story of a class of seventh graders forced to kill each other. This particular manga is based on the lives of the individual characters in the story. A must read.
Alright, you now have an idea of what to buy your lovergeek. Don’t take my words lightly people. There isn’t much time until Valentines day. Now git!
Sorry it’s taken me so long to post, I’ve been sick with a nasty cold. San Diego has had some hella cold rain recently and while it’s not good for a smoker to go out in this kind of weather, I care about my smokes more than my health. Apparently.
HP Japan has just launched a “Maid in Japan” Pavillion Desktop PC and the meidosuki in me wishes that I was Japanese.
Apparently, this promotion is geared towards Japanese Otaku and it includes the following:
A special wallpaper for purchasing said Pavillion Desktop
As you know, there’s more otaku than just the anime or manga variety. So I was wondering… what kind of otaku are you?
Are you a gunji, looking for the best the military has to offer or are you maybe an eroge otaku, you little perverts?
No matter what kind of otaku you are, I want to hear from you!
I especially would like to know what sources you have to keep your passion burning. What webpages do you go to? What books do you read? What have I missed?
I’d like to make a few posts on the otakus that no one talks about. I want to know about the types of otaku that everyone talks about.
In short, if you are an otaku I want to hear from you!
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Playboy.com has begun a competition between 5 of it playmates to see if one of them can be considered the sexiest Bayonetta, which is a very playable game by Platinum Games in conjunction with Sega.
At first glance I thought “Playboy? Bayonetta? Lookalikes? Oh yeah!” My dudeness drooled at the thought of seeing a hot video game character in the flesh, so to speak. Then I got to the site and realized that not only am I a dude, I am also an otaku.
Being an otaku comes with special dangers. Dangers that the normies don’t have to deal with. Normies don’t have to think about opinion or pride of culture. Us otaku do. And when I’m told that somebody is going to dress up as a video game character, my thoughts immediately go to ‘cosplay.’
To explain, look at the picture at the top of this post. I’ll wait.
Now look at this video, featuring Playboy’s so called Bayonetta “lookalike,” Jillian.
Mirror image, right?
Sarcasm aside, even an otaku in training like myself would not call what Playboy is doing ‘cosplay.’ Look at the fishnet stockings. Look at the high heeled boots with no guns attached. Look at the red hair for chrissakes. Look at the frickin’ hairstyle! Nothing about this woman or any of the other four playmates is even remotely Bayonetta like except for the glasses and the guns.
And two of the playmates even have the wrong color glasses… sigh…
Now I understand that Playboy is not the center of the otaku universe. It’s not even on the fringe. I just hope that this wasn’t Playboys attempt to pander to otakus however, because it like they didn’t even try.
It’s as if they said, “Hey let’s get some gamers looking at the mag. Someone go into wardrobe and see what we’ve got for these broads to wear. No, no, don’t worry, nobody will be able to tell the difference.”
What do you think? Is dressing up a model and saying she’s a lookalike for an established video game character valid? To me it’s like putting a big red “S” on a blue t-shirt, getting a hot babe to wear it and nothing else and trying to tell me it’s Supergirl. What’s your opinion?
I like papercraft. I like it so much that I’ve posted waaaaaay too much about it on an otaku website. But… my focus is on anime papercraft so that makes it okay I would hope.
I was wondering where the best sites on anime papercraft would be and there is a surprising amount…
Here are the best anime papercraft sites I’ve found:
Focuses mainly on anime; specifically Gundam and Robot anime papercraft, though they do have an impressive collection of links to cute anime girl papercraft. This one is my second favorite, just one step below Paperkraft.net.
Why this site calls itself “papercrapt” is a mystery to me, since it has such an amazing collection of figures. Gundam, Patlabor and some Anime are the focus of this site. Also has some Transformer stuff, but I’m not sure if it actually transforms.
Don’t let the sparseness of the front page fool ya… there’s some good stuff here. But from what I’ve seen, there’s not much figure anime around, just a lot of cubee type stuff.
This of course is not a definitive list. It’s just a sample of the anime papercraft out there for downloading and assembly. Check it out and let me know what you think!
A little while ago I made a small post about “Hell Girl,” an awesome horror anime by Funimation. You can see the original post with a trailer of the anime here.
To refresh your memory, Hell Girl is about a girl who, when contacted via a Hell Correspondence website would exact revenge upon somebody for you, carrying them to hell immediately with the knowledge that you too would go hell when you died.
I also, in that post, told you about a real Hell Correspondence site and revealed that I would never use it because I was too much of a wuss. Well, in a fit of bravado, I’ve made the decision to actually use it. May God have mercy on my soul.
But, and this is a big but, I have no idea who’s name to write in the box. I honestly don’t hate anybody that much. So I’m going to ask you, my readers who I should try to off.
Think of it, readers. If there’s anyone you really, really want to get rid of, now’s your chance to do it with no guilt, no payback. I’ll do it for ya. So here’s what you do. In the comments section type the name of the person you want revenge on and the reason why. The best story chosen is the one who’s name I’ll type in. The winner will also win a $10 Starbucks Card.
I’d make it more but that’s all I can afford for now.
So choose who’s name you want me to type in and get some free coffee!
Oh by the way, the deadline is February 1st, 2010. Get started!
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Papercraft is fast becoming a small obsession of mine. There’s just something about me sitting still long enough to put together something with my own hands that’s inexpensive and calming to my ADHD addled brain.
I don’t think that papercraft would be considered an otaku pastime except maybe as a sub genre of figure collecting. And since I am on the lookout for anime themed papercraft at all times I guess that counts for me.
Here are a few reasons papercraft might, just might be better than figure collecting.
Papercraft is less expensive:
It’s true. While you’re trying to scrape up the $45 for a preorder of the latest Queen’s Blade (affiliate link) figure you can search this blog for a similar figure that you can make yourself for free or really, really cheap.
Papercraft boosts your self esteem:
I’ve already shown you my first papercraft attempt and while it wasn’t perfect, I felt as though I had created a tiny little piece of me. Not that my self esteem wasn’t up there to begin with.
Now little Kyon (yeah, I named him) stands guard over my unfinished Haruhi papercraft, a robot sentinel ready to kick the crap out of all who would steal from me.
Papercraft keeps you out of trouble
I’ve always thought that there would be less trouble in the world if everybody just had a hobby. How can you plan to rob somebody when you’re at home squinting through a pair of reading glasses too small for your head, while gently putting together a pikachu papercraft? (yes there is a pikachu)
There you have it. I’ve just given you three reasons why papercraft may be better than anime figure collecting. However, don’t think I didn’t preorder that Queen’s Blade figure. I mean, I still have priorities, right?
The Otakuologist has decided that it’s just too much damn trouble to speak in the third person… it’s exhausting!
It’s not that I’ve gotten humble… I’m just as egotistical as I always was, it’s just so difficult to go back and change all the “I”s and what not to “The Otakuologist says.” It’s a big pain.
So it’s back to “I” and “me.”
Having said that, I just want to share a little webcomic I just found called “Nemu nemu.” It seems to be about a little dog(?), his little dog(?) friend and their owners. It’s drawn in four panel manga style and the humor, while not hilarious, does make me smile.
If you’re new, they even make suggestions where to start with the webcomic.
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