The Silent Room

I heard that Del Rey will be printing the novels in English some time this year, so I thought maybe I should whip up some covers. You know, since they’re gonna call it The Garden of Sinners (instead of Kara no Kyoukai, or The Boundary of Emptiness). All I did was take a couple of hi-res scans and put in some text in Trajan.

Some people don’t understand why I’m such an incurable Type-Moon fanboy. I have never completely played through any of its two most popular productions, the Tsukihime and Fate/Stay Night visual novels. I have only really watched two anime adaptation of their products yet I can never be fascinated enough by them. It was probably the character designs or storylines, I can’t put a finger on any of it.

There are questions that keep popping up whenever my conversations turn to the topic of anime. There are times when I deal with people who are honestly curious about anime.
These are the kinds of people who don’t watch anime on a regular basis, but find themselves fascinated by the number of anime related events [...]

I tip my hat off to Shimoku-sensei for his absolutely stunning piece of work.
Somewhere in the 6th volume of the Genshiken manga, hardcore otaku Madarame hangs out at a kaiten sushi with the otaku anti-thesis Saki, a member of his club and his friend’s girlfriend. That particular chapter affected me profoundly as we subtly discover [...]