While most of us are introverts and hikikomoris that lock ourselves in the room all day and blogging hoping that complete strangers would take notice of us and eventually make our blog famous so that we may one day become Omni and have the awesomest blogging site of the century, it seems a group of prodigal anime bloggers have made an effort to bring to the society a little more awareness of the anime blogger community. I was pretty late at finding this because RL gets in the way sometimes, but for those of you who do not yet know about the NYAF Anime Blogging Panel by Hinano, JP Meyer and DS from Daijoubu, you can watch it here: http://animediet.net/conventions/nyaf-anime-blogger-panel-the-video

written by astrobunny \\ anime, anime blog, blogging, ds, hinano, jp meyer, nyaf, omo, omonomono, panel

Nogizaka Haruka no Himitsu is an awesome anime. But only if you know what they are talking about. But when a fansub group makes this sort of mistake, I'm not sure if I can recommend it to anyone anymore.

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This blog has become a little rundown, so I'm starting a little drive to revive it. I've found that just blogging about animu has become a little boring and tasteless. But I wonder what kind of content should I put here?

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Fall is coming soon, and along with it comes the ripest season for good anime to come out. Lately, there has been a trend of some of the nicest and most memorable anime series coming out in the fall season of the year. Coincidence or not, fall is probably the season I look forward to the most of all seasons for good things to watch. You can be sure I will expand my watchlist quite a bit come autumn 2008.

written by astrobunny \\ 2008, 2nd season, 5-2, after story, autumn, clannad, ef, fall, fall 2008, ga-rei, gundam, hyakko, jigoku shoujo, lucky star, mitsuganae, shikabane, tale of melodies, today in class, toradora, zero

Tokyo City is bidding for the Summer Olympics in 2016! Support them so all of us can have an excuse to meet in Japan in 8 years time! Alright, so this is what you have to do. On the bottom of the left sidebar is something like this:

Click on the bubble "I support the bid" and help Tokyo become the host for the 2016 Olympics! Soon we might even see 2D girls competing in the Olympic Saimoe who knows?

written by astrobunny \\ 2016, bid, olympics, tokyo

Otakuism has been around for some time now, and people are already quite familiar with the term 'otaku'. Originating in Japan, the term 'otaku' (オタク） was once, and still is, an honorific word for 'house' or 'residence' and is used in less-casual and stranger situations where the utmost politeness in a conversation, so as to not offend anyone unintentionally. However, in recent years, it has become demonified, and associated with a subset of a group of people known as 'hikikomori'. Hikikomori is literally, 'withdrawn and locked in', and is used to refer to a group of people who stay inside all the time, and have withdrawn from socializing because of reasons ranging from social pressures and expectations, to extreme cases of agoraphobia. However, when I say 'otaku' a subset of this group, I do not mean a strictly defined subset, but rather to illustrate that otakuism used to be associated with hikikomoris locking themselves in a house watching anime all day. This is because the term has now spread loosely encompass introverts and extroverts alike who express and obsession in anime.

written by astrobunny \\

If you think about it, maybe its because everyone of us are virtual traps?

written by astrobunny \\ irc, nanoha, random

I was digging through my old stuff today and I found something I thought I lost for a long time. Its a small Gundam Seed Flash that I made to impress the guys on NarutoFan forums once upon a time. Enjoy.

written by astrobunny \\

Recently there has been a rising trend in fuel prices as those bastards selling oil continue to jack up prices to fill up their own pockets and leave billions of people with less and less money to buy fuel with. With these trends comes the rise of food prices too. But the rise in food prices aren't because of the increased transportation fees associated with fuel. There are now more people than ever but still roughly the same number of farms around the world that actually feed humans. The result? Not as many carrots as we once had.

You might think that with so much land on earth, how can there not be enough? Well, most of the farms are used to feed livestock that grows our cattle, sheep and chicken that supply our neverending appetite for McDonalds, steak and KFC. In a way they are feeding us, in a way they aren't. But that's not the biggest reason. The reason food is starting to get scarce is, in an effort to make more money out of their farms, farmers are now moving out to planting sugar to produce alcohol. For what? You guessed it, fuel. With fuel prices rising like temperatures inside a tsundere on a bad day, farmers are finding it more profitable to just plant oil instead of food.The direct consequence: less food for more people.

I was a bit outraged when I read this in the news, and a quick google will lead you to lots of places talking about farmers moving from food to fuel, but very few that actually condemn them, playing down how bad this situation is becoming. Of course, this is the Malthusan Catastrophe in the making. It was and still is very obvious that we are headed the way of having too many people and not enough food in this world. Yet, no one really says anything about it. People just shrug it off and change the subject, or quote advancements in agricultural and genetic technology.

Farms are currently harvested 4 times a year in some places and what, are they gonna genetically engineer people that eat less? The r ecent summit by world leaders with oil producing countries just show that people simply aren't or just not wanting to pay attention to people going hungry. The food summit at Rome just threw blame at other people. Are people too afraid to face a fact that is currently slapped in their faces? Or are humans just programmed to create their own doom?

Maybe someday gems won't be the only things that will be measured in carats(carrots).

written by astrobunny \\

I rofl'ed.

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