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  1. So I was dragged to karaoke by visiting relatives

    ...but since there happened to be a Joysound I at least got to sing a few KnK songs as well as Crimson Eyes (Enkidu's song to Gil in the Fate/Zero tribute album) and even Lilium from Elfen Lied, with classical pronunciation of course because fuck medieval Latin.

    It did feel a bit weird singing these with older relatives crooning classics such as "Misty"and the younger ones belting out "Birthday Sex."
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  2. Arashi on writing theory: Image it

    by , February 8th, 2013 at 02:49 AM (I create a world of finite somethings)
    The entirety of Indiana Jones came up one day when Spielberg was saying how he'd like to do a James Bond film. Lucas told him instead of the idea for a movie called Raiders of the Lost Ark that spawned from the image of a guy in a leather jacket, hat, and with a bullwhip jumping from a horse onto the back of a moving truck full of Nazis.

    Joss Whedon said that when coming up with Firefly, he'd been reading the book The Killer Angels, which is about the Battle of Gettysburg. It got ...

    Updated February 15th, 2013 at 06:15 AM by Arashi_Leonhart

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  3. The Good Old Days

    You know what this world needs? Witch hunts.

    Witch hunts were, in retrospect, a fantastic form of justice in that they let you destroy the life of basically anyone around you with nothing but a faked seizure and a generally innocent demeanor.

    I am, physically, a fairly unimposing specimen, and so I've always felt my ability to randomly inflict terror and suffering has been unfortunately limited. But in a system of justice based around witch hunts, I could basically ...
  4. #animeindustryTANS

    So there's a thing going on right now between Aniplex, Crunchyroll, Funimation, and Viz

    they're having a twitter thing where they're all trying to be characters in a slice of life anime

    Crunchyroll's tweets are pretty funny (BUT FUNI-KUN I WANT BE IN MY OWN OTOME GAME.)

    and hell, they even have their own character design competition going on now
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  5. If you had questions about Atlus...

    by , February 7th, 2013 at 07:13 PM (僕はね、ヒマワリになりたかったんだ。)
    Like questions about how games are chosen, how we make translation decisions, etc. Well, I can't answer most of them without getting in big trouble.

    But this Kotaku article is going to be the closest you'll get for a while, even if most answers are pretty general/vague.

    Demons, High Schools, and Sex: Just Another Day at Atlus Games
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