I think most of what I was able to tl is right... * No smoking! * Because of more RVSPs than expected, those who want a helping of Mirai-chan Curry 2 please come early. I apologize in advance in the event that we run out of Mirai-chan Curry 2! Howeve...
It would be amazing if such a novel project were to be completed, but I think the funding would do better if news of it were picked up by more music-oriented blogs or news sites. So far I've only seen fans of great animation as opposed to fans of ani...
I volunteered for an AX several years back. There were so many volunteers that year that there were over a dozen of us waiting in the volunteer room at any given time, waiting literally an hour or more for an assignment to fill the time requirements....
Danny, I've emailed you some thoughts about Kickstarter successes and rewards and a short look at the presale nature of a lot of projects. Many projects emphasize the presale at a discount to MSRP--do you think this may get resistance from brick-and-...
Danny, have you you considered using Niconico Douga's existing system for crowdfunding? I said a bit on the Yukio Edano post about it http://bit.ly/IIxkGD and emailed you in greater detail previously.
Danny, have you given thought about Nico Nico Douga as an alternative Kickstarter as a fundraising platform? They already have a system in place to pay for various services on their own website and they did use the same system to fundraise following...
Looks magnificent. Is there anything to do on a day 3 or 4, or is that the time to go to a different city? I'm assuming you only had time for a weekend getaway.
Double Fine Happy Action Theater is a fun game to use with the Kinect, and it is a Xbox Live Arcade game buyable from their online marketplace. Not sure if the Japanese XBLA has a different product lineup though.
There have been surreptitious and not-so-secret cameos of characters before in different series of different media, but will Mirai be the one who visits the most parallel universes across different franchises? Maybe as a "Where's Waldo" kind of backg...
Ideally, I would find a job that involved statistics or the environment at some green energy tech firm--my college major was aptly titled environmental economics. Nebulous though it may sound, if I could find some manner of work that could make me th...
Anecdote about changing computing platforms. The only Apple product I've bought was an iPad for my 90yo grandpa because of the robust Chinese handwriting IME input. This was so he could keep writing short stories for a local newspaper (the newspaper...
I imagine she's the motivation behind your father's visit? Many of my cousins are all having their children too, now, so I can understand what grandpa might be thinking.
The same things as others here, I suppose. I first started visiting because a blog written by a JET teacher had linked to the article about buying a house in Japan, and I stayed for the various snippets of Japanese culture. Four or five years or so y...
I've been to Japan once for about a month, but through reading blogs of people who have visited/stayed and talking to Japanese friends and friends who went there with certain programs I came to understand my likes were very narrow. Japan is just fore...
Pinterest, huh? In this neck of the woods we call it the soccer mom's social network because it's organized around easily sharing products or projects.
I buy Japanese language manga from a Kinokuniya location in SF. Their stores in the US (I've been to three in California) seem to stock disproportionately more manga/artbooks/character goods than the one or two locations I saw when I was in Japan, al...
That's good. I think I remember reading that the production committee is a risk and a task sharing vehicle; that rights and profit-sharing for particular merchandise are divvied up based on the amount contributed by what company--ie, broadcasters con...
Danny, how would the money be distributed? Will this be a way to directly fund an animation studio or will it be considered to be something that lessens the burden for the various parties in the production company? How will the fund be distributed am...
Because it's already so damn expensive to import, an incentive like this may make it more attractive for foreigners to get access to goods that may usually only be accessible to convention-goers who get promotional goods from company booths or can go...
The meltdowns that occurred were partial meltdowns in 3 reactors. The difference between this and a total meltdown is that there wasn't a large production of Caesium-137 (the radioactive isotope with a 30y half-life), and there was no huge explosion...
