Schrödinger Manga Museum

October 31, 2009 in Bakemonogatari, Funny, Japan, Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei
Tags: Comiket, Democratic Party of Japan, Kaichiro Morikawa, Meiji University, Paradox, Schrödinger Manga Museum, Thought experiment, Tokyo International Manga Library, Yoshihiro Yonezawa

Exultation ~Bakemonogatari E09
Tokyo International Manga Library
In a move to promote serious study of Japanese manga, a university in Tokyo plans to open a library with two million comic books, animation drawings, video games and other cartoon industry artifacts.
Tentatively named the Tokyo International Manga Library, it would open by early 2015 on the campus [...]

Gokujo ~ Gokudō Maniac Girl Mizuno

October 27, 2009 in Funny, Nyan Koi
Tags: Giri-ninjo, Gokudou, Gokujo, Kaede Mizuno, Nyan Koi, Rekijo, Takeshi Kitano, Yakuza

Mizuno really loves anything with manly spirit ~ Nyan Koi E01
極道 (ごくどう, Gokudō, organized crime)
The Yakuza films, such as the films of Fukasaku Kinji, early on dealt with highly stylized samurai-era gangs, the precursor of the modern Yakuza gangs today. These films that enjoyed theur greatest popularity during 1963-1973 embodied the concept of “giri-ninjo” or [...]

Talk doesn’t cook rice, b3tch

October 26, 2009 in Funny, Japan
Tags: Afghanistan, Barack Obama, Fall of the Republic, Guantanamo, Proverb, Slogan, Yes We Can

Iesu, Uii Kyamu !
Nine months have passed since U.S. President Barack Obama took office, and I have come to form the following opinion of him: He talks about ideals, but his actions are down-to-earth.
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But now the president is not seeking to make any moves on key issues — prompting one to question whether he actually [...]

Impel Down ~ At the hands of world government

October 26, 2009 in Codex, One Piece
Tags: Barack Obama, Serbia, One Piece, Divine Comedy, Dante Alighieri, Inferno, Impel Down, Radovan Karadzic, Richard Holbrooke, Bosnia, United Nations Security Council, Machiavelli, International Criminal Court, Slobodan Milosevic Murder

Impel Down Graffiti 8.0 by Vegapunk89
Impel Down
Impel Down (インペルダウン), the Great Jail, is the World Government’s maximum-security prison for the most dangerous criminals and pirates.
Impel Down seems to be heavily based on how Hell is described in Dante Alighieri’s Divine Comedy. Both are level-based, “inescapable” prisons with unique forms of punishment per level, and [...]

Bakemonogatari ~ A Knight, a Dragon, and a Kingdom

October 26, 2009 in Bakemonogatari, Codex, Gundam
Tags: Bakemonogatari, Baruhara Combi, Gundam, Hitagi Senjougahara, Koyomi Araragi, MetaOtakuics, Odin, Shaft, Tsubasa Hanekawa, Valhalla, Yoshiyuki Tomino

Baruhara Combi ~ Bakemonogatari E06
ANN : So are fantasy stories a particularly good way of talking about dark aspects of the world?
Yoshiyuki Tomino : That’s the nature of fantasy stories, because fantasy stories were originally told to give people hope. They’re pure fiction, but fantasy is a way of creating a story which gives [...]

A Terrible Secret

October 25, 2009 in Funny, Kämpfer
Tags: Kämpfer, Marina Inoue, Natsuru Senou, Secret

Sometimes you really don’t want to admit what is your favorite choice of enlightenment

Angel Lapdance ~ Sheryl Nome

October 24, 2009 in Codex, Macross Frontier
Tags: Sheryl Nome, Macross Frontier, May'n, Pink Monsoon, Tenshi ni nacchatta

Sheryl Nome ~ 「Pink Monsoon」+ 「Tenshi ni nacchatta」
->Pink Monsoon Translated Lyrics

Minmay Complex ~ Lyrical Struggle For Peace

October 24, 2009 in Funny, Kämpfer, Macross
Tags: Kämpfer, Lili Marleen, Listen to my song, Lynn Minmay, Macross, Mikoto Kondō, Minmay Complex, Ranka Lee, Sheryl Nome

Mikoto Kondou in N’Djamena, Chad ~ Kämpfer 04
Lynn Minmay
In the Macross world, Minmay is continued to be remembered even decades after Space War I. Her songs are constantly cherished and she will always be known as the girl who ended a war by singing. Throughout every Macross sequel, Minmay is referred either indirectly or [...]

Labyrinth of Love

October 24, 2009 in Codex, Tetragrammaton Labyrinth
Tags: London, Ei Itou, Scotland Yard, Gilles de Rais, Tetragrammaton Labyrinth, Joan of Arc, The Death Of Love, Dani Filth

Tetragrammaton Labyrinth
Tetragrammaton Labyrinth is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by manga author Ei Itou. The story is set in alternate pre-industrial London, where in Scotland Yard call on Meg Cross, a nun with a special talent in exorcism, and her eternally youthful partner Angela to deal with extraordinary crimes.
Gilles de Rais was featured [...]

Actress Yoko Minamida (1933-2009)

October 23, 2009 in Codex, Shintaro Ishihara
Tags: Shintaro Ishihara, Taiyō no kisetsu, Yoko Minamida, Judai no Seiten, Hiroyuki Nagato, Shohei Imamura, Seijun Suzuki, Sadao Nakajima

Yoko Minamida & Hiroyuki Nagato~ Taiyo no Kisetsu
Yoko Minamida
Actress Yoko Minamida gained attention when she appeared with actress Ayako Wakao in the 1953 film “Judai no Seiten” (Teenager’s sex manual), playing the part of a schoolgirl involved in prostitution.
In 1955 Minamida moved to film company Nikkatsu Corp. While hospitalized she read and was moved by [...]