Today, I attended the panel presentation “Toy As Media: Bandai, Giant Robots, and Future Entertainment” organized by Prof. Ian Condry of MIT. The panelists were Katsuhiro Izumi, who’s a Chief Producer in the Boy Toys department of Bandai, and Adam Newman of Bandai’s International Business Strategy wing. The lecture room was packed, the presentation was interesting, and I learned a lot of interesting facts and tidbits I would like to share with you. Continue reading “Bandai, Gunpla, and the World”
Of course, that was not the real title of the chapter. The real one is: “Charging Completed, Negi Revived!!”
This chapter turns out to be a series of pwnages, shounen style. More pwnages than the fight in Kyoto. Ebil Chao pwns every one, and then got pwned by Misora… (J/K) Continue reading “Mahou Sensei Negima 151: A Series of Pwnages”
As we know it, loli characters are the trend in the present otaku world. Characters like the three Nanoha girls, Eve, Franca, blah blah blah are pervading the anime landscape. Without them, you surely feel that the anime lacks a certain appeal.
Of course, loli character is too big a topic to discuss in this short entry. What I want to do this time is, like my post earlier about the character stereotype “Blonde, in Black, and Kick-ass,” I would like to identify yet another interesting character type, which I call the “lolier-than-thou.” Continue reading “Lolier than Thou”
The exciting battle between Mahora Gakuen students and Chao’s robot army drags on. Evangeline watches the battle unfolding from afar, herself not participating. 3-A girls are having tremendous fun, with Yuuna’s ranking 28th among all participants. Konoka stations herself at the infirmary, treating the wounded with her signature healing magic. Continue reading “Mahou Sensei Negima 150: Raging Fight! Close Fight! Fierce Fight! Mahora Magic-user Troop v. Future Super Science!!!”
Moe and education seem to be in perfect harmony. Ever since the advent of Moetan, numerous other educational featuring ultra-kawaii characters aimed at fun-loving otaku have sprung into existence. Notable examples include Moe Economics, Kabu de Ikou! (stock trading), and Tsundere Linux. DarkMirage has also written a guide to beginner Japanese grammar that incorporate moe with language learning. It may be not too far-reaching to say that Moe is the chocolate of education: it makes even the most boring subject interesting just like the way chocolate makes any specimen of failed attempts at patry making a decent treat.
So, I present a half-baked fruit of my random creative energy and my boredom: a preview of Moeru Kakuritsu “Moekaku,” (Budding Probability “Moekaku”) basically an attempt to write notes on probability thoery stuffed with moe. The current version is four pages long, and consists of a short introduction and a list of definitions of sets and functions. The target audiences are college students who are familiar with calculus and algebra. Nagato Yuki, our favourite humanoid interface, will serve as your personal tutor.
I’ll continue writing the notes until the point I can say that it has become useful as a review material for myself, and will post updates here in this blog. Suggestions are welcome, especially on the readability of the notes. (You see. Nagato’s language, as you might recall from Ep.4 of MoSH, can get really technical.)
Grab the PDF file here.
Yes, I finally realize it’s time to get off my lazy ass and give School Rumble the love it deserves.
It is still February, and the night is cold. The Tsukamoto household is struck by a blackout which seems to last long enough to cancel the effect of heaters and make Tenma uncomfortable. As such, she sets out to the warehouse in the backyard in search for a brazier (this is a new word to me), only to find herself unable to get out. Continue reading “School Rumble 189: Sleepless in Seattle”
The way an anime character speaks makes a lot of impact on his/her popularity. Suiseiseki wouldn’t have been this popular if she hadn’t ended all of her sentences with “desu,” and Wilhemina would have been just a forgetable character if she hadn’t expressed her militarist trait with “dearimasu.” This entry attempts to identify various speech patterns of anime/manga characters and compile a growing list of charectors using them. The reason why I’m doing this: well, categorizing is fun, of course, and I’m bored. Continue reading “Female Character Speech Pattern Compendium”
Well, the real title of the chapter is actually “Welcome Negi Party.”
The attack to the computer system is too much for Nutmeg and the bespectacled sensei to handle. The intruder seems to have slipped through all the defensive programs, and they can’t employ Type 03 Electronic Spirit (What? EVA03?) because the communication is jammed. The intruder can also figure out 12 digits of the access code in a very short amount of time, and this feast makes Nutmeg believe that they are not dealing with a human hacker here.
ZOMGWTFBBQ! W3 90t pwn3d by l33t haxor!
Continue reading “Mahou Sensei Negima 149: Chisame Smooches Negi”
