Category: Editorials

There Are No More Good Panels at Anime Conventions [MyAnimeList]

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hisui_icon_4040 It seems that my skills as a writer have been called for outside of this humble little detective-themed blog. I have begun writing articles for MyAnimeList. In an effort to keep you all up to date on what else I am writing, we will be cross-promoting my writing here on the site.

My little editorial filled with controversial statements and inflammatory statements.

Actually I ask the simple question, “If you don’t think fan panels are any good then what do you think are good fan panels?”

There Are No More Good Panels
at Anime Conventions

– Alain

The August 2015 Line-Up

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narutaki_icon_4040 A lot more announcements on the Japan side of things this month. Some of those things include multiple mystery series!

hisui_icon_4040 With the hurricane of licenses last month the fact that there was anything left to announce this month is an accomplishment in of itself.

The Line-Up is a monthly rundown of new anime, manga, light novel, artbook licenses, streaming/broadcasting announcements, crowdfunding projects, anime/manga projects, and live-action anime/manga adaptions.

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The Speakeasy #068: Garden Elixir—The Art of Translation, Armada, Over the Garden Wall, Othering

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Drink #068: Garden Elixir
The Art of Translation, Armada, Over the Garden Wall, Othering

Ongoing Investigations: Over the Garden Wall, Armada by Ernest Cline, Ace of the Diamond S1, Disney shorts.

Topics: Compensating Panelists, The Art of Translation, and the “Othering” of Manga.

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And now your helpful bartenders at The Speakeasy present your drink:

Garden Elixir

  • 1/4 cup gin
  • 5 cilantro leaves
  • 1/4 cup dry vermouth, preferably Noilly Prat
  • 1/2 tablespoon green Chartreuse
  • 3 tablespoons apple juice, preferably fresh
  • 1 tablespoon celery juice
  • Dash of fresh lime juice
  • Nasturtium flowers, for garnish (optional)

Fill a cocktail shaker with ice. Add the gin and cilantro and shake. Add the vermouth, Chartreuse, apple juice, celery juice and lime juice and shake well. Strain into a chilled martini glass and garnish with nasturtium flowers.