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Great interview with Tokyo Vice writer Jake Adelstein
Boing Boing’s Lisa Katayama posted part one of an interview with badass reporter Jake Adelstein (Tokyo Vice), who is equal parts Hunter S. Thompson and Bunta Sugawara.
In April 2008, I was trying to figure out how Goto knew that I was writing a book about his liver transplant. There was a yakuza real estate broker; [...]
Vintage Japanese industrial expo poster gallery
Check out this sweet gallery of vinyage posters from Japanese industrial expositions from the 1920s-1940s.
(via BoingBoing)
Help save Giant Robot magazine!
Way back in 1999 or so, a year or two out of college, I started poking around with website design – nothing major, just picking up a little HTML here and there and knocking together a string of really forgettable crap sites that hopefully will never be found on Archive.org’s Wayback Machine. After a year [...]
Flash game semi-repost of the day
We’d mentioned Nanaca Crash, a fun little Flash game featuring characters from the Japanese visual novel Cross Channel, in an earlier incarnation of the site, but since we haven’t reposted it at Yellow Menace yet, here goes.
Incidentally, my current record is 3699.48 meters.
LEGO link of the day
A model of Howl’s Moving Castle made of LEGO. ‘Nuff said.
(via BoingBoing)
Ultraman: The Complete Series is Ultra-Cheap
I can’t remember where I saw this last night, but I added to my Amazon Wish List post-haste – Ultraman: The Complete Series DVD, which comes out on September 29th, is $10.99 – one penny short of eleven bucks. That’s something like 28-cents per episode. Crazy!
My son discovered Ultraman about a year ago and scours [...]
The ‘Invncible Tiger’ soundtrack is yours for the taking
Invincible Tiger looks awesome. In case you haven’t heard, Invincible Tiger is a 2D martial arts beat-em-up that echoes classic 70’s kung-fu cinema. The game designers even went so far as to implement a film-grain filter that makes the flick look like cheesy grindhouse fare. I hope it plays better than Rag Doll Kung Fu, [...]
Read ‘The Short Timers’ – the original source for Kubrick’s ‘Full Metal Jacket’ – online
While I was in a flu / sleep-deprivation based haze last night, I fired up Stanley Kubrick’s Vietnam polemic Full Metal Jacket on Netflix. It was a bit of a whim – I hadn’t seen the flick since college and I was in the mood for some senseless violence. It was just as good as [...]
Build your own ‘Sita’
Nina Paley, creator and animator of the remarkable film Sita Sings the Blues has made all of the .fla source files for the project available via Archive.org. Plus, she’s encouraging the public to do other cool stuff with the assets. For free. FREE. Free – as in beer, speech, and sex. Nina, I am officially [...]
Libertarianism, Socialism, Utopiaism, and Appleseed-ism
I kinda made a silent vow to not post too much about politics here at Yellow Menace in the near future, because frankly the political waters are pretty muddied right now between far-Right and far-Left interests, leaving the rest of us on the sidelines watching the whole retarded ping-pong match. I thought I’d make an [...]
Christopher Hitchens on the obon festival, and what it means in America
The always wonderful Mr. Christopher Hitchens on the obon festival and what it means to us as Americans.
And my point? Well, my point is that under the azure blue skies that prevailed all of last weekend, you would not have known that any of the bitterness and misery had ever taken place. There were old [...]
ComicCon cosplay gallery
Here’s a swell gallery of cosplay from the 2009 ComicCon.
(via MeFi)
♪♫ Khaaaaan! ♪♫
The Wrath of Khan, opera style, as done by Robot Chicken. ‘Nuff said.
(via MetaFilter)
A feminist / clinical perspective on women in anime
Our comrade AnaKhouri might have more to say about this, but I found this discussion with Ph.D. student Deanna Jackson fairly interesting. The topic is ‘Women and Anime’.
Examiner: How do you feel women are portrayed in Anime?
D.J.: Now that’s a tough question. In general, I would say women are usually limited in how they’re portrayed. [...]
FUNimation video portal returns, brings Fullmetal Alchemist
Yay! More VOD from FUNimation as their video portal returns today with episodes 10 and 11 of Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood, as well as the recently broadcast episode 12. The site has reportedly also been streamlined and improved, and FUNimation is soliciting feedback on what they can do to further improve the service.
