Anime!

When will the new Genshiken characters show up?

Another academic year has come to an end, and three members of Genshiken have graduated. It seems like the otaku aren’t having too much trouble finding a job, which is a good thing for them. Unfortunately, the club’s numbers are dwindling, and they don’t appear to be getting any new members.

If you're looking for the Pokemon Store, try New York City.

Of course, others disagreed. Now Times Square has Disney and American Girl and Pokemon stores. But try to find a topless bar. It's like being in Anaheim.

From an interview in which Mike Carey talks about influences on his work.

The first half of that question: is anime important to me? A lot of what I read and watch now is Eastern. I have two big sort of guilty pleasures. One is American TV drama, stuff like Deadwood, Battlestar Galactica, the Wire, the West Wing. I devour that stuff in enormous quantities and the other is Japanese and Korean movies and comic books. I watch a lot of Japanese animation – the studio Ghibli stuff, My Beautiful Girl Marie and stuff like that. Japanese animation is beautiful and lyrical. And I read, voraciously, Japanese horror mangas – Junji Ito, Hideshi Hino, Shigero Mizuki – I love their stuff and I don’t think there’s anything like that coming out in the West. So I think that has become a great creative influence on me.

Click through for a description of The Demon Ororon.

The Demon Ororon (悪魔のオロロン, Akuma no Ororon?)　is a romantic tragedy manga series written by Hakase Mizuki. The series is published in English by Tokyopop.