The Mike Abundo Effect

Geekiness is global. Japanese otaku queen Shoko Nakagawa just held her first US concert at Anime Expo 2008 — in multiple anime costumes. Read the rest of this entry »

Filipina cosplayers China Capay and Nejin portray Kyon and Haruhi from The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya.

(Photos via Nejin’s Creative Commons License. Crossposted from Anime Mashups.)

And a child shall lead them. In a rare move from a mainstream media outlet, anime schoolgirl Haruhi Suzumiya pushes positive DRM on behalf of Japanese media giant Bandai.

Stick that up your rootkit, Sony. More at Anime Mashups.