Usually I use this space to spotlight a currently-airing anime series or comment on a current event in the world of Japanese pop culture that gets exported outside of Japan. But since I’m scheduling this post in advance, I thought … Continue reading Weekly Japanese Pop Culture Thread (June 6th, 2018) / Scene Spotlight: Japanese Math Rock
Hey folks! Welcome to this week’s Japanese pop culture thread. The Caligula Effect is a JRPG originally released for the PS Vita back in 2016 in Japan and 2017 in the West. A PS4 remake subtitled Overdose was released in … Continue reading Weekly Japanese Pop Culture Thread (May 30th, 2018)
Heya AvoGamers! I apologize for the short notice, but we want to record the next episode of the AVoCADo GamesCast this Sunday, the 27th of May, and we’d love to have you contribute. The time at which we record will … Continue reading AVoCADo GamesCast-ing Call #36
It’s time to shake your weeabooty and get down with the weekly Japanese pop culture thread! This week, we’re spotlighting the recently-released Batman Ninja, an anime film produced by Kamikaze Douga (curiously also the studio behind Pop Team Epic). It … Continue reading Weekly Japanese Pop Culture Thread (May 23rd, 2018)
Let’s be clear: if those Democrats who voted for Haspel had voted against her, she would not have been confirmed. — jeremy scahill (@jeremyscahill) May 17, 2018 Need I say more? Over at the official Leftorium website (yes, there’s a … Continue reading The Leftorium Endorses Torture
Digimon Adventure tri. is a series of six movies that serves as a sequel to the popular Digimon Adventure and Digimon Adventure 02 anime series that aired around the turn of the millennium. The fifth film in the series, Coexistence, … Continue reading Weekly Japanese Pop Culture Thread (May 16th, 2018)
Hero Mama League is an upcoming crossover Super Sentai movie being released this Sunday in honour of Mother’s Day. It follows heroines from Ninpu Sentai Hurricaneger, Tokusou Sentai Dekaranger, and Mahou Sentai Magiranger as they try to balance crimefighting and parenthood. Here’s … Continue reading Weekly Japanese Pop Culture Thread (May 9th, 2018)
Aggretsuko is a ten-episode anime series, produced by Fanworks for mascot company Sanrio, that premiered on Netflix a couple of weeks ago. It follows the life of Retsuko, a meek red panda who works in the accounting department of a … Continue reading Weekly Japanese Pop Culture Thread (May 2nd, 2018)
Hey there, Austin Akihabara Freaks! It’s time for your weekly Japanese pop culture thread. This week, we’re spotlighting Sword Art Online Alternative Gun Gale Online, a light novel series written by Keiichi Sigsawa, spun off from the original SAO series. … Continue reading Weekly Japanese Pop Culture Thread (April 25th, 2018)
Hey folks! Here’s the 35th episode of our community’s gaming podcast. Join me, DL, and The Kappa (also our editor) as we discuss auto racing, gaming with kids and significant others, online toxicity, gaming habits, and much more. You can … Continue reading AVoCADo GamesCast Episode #35: An Invitation to Cheat
Greetings, comrades. It has once again fallen to me to put up a belated Leftorium thread. (I never signed up for this!) And that means more political stories you don’t care about. Today I’m spotlighting the current debate over the … Continue reading The Leftorium Puts Up a Pointless Pipeline to Process Polluted Petroleum
Wotakoi: Love is Hard for Otaku is a josei webmanga series about a fujoshi and an otaku who are childhood friends, work at the same company, and start dating each other. Comedic hijinks ensue. An anime series based on the … Continue reading Weekly Japanese Pop Culture Thread (April 18th, 2018)
You know the drill. Continue reading Comment of the Week Belated Edition 2: Electric Boogaloo
Democracy is arguably the best political system we have. As the world scarily reverts to authoritarianism (see: Turkey, The Philippines, Venezuela, and most recently, Hungary), those of us who live in advanced Western democracies should feel fortunate that our civil … Continue reading The Leftorium Buys Your Vote
Lupin III has been a mainstay of Japanese pop culture, beginning as a manga series written and illustrated by Monkey Punch back in the late sixties, before burgeoning into a cross-media franchise that has spawned several anime series, including the … Continue reading Weekly Japanese Pop Culture Thread (April 11th, 2018)
Have at it, folks. (Sorry for stealing your thunder, Liz.) Continue reading Comment of the Week Belated Edition
Hello, and welcome to the Weekly Japanese Pop Culture Thread! This week, we’re spotlighting Magical Girl Ore, a new anime series that started airing a couple of weeks ago, based on a manga of the same name. It tells the … Continue reading Weekly Japanese Pop Culture Thread (April 4th, 2018)
Heya AvoGamers! We want to record the next episode of the AVoCADo GamesCast this coming weekend (the 7th or 8th of April, with a slight preference for the 8th) and we’d love to have you contribute. The date/time we record … Continue reading AVoCADo GamesCast-ing Call #35
I think this thread is supposed to go up on Wednesdays. Or Tuesdays. Who knows? But since no one else stepped in to make it this week, you all have to suffer through an onslaught of Canadian news. Deal with … Continue reading The Leftorium Heads North
Sword Gai: The Animation, the fourth and final series* in Netflix’s March anime deluge, premiered last week, and by all appearances, it’s a shitshow. It might be good for a laugh (or future Rabbiting), though. So instead let’s talk about … Continue reading Weekly Japanese Pop Culture Thread (March 28th, 2018)
Hey folks! In this installment of the AVoCADo GamesCast, Wolfman Jew, Andy Tuttle, and I play a game where we come up with challenges for video game characters to complete and then decide which character would be the best at … Continue reading AVoCADo GamesCast Episode #34: The Video Game Olympics
