Category: Otaku General

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3 Years of Melodies

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Today marks exactly 3 years since I started blogging. When I first created Lyrical Spark I had no idea that I would continue for so long or with so much enthusiasm. What was originally a tiny school project has blossomed into my precious treasure. Anyway I wanted to take this time to briefly talk about …

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Confessions of a Yaoi-Loving Fujoshi

After years of hiding my deepest, darkest fetish I can no longer hold back. Every time I drew Yuri on the Chalkboard it was merely an exercise in denial, a self-imposed delusion convincing myself that I only like other girls. However my heart can no longer bear the the weight of such fallacies. I’m coming …

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Anime Family Project ReDEUX

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Exactly two years ago I posted “my ideal family” if it were to consist of anime, manga and game characters. Basically the idea came to me when I stumbled on an amazing thread randomly in which people would post a list of characters to form a family. Think of Kyouran Kazoku Nikki and that’s pretty …

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Taking a Decade Old Anime Otakuness Test

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If I didn’t think it looked horribly wordy I would have subtitled this post “Stepping into a past decade before exiting the current one” or something similar. Thanks to Shance I rediscovered the Anime Otaku-ness Test 200, a 200 question assessment of one’s otaku power-level. The test is terribly out-of-date but I think it is …

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Nekocon 12: Battler’s Field Report

For the past 3 days I’ve been missing in action on the internets due to Nekocon 12. After getting tired of not ever going to conventions with my friends I decided this year that I would finally go to one. Though my wallet is aching in the end it was definitely worth the price and …

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49th Annual Sakura Matsuri Street Festival

Yesterday me and a bunch of friends took a trip to Washington DC to attend this year’s Sakura Matsuri. For those who do not know, Sakura Matsuri is the largest one-day exhibition of Japanese Culture in the United States and is part of the two-week National Cherry Blossom Festival sponsored by the Japan-America Society of …

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Yuri on the Chalkboard Week 17

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Kugimiya Rie a Winner of The 3rd Seiyuu Award

According to Voice Newtype magazine no.31, Tsundere Voice Actress Extraordinaire Kugimiya Rie won Best Actress in The 3rd Seiyuu Award. She also won Best Supporting Actress last year for her role as Sanzenin Nagi (Hayate no Gotoku). Other winners of this year’s award include the following: Best Actor: Kamiya Hiroshi Best Supporting Actor: Inoue Kazuhiko, …

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RapeLay Pulled From Amazon.com

According to the Belfast Telegraph, Illusion‘s 3D rape-simulation title RapeLay was taken down from online retailer Amazon when British MP Keith Vaz got wind that such a title was being offered for purchase. He vowed to bring the issue to the British Parliament in order to prevent the game from being sold and in response …

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Trap Cake

Today was the first meeting of the semester for my University’s anime club and I got an amazing surprise. Saturday will be my twentieth birthday so someone in the club decided to make me a cake with Watarase Jun from Happiness! I’ll leave you guys to imagine what I did to him her. Enjoy.

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