Welcome to the extra-early edition of Otaku Links! As it turns out, this Friday is Otaku Journalist’s FIVE YEAR ANNIVERSARY not that I’m excited or anything, so I want to do a special post for that. Until then, enjoy some Wednesday links.
- I’ve only turned in one episode review so far this week, for Yowamushi Pedal. I compared Midousuji and Machimiya as effective villains.
- More writing by me! This has nothing at all to do with anime, but I wrote an essay about my first year of being married over at Femsplain.
- The simplicity of Gundam Build Fighters. Wendeego goes into depth about what makes GBF special despite starting out as a toy commercial.
- Where do you buy anime figures? Confusedmuse knows, and she has a massive collection to back up her knowledge. Here are their top picks.
- How Assassin’s Creed Unity weaponized review embargoes. Ubisoft put a gag order on reporters not to talk about their new game until 12 hours after it had been released to the public. Ethics in games journalism, indeed.
- Is anime a genre or a medium? I’d say medium myself since it spans dozens of genres (action, fantasy, romance, etc.) but Serdar takes a close look.
- Justin at Organization Anti-Social Geniuses interviewed Crunchyroll’s senior brand manager, Tiffany Chen. I was especially interested in the part that went behind the scenes of the so-so Crunchyroll Reddit AMA.
- Kernel, the Daily Dot’s Sunday magazine, published an entire issue on what they’re calling the geek girl revolution, spanning every topic from girl gamers to woman inventors to geek fashion.
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