2012年4月のEnglish ニュース記事一覧
Followup on “Enter The Anime Rave” - Not As Bad As We Thought
I wanted to come back to this distasteful story, because there are only so many developing stories in the world of American otaku right now.
The Impact of Voltron
This column was a long time coming. If you ask any young American person of my generation about the word “Voltron” they'll probably get nostalgic, and then perhaps excited.
Skullgirls, the American “Anime Game”
American fighting game players very widely use the term “anime game”. It's all but official terminology! When we do so, we're talking about a very particular sort of game in the genre: games descended from Darkstalkers (Vampire),
The Masquerade
Let's talk about one more event that leads to lines around the convention center. There's the rave, there's the concert,
The American Anime Fan Lexicon - “Weeaboo”
A friend of mine doesn't like to talk about it, but he singlehandedly put the word “weeaboo” into regular usage among American anime fans.
Japanese Video Prices: “I'm Sorry, Great Five!”
A friend of mine-- I'll withhold his name to protect his identity-- has an otaku secret that he doesn't want his buddies to know about.
Trading Tapes In A Dark Room
The earliest American anime fans were people at science fiction conventions watching tapes untranslated: if they were lucky there was a translated script in their hands, or
American Anime Fans and “100% Authenticity”
Years ago I briefly dated a Japanese-American otaku girl who very sincerely asked me, “Dave, am I Japanese enough for you?” The question was
“Dude, The Cops Raided Anime Boston” – Enter The Anime Rave
And so it was that at two in the morning during a round of Dodonpachi with a friend, I found out that Anime Boston had been shut down by the police.
Cowboy Bebop and The Phrase “Why Don't They Make More Like...”
Shinichiro Watanabe's new anime Kids on the Slope just premiered, and it made me think about American online fan reaction to the show even
Just Get To The Fighting Robots - Escaflowne on Fox Kids
there are many cases of censorship in older American broadcasts of anime/manga. A brushed-out splash of blood here, bare breasts painted over with a “swimsuit” there.
He's Gone To the Next Dimension: Censorship in Kids' Anime in America
I have mentioned in passing that nearly every anime that aired on American television was somehow altered for US audiences.
In America, Gundam is really Gundam Wing
I thought right away of Gundam in America. It's a very strange story, and Gundam fans in Japan might be a little mortified to hear it.
The Toonami April Fool's “Joke” That Everybody Wanted To Be Real
At midnight on April Fool's Day this year, Cartoon Network changed its usual late-night programming to “Toonami”, the fondly remembered programming block from the late 90s.
We Play Japanese Mahjong in New York Too
I won't exactly call it a trend-- it's much too small for that-- but in the last few years a lot of English-speakers have suddenly been taking up Japanese-style mahjong.
The “Free Hugs” sign
If you give American anime fans a few square feet of free space, they'll do one of two things: pull out a stereo and start a dance circle
The Japanese Adventure Game That Japan Didn't Make
Speaking of moe outside Japan, here's one you might not have heard. Years ago, the Japanese artist Raita drew some pictures in a doujinshi
My Little Pony and “the American moe”?
"Letters from the New York Otaku"
