Today is my last day in Japan. I will keep on posting about the amazing encounters that I had in the last weeks (I mentioned the time delay on this blog before). There is good stuff to come: Encounters with the likes of Shikii-san, Taitoku…

Arimura-san is new. He is new in many respects. He is new on Nico Nico Bu, the community of Nico Nico Douga bloggers on Hatena. His popular blog, which existed before he entered Nico Noco Bu, provides a new take on anime: Faster, and more …

Midouoka-san is a much debated figure on the Japanese Internet. He has gained his fame on 2channel. Though 2channel is usually a place for anonymous posting, Midouoka-san became a known figure (don’t ask me, how he did that). He says he li…

Oregon-based tech blogger Marshall Kirkpatrick has just posted an introduction into Nico Nico Douga on ReadWriteWeb. The article compares Nico Nico Douga favorably to Youtube Annotations, which allows uploaders to add comments to their own…

Hikawa-san is probably the most prominent Anime critic of Japan. You can find his articles in prominent magazines, he has written several books and you can also see him often on TV. His writing is known for having a high analytical depth: …

It was only a matter of time until the idea of Nico Nico Douga would be taken up in Mainland China. Now, a website seems to do exactly this: AcFun.cn takes up speedYou can access the website directly without becoming a member. As you can s…

“Lucky Star” is an anime series produced by Kyoto Animation. Some say that it was the first major anime series, which was produced deliberately for the Nico-Nico-Douga-age: Lots of dancing, for example, and its lyrics are fast, and therefo…

It is a good feeling to be as an Academic research project up speed with Wired (US edition) ...http://www.wired.com/techbiz/people/magazine/16-06/mf_hiroyuki?currentPage=1The article focuses in large parts on Hiroyuki, and gives a useful i…

There are around ten posts queuing up. Takashiro-san and me are feeling bad about that. The last weeks have been very intense and very, very fruitful. New interviews come first, and as ethnographers we also have to write diaries, organise …