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Because I needed to: Pic of me being silly with my anime eye glasses from @jlist and anime sweat drop from @modondi

Posted on 2011/09/24 18:53 pm by thepete

Hm, I think I need to Windex the bathroom mirror one of these days.

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Awesome Evangelion T-Shirts In-Stock Soon at Nihonju.com!

Posted on 2011/07/16 09:13 am by thepete

Above is Asuka yelling at everyone who looks at this shirt: “ANTA BAKAA!” aka “YOU IDIOT!”

Below is an incredibly subtle (and in my opinion, much cooler) shirt that is the image we see when Gendo is talking to his bosses (whom ever they are) in that creepy chatroom.

Both shirts will be available later this month from Nihonju.com for $38 plus shipping. Click on the pics to pre-order yours.

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Japan finds lots and lots of Rare Earth Minerals Under the Ocean Floor

Posted on 2011/07/05 12:27 pm by thepete

thejpete:

Japan Finds Vast Reserves of Rare Earth Minerals That Could Be Used to Make Solar Panels and Other Electronics

by Brit Liggett, 07/05/11

Japan just announced that they’ve discovered a deposit of rare earth minerals off their coast in the Pacific Ocean that, if commercially viable, could change the worldwide market for the expensive materials. The deposit could yield as much as 80 to 100 billion tonnes of rare earth minerals and though Japan isn’t being specific about which materials they’ve found there, it is likely to contain gold and copper. China currently holds an estimated 97% of the world’s stores of rare earth minerals, which are used in many high tech gadgets like solar panels, cell phones, television sets and vehicles. Will Japan’s find change all of that?

Just so long as they don’t find any sakuradite. ^_^

Read the rest at inhabitat.com.

Am I right? Anime geeks, back me up on this! ^_^

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Japan finds lots and lots of Rare Earth Minerals Under the Ocean Floor

Posted on 2011/07/05 12:23 pm by thepete

Japan Finds Vast Reserves of Rare Earth Minerals That Could Be Used to Make Solar Panels and Other Electronics

by Brit Liggett, 07/05/11

Japan just announced that they’ve discovered a deposit of rare earth minerals off their coast in the Pacific Ocean that, if commercially viable, could change the worldwide market for the expensive materials. The deposit could yield as much as 80 to 100 billion tonnes of rare earth minerals and though Japan isn’t being specific about which materials they’ve found there, it is likely to contain gold and copper. China currently holds an estimated 97% of the world’s stores of rare earth minerals, which are used in many high tech gadgets like solar panels, cell phones, television sets and vehicles. Will Japan’s find change all of that?

Just so long as they don’t find any sakuradite. ^_^

Read the rest at inhabitat.com.

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Hands up, who thinks Beck should play

Posted on 2011/06/05 10:47 am by thepete

Hands up, who thinks Beck should play Solomon in a “Blood+” live action remake?

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I like my beef to be 100% too!

Posted on 2011/04/24 12:27 pm by thepete

I like my beef to be 100% too!

Come on! Why can’t they release the Eva movies on the big screen in the US simultaneously? Why do we have to wait so long and only for DVD??  :(

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NBG J-cast episode 3: Hanami, Akihabara, Anime and MORE!

Posted on 2011/04/08 09:20 am by thepete

This week, Jeff-san and thepete talk about Hanami festivals, the Akihabara section of Tokyo and thepete’s favorite anime. ALSO: the Japanese Phrase of the Week—can you translate it?

Episode 3 of the NBG J-cast is hosted on archive.org!

Subscribe to the NBG feed!

Thanks for listening!

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J-Meds for August 23, 2010 (yes I'm still catching up!)

Posted on 2010/12/07 16:22 pm by thepete
So, I’ve often thought of anime or other Japanese media as a vice, like booze or valium, so this is why I call it “J-Meds” as in “Japanese Medicine.” :)  I wonder how you say “self-medicating” in Japanese. So, anyway, here we go—these caps are all from K-ON! (that’s K-ON’s first season, note the single exclamation mark).
Sadly, I don’t remember what is written on Richan’s forehead.

Bur her expression is pretty much priceless.

Don’t know why this made me laugh out of context. It only amuses me now all these months later.

Ah, Yui. Always adorable…I want to learn to draw as well as this!

That’s it for now.  I watch LOADS of anime, so expect MANY more caps, soon.

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J-Meds (media) for August 6, 2010 K-ON! and Heroman (Yes, I'm a little behind on these!)

Posted on 2010/11/17 16:21 pm by thepete

I forget which ep this was, but the following pics come from the ep that got me completely hooked on K-ON!

Ah, don’t come to America in February, then.  That’s when we celebrate Black History Month!

ALMOST fanservice! 

What I love about K-ON! is that they let women be legitimately funny.  So few American shows allow women to be funny on their own.  At best they’re funny because of the way they are women.  (Yes, there are exceptions, but rare ones). 

And what does she do? 

Then she picks up Gittah (Yui’s guitar) and…

And in case you didn’t know, Stan “The Man” Lee shows up through out the Heroman show.  Here he is in the opening titles for the second half of the series.

He even has a couple of lines in some of the eps. Of course, he speaks Japanese, but maybe if the show ever makes it to the US, we’ll get to hear Stan Lee’s own voice. :) 

I enjoy Heroman, but stars don’t float in front of my eyes when I think about him. Ah, here we go—this scene was both adorable in its awkwardness and awkward in its adorableness (aka pretty realistic for how it would really be, were a dorky kid at the beach with a hot cheerleader).

Joey, have you forgot the shockingly hot Lina next to you? Guess not:

OMG!

HEY! WATCH THE LEFT HAND, LADY!  WATCH THE LEFT HAND! 

Uh, someone should have informed the animators that you’re not going to find a single octopus in the waters off of souther California (where Heroman takes place—check out this previous J-Meds post and scroll to the bottom pic for a cool tidbit about the show’s location).

 

Now it’s Joey’s hand on *her* ass.

…or not.

 

This is from a different scene.  I think she’s about to get attacked by tentacled vegetable monsters.

And again…

And again…

Now the tentacles are after all of them!!!

Japan and their tentacles!!!  (Now I understand that octopus showing up in the waters off of SoCal—it’s a Japanese thing!) 

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Zac Effron to play Kaneda? NANDE KOREWA?

Posted on 2010/11/08 11:50 am by thepete

Zac Effron to play Kaneda? NANDE KOREWA?

KANEDA IS JAPANESE.

かねだわにほんじんです！

HOLLYWOOD: WHY DO YOU REFUSE TO CAST JAPANESE ACTORS IN JAPANESE ROLES?

Was Ken Watanabe unavailable?  Oh, no—he’ll probably play the Colonel.

HOLLYWOOD NEWSFLASH: AKIRA TAKES PLACE IN NEO-TOKYO.

THAT’S IN JAPAN.

YOU MIGHT WANT TO HAVE JAPANESE PEOPLE IN IT.

ばかのハリヲード！

UPDATE: Turns out Zac won't be doing it, but the word still is that the script no longer takes place in Japan and stars two 30-somethings and not two teenage gang kids.  How they'll work in the awesome motorcycles at this point I do not now.

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