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He says he didn't have the money to pay off the JASRAC mafia for da rights ya see.

http://news.tbs.co.jp/headline/tbs_headline3420997 .html
http://news.tbs.co.jp/ram/news3420997_11.ram
http://news.tbs.co.jp/asx/news3420997_12.asx

He says he didn't have the money to pay off the JASRAC mafia for da rights ya see.

http://news.tbs.co.jp/headline/tbs_headline3420997 .html
http://news.tbs.co.jp/ram/news3420997_11.ram
http://news.tbs.co.jp/asx/news3420997_12.asx

He says he didn't have the money to pay off the JASRAC mafia for da rights ya see.

Video Link here...

http://news.tbs.co.jp/newseye/tbs_newseye3126582.h tml

I couldnt get the original link to work (404 error)

here ya go

English story and (japanese) video

Here is a direct link to the video

I couldnt get the original link to work (404 error)

here ya go

English story and (japanese) video

Here is a direct link to the video

silly buggers, never post a direct link to a movie on slashdot...

I am quite sure the parent is refering to this non-OVA series:
Aa! Megami-sama[Japanese Site]
Ah! My Goddess (TV)[English Site]

...to paraphrase.

The vast majority of personal websites suck. This is a fact. The ones that don't suck are really only useful to a handful of people.

When was the last time you wandered through Google results for "personal website"? If I had to venture a guess, not until you clicked through to that link. Yet when was the last time you visited someone's personal website? Again, this is only a guess, but probably within the last twenty-four to forty-eight hours. This is because the content on that site was, at some point, useful to you-- even if you were the one who created it.

I use my personal website (here, if you dare) primarily as a collection of links that I use daily and also as a way to get my PHP and HTML work out there, on exhibit. I have, probably, ten consistent viewers world-wide. Three of them are my mom, dad, and sister. And this is fine for me! Because I know that the content on my site (with the exception of maybe one or two areas explicitly for display) is of relevance to absolutely nobody.

People here are talking about how in the old days of the Internet (which can't be that damned old if I remember them), personal websites contained a diverse variety of information on just about anything, and that these websites formed the backbone of how people did research; some scientist in Alameda's paper on nuclear vessels, posted on his website, was just as valuable as, say, a fan-page devoted to Evangelion by some kid from Buffalo. Nowadays, everything has a website. You can get any information you want about anything straight from the manufacturer, and personal sites be damned; they're only opinions.

Both points are valid. In the "old days" the information you got was still people's opinions, which meant you had to find three or four correlating opinions before you could really judge. Now, personal websites allow us to cut through marketing and P.R. bullcrap, but we still need three or four correlating opinions before we can really judge.

I'm straying from my point. Does anyone here follow anime? Stupid question, right? How do you learn about new releases in Japan? Sure, if you know Japanese, you can check out TV Tokyo or TBS's websites and get the info from them. But odds are you don't (and this is not a slander against those of you who do-- statistically, however, you're in the minority, OK?). So how would you know about releases like (and I'm dating myself here, as the only reference I have handy is a copy of Newtype that's about three months old*) Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicle, Scrapped Princess, or Sora no Stellvia? Personal sites do allow "niche" sectors like anime (ha ha) and, I dunno, latex doll painters a way to spread information. The personal site is the next step in "word of mouth".

(* Newtype USA is only a year old. Hardly enough basis to say that anime is mainstream now; but that's not what's at issue here. You could just as easily do a google search on latex doll painters and find out more than you ever wanted to know. The point is that Newtype is only one source of information. The internet, and personal websites, provide about fifty zillion other points of view.)

Just to state it clearly here: Less need for personal websites != no need for personal websites.

It is just me or did the soundtrack seem, well, japanese?

The song used is the movie is "Let Me Be With You" and according to some lyrics I found, the artist is ROUND TABLE featuring Nino. The song was used as the title theme to the anime series Chobits.

The series was recently released on DVD in North America and seems to have a sold fan following. Although I have to admit, the song is vastly out of place in a Halo video. I've watched the fan subs and a song whose refrain made me cry in the last episode seems like blasphemy in this context. Why couldn't they have done like every other demo video and choose generic metal like that Drowning Pool song "Let the Bodies Hit the Floor"?

Here's a link to a movie showing the little guy do his stuff.
The Sony Robot that is.

Enjoy!