Sixten needs some help understanding a couple of Japanese blog posts which are about Sixten's art.
UPDATE: While I'm doing a linky post, here's another link. Someone asked John what, if anything, mecha anime have contributed to the general field. John's answer: Gainaxing originally appeared in a mecha show, and revolutionized fan service forever after.
Eva had a huge effect thematically. Sure, it had a few mecha show imitators, but in a larger sense, it opened the field up to a lot of more-sophisticated successors. (Not necessarily that everybody who had a deep, philosophical plot in mind owes it to Eva - heaven forfend. Eva's actual philosophical depth was about that of a kiddy pool. But Eva's success meant that other shows of that depth could find the corporate buy-in they needed to actually get animated and air...)
Posted by: Avatar_exADV at September 16, 2010 10:11 AM (mRjOr)
I feel a bit sorry for the people in that town and even more for those who work in the shrine itself. It's not a totally unmixed curse, of course, since it brings in tourists, but they're not exactly the kind of people the locals want to see.
It reminds me of the castle in Scotland where much of "Monty Python and the Holy Grail" was filmed. 30 years on, that turns out to be the main reason tourists visit the place, and the gift-shop at the castle is loaded up with Monty Python memorabilia.
For those folks, at least, it isn't a curse. It's the difference between financial survival and collapse. Still, it ain't quite what they were hoping for.
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They made Kagami and Tsukasa honorary citizens of the town, after all...
And hey, for the things that can put a little town on the map, being an otaku site isn't so bad. They come in, they spend money, they go home, they don't get into fights or get drunk or trash the place. Bit rough on the actual shrine folks (it's not the most respectful thing to the religion that the shrine represents... but Japan is a lot less picky about that in the first place, no?)
Posted by: Avatar_exADV at August 23, 2010 07:03 PM (pWQz4)
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A little follow up, as I've updated the post. After a bit of digging, I found that the local chamber of commerce, not the shrine, commissioned the ginger sauces. The shrine which has been there between 800 and a thousand years is unlikely to be affected (they were getting over a hundred thousand visitors over New Years before this).
As to Stevens 64,000 dollar question, 'how long can this last?'that is of some interest to the Japanese biz publication I link in the update. The author notes with some surprise that the turnout seemed to actually be higher this year.However the town, as of March was annexed by Kuki which doesnt have any Kyo-Ani related items on their website save a picture of a festival parade that has the Lucky Star float in it.
Posted by: The Brickmuppet at August 23, 2010 10:49 PM (I1c/D)
I figured out what I could, then looked over the sheet for some others. I didn't get Te=CBD May. Bit of a "d'oh!" moment when I looked it up; I should have caught that,
even with my crappy knowledge of the language.
I am surprised that they chose
Eruru, and not her sister, for "Er", given how many R/L ambiguity gags they managed to work into the table otherwise.
Posted by: Mikeski at August 12, 2010 07:10 PM (GbSQF)
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Um, forget the 3rd paragraph in that comment. Â Had the names wrong.
Posted by: Mikeski at August 12, 2010 08:03 PM (GbSQF)
Supposedly Manga ent are releaseing a dvd in the UK in septemeber, though no release date yet. There was a couple of screenings in London back in May- I had tickets for one but got my dates mixed up and missed it
Posted by: Andy Janes at August 01, 2010 09:58 AM (uHTeu)
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Manga Ent. have also said that they probably won't be releasing it until whoever has it in the US has produced a dub for it, so chances are it'll turn up over a month or two after Funi's release.
I, coincidently, did make one of the screenings in London back in May (though I'd say that it was about the fifth most entertaining movie I saw that weekend, and the fourth best).
Posted by: DiGiKerot at August 01, 2010 10:30 AM (4K69Q)
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Hey, I didn't say I didn't like it, but I rather enjoyed Evangelion 2.0 and Welcome to the Space Show and Professor Layton more (and Chocolate Underground is it's own, very special, kind of amazing). That's in no way a slight against Summer Wars.
Posted by: DiGiKerot at August 01, 2010 12:28 PM (4K69Q)
I always thought the Telegraph was the best newspaper in the UK, which makes it heads and shoulders (Pun unintended.) above almost any newspaper in the US.
This shows why.
C.T.
Posted by: cxt217 at July 25, 2010 01:04 PM (E5PES)
