Between my San Francisco work trip, Katsucon, and the inevitable crushing sickness that followed, I haven’t spent a lot of time looking for links. Here’s just a little bit of Internet to start off your weekend:
- Travel cut into my review schedule, but only a little. Here are this week’s Kuroko’s Basketball, Yowamushi Pedal Grande Road, and Gundam Build Fighters Try reviews. Press the back button at the bottom for last week’s Kuroko and Yowapeda reviews, too.
- I just found out about Anime Talk Amongst Yourselves (AniTAY) when an organizer reached out to me, and this Kinja blog is a great way to dip your toe into the world of professional anime blogging. Their terms of use allow you to post your own affiliate marketing links (something Otaku Journalist itself does to make money) and Kotaku occasionally promotes their content.
- Here are the plans for a Hayao Miyazaki theme park. This needs to happen.
- My friend Katriel has been promoting The Anime Encyclopedia, Revised 3rd Edition, for the better part of a year and it’s finally up for order! Twenty dollars for an ebook (nevermind $80 for a book) sounds steep, but you have to understand just how thorough this is. I received an early copy and kept control+F searching the document for the most obscure anime I could think of—and every single one was in there.
- After emailing my friend Kailer repeatedly for help on kanji readings, she showed me Jisho’s ultra-handy bookmarklet. Simply drag the link to your bookmark menu. Now, any time you see a Japanese word you don’t recognize, highlight it in your browser and click the link. Boom! Instant assistance!
- One thing I’ve been watching while recovering from this cold is Great Teacher Onizuka. This 1999 classic is a product of its time, with clunky art and recognizable ’90s shounen tropes, but is still fast-paced and full of heart and ready to entertain in 2015.
Illustration by blue-eyes-louise.