• There’s going to be a new Gundam Build Fighters!? We don’t know if it’s going to be an anime or what, just a “series,” but I’m already excited.

• Katriel wrote about Japanese nerd terms for the Mary Sue. I was especially interested in what she had to say about “otaku.”

• Evabeast wrote a really sweet book review for Otaku Journalism: Otaku Journalism aims and succeeds in helping geek journalists.

• I met Nanaki through the fanfiction community, but as I’ve gotten to know her I’ve learned a ton about Vocaloid subculture. Her blog focuses on Vocaloid news and reviews. It’s been fun to be a outsider and slowly discover the fandom.

• Speaking of awesome ladies, my ReadWrite colleague Selena Larson has been polishing her fiction skills on Medium. Her stories are a really interesting snapshot of life in tech-forward San Francisco.

• Ben Huber, whom I used to work with at Japanator, just started a cool new podcast about video games and other geeky media called R&NDOM ENCOUNTERS. I’ll be mentioning Ben again next week, as he contributed to a project I’ll be launching then (HINT: Gundam is involved).

• There’s still time to take my survey and enter to win a copy of my book!

Sorry I’m short on links this week. Spent all my energy fangirling over Yowapeda and pushing out a first draft. Feel free to send me your plugs—I love to promote my readers and my friends. Readers are really just “pre-friends” anyway!

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