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Conan O’Brien visited, relative to Universal Studios, nearby anime dubbing studio Bang Zoom to see how anime is dubbed. Needless to say Conan loves to dub cartoons and showed his passion for such at the studio, along with sidekick Andy Richter.

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A cranky computer programmer on the way to work in Shinkiya was told to stop playing cell phone games by a 50-year old woman at 8am. Being one of the less self-controlled people among us humans he ended up punching the woman, after which he was restrained by fellow passengers. The punchline here is that the woman got whacked again after being escorted off the train!

I bet you can think of a few people on this side of the pond who could use some Japanese diligence. Don’t hide it.
What do you think?

I don’t know this guy to be honest, however this post on White Album makes me guarantee he’s worthy of the SBP.
http://www.lowonhitpoints.com/posts/first.look/white.album/
If you get in touch with me, I’ll do a proper SBP entry for ya, anytime.

So I watched White Album up to episode 4, but I’ve got nothing to say about it so I’m just gonna let Montaigne take over. This 16th century humanist philosopher.
If you like Nietzsche, you’ll find a lot to like here. In fact, many of Nietzsche’s aphorisms are direct reactions to some of these.
Tell me if there are particular ones that strike your fancy.

They’re bad. That’s the main reason why there hasn’t been an update here in a while. I’ve got some other things to talk about though, such as Suzumiya Haruhi no Gekidou.

We already knew that Final Fantasy XIII was hitting Japanese shores sometime in 2009. Today Square-Enix has apparently told business news site Reuters, that Final Fantasy XIII will be released outside of Japan during the 2010 financial year which starts in April 2010.
Some of you may be disappointed but this really is the best we could expect. If Square-Enix is trying to push the game out in Japan by late 2009, localisation and the Xbox 360 port will take some months to complete. A release date for Final Fantasy Versus …

As you may have noticed, Browning’s book made another appearance in episode 2. In the first episode, the book represented in some sense Misaki’s interest in Touya. Touya didn’t have interest in the book (Misaki’s feelings by extension) and tried to pass it on to Akira, who refused it, even though he had interest in the literary content of it. What Akira refused is to simply inherit Misaki’s attention from Touya, he wanted Misaki to romantically discover his person by natural progression/personal wooing efforts. He has too much pride, he …