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Culture

Welcome To Night Vale Creators Starting New Podcast Platform

January 21, 2016 Anthony McGlynn

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Fans of Welcome To Night Vale will be happy to hear the surrealist fantasy podcast is getting its own network – Night Vale Presents. The brainchild of Jeffrey Cranor and Joseph Fink, the writers of Night Vale, the network will be a home to other auditory experiments of theirs. The first newly scheduled program will […]

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Anime

Natsu Dragneel Revealed For Fairy Tail Stage Play

January 21, 2016 Declan Doody

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The official Twitter account for the Fairy Tail live action stage play Live Fantasy Fairy Tail, has tweeted the first images of series protagonist and dragon slayer, Natsu Dragneel in the flesh. The popular manga/anime series Fairy Tail is set in the fictional world of Earth-land, a world with powerful wizards and their guilds. The series revolves one guild in […]

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Culture

New Café For Geek Girls Opens In Japan

January 14, 2016 Laura Kelly

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One of the highlights of any otaku’s trip to Japan would no doubt include a visit to a nice quiet café to indulge in some manga or video games in peace. For any of you planning a trip this summer, the brand new Ataraxia Café in Osaka offers a primo choice of manga and video games […]

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Cosplay

Opinion: Crowdfunding For Cosplays

January 12, 2016 Tendai Muzwidzwa

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Cosplay is a great and wonderful thing. After tumbling head first into it just 3 years ago I have not looked back. Alas, with the highs come the lows: controversy, fights and disturbing news. The latest thing to pop up is not a controversy as such, but an open discussion. Cosplayers all around the world […]

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Culture

Life In Japan: Nippon New Year

January 10, 2016 Andy Kavanagh

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As I mentioned previously in this very column (yes, you should be keeping up), the Japanese don’t really see Christmas as a very big deal. Certainly not in the same way us god-fearing western nations do, but that doesn’t mean they don’t have a big winter celebration to look forward to as the cold weather […]

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Anime/Cartoons

Steven Universe: On Queer Magic And Censorship

January 7, 2016 Declan Doody

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By now you may have heard of the Steven Universe petition currently circulating the Internet. Fans aren’t asking series creator Rebecca Sugar for more episodes, or specific story, they’re not asking for a movie or live-action series. No, a petition was posted on change.org asking Cartoon Network UK to end the ‘homophobic’ editing/censorship of the beloved cartoon. For the […]

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Buzz

Gif Essay: Geek Clutter

January 5, 2016 Declan Doody

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Oh how on Earth did it get like this? You’ve spent the last few weeks holed up in your room – the waste paper basket has spawned sentience and is evolving! The mountain of clothes in the corner is now a breeding ground for appalachian goats! Oh and your collection of amazing geek and pop culture […]

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Books

Cast Of Big Three For Harry Potter And The Cursed Child Revealed

December 21, 2015 Marcus Deehan

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The actors that will play the grown up versions of Harry Potter, Hermione Granger and Ron Weasley have been chosen for Harry Potter And The Curesed Child – the upcoming stage-play which has been written under JK Rowling’s guidance and is the canonical continuation of the Harry Potter series, set two decades after the books […]

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Culture

Life In Japan: A Reductive Guide To Japanese Christmas

December 20, 2015 Andy Kavanagh

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Japan doesn’t really do religion in the same way the West does. The land of the rising sun, predominantly a shinto/buddhist nation, is also increasingly a land of rampant religious apathy. It’s pretty common to hear elderly folk complain quite vocally about how uninterested the youth of today are in ancient traditions, even though almost […]

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Culture

Opinion: Critical Writing in the Digital Age

December 10, 2015 Jack Dempsey

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The move online has been seismic. If you want to be a viable business, instantaneous communication or access to information then you have got to get online. It is easy – and if I’m honest, rather boring – to get lost in the Utopian vision of the world of the web. Still, as the world […]

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