Category Archives: anime

Photography: Not my strong point.

Posted on November 4, 2007 by baudattitude

Trying to figure out how to take decent pictures of toys high quality anime figurines so I can be a right proper camwhore has been bugging me. Here’s a couple of examples, in this case using a “Shadow Lady” statue. … Continue reading →

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Endings, quite satisfactory.

Posted on October 17, 2007 by baudattitude

Finally managed to catch up to see the end of Lucky Star this last week. With shows that don’t really have an overall story arc, it’s hard to say when a good “end point” really is, but I really liked … Continue reading →

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Polka Party!

Posted on September 28, 2007 by baudattitude

A friend in Japan sent me a link to this, what he claims is the latest trend in Japanese doujin culture: Using the “Hatsune Miku” voice in a speech synthesis package called “Vocaloid”, fans are producing cover versions of popular … Continue reading →

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Random bits of swag from Japan

Posted on August 30, 2007 by baudattitude

I have an Acer laptop – I bought it because it was a) really quite inexpensive, b) had a huge (17″) widescreen display and c) had a built-in numeric keypad. Last weekend we noticed that CompUSA had the newer model … Continue reading →

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This will be a day long remembered…

Posted on August 26, 2007 by baudattitude

It has seen the end of vinyl, and it will soon see the end of the laserdiscs. Some background: A bit over a year ago, I finally copied the last of our records to MiniDisc and put the turntable into … Continue reading →

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A three…hour…tour…

Posted on August 23, 2007 by baudattitude

OK, no. It’s actually about 45 minutes, not three hours, by river boat from Asakusa from Odaiba, but what really counts isn’t how long it takes but how you’re getting there. This lovely thing is the Himiko, designed by Leiji … Continue reading →

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Surviving Comiket Market / Comiket

Posted on August 22, 2007 by baudattitude

If you are as crazy as I am, and for some reason you are a westerner who would like to go to Comic Market in Summer, I thought I would lay out a quick survival kit that you might consider … Continue reading →

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Kanon and so on…

Posted on August 9, 2007 by baudattitude

After watching Air, it seemed a good plan to check out Kanon. I’ll actually amend that a little. After the sucker-punch of Air, I was a little worried but felt I ought to check out Kanon. It now seems to … Continue reading →

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Sucker Punched by Cuteness

Posted on July 31, 2007 by baudattitude

So… a friend of mine recommended the anime “Air” to me. Since he’s given me lots of good suggestions in the past (Haruhi, Welcome to the NHK, lots of others that aren’t coming to mind), I figured I would take … Continue reading →

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I have no excuse…

Posted on July 26, 2007 by baudattitude

…for posting this, but it makes me giggle. Light spoilers for Lucky Star 12: Konata drags Kagami and Tsukasa to Comiket to help her buy doujinshi. Kagami makes the mistake of opening one.

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