I had lunch with Rona, Meg, and some other girl (but I always forget her name), at Ortega. With the exception of Rona, we all talked about anime&manga and the anime expo. Haha… it was sort of funny and very reminiscent of my younger years. I still haven’t watched any anime is over a year. Maybe two years. And when I pass the large section of manga at Borders there is simply no desire in me to go over there and buy any.

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For the $675 you’ll pay for HiArt’s Manga Madness anime classes, you’ll get 8 classes (starting today). Yes, that’s almost $100 per class, but kids 7-14 will learn anime-style drawing techniques from acclaimed artist Yali-Lin. In addition to learning the techniques for drawing different types of characters and faces, kids will write their own stories and learn how to create panels, incorporate text, and design their page. There will be beginner and advanced sessions so kids can really hone their skills.

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Well today it was soooo nice out, very much like spring should be, and the boys were so kind to tennyson and I this morning, letting us sleep in (thank you very much to the new pokemon video!). So feeling rather well rested, I decided to bathe all the boys, put Tennyson in the stroller and take a walk down the road to great clips and get my boys hair cut (let THEM clean up the hair and deal with the wiggles this time).

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I downloaded a few of the Anime DVDS, they were first episodes of series including ” Black Lagoon ” which when I went to play turned out to be in Japanese with American subtitles, now I’m not sure about how everyone feels about this particular aspect of viewing anime, but for me I would rather watch the Anime in English, without the subtitles but that’s just me.

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La producción de la película de DragonBall sigue adelante. Hago la salvedad: la producción película gringa de Dragon Ball sigue adelante. Porque la película china es un clásico del mundo pirata desde hace casi veinte años.

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And before I go, Stage6 was shut down last February 28 for some reasons. Why??? I love Stage6 because I got to watch films there with good quality and some anime as well. Maybe because it’s expensive to run the site or because of too many competitors .. like youtube, veoh etc.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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As Tragic Comedy of “My Art Corner” invited me to go for this new manga cafe, I gladly accepted it since it is perhaps not very often that you have a cafe with manga/anime being the context of the place. It is definitely a very interesting place, as I went there with two friends, as well as RDrake to get the trading figures of Higurashi.

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According to Anime News Network (ANN), ARIA’s 3rd season is confirmed, this “slice-of-life” anime will return with the same vocal cast and directed by Junichi Sato. No broadcast date has been confirmed yet but according to ANN, the production started since spring this year. I am hoping for a release next year early spring.

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I held off on my regular site updates as I worked on a project that has been so slow in the making. I am an anime fanatic, mostly on InuYasha. On several of the larger general fanfiction sites, there are over 70,000 fanfics devoted to the anime. I am only days away from officially opening InuYasha-Fanfiction.com. I already co-own A Single Spark, which is dedicated to a specific duo of the anime. It has been interesting to see all the fanfiction written. I have met a few that actually are real authors and do fanfiction as a hobby on the side.

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Although the random skits at the end are rather funny, I can’t really approve of them. I see them as mainly time wasters, and perhaps that time could have been used to flesh out the story more. The introduction of characters could have been a bit more descriptive as well, but having read the manga it doesn’t affect me as much.

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We still have tons of pictures to get formatted and labeled over the next few days, including the ever popular CosPlay galleries, looks at all the con booths, and just lots of pictures of the con itself to say nothing of the small manufacturers and urban vinyl booths!

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