• This My Love Story!! cosplay from TuxTeam is incredible. They were also behind that viral Big Hero 6 cosplay a few months back.

• Anime Vice was one of the news sites that shaped my concept of reporting about fandom in the beginning. Nigorimasen eulogizes it in its final days.

• Jisho, my favorite resource for looking up kanji, got a major redesign. Now if you remember a kanji’s pronunciation but not how it looks, you can use voice search. Paired with Lexilogos Hiragana and Katakana keyboards, there’s nothing else I need for writing in Japanese.

• Japanese fans rate the most inspiring sports anime. A bunch of my favorites are in the ranking.

• It’s prom season and I thought this anime-inspired prom proposal was adorable.

• Yoshiyuki Tomino, the father of Gundam, has really opened up about the flaws he perceives in his latest show, Reconguista in G. This show recently became legally available and I need to watch, but so far it looks like fans are divided.

• In my book, I interviewed Ink of Ani-Gamers about his Drunken Otaku column, which is fairly unique as columns go but pretty self-explanatory. You’ll be surprised at how often alcohol is a theme in anime.

• As we mourn the premature death of Silent Hills, Wired asks, does Hideo Kojima’s Konami departure mean the end of all-powerful Japanese game designers? P.S. Remember when I met Kojima?

• And finally, have some Gurren Lagann puns.

Photo via TuxTeam