Thoughts on anime from a nerd in Denver.
I attended Nan Desu Kan in September 2023, presenting a slightly updated version of my VTubers panel together with my co-panelist Cody (who managed to show up this time). We were placed in a prime-time Saturday night slot! Here’s a full recording of our panel: The convention schedule slightly modified my title to “VTubers: The…
Over the past few years, I’ve taken a foray into dakimakuras (Japanese body pillows) and their associated anime character covers. I wrote about my experience getting a legitimate cover from a Japanese auction website, with a design featuring Maki Nishikino from Love Live! School Idol Project. Next, I bought a print-on-demand cover from Cuddly Octopus,…
Around the beginning of October 2022, I started playing the Love Live! School Idol Festival mobile game. Just a few months later, in January 2023, Bushimo (the game’s development company) announced that it would be shutting down in March of that year. Love Live! School Idol Festival was a rhythm game with 2D artwork. It…
Back in 2020, I purchased my first dakimakura cover, which featured Nishikino Maki from Love Live! School Idol Project. I went through quite a bit of work to obtain that one, which I detailed in a previous blog post. I enjoyed the decoration of that cover for well over a year, but while I did…
I didn’t make a blog post about Colorado Anime Fest this year because it was largely the same as the previous iteration. I reprised my Kirito cosplay on Saturday and spent most of the weekend attending panels, relaxing in the manga library, and hanging around the video game room; the video room was unfortunately not…
For those unaware, a dakimakura is a Japanese body pillow and accompanying pillow case, which often has full-body artwork of an anime character printed on it. This is one of the most “stereotypical” pieces of weeaboo merchandise in existence, and yes, it seems a little weird. Let me take a moment to explain the utility…
Honestly, I was not really feeling NDK this year. Leading up to the con, I was bummed out that I’d be attending alone again. It felt like Colorado Anime Fest had only just happened, and its advantages over NDK were still fresh in my mind. To give myself more to invest in, I tried submitting…
Okay, the title’s a bit of an exaggeration, depending on what you mean by “arrives.” I’ve been watching Hololive for a few years now, as I discussed in a podcast a while back. While I mainly watch stream VODs and don’t tend to keep up with the music (or current events), last year, I stumbled…
“Almost the same thing, but less impactful the second time.” If I had to sum up my experience at Colorado Anime Fest relative to Nan Desu Kan in a single sentence, that’s how I’d do it. I had a great time at NDK last year, and when 2022 began, I fully intended to go another…
In August, against my better judgement, I bought a weekend pass for Nan Desu Kan #24 (2021); and since I already had the ticket, I forced myself to attend last month, September 4th-5th. While I was reluctant to go (even skipping the opening on Friday the 3rd), I ended up having a great time! Read…