Anime!

Anime is back on the SciFi channel!

Back in the day the SciFi channel used to show anime at night and on Saturday mornings. I vividly remember waking up to watch the series, as this was my first introduction into anime. They stopped showing the series, for reasons unknown to me, but they are starting back where they left off.

Now you can "read" the scriptures in Manga.

No, the Manga Bible is not an exhaustive collection of manga titles and terms. It's the Holy Bible, depicted in Manga form. I can't find the words to describe how awesome that is.

A definition of Genshiken, and some differences between anime in Mexico and the U.S.A.

Genshiken (げんしけん) es un acrónimo de “Gendai shikaku bunka kenkyūkai” (現代視覚文化研究会), que dicho en español significa Sociedad para El Estudio de La Cultura Visual Moderna. Los Genshiken son clubes que se encuentran en las universidades japonesas, cuya finalidad son el ver desde una óptica analítica y seria, todas las manifestaciones que sean parte del momentum.

Click through for a fun video mash-up of Full Metal Alchemist and the Village People.

I don’t own FMA. FMA owns me. The Village People own “Macho Man”.

Do Pokemon cards make you feel childish?

The problem that many folks have with card-based games is that they’re too cutesy; it’s hard to look particularly manly shuffling a Pokemon or Yu-Gi-Oh deck, for example. To the rescue comes the Marvel Trading Card Game, which uses the superheroes from the Marvel universe instead of super-cute pocket monsters.

Thumbs up here for Nagasaret Airantou.

In terms of plot, the anime seems to be jumping all over the place, but this doesn’t really matter as long as it doesn’t affect the progress of any relationship development. For the moment, the show will probably go into many disjointed episodic stories that introduce/reinforce any characters that have yet to be familiarised. One I’m certainly looking forward to is a Machi-feature episode. Chikage is also pretty interesting, and I would love to see when she finally learns the ‘truth’ about people of the opposite sex.