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K-ON!! plot to end at episode 24, ‘extras’ coming
On September 14th, 2010 — a date which will live in infamy — the show known as K-ON!! will suddenly and deliberately come to an end in the Empire of Japan. The fans of K-ON!! were at peace with the studio Kyoto Animation, expecting a full 26 episodes of the show’s main story arc and was [...]
Continue reading...Kusuo Yasuda’s Former Home
Sunday, August 29, 2010
Every time I’m in Tokyo I’m amazed by how many new skyscrapers have popped up, and I wonder, what did they have to demolish to build them? But Tokyo has always been about rebuilding and renewal. Back in the days of the Shogun, when homes were built of wood, fires were rampant, and rare was [...]
Continue reading...Kanazawa – A Shopper’s Paradise for Traditional Crafts
Sunday, August 29, 2010
Kanazawa is justifiably famous for its spectacular Kenrokuen garden and traditional geisha and samurai historic districts, but what also impresses me greatly about Kanazawa (and surrounding Ishikawa Prefecture) is the striking quality and quantity of its traditional arts and crafts. In fact, only in Kyoto can you find as varied craftsmanship with a longer history. [...]
Continue reading...New dissent in Japan is loudly anti-foreign
Saturday, August 28, 2010
The demonstrators appeared one day in December, just as children at an elementary school for ethnic Koreans were cleaning up for lunch. The group of about a dozen Japanese men gathered in front of the school gate, using bullhorns to call the students cockroaches and Korean spies. Inside, the panicked students and teachers huddled in [...]
Continue reading...HTT clubroom’s real life model was about to catch fire
Friday, August 27, 2010
I feel as if my blog has been turning into a blog about nothing but K-ON recently, but this quite an interesting news. As you probably know, K-ON school Sakurakou has a real-life model, a former school in Toyosato town, near Kyoto. Unlike in Haruhi school’s case, K-ON’s real life model is open for visitors [...]
Continue reading...Culture Month: Tokaido: Travelling along Japan’s most important road.
Tuesday, August 24, 2010
[Aquagaze took a really nice and in-depth look at a documentary series called Tokaido, about recreating Hiroshige's trip from Edo to Kyoto. It's certainly not your typical documentary, and Aquagaze shows you why. -- Brad] You know those documentaries that show us the wacky Japan as we know and love it: oddly energetic [...]
Continue reading...Nara temple may be world’s oldest wooden structure
Sunday, August 15, 2010
A Zen Buddhist hall in Nara is the oldest wooden structure still in use and a century older than famed Horyuji temple previously thought to hold the crown, according to an expert in tree-ring dating. Research by Takumi Mitsutani, a visiting professor of dendrochronology at the Research Institute for Humanity and Nature in Kyoto, reveals that [...]
Continue reading....hack//Quantum Trailer
Monday, August 9, 2010
The .hack//Quantum OVA will premiere with screenings during Bandai Visual’s touring Anime Fes. “VS” publicity event that will hit Tokyo, Yokohama, Osaka, Kyoto, and Nagoya beginning November 27. Source: Moon Phase For more click here
Continue reading...Second Mazinkaizer SKL Trailer Released
Monday, August 9, 2010
“I am hell.” The first episode of the three-episode Mazinkaizer SKL OVA series will premiere with screenings during Bandai Visual’s touring Anime Fes. “VS” publicity event that will hit Tokyo, Yokohama, Osaka, Kyoto, and Nagoya beginning November 27. Source: Anime News Network For more click here
Continue reading...Despair (or rejoice?): The K-ON!! manga ends in September
Saturday, August 7, 2010
It’s over. Well, not yet, but it will be soon enough. K-ON!, the epic saga of a group of high school girls founding a band and hanging out in their club room will be coming to an end. As it goes for the manga version at least. Kakifly’s mega-moe four-panel comic strip finale will debut in the [...]
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Tuesday, August 31, 2010
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