- ATTENTION COSPLAYERS: As many of you know, my book Cosplay: The Fantasy World of Role Play was written in seven weeks and didn’t give me a lot of time to contact every single person featured (though of course, all photographers were contacted and compensated). The book has sold enough to merit a second edition, so I can start correcting that. Reach out to me if you would like to be credited in a different way!
- What a weekend! In the midst of a major blizzard, I managed to launch my new Gunpla 101 T-shirt line on time. The designs are by the person who designed the Otaku Journalist logo, Ben Huber.
- I also got my Japanese Language Proficiency Test N5 score, after refreshing the page for about 40 minutes. I passed! My score wasn’t great, but after checking out the year by year statistics of how many people pass and fail, I’m coming to terms with that.
- The Japanese language quirk that trips English speakers up. What’s most difficult for me about Japanese is that it’s based on a different culture, and my brain does not form thoughts in the order or style that Japanese sentences are spoken! At least, not yet. HT Kit Paige.
- Chic Pixel went to a cat cafe in Brisbane and I can’t handle the cute. Also, she introduced me to this anime magazine archive blog, which includes scans dating back to the ’70s!
- Please Tell Me! Galko-chan: The Grossest Educational Anime You’ll Ever Watch. I am not watching this—yet—because I figured it was just fan service, but its sex education aspect sounds useful and important. I hope it helps more women to be more comfortable with their bodies, and more men to understand these realities that women rarely talk about.
- In this lackluster winter season, my new hobby is watching old anime. Last week I finished Ristorante Paradiso; this week I marathoned Time of Eve, the story of a high school boy who discovers his family’s android visiting a strange cafe, seemingly on her own. It’s so good, and so short! You can watch all six, short episodes in just a few hours.
- Check out this figure skater doing his routine to Cowboy Bebop‘s opening song, “Tank!” complete with Spike Spiegel cosplay. I’m not sure if the fall he does partway through is intentional or not, since Spike does fall in the intro, and either way he recovers with such grace it’s hard to tell!
What are you reading on the Internet this week? Don’t forget you can always submit links to me to include in next week’s Otaku Links!
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I had good things to say about “Time of Eve”: http://www.ganriki.org/article/time-of-eve/
Time of Eve is fantastic, I’ve become a fan of Yasuhiro Yoshiura. If you can track it down his OAV Pale Cacoon its fantastic. The of course there is the well done, but corporately influenced Patema Inverted. Mizu no Kotoba might still be on Crunchyroll and is the precursor to Time of Eve. Galko-chan is interesting, the reality of their conversations are entertaining and something of it reminds me of Colorful (the tv anime, not the movie…both are excellent in their own right and available on Hulu!)
Steve, I believe it is.
Is the correct anime? It sounds like it from the description, two episodes and two videos of director interviews. http://www.crunchyroll.com/mizu-no-kotoba
I added it to my queue and hope to watch it in the next few weeks.
It’s amongst the anime on CR that can be viewed for free. However, if anyone comments below that they would like a 48 hour guest premium account (no credit card needed,) I’d be happy to hand some out. I think I have five right now which will most likely not go to any use otherwise.
Edited to change “It” to “It’s” in the third paragraph.
Thats it.
Awesome! Thank you for the confirmation and the recommendation. Really looking forward to watching this.
Time of Eve is fantastic. I watched it last Spring or so when Crunchyroll had the movie of it, basically just all the episodes in one go. It’s one of the anime that has really stuck with me and made me think. Glad you had the chance to see it!
Can Otaku Links be about a single show? Because I think it’s really interesting that two guys from the former East Germany are doing a week-by-week detailed analysis of “What’s German in Schwarzesmarken”, about the Muv-Luv spinoff that’s set in an alternate-history mechs-versus-aliens 1983 East Germany. Here’s the creator’s YouTube page: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCoo3AA3BsAZkpTG47gEHVDw
Thanks for the mention! I love the Risorante Paradiso manga but I never saw the anime. I’m gonna have to change that!