The Old School Otaku Lounge

I went to Summer Wonder Festival over the weekend and found KOR T-shirts for only 1,000 yen! The other one was the Hikaru version, but everyone loves Ayukawa.

I watched another episode of Molett's Space Pirates (I don't even want to mention the stupid English title). I forget which episode I am finally up to now, because I am so very extremely slowly watching this show on an average of one episode every 5 months or so, as with most other anime. So suddenl...

Has anybody seen this show? Is it recommended? It looks cool.

I've started watching Kan Colle with my daughter. It's a real WTF show, especially without subtitles. Junior high (and I suppose senior high?) girls are tasked with defending the ocean from fish monsters and their weird half-naked commander. The girls are representatives of Japanese battleships and ...

OK, Delta aired on BS11 at midnight last night. I recorded it and just finished watching it tonight. I like the designs and such, but without subtitles, I couldn't tell what was going on much. Apparently there's some sort of disease turning Zentraedi into depraved terrorists (sounds like what we're ...

Yeah, that wrinkled wrapping paper looks great!

That's right! I remember hearing about that Peter Jackson remake of The Dam Busters. The thing is, there was supposed to be three dam targets. They could only bomb two, and only the first dam had AA cannons protecting it. I'm sure that this is closer to history, but if a remake were to be made, I am...

I spent the 3-day holiday weekend at the in-laws' place in the mountains of Nagano Prefecture, and I really didn't go anywhere at all. I didn't do much except watch movies and catch up on e-mail. Here's what I watched. X-Men: First Class. I recently bought the US BluRay, but unlike Days of Future Pa...

Well, to be fair, Peter Jackson's original idea was to have two Hobbit movies, but the studio pushed for three. He wrote and directed them, and he loves Tolkien more than most. I really enjoyed the three Hobbit movies, although I do admit that there was an overuse of CG in the third movie. Tolkien h...

The X-Files counts somewhat, since many of the episodes are horror themed. Plenty of monsters murdering people. Fluke Man, Chupacabra, yeti, zombies, vampires, ghosts, and the like are featured on that show. Before that, Twin Peaks had me glued to the TV each week with its supernatural murder crime ...