Thanks for stopping by! Here're the latest updates on the site:

Wednesday, April 2, 2008

"Once things slow down a little" didn't pan out over the last year, did it? As both Online Manager and Press at Sakura-Con, along with the usual "day job" of helping administer a hosting and ISP company, projects always pull me away. But not entirely; there's a blog (follow the LiveJournal link above) and ever-needed "escape" moments, too.

Photography has been increasing in frequency as well, with more in print (in March, Japan Times published a few on mine from Sakura-Con 2007). Some Photo Galleries have been growing as well, look there for more soon, as I pore though many Gigabytes of shots from Sakura-Con 2008 events and a few Cosplay moments.

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Tuesday, April 3, 2007

Catch me if you can at the annual (ne, perennial) distraction from updating my own site, Sakura-Con 2007, ten years strong and growing larger all the time. My own "Online Manager" badge helps explain the busy-ness throughout the year, with a "Press" pass explaining the blurred outline around my physical body at con.

Once things slow down a little, I plan to rebuild this site in a friendlier (to readers and myself) look and feel. But then I've tought this for how long now? ^_^'

You know what they say: "Sleep is for the weak. The week after con."

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Friday, April 15, 2005 ("Forever Ago" in web terms!)

I want to thank Del Rey books for sending a review copy of the Genshiken volume 1 manga, released in stores today; it's definitely a series to follow (and the anime is being released locally this Summer), and right up my alley as a story of an anime/manga/culture club.

Photos and a report for this year's Sakura-Con are coming soon; I have a bunch of them this time around!

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Tuesday, November 23, 2004

"It's been such a long time...." Quite a lot of new anime to pore through for intros and review pages, and still quite a lot of titles I only have the intros for. Here's but a sample of the shows I've seen lately for which info will definitely make it to the site shortly: PLANETES, orbital trash collectors and their struggle for perceived legitimacy and career growth; Samurai Champloo, a period piece about two rivals teaming up to help a waitress find a mysterius man; Samurai 7, an update on Akira Kurasawa's classic set in a SciFi version with aliens as the "bandits"; Tenjou Tenge, martial arts battles in and around a high school and a mysterious family.

And how could I have forgotten to add in GunBuster until now? With the recent import DVD set, that's... already remedied.

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Tuesday, July 13, 2004

A drive crash and tape restore yesterday reverted most things (except the database luckily, but there hadn't been many additions) back to what they were in early June. So time to repeat the updates since then:

I became the Online Information Systems Manager for Sakura-Con 2005 (and yes, I have my own back ups of that (grin)), so updates here may be even more sporadic, but I'll certainly still be around.

For more personal updates and glimpses at the monsters from my id, I started up a SeattleOtaku livejournal blog. Check it out for links to friends from Anime Night, various friends from elsewhere, conventions, and the rest of the livejournal crowd, too.

And here in the database, I added Tenshi no Tamago (Angel's Egg), an import-only (I believe, at least on DVD) older Oshii Mamouru anime with only about 5 minutes of dialogue.

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Thursday, June 3, 2004

Now that I have the delayed Region-2 ability to go after some favorites as imports rather than waiting for local distributors (ahem, a certain one beginning with "D" with their subsidiary beginning with "M") to get off their butts, I'm adding a few more currently import-only, titles from Ghibli studio to the favorites in the database, such as Kuronai no Buta (Porco Rosso), Mimi wo Subaseba (Whisper of the Heart), and Umi ga Kikoeru (I Can Hear the Sea) -- only one of which (Porco Rosso) is in the next announced D/M release date (in August) along with the already listed Nausicaa and another "can't believe I didn't have it listed already" film, My Neighbor Totoro).

I'll be rehashing the database soon as well, to be able to sort by Japanese or English titles instead of the mixed version it currently uses.

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Friday, May 28,2004

Happy 20th Birthday to Macross! The UW club showed a fansub of the Macross: Do You Remember Love? movie tonight. Now just how did they know that I recently ordered the still-no-subtitles Region-2 DVD (Macross Ai Oboete Imasuka)?