Tuesday, December 9th, 2008

Will Hollywood ever do a decent adaptation?

First off, apologies for the delay (and for the crooked images, wordpress is weird). I have exams this week and I was through in Glasgow watching The Kings of Leon rock the house at the S.E.C.C.
Anyway, earlier on during the week I had to endure one of the worst films I’ve seen in the last [...]

Thursday, October 30th, 2008

Yokoso! Japan

First off, my apologies. I’m a day late but alas it’s better late than never. I’m taking a step away from the world of anime and manga for a few articles (partly because i haven’t watched any in a few months) and i’m going to try and offer you some good, practicle advice if you’re [...]

Sunday, July 6th, 2008

Cats really are good luck.

With the G8 summit happening in Hokkaido all journalistic eyes are on Japan. The news is a pretty depressing (or more so than usual) thing to read at the moment. The economy is in tatters, people are getting sacked left, right and centre and some poor teenager is being stabbed. So it’s nice every once [...]

Sunday, May 4th, 2008

Lost for words

After a couple months off from writing, I guess its time to return to this time consuming hobby. As you may have notice activity on Nakama has trickled to a halt, I guess the main reason is everyone is busy living their lives. I was the same, and unfortunately writing sat on the back burner. [...]

Sunday, December 30th, 2007

Doesn’t Time Fly?

Well it’s that time of year again. 2007 is drawing to a close… and what a year it has been. Following on from Martins post last week, I figured I would toss my opinion into the ring. In the last 5 years I have personally never seen anything quite like this year. We’ve had the [...]

Sunday, November 18th, 2007

What does your collection say about you?

Thinking up the topic for todays article wasn’t the hardest task in the world. All I had to do was look to my right and stare blankly at my shelves chock full of DVD’s. The question I propose to you in this article is “What is the purpose behind a collection? What do you get [...]

Sunday, October 21st, 2007

Box sets, So what about quality?

Over the past two years the Anime industry has gone from strength to strength. Almost every area of the DVD market has undergone some sort of change or development in the last 24 months. I’m trying to think of anything that hasn’t been tinkered with but I’m firing blanks [sic].
So today I’m going to take [...]

Sunday, October 7th, 2007

Music and Translation - A dying art?

Since this is my first post on this brand spanking new blog I decided to cover an issue that I had completely forgotten about until a few days ago. As I was roaring along the road running over various species of wildlife and pensioners one of Gwen Stefani’s records came on the radio. As you [...]