Mitsudomoe reviewed

What could be any teacher’s worst nightmare, triple trouble with three sisters in one comedy.  Each with their own personalities and their own way of causing mayhem in this twisted anime.  Read what our trio of reviewers thought of Mitsudomoe.

It’s come to my attention that there has been several deaths in the manga community…

.. not people. Companies.

ADV manga is long since gone. Recently CMX and GoComi have closed doors and even websites. With that, the blame game has emerged. Scanlations are to blame they say.

F.. blame the economy. With so little jobs and jobs that anime fans use to take being taken by other people. There is simply no money for manga. Still the industry is in denial.

The can’t or won’t accept their dip in sales is anything that is out of their control or ‘in their control’ and their fault. We were buying like crazy but now we’re all thieves. CLUE IN … we’re broke.

To this end, OneManga has shut it’s doors. Being the gentlemen they are and not the scapegoats, they decided to give in the the blame game. It’s a shame that the industry couldn’t afford a vowel.

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H.O.T.D reviewed

Romero would be proud of this show … well maybe not of the fan service.  High School of the Dead, the manga hits the screen and it doesn’t disappoint or try to explain too much in the first episode. You’re only given glimpses of the other players in this drama without having to setup their life story to this point.  It centers on 3 main characters… and their backgrounds are only briefly touch on before all hell breaks loose.

Still if you’re a zombie fan, this is a MUST watch show, Highschool of the Dead.

Along with Facebook I’ve been getting into social media including twitter with a group showing off the latest tricks, tweets and plugins.  We’ve been meeting at Williams Cafe on Wonderland Road in London Ontario.  You can check out their Events at their site.

Seikirei: Pure Engagement reviewed

The first show of the new season and all we could find is a lack of story telling and ability to connect the previous series to the new.  Still the show managed to serve up a fine helping of fan service and comedy. Just not enough to keep some of our members watching.  Check it out for yourself and tell us what you think of Seikirei: Pure Engagement here or on facebook.

“Everything old is new again”

So what does this have to do with a pile of dusty old computer magazines or anime for that matter?

Some anime shows are based on Visual Novels.
Visual Novels were based on Graphic Adventures.
Graphic Adventures were based on Text Adventures.
… and early Text Adventures were written in BASIC.

So I’m digging through some ‘really’ old magazines on how best to come up with a way of creating our own Visual Novel online. It will be an interesting exercise. Even if it doesn’t see the light of day, I’ll gain some experience in better coding the website.

Wish me luck…

www.conbravo.com

Canada’s newest anime con, Con Bravo is ready to roll in little over a week in Oakville. Forget G20, this is the event to be at.

With the help from Byran from Databits.ca to monitor things, the review wiki, Mediawiki is now the latest version and running fine.  Along with upgrading WordPress, we’ll start merging social media through out the website.

Not only have I’ve upgraded to WordPress 3.0 but also for the twitter crowd out there.  I’m currently testing WP to Twitter plugin by Joseph Dolson which also includes support for bit.ly link shorting.

I’ll be playing with several new plugins over the coming days. Finally with the NEW revision of 3.0, I’ll be getting to a definative stype for Anime London blog.

Looking at upgrading wiki software. Given that, the wiki might become unavailable for a period of time until the upgrade is done.