Back in 2018 I went to Japan and it was rad. I also managed to sneak in some nerd shopping, and after having 4 boxes of stuff weighing 37kg sitting in my study for 2 years I finally unboxed it and recorded the whole ordeal, then edited it down to 14 minutes because watching the […]
AVCon 2018 happened once again in July, and following on from the last few years’ coverage, Inferno and I were back in attendance to check things out, chat with vendors, take photos of all the amazing cosplay and generally nerd out! Like they do every year, AVCon presents a big mix of interesting nerdy stuff. […]
It’s July and we’re in Adelaide which means – it’s AVCon time! Inferno and I were fortunate to attend Adelaide’s annual AVCon excitement last weekend and had a chance to chat with attendees, visit stalls, take photos and check out what was on show for this year’s convention. As the name implies, AVCon is all […]
Adelaide’s favourite annual anime and gaming convention, AVCon, took over the Adelaide Convention Centre 15-17 July 2016, and we joined the fray on Sunday morning to check out some anime, buy some merch and play some games. This year’s guests included noted voice actress Caitlin Glass and ABC’s team from Good Game. The morning itself […]
Punpun Punyama is a shy eleven-year-old boy living in Japan. He’s interested in space, girls, and the super-secret porn watchers club he and his friends are in. The twist is that the author Inio Asano represents Punpun and his family as odd, simply drawn birds. However, this is merely a figurative representation for the reader, […]
Following the 20th Anniversary celebration of the Carcaptor Sakura series, the team at Clamp will be debuting a sequel manga in the shoujo magazine Nakayoshi. No longer an elementary school student, the new series will follow Sakura Kinomoto in her first year of junior high and the events that unfold after she has a mysterious […]
I think a lot of people who enjoy manga can name that one special series off the top of their head. You know, that one that just stays with you, the one you use as a gold standard when deciding whether or not to let a new series take up space on the shelf. For […]
I’m not one to pass up a decent Shojo manga, and I have heard some good things about the Demon Prince of Momochi House (Momoshi-san Chi no Ayakashi Ouji in Japanese) over the last few months. This is a pretty standard recipe for Shojo manga, and although it has been done before (with a single girl in a […]
Food Wars! Vol. 08 picks up right where the battle for the Fall Classic Preliminaries left off in volume 7, with Soma and curry master Akira Hayama. This particular battle was highly anticipated, for obvious reasons, and author Tsukuda and illustrator Saeki do not disappoint. Of course, both dishes are incredibly crafted and presented in the […]
Tokyo Ghoul Season One is a 12 episode TV anime aired between July and September 2014 based on the manga of the same name. What this means is that the anime adaptation does not follow the story line of its manga counterpart, which I only found out after I finished the series. This series is a survival battle between ghouls […]