The Mike Abundo Effect

Those MTV-ized Charlie’s Angels ain’t got nothin’ on these girls. The ridiculously overqualified traffic cop babes of anime are back in You’re Under Arrest: Full Throttle. The cerebral Miyuki Kobayakawa returns from US forensics training (cue CSI theme), while the physical Natsumi Tsujimoto returns from JSDF ranger training. These babes are a rare breed in anime: genuine role models for girls, genuine eye candy for boys. Read the rest of this entry »

The Cutie Honey tokusatsu series just started airing in Japan, starring bikini idol Mikie Hara as the iconic anime heroine. Check out Danny Choo’s gallery of screencaps.

(Crossposted from Anime Mashups.)

In a triumph of editorial integrity over corporate greed, PC World reinstates its veteran editor-in-chief and removes its Apple-shill CEO.

In a surprise reversal, IDG management removed Colin Crawford as PC World’s CEO and reinstated Harry McCracken as Editor in Chief, after a dispute over a canceled Apple story led McCracken to quit.

Crawford, meanwhile, is being kicked back upstairs, assigned to “driving IDG’s online strategy and initiatives” — a nice, safe, strategic role where he can’t do any more harm to the company’s editorial reputation.

Crawford used to take calls from Steve Jobs whenever the latter had a problem with a PC World article. Good riddance to bad garbage.