The 5 anime I always watch dubbed
When i was growing up, your preference for subbed or dubbed anime was an identity, a lifestyle choice, something you wore emblazoned on a button pinned to your backpack. Because…
Otaku Links: The Whole Internet
A thunderstorm left us without power on Tuesday night, so we went over to friend/neighbor Grant’s place to charge our phones. Fortunately, Grant had just the resource for our temporarily…
What I learned from ten weeks of Japanese
Last night the mood was lighter in my five-student Japanese 101 class. More relaxed. And everyone was talking about their upcoming trips to Japan. “I’m not looking forward to being…
Future hazy for “Crisis Heart Brawlers”
It was marketed to donors as “The Official Otakon… Game.” But now that Otakorp has terminated its agreement with Studio Nasu, that will be impossible to deliver. Regardless of his troubles,…
Otaku Links: Having a good time
Does anyone get a special thrill from being on the inside of every new Internet joke? Here’s the origin of I came out to have a good time… Other dumb memes…
Eleven top posts from 2011
Cherry blossom season, 2011 Welcome back to the second installment of Otaku Journalist’s trip down memory lane. This time, I’m looking at 11 posts from 2011. 2011 was a completely…
Was the Otakon videogame a Kickstarter scam?
Studio Nasu, a game development company promoted by Otakon, has yet to make good on a Kickstarter that raised more than $33,000 back in 2012. Now Dave Lister, founder of…
Otaku Links: Summer reading
It’s going to be a beautiful summer. I love checking Crunchyroll’s Summer 2014 lineup and watching it slowly populate with new titles every day. There’s no date for it, but…
Ten top posts from 2010
Me blogging at Otakon in August 2010 If you just started visiting Otaku Journalist, you are really missing out. I do try hard to keep up Otaku Journalist, but the truth…
How I taught my old blog new tricks
Things have been a little crazy in Otaku Journalist land. At one point two weeks ago, I counted that I had six different jobs. I was maintaining multiple WordPress sites,…