Posted in internet, history, anime, news on Mar 19th, 2007 No Comments »
The Tokyo Anime Fair will start on Thursday in Tokyo Big Site and as a warming up Yomiuri.co.jp has published an interesting article about the state of the industry. One thing is that the domestic film boom of last year was fueled by anime. 100,000 visitors are expected, the public opening days are in the […]
Posted in books, culture, architecture, anime, museums, kyoto on Feb 23rd, 2007 No Comments »
The Kyoto International Manga Museum rides the high tide of interest in Japanese popular culture, and is housed in a beautiful old school building, but curious visitors will not find much to see inside. Unless you want to observe how blissfully quiet kids can become when they sit reading manga books…
The walls of the long […]
Posted in movies, anime on Oct 19th, 2006 No Comments »
Japan is the last hypermarket at the end of the world, the great display case where everything that has been made anywhere anytime ends up, the ultimate dustbin of cultures and styles. That is not only true for the huge variety of articles in its shops, but also for its food which ranges from Chinese […]