Who are the furries? Nov 14, 2009
Page last updated at 12:37 GMT, Friday, 13 November 2009. Fursuits can cost thousands of pounds from shops. (BBC News -- UK)
Halloween hoopla Oct 31, 2009
Dress up in your favorite anime or video game character to win prizes. Snacks and refreshments will be served. (Honolulu Advertiser)
Marge in 'Playboy' Oct 23, 2009
I guess there s a lot of business for naughty anime and things like that, if naked cartoons are your thing, but those are young, buxom hotties who we didn t grow up thinking of as a beloved mother figure. Marge is a beloved mother figure, which makes it seem so dirty. (The Palm Beach Post)
Top 25 Anime Characters of All Time Oct 21, 2009
Plenty of tough-guy anime heroes can dish it out all day, but Luffy can take it, too, which is a somewhat rarer quality. Hit him as hard as you can and he'll just bounce right on back ; in fact, it's hard to think of a meaner counter-puncher, not since Joe Yabuki from nigh on 50 years ago. (IGN FilmForce)
Ponyo: A Hit from the Creator of Spirited Away? Aug 14, 2009
Ponyo' Review: A Hit from Creator of 'Spirited Away. Ponyo: A Hit from the Creator of Spirited Away. (Time.com)
J-Pop explodes: New People mall opening in S.F. Aug 10, 2009
"If you're in your teens or early 20s, it's hard to miss manga and anime," says Frederik L. Schodt, the Bay Area author of "Manga! Manga!: The World of Japanese Comics." If you're outside the demographic cohort that grew up on Gundam and Pokmon, you're quite possibly a parent or grandparent or unrelated adult who shared viewing time, if not game time ... Thus, more and more people realized that "manga and anime are fun, and they're interesting. If it weren't interesting and fun, it wouldn't... (San Francisco Chronicle)
Watertown native is co-owner of new anime shop in Waltham Jul 18, 2009
After months of cleaning face prints off the door left by those intrigued by the giant plastic Mario and plush toys in the storefront, opened its doors Monday and anime fans came pouring in ... AniMadness, a specialty store at 284 Moody St. caters to fans of anime - Japanese-style cartoons comic books and video games ... "I love anime. I love video games. You go to conventions and a lot of vendors are in it for the money," he said. (Watertown TAB & Press, MA)
Eye-Opening YouTube Jun 20, 2009
Fans of Japanese anime cartoons can find the animated porn called "hentai," and skip over the 18-plus barrier or gravitate to hard-core sites the same way they could access live-action sex clips. CMI also found that gay content, including pornography and ads for gay escort services, are rampant. (Townhall.com)
Sentinel Lunchtime Blog (Movies): Nowhere to go but Up May 28, 2009
is notorious among critics and anime fans as one of the premiere animators in the industry ... That kind of casting kills me inside, but the fact remains that while Miyazakis films are masterpieces, anime fans and critics are the only ones. (Carlisle Sentinel, PA)
Meeting of the Geeks Apr 19, 2009
In fact, it's OK to be passionate about anything: programming, anime, photography, robots, ham radio, model rockets, insects, coding. and think of those folks who get together weekends in Kailua for a spot of medieval jousting, otherwise known as The Society for Creative Anachronism. (Honolulu Advertiser)
Anime invasion Apr 11, 2009
Anime, Saigusa said, was their common ground. "My dad saw something that his kid liked and something we could do together," said Saigusa, 33, a network administrator who now watches anime with his three children ... Anime or Japanese animation is more than just Sunday morning cartoons targeting imaginative kids. (Honolulu Advertiser)
Heroic pairs in Dragonball: Evolution Mar 10, 2009
Park, who dressed casually to play down his rock star persona, added, I was really flattered to be picked to play a role that I admired as a kid as I grew up watching the anime and playing with the games and toys. Im a newcomer to acting, especially in Hollywood films. (The Star Online, Malaysia)
Veteran otaku Mar 8, 2009
But the 57-year-old Londoner is an expert on all things anime and manga, having spent 30 years reading, watching and writing about them ... McCarthy was bitten by the anime/manga bug in 1980 when her then-boyfriend (now husband), who was an artist and illustrator, brought back Japanese comic magazines and toys and showed them to her ... McCarthy, who was a British civil servant for 15 years, started on her road to becoming an anime/manga expert purely by accident. (The Star Online, Malaysia)
* Taipeis underground gaming heaven Feb 28, 2009
The shops, located in a strip of Taipei City Mall (x_aU) that is fittingly named the Electronic Information Quarter (qlT), offers a smorgasbord of video games, manga, collectible figures, anime DVDs, gundam robot kits and gashapon capsule toys to proud devotees of geek culture, many of whom refer to themselves by the Japanese term otaku ... Urban vinyl, anime and gundam lovers will also find plenty to gawk at, especially in Indian ... The merchandise in this toyshop ranges from... (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- Business)
Chun-Li Movie Brings Schoolgirl Anime Feb 24, 2009
After the Chun-Li film ends, a Street Fighter anime starring schoolgirl Sakura will be screened. Animation house Studio 4C, who's responsible for the Street Fighter IV in-game cutscenes, created the anime ... No word if the anime will be shown in Western theatres as well. (Kotaku Australia)
