I gave a talk on Nico Nico Douga at Barcamp Bangkok on January 26, 2008. The event itself was fun and I got to meet a lot of interesting people, many of whom shared some obsession with Japanese media like I do. I’m posting here a revised version of the talk script and the talk slide, in Lessig style. (Yeah, I’m a Lessig fanboy.)
Continue reading “The Evolution of Creativity: Nico Nico Douga and Doujinshi Subculture in Web 2.0″
I attended the 28th Wonder Festival today. Although I’m no figure collector, I do enjoy going there just to take photos. (I think I might have become a camera freak lately…) Here are some figures I thought were seriouly cool:
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Cardcaptor has returned to Japan for an internship again, and he is going to attend Sunshine Creation 34, aka Sankuri 34, this coming Sunday. Let us take a look at circles he’s going to check out.
- 恋愛漫画家 (A-12ab): For the new Code Geass book.
- サークルAV (A-47ab): Let’s see what they have to offer.
- Pink Chuchu (J-31ab): Game Collection book.
- Nikka (J-32a): What ever she sells.
- りーず工房 (J-51a): Can’t find the web site, but hope for a new SRW book.
- Mieow (N-16b): A new Lolicon series book?
- P-Forest (Q-21b): SRW book, hopefully.
- オテントマール (Q-24b): Irui book.
- Joker Type (ｱ-01a): Aoi Nishimata’s Valentine book.
- うつらうららか (セ-08a): Churuya-chan’s artist does Nanoha.
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”
- Upon seeing this blog entry, I ventured to Akihabara on August 19th in search of the Asa & Kaede bed sheet that comes up with the special edition of Dengeki Hime (or is it the other way around?). The bed sheets were sold out at almost all the stores I want to, including Animate, Melon Books, and Gamers. When I was about to give up on it though, I went to K-books and, to my delight, found that there were still some available. Now, the bedsheet is adorning my flat futon. It feels good to sleep on, seriously, due to the nature of the fabric itself.
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In the past few weeks, there has been a big hype on a certain event in the anime blog community; perpetrators include Heisei Democracy and ikimashou. They generated a hype big enough that a person who’s not really into that sort of things like me want to check the event out myself. So, on Sunday August 20, my curiosity took me once again to Tokyo Big Sight to participated in the biggest(?) figurine-related event in Japan, the Summer Wonder Festival 2006. Continue reading “Wonder Festival 2006 (Summer)”
As I am too lazy to write a full-blown report on the other days of Comiket yet. (Hopefully, I’ll get it done by this weekend.) I figure I’ll post pictures of the loot I managed to get. Although it may be pale in comparison to Shingo’s ginormous collection, I think it offers a wider variety of stuffs you can get at Comiket. So, here we go… Continue reading “Comiket 70 Loot”
August 11 marked the second time I participated in the holiest ritual of the otaku, the Comic Market. Having been granted permission to take Friday off, I went to the largest doujinshi convention in the world three days straight, fought the most ginormous crowd I’ve seen in my life, and threw away 1/3 of my salary like it was nothing. And, here, my fellow otaku, is a part of my life I want to share with you guys. Continue reading “Comiket 70 Report: Friday August 11″
