MANGA
- I had no idea how vibrant the manga Twitter community was until I signed up for an account 3 weeks ago. Seriously, if you like manga/anime/etc., get a Twitter account. If you need help getting started, Lori Henderson has a great manga Twittering guide; for more general advice, try Everyday Tweet.
MOVIES
- Antique will play at the New York Asian Film Festival (via @debaoki). Very happy to hear it, considering Joo Ji Hoon’s troubles.
DRAMA
- Otomen, a shojo manga about a seemingly macho guy who loves girly things, will be made into a live action drama (via @passivesoul).
- Good debate about streaming Japanese drama subs over at Yonasu. I just wish Japanese companies would embrace legal subs like Korean TV companies have (previously).
NEWS/ISSUES
- Huffington Post has a good “for dummies” article on former President Roh Moo-hyun, who committed suicide in the wake of corruption charges (charges he denied, and which came from a bribery investigation led by his political opponents).
- Interesting Jezebel article (& comments!) on a female “hipster grifter” who succeeded partly because of the so-called “loathsome hipster Asian fetish.”
FOOD
- Lisa of Tokyomango asks why don’t Americans drink coffee in a can? My vote goes to our lack of hot vending machines, and the relative lack of vending machines here, period.
- Finally, I’m working on a series of snack-related posts. One post will be on chirimen-jako, or dried baby anchovies; I kept seeing them in cookbooks & T.V. shows and thus began to covet them. Turns out chirimen-jako have a dry, chewy texture & mildly salty taste (as well as lots of calcium). You serve them on top of rice or shredded daikon radish with a dash of soy sauce. I know they look scary (mmm, eyeballs!), but they’re delicious:
