Fanservice FTW » JAPAN http://blog.fanserviceftw.com You can call it smochi if you wanna Mon, 14 Jun 2010 21:29:50 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1-alpha-15359 Sengoku BASARA Samurai Heroes: Brian Crecente, I’m Calling You Out. http://blog.fanserviceftw.com/2010/04/27/sengoku-basara-samurai-heroes-brian-crecente-im-calling-you-out/ http://blog.fanserviceftw.com/2010/04/27/sengoku-basara-samurai-heroes-brian-crecente-im-calling-you-out/#comments Tue, 27 Apr 2010 23:09:29 +0000 bigopinion http://blog.fanserviceftw.com/?p=523 Basara 1

Edit: surprisingly quick responses from Crecente himself prompted a few changes.

Normally I open doors for women, eat…

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I was asked in my Literary Criticism class to come up with a comparison of Shakespeare's Taming of…

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When I heard that Fullmetal Alchemist was going to be an anime, I was excited…

]]> http://blog.fanserviceftw.com/2009/12/02/animu-review-fullmetal-alchemist-brotherhood/feed/ 0 Re-Blogging: Interview with Yamamoto Yutaka http://blog.fanserviceftw.com/2009/07/16/re-blogging-interview-with-yamamoto-yutaka/ http://blog.fanserviceftw.com/2009/07/16/re-blogging-interview-with-yamamoto-yutaka/#comments Thu, 16 Jul 2009 23:21:34 +0000 bigopinion http://blog.fanserviceftw.com/?p=249 Otaku in JapanAnime is serious business: an article about an interview with an ex-Kyoani staff member-turned-anime critic about the evils and failures of otaku culture and the anime industry fueling it. Commentary added by the blog's author, extra commentary added by yours truly.]]> http://blog.fanserviceftw.com/2009/07/16/re-blogging-interview-with-yamamoto-yutaka/feed/ 4 Sengoku BASARA, or “The Western Market That Could Have Been” http://blog.fanserviceftw.com/2009/07/09/sengoku-basara-or-the-western-market-that-could-have-been/ http://blog.fanserviceftw.com/2009/07/09/sengoku-basara-or-the-western-market-that-could-have-been/#comments Fri, 10 Jul 2009 04:59:14 +0000 bigopinion http://blog.fanserviceftw.com/?p=218 This is the Great Nippon Spirit. A critical synopsis of what Capcom royally screwed up when they invented Sengoku Basara, and why the 2009 anime was probably the first time you heard of this thing that has been around since 2005.]]> http://blog.fanserviceftw.com/2009/07/09/sengoku-basara-or-the-western-market-that-could-have-been/feed/ 3 Demon’s Souls Gets Release Date, Deluxe Edition http://blog.fanserviceftw.com/2009/07/07/demons-souls-gets-release-date-deluxe-edition/ http://blog.fanserviceftw.com/2009/07/07/demons-souls-gets-release-date-deluxe-edition/#comments Tue, 07 Jul 2009 09:45:25 +0000 Tzion http://blog.fanserviceftw.com/?p=139

Over the weekend, Atlus took the liberty of announcing October 6th as the release date for the…

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One of the oft-touted features of electric cars is their silent operation, which reduces noise pollution in…

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It seems that teens and twenty-somethings in London have recently discovered the ancient Japanese manba fashion trend. …

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