Gundam Modeling 102
Like Gunpla? Click the image below to visit my new blog, Gunpla 101. Meet Chibi Gundam Unicorn. I put him here next to my Nenderoids for size comparison. It took me…
Otaku Links: Getting schooled by Reddit, 12-year-olds, etc.
I admit I’ve spent a good part of this week thinking about and trying to learn from last week’s failure. I actually made a Reddit thread about it and the…
Anime Trope Bingo!
Glomping chibis, people with animal ears, and a host of perverted characters—at first glance, it’s hard to tell what makes Cuticle Detective Inaba at all offensive. After all, it’s all…
My biggest blogging screw-up yet
One of the skills I work especially hard on as a journalist is transparency. I don’t believe that journalists are the medium through which news is born but more like…
Otaku Links: More like Kotaku links
I’ve been enjoying From the New World, and not just because the character costume designer deserves a creative award. I liked Altair and Vega’s spoilertastic discussion about episode 15 and the…
Chapter two is on sale today!
I think everybody has a friend who is a “would-be writer.” She’s always talking about how amazing her book is going to be. He reblogs quotes on Tumblr about the…
Survey’s in. Here’s what you had to say
I asked, you answered. And since you were kind enough to fill out the survey, I thought I’d dedicate an entire blog post to the responses. You know, just as…
Otaku Links: why you should watch Psycho Pass
One of my top five anime of 2012 was Psycho Pass, a Philip K. Dickian sci-fi thriller. This Kotaku review does a good job summing up the first half of…
Chapter two advance preview: the benefits of a beat
Just one week from today, I’m launching the second chapter of the Otaku Journalist e-course. Chapter two is all about beat reporting, a type of specialized journalism in which the…
Who are you and why are you here?
My weekend was just as geeky as you’d expect from somebody who runs a blog called Otaku Journalist. I built an Acguy mobile suit model. I went to Magfest, where…