http://otakuohana.staradvertiserblogs.com Mon, 17 Jun 2013 19:48:21 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en To get the obvious first thought out of your mind right away: No, Bento Rakugo is not, as I first thought when the offer came in from my freshly minted Otaku Ohana Anonymous Director of Forced Social Interaction, a new place in town where you can pick up a plastic ... http://otakuohana.staradvertiserblogs.com/2013/06/14/the-cel-shaded-report-614-bento-box-weekend/ There was a time, back in the "before your tag-team partners in fandom existed and/or were aware of such things" days, when there were local theaters with names like Toyo and Nippon that regularly screened Japanese movies for eager matinee audiences. The Toyo Theatre, sadly, has been demolished, replaced by a ... http://otakuohana.staradvertiserblogs.com/2013/06/06/the-cel-shaded-report-66-summer-of-samurai/ To put a bow on the event that I highlighted in my last post, the wedding of tag-team partner in fandom Wilma Jandoc and Zarli Win: It happened. Ohhhhhh, did it ever happen, in a simple yet elegant ceremony Sunday morning at the Honolulu Country Club. And IMG_2494 -- the ... http://otakuohana.staradvertiserblogs.com/2013/06/03/img_2494/ This past week has been a week of endings, one with no shortage of topics for me to talk about in this space. Curiosity -- which I can only describe as "iOS/Android virtual bubble wrap, except with cubes instead of bubbles to pop" -- ended. From Up on Poppy Hill's ... http://otakuohana.staradvertiserblogs.com/2013/06/01/the-greatest-of-these-is-love/ Kinda short on time to write anything substantive this week -- heading out to watch a movie that's NOT From Up on Poppy Hill in a bit! -- so here's your weekly Ota-cool Incoming! roundup. New to this edition: Comic Jam hits the road, Malice Mizer gets a tribute, the ... http://otakuohana.staradvertiserblogs.com/2013/05/25/ota-cool-incoming-for-may-25-and-beyond/ Let's get the news out of the way first: From Up on Poppy Hill is going into its seventh week of screenings at the Kahala 8 theaters. From Friday through next Thursday, it'll be showing there daily at 11 a.m. It's now managed to outlast the local theatrical runs of ... http://otakuohana.staradvertiserblogs.com/2013/05/23/poppy-hills-subtle-seeds/ Ahhh, Anime Expo. Largest anime convention in the U.S., usually held Fourth of July weekend in Los Angeles, tons of people lining up for everything, enough that I'll probably never go to it (Fanime's probably the largest show I'll ever willingly visit, thankyewverymuch ... and after last year's experience, even ... http://otakuohana.staradvertiserblogs.com/2013/05/17/the-cel-shaded-report-517-rock-the-cosplay-or-comic-vote/ I thought I was done talking about From Up on Poppy Hill at least until next week's Cel Shaded Report ... that is, until fate and one of my few dozen loyal readers intervened, sending along a tidbit that I couldn't possibly hold on to until next week. This tweet came ... http://otakuohana.staradvertiserblogs.com/2013/05/10/even-more-on-poppy-hill-the-unexpected-venue/ From Up on Poppy Hill -- the film that, if you don't know it's the latest Studio Ghibli film to reach U.S. shores by now, you clearly haven't been reading this blog -- opened on April 5 at the Consolidated's Kahala 8 theater complex. Two other movies opened their nationwide ... http://otakuohana.staradvertiserblogs.com/2013/05/09/the-cel-shaded-report-510-poppy-hill-again-yup/ Iron Man 3 opens on Friday. Star Wars Day -- "May the Fourth be with you," get it? -- is on Saturday. And comic book geekery, let's face it, can just be downright fun. So it is that we've come to the annual celebration of comics, downright fun and WOO HOO FREE STUFF ... http://otakuohana.staradvertiserblogs.com/2013/05/02/the-cel-shaded-report-52-comics-comics-comics-comics/