Hey there! Everybody here at TG would like to wish all of you out there a very happy holidays. Hang out with your family, eat a bunch of good food, and remember what this season is about: not having to go to work for a couple of days.
With that said, the holiday sale is still on. Please see the last post here for more info. Later skaters.
“Haruhi sucks and so does Lucky Star. Crappiest anime ever made.
Hokuto no Ken owns this shit.”
-Youtube comment poster
A Japanese woman addicted to comics reportedly turned to the Internet to look for someone to kill her parents, after they asked her to clear out her cartoon-filled room.
News reports say the 36-year-old woman – who is unemployed and lives at home – filled up three rooms with several thousand comic books and videotapes she had collected with an allowance her grandmother sent her.
She reportedly became angry after her parents told her to throw away some of her comic books to make space for her sister who was planning to move in.
The reports say she posted a message on the Internet asking for someone to kill her mother, who manages a bar in Tokyo, and her father.
Police intervened after being notified are seeking to charge her with intimidation.
We love you, we honestly do… but you’re scaring us.
Tokyogetter will be rushing into your heart next week at Yaoi Con 2008 in San Francisco! We’ve provided an assortment of goods for prizes, and we’ll also be distributing discount certificates AND buttons to anybody who asks us. Don’t worry, we’re not hard to spot… or are we? 
BECAUSE I LOVE NOISE…
Japan’s Nayutawave Records, a subsidiary label of Universal Music Japan, has set an October 22 release date for its upcoming METALLICA tribute album, “Metal-Ikka” (literally meaning “The Metal Family” — bad pun indeed).
Apart from the Japanese metal veterans OUTRAGE, all the bands featured on the album are not “heavy metal” bands, though they show respect for METALLICA in their own ways.
“Metal-Ikka” track listing is as follows:
01. Sad but True - 10-FEET
02. Motorbreath - 9mm Parabellum Bullet (*1)
03. Creeping Death - RAZORS EDGE
04. Metal Militia - FUCK YOU HEROES
05. One - BEAT CRUSADERS
06. Through The Never – UZUMAKI
07. Seek and Destroy – INSOLENCE
08. Fuel – TOTALFAT
09. Enter Sandman – POLYSICS
10. St. Anger - 2side1BRAIN (*2)
11. Fight Fire with Fire - OUTRAGE
All the bands are Japanese except California’s INSOLENCE, who toured Japan with the organizer of this tribute album project, 10-FEET, in March this year.
10-FEET vocalist/guitarist Takuma says: “I’ve listened to a lot of METALLICA tribute albums — some are good and some are not. I’d say this album turned out to be a really good and interesting one, and I’m proud of that. Each and every track is great and I was especially impressed with the last two tracks. 2side1BRAIN’s ‘St. Anger’ — I just can’t get it off my head. OUTRAGE’s ‘Fight Fire with Fire’ sounds more METALLICA than METALLICA and it completely blew me away!”
As previously reported, the OUTRAGE track was recorded in July at Sound Farm Studio in Jamaica, Iowa, where SLIPKNOT recorded its new album “All Hope Is Gone”.
OUTRAGE is currently working on material for its new album, which is expected to be recorded this winter.
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Well, it’s an interesting idea. I have a hard time imagining Beat Crusaders doing some more metal tunes, but 9mm may be one of my favorite new bands so I look forward to hearing that. Polysics I fall in and out of love with, but I’m still excited to hear them going all Devo on another band’s ’suck era’ signature tune.
What the hell is Insolence doing there? : /
Gather round, kids! Today we’re having a history lesson. Don’t worry, I promise to shoot my mouth off and talk some poo!
Prime Minister Fukuda has stepped down, and our favorite candidate gearing up for a run at the Prime Minister position (which may as well be dubbed the “most visible and powerless figurehead in Japan!”) is avowed manga fan Taro Aso (麻生太郎), who is currently the secretary general of the Liberal Democratic Party. To call Aso ‘colorful’ is like saying I’m not adverse to drinking 2 bud lights on a study break during Weds. afternoon to celebrate my re-reading of this tech handbook and our upcoming Japan trip. Not that I’m speaking out of experience or anything.
Ahem.
Despite being a career politician since 1979, Aso kept his geek beef strong by having his family ship him manga so he’d have something to read while he was studying at Stanford university. His favorite book is purported to be Golgo 13, which certainly makes him a man after my own heart, and after he was spotted reading Rozen Maiden* in an airport he was dubbed “Rozen Aso,” which just sounds wrong to me on so many levels when I say it out loud in English.
Outside of his manga interests, the Roman Catholic Olympic shooting team member Aso has a reputation for being hawkish and a bit, um, foot-in-mouth friendly. Some of his controversial statements include:
“The Japanese were trusted because they had never been involved in exploitation there, or been involved in fights or fired machine guns. Japan is doing what the Americans can’t do. It would probably be no good to have blue eyes and blond hair. Luckily, we Japanese have yellow faces.”
While economics minister, he also said that he wanted to turn Japan into a country where “rich Jews” would want to live.
*blink*
Anyway, I guess that’s what happens when you take your cues from Duke Golgo’s “find, hump, shoot, get paid, kill the guy that hired you” book. I’m not even going to whip out the pictures of the inter-office eye-roll that shook TG headquarters this afternoon when we read the second one. It’s called henken in Japanese, ya’ll.
The world turns…
* = Dude you were on A SHOOTING TEAM. What you doing reading Rozen Maiden?!?
For several years I woke up every morning and went to animeondvd.com to get news on anime, manga, and dvd releases. I adored their reviews as well. But since the site got bought-out (not really bought-out but restructured with support from mania.com), well, my eyes have been getting butt-raped by the sheer uuuuugliness of that site.
That’s not to say that AOD and company aren’t still doing a damn fine job, but really, I own a digital projector partially so I can watch movies on my wall and make myself feel better about being an efficacy-obsessed computer engineer/shut-in and partially because people keep making websites that seemed determined to drive me to blindness.
I wouldn’t be surprised if I found out that this whole “Web 2.0″ thing was a conspiracy by LensCRAFTERS, ADV, and the guys at Crunchy Roll.
Believe that shit.
Anyway, Animeondvd.com, I still love you. I just wish you’d change clothes. Hint, hint.
Banana Choco. French Toast. Pretz. Pineapple. Bitter Chocolate. Melon Pan (bread). Salt. Butter. Hokkaido butter. Roast. Chocolate peanut. Cocoa. Potato.
Sure, some were better than others, but I’ve tried ‘em all. My rotund ass has rocked more pocky than you can begin to imagine. I am a walking testament to dead carbs, sugar, and salt. I am a man driven by pushups, hatred, and whatever candy-coated stick I am chewing on at the moment. I think the only one I haven’t tried is SARS-flavored. I’ll get to it someday.
That said, here are a few flavors I’d like to see. Take a note, candy manufacturers, you can make some moves with this here handy list of pocky treats I’d gladly scarf down and barf up after my second tall boy:
Pancake
Strawberry Cheesecake
Linux
Hamburger
Baby Hamburger (DUDE I HAD TO USE THIS IMAGE SOMEWHERE AND THE DAY HAS COME!)
And, of course…
(wait for it)
(Just a bit more…)
(Ready?)
Chocolate Rain
