Taken from RIUVA. So Odex has finally done it. Singapore’s anime community is doomed. Oh shit. So anyway some poor guy probably wet his pants after receiving this letter. WTF zOMG H4X! BTW the organization mentioned in the letter AVPAS (Anti-Piracy Association of Singapore) is similar to the RIAA/RIAS except that Odex appears to be the sole [...]
But guns certainly make it easier. Like most people living Asia, I woke up to the morning news and the first RSS feed I read was on the Virginia Tech shooting, the worst of its kind in American history. I think it’s about time some people get it through their thick skulls that private ownership of [...]
It seems like the entire world is against me on this, but I hate Nanoha. The entire series is generic and uninspired. The story is cliched and predictable. The characters are flat (in more than one way) and uninteresting. I thought that maybe it’s because I am not a lolicon. Maybe it would be better if [...]
Lain for President! Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama spoke to a crowd of teenagers at a political rally and encouraged them to tell their friends to participate in the political process. (via Kotaku) “I want you to tell them, ‘It’s time for you to turn off the TV and stop playing GameBoy,’” Obama said. “We’ve got work [...]
You have probably read about it already. Death Note has been licensed by Viz Media. This is no ordinary licence. Viz has announced that they will be distributing the episodes online “soon after they air in Japan”. This means that Death Note will be the first anime ever to be legally distributed in North America [...]
Odex is just about the only company in South-East Asia that licenses anime, but unfortunately their products are pretty low quality and few people buy them. They also maintain a low profile in the Singaporean anime community with virtually zero presence in anime-related events and online communities. This picture has absolutely no relation to the topic Recently, [...]
It’s Christmas Eve. I’m alone at home surfing the net and watching anime. Yet another Christmas that I won’t be celebrating. So yeah, Merry Christmas to you folks who have the habit of celebrating Christmas. And remember those of us who don’t. No Christmas presents for me. It’s not that I hate Christmas or anything, it’s just [...]
It’s been a while since I blogged about anything non-related to anime or Japan. Four million smiles This is an entry about Singapore. Please do not read on if non-anime entries bore you.
Zipang, or Zipangu, or Jipangu, or however you think it should be spelt, is the ancient European name for Japan. It was believed by foreigners to be a land of immense wealth and the name carries a somewhat mythical association. Zipang the anime is about Mirai, an AEGIS class cruiser belonging to the Maritime Self Defense [...]
EDIT 2 I think my 5 seconds of Internet fame infamy just ended! Tj han, never missing an opportunity to get back at me for posting his pictures on my blog, has taken to calling me “Drama Queen” now. :P I enjoyed the discussion (at least with some of you) while it lasted, here are my final [...]
Here is a note to all fansub groups: Please make sure that your translator actually speaks Japanese! And please make sure that you have at least one other team member on the project who speaks Japanese so that he/she can make sure that the translator isn’t pretending to know Japanese by making random guesses and [...]
Yes, defence. It’s British spelling, okay? Deal with it. It seems like Bandai has been getting a lot of, to misuse tj han’s term, “negative energy” recently for the whole Solid State Society fiasco. Some people see my latest rant on the Long Tail phenomenon as an indirect attack on Bandai. The truth is, as hypocrite as [...]
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