Cute boys and cats

Another swiping scandal? This reporter alleges, with panel-to-panel comparisons to back him up, that the U.S. government ripped off Doraemon. The feds are denying it, of course…

Bookseller Chick looks at yaoi.

I don’t really get the Lincoln Heights Literary Society, but everything they do is good. This week they interview Izumi Kawachi, creator of Enchanter, who got into the biz when an editor from Square Enix spotted her doujinshi.

A geezer goes to Anime Expo and pines for the good old days:

Back then you couldn’t buy anime at Suncoast or Wal-Mart. In the beginning, if you wanted anime, you had to go to Japan. A couple times a year the most dedicated (and fiscally solvent) fans would hop a plane, and come back with boxes full of laser discs. Then we would get together in clubs to watch the laser discs, or VHS copies of the laser discs distributed on the anime fan circuit or at comic book conventions.

This is pretty funny and well worth a read, especially at the end where he discovers a straight guy using a yaoi paddle to pick up girls.

A blogger in Japan visits (scroll down a bit) an internet cafe and the Ghibli museum, and takes some great pictures.

Ranma 1/2 comes to Russia, and presents some challenges for the translator:

“Since Russian has few onomatopoeias, I struggled with such expressions as ‘suta suta aruku’ (to walk briskly) and ‘sara sara nagareru’ (to flow with a murmur). I also had difficulty translating the martial arts tricks that the hero who trained in China named in Chinese characters,” he remarked.

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