So over the weekend I was busy finishing and posting the fall preview, making and tweaking the new layout (you like?), not to mention being dragged off on a spontaneous Seattle trip, attending a family picnic, and doing other unrelated work.
Anyway, my point is that I didn’t get to go through my RSS feeds and Google Alerts pretty much all weekend, and I am FINALLY getting through them all. So here’s the catchup.
Apparently after Japan got over the idea that an otaku prime minister would be cool, they realized that Taro Aso is actually a bit of an asshole and probably not really the best person for the job. Stock investors also realized that investing in anime and manga for this reason was kind of dumb. The stocks have now dropped and Aso is no longer leading in the polls.
Kazuo Koike, creator of Crying Freeman, has apparently started his own intellectual property company specializing in protecting manga. I wonder if it will compete with JASRAC, who opened a manga division earlier this year?
Also, I was punk’d! And so was everyone else who reads Moon Phase: apparently the Hoihoi-san TV anime announcement was fake.
Last but not least, Gonzo is making a robot for a live-action sci-fi comedy called Robo Rock, says, Twitch.
Well, that’s all the big stuff. Now I just have to finish with my google alerts and then actually watch Gurren Lagann 25 and everything else…
