Not since September 2010 have I had this many links to share with you. But even when I wasn’t posting last week, even the two weeks I was in Hawaii, I occasionally saw some stuff worth sharing. Clear your schedule, and dive in!
- Required reading for anime reviewers: is publishing screenshots fair use?
- So what if nobody else likes it? Anime Yume writes about liking “bad” anime.
- FREE, also known as “that swimming anime,” will be streaming on Crunchyroll. If you need a 48 hour pass, I have plenty!
- Never thought I’d see Magic: The Gathering reporting on a sports news blog. I guess if poker counts, M:TG might as well be on ESPN2.
- Speaking of which, the dilemma of how to improve M:TG reporting and coverage has been a hot topic in the cardosphere (okay, I just made that word up). Will my next gig be reporting sideline at the Pro Tour?
- From r/srsanime: Casual sex in anime vs. American TV. I’ve never heard anyone argue there’s lots of casual sex in anime in the first place, but other than that straw man, this is right on point.
- Also from srsanime, a less serious blog post. A tragic disease that doesn’t get enough press – Anime Parents Syndrome.
- Anime Con Survival: Beauty Edition. If you’ve mastered the 5-3-1 rule, Victoria Suzanne helps you take anime convention hygiene to the next level.
- Desperate times in journalism: Man accused of starting a fake newspaper.
- Here’s a pretty accurate rundown of how freelance journalists make money.
- Nine examples of bizarre obsessions in anime and manga. I would have added Chihayafuru‘s karuta fever to this list.
- Hear that, spellcheck? “Geekery” added to the dictionary.
- The latest Tumblr fandom just might be its most mundane. Called “foodom,” it consists of impersonating fast food chains and shipping them. Yes, really.
- My husband and I are watching Batman: The Animated Series and I think it’s pretty progressive for the 90s. Here’s Poison Ivy and Harley addressing cat calls.
(Photos from this Tumblr collection. If you know who made it, let me know!)
3 Comments.
Wow, someone actually did an article about anime parents. That’s something I want to discuss. Why does Japan have a fascination with characters that don’t have parental influences?
I haven’t read the article yet… Actually haven’t followed any of the links yet (which I usually do promptly as I enjoy Lauren’s Friday link round up) b/c I’ve had a lot going on.
Anyway, like you I’ve wondered about that very same thing.
It seems very often that characters who are in high school or younger even live separately from their parents. Well, maybe it seems rather often b/c I find it a bit schocking I guess every time I run into an anime with a character, several or all who live without their parents.
It’s quite interesting. I always want to know why the parents aren’t present.
Sometimes it makes sense in that the students live at a boarding school. Other times it seems more nebulous. Like parents assigned to work overseas leaving their children to live alone. Or parents letting their child live alone in an apartment.
I wonder if it’s b/c idols who are teens may be doing so…
I know a woman who as a teen had been part of a girl group who lived alone through those years in Tokyo in an apartment the record label paid for. I think this was in the early 90’s or so.
None-the-less; it’s an interesting thing.
They actually used to show MTG Worlds tournaments on espn back in the late 90’s. This article has some clips http://www.thebiglead.com/index.php/2011/08/31/espn-2-used-to-show-magic-the-gathering/ . I remember watching these in middle school at 2 a.m. or whatever random time slot it was relegated to.