Happy Fun Links: 2 Week Fail
There hasn’t been a lot of happy fun things to write about in these past two weeks — what with the Akiba incident, the R-R melodrama, Tokyopop canceling a bunch of manga titles — and I also have a few personal things going on, so that’s why I’m late. Yes, lame excuses are lame.
Windbell looks at behavior of people on subways, notably in Tokyo and in Singapore. I actually think that the Japanese are the most well-behaved out of any people that I’ve seen. They’re quiet on trains, and when they need to make a phone call on their mobile, they step away from the crowd or cover their mouthpiece when they’re talking, making sure that they’re not being a nuisance. That’ll NEVER happen in New York.
A couple of popular shoujo series from Hakusensha are coming to TV soon: Skip Beat (anime) and Here is Greenwood (jdrama). To be honest, I haven’t read either series, but from the initial buzz, it seems that a lot of my fellow shoujo fans are hyped up for both. Oh! And before I forget, this summer also will see the premiere of the jdrama adaptation of Cat Street (by manga artist Yoko Kamio of Hana Yori Dango fame).
I’m a week late to the party, but Kabitzin wrote up a great list of anime dads. The ones that immediately come to my mind are the dads from Ouran High School Host Club — between Ranka, and Tamaki’s and Kyoya’s dads, that’s an entire group of fathers to compare and contrast.
Anyway, the New York Asian Film Festival starts tomorrow, and ANN covers the movies that have either an anime/manga predecessor. I know I’m definitely seeing a few of those, even the ones that aren’t based on a prior work. Japan Society has more movies for its Japan Cuts series, including “Sakuran” and “Sukiyaki Western Django,” both of which I’d really like to see.
That’s it for me.
June 20th, 2008 at 8:22 pm
omgz, go watch Greenwood. NOW.
If you’ll excuse me I have to go catch up with Skip Beat… I only read like 5 volumes of it (then skipped some chapters to read the latest ones lol), and that was yearss ago. Have to play catch-up!