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Fighting Friday 11-11-2011

Saturday, November 12, 2011

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Welcome to Fighting Friday, the battle anime and manga recap that would go through all kinds of Hell and high water to bring its treasured readers the recaps they crave! Today we have a healthy batch for you, including ones for One Piece, Fairy Tail, Hunter x Hunter, Bleach and Naruto. Thankfully, my laziness has helped excise [...]

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Naruto fillers could be ending soon, also: pigs can fly

Sunday, December 19, 2010

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Naruto Shippuden fillers could be ending soon? Say whaaaaat? News from Jump Festa 11, a Japanese anime and manga event reveals that the Kage Summit and Confining the Jinchuriki arcs will likely take place during 2011. A promo poster (pictured in the gallery) shows Naruto, Killer Bee, Madara, and Sasuke, who are all characters that play an important [...]

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[Episode] Mobile Suit Gundam 00 – Episode 19

Wednesday, October 13, 2010

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Having determined that Team Trinity itself is promoting conflict, Setsuna confronts the Gundam Thrones Tieria comes to his assistance, and the two Gundam Meisters fight as a team for the first time Tieria detaches the Virtue’s outer armor to reveal the Gundam Nadleeh and activates its unique Trial System, which allows him to take control [...]

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In Japan, Living Large In Really Tiny Houses

Wednesday, August 4, 2010

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The Japanese have long endured crowded cities and scarce living space, with homes so humble a scornful European official once branded them rabbit hutches. But in recent years, Japanese architects have turned necessity into virtue, vying to design unorthodox and visually stunning houses on remarkably narrow pieces of land. In the process, they are also [...]

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Slowing Japan’s Galapagos syndrome

Thursday, April 29, 2010

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It’s true that shyness is so common in Japan that it almost considered a virtue. Where else would one find DVDs for sale to practice “just looking” at people or “Miterudake,” as the product is called? But given its cultural proclivity for and historical experience with isolation (during its policy of sakoku), the last thing [...]

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The Ontology and Epistemology of Superhero Transformations

Thursday, January 14, 2010

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Superheros transform. Superheros have a tendency to transform, in some sense, the world over. The transformation of Japanese superheroes has, in a matter of degreee at least, differences from that of those in the West. Ontological or Epistemological transformation. Western superheroes are more likely to transform by virtue of what is know about them, in [...]

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Should I Learn to Speak Japanese to date a Japanese Girl?

Monday, October 12, 2009

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I can probably count on one hand all of the freaks of nature that I have met or know who decided that it was going to be their goal in life to read, write and speak Japanese fluently. By virtue of them doing that they pretty much guaranteed themselves a Japanese girlfriend because they completely [...]

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Different Types of Japanese Girls in New York City

Monday, October 12, 2009

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I have explained in prior posts that Japanese girls migrate and live in New York City for a myriad of different reasons but for the most part they fit into certain categories. Of course these categories can be organic with some being in several. What I have below is a simple template to what you [...]

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