Temporal Paralysis

Followers of the anime fan community have already heard of the Otaku Elimination Game, and Danny Choo’s upcoming Otacool 2 book launch. I’ve been following the two entities since they came into my consciousness, and while I believed this topic has been done and sealed by many, I find the enmity too powerful to be left un-commented.

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While in Malaysia, I got the opportunity to watch several anime shows dubbed in Bahasa Malaysia. Not many people appreciate this, but I find the voice actresses in some of the characters very much likeable, not unlike the monotonous – and sometimes very similar – English voice actresses I heard on Animax. Clearly 77 Star Pte. Ltd. has groomed these voice actors/actresses well to ensure their liveability in a Malay language-majority market.

However, the intention of this post is not about the quality of voice actors and actresses in the region. My intent of this post is to highlight the rise and fall of anime franchises.

Not all anime franchises met a peaceful death.

It was through no surprise that I watched Mahou Sensei Negima and School Rumble on ntv7. As I watched the two series, the question arose in my consciousness: “Will anyone really remember both series long after the brouhaha died?”

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Sometimes, I wonder: what does it take to enjoy hentai?

Too bad Saber got first position, if you know what I mean.

As we know, the recent Japanese eroge companies’ ban on foreign IPs accessing their websites as well as the heightened awareness of this shady side of the genre, (with no thanks to Sankaku Complex for being such a scat), brought up the issue of putting into mainstream consciousness the existence of hentai and eroge materials that are put up freely everywhere.

In this OP/ED, I would like to express my deepest thoughts on this matter, why I felt that the Japanese have the right to block foreigners from providing such materials, and what is my prediction for the near-future.

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Let’s start off with tickling MrMayat’s weakness for Yuno (of Hidamari Sketch).

By now, every other blogger has announced the upcoming Hidamari Sketch’s 3rd season production. More Yuno, more yay slice-of-life, more… hmm… Why did I do this again?

Oh, yes, to tease MrMayat.

More Yuno goodness? (Credits: {link:http://www.pixiv.net/member_illust.php?mode=medium&illust_id=2267594}いずの犬太{/link})

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The year was 2007. It was one day before Singapore celebrated its National Day. It was also the day that I received the foreboding letter that everyone has come to know of.

The one letter that forever defined my viewpoints of the world

(I decided to make public what happened in the three years between then and now, for it shall be known that I was that person who decided to stand his ground. The rest of the Internet populace will discard this piece as frivolous nonsense coming from an unknown blogger; those who had known me – both in real life and those who knew me through IRC and/or frequent exchanges via blogs – will no less be surprised by my revelation. If people decided to hate me, that will be fine: I have since am serene in this matter, and it will not matter to anyone anyway.)

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Google Reader and Anime Nano helped me a lot: I was reading an interesting column by an anime blogger who had posted up his post, crying out to all bloggers to stop using fanarts without explicit permission from the author.

The list of anime blog posts related to the post are staggering, the least to say.

Image credited to bj0rN. Follow his drawings at {link:http://www.drawr.net/bj0rn}http://www.drawr.net/bj0rN{/link}

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