Otaku Links: Summer reading

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  •  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 I am EXTREMELY excited for Mobile Suit Gundam-san, an anime based on a four-panel comic parody of the same name. I have only seen some of the comic, and maybe now it’ll be available in the U.S.!
  • An interesting theory from the Economist: when the government  presents certain aspects of Japanese pop culture as “Cool Japan,” it’s really just making it less cool by, well, associating it with the government.
  • Habit: a riveting sci-fi short story about girl gamers and the future. HT Ellie. Can anyone recommend a good place to read more original science fiction online?
  • If I were going to Anime Expo I’d definitely get a seat at the Masquerade so I could watch The Survey Corps, an Attack on Titan themed hip hop dance crew comprised of professional dancers.

Screenshot via twenty percent cooler.

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