It was a dark and stormy Wednesday. Three days before my brother's wedding, I had bought a flash to have an attempt at indoor photography. Using the momentum of the two previous CrackCon cosplay meets, I organised a practice session of friends and friends' friends at short notice, and I called the Facebook event "Melbourne Cosplay Photo Meet - June ( Read more... )

Here is a list of my favourite anime by season, plus everything else I've completed or are currently watching. Anime usually runs in seasonal blocks, so I've listed the northern hemisphere seasons for each section. As I've seen most of this in the last three years or so, this list doesn't give much indication of when I saw these, but it's still ( Read more... )

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Something that I have been doing a lot of recently is watching anime. Though it does have certain conventions and peculiarities, anime is a medium rather than a genre, so it might seem unusual to announce that my watching habits would be not-narrowed to such a broad spectrum-kinda like if someone told you they liked watching Hollywood movies as ( Read more... )

I coined the alias ianiceboy over a decade ago, and several key parts of this name do not describe me as accurately as they once did. Firstly, my grammar has improved. The omission of the verb was a play on a claim I made in my childhood: "I not a man; I a boy!" Yep, I was an adorable youngster. Secondly, I am not as nice as I was when I was in ( Read more... )

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"The date was August 10 in the year 2010 of the Imperial calendar. The Holy Britannian Empire had just declared war upon Japan. The Far East island nation had held fast to its neutrality, and now Britannia looms as the world's only superpower."

"It is the distant future: the year 2000! We are robots. The world is quite different ever since the ( Read more... )

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I don't know why, but I hadn't seen much of the hilarious anime Ouran High School Host Club before I had the idea of seriously mischaracterising it. I've long been impressed with anime music videos, and I thought it about time that I made one myself. The above video is the product of about thirty-five hours of video editing. In a show where the ( Read more... )