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Alodia at Herocon
One of the crowd draws at the Hanep Hataw Hero 3 anime convention was the appearance of Filipina gamer Alodia Gosiengfiao and friends. They sold signed prints of their photoportraits as a fundraiser for their Freelance Art Society.
I particularly like this shot of Alodia at the Wasabi Toys booth. Girls and Gundams, what more could you ask for?
What’s really interesting here is that these girls sold a lot of prints even though most of their photoportraits are freely available online. That’s what Hugh MacLeod does with his cartoons. Alodia and her friends are proving and learning that, when it comes to digital goods, abundance leads to value.
(Photo by Tyrone Orbase via Alodia.)
You’re Under Arrest Full Throttle Episode 7: Natsumi and Miyuki Earn Back My Attention
I was about to give up on the anime You’re Under Arrest Full Throttle right after that sickeningly saccharine Car Lock Baby episode, but the series redeems itself as the girls get down to some actual police work in After That Mysterious Taxi!
Miyuki goes CSI and takes a pipe to the head, while Natsumi goes streetwise and gets wasted. Even Nakajima goes Evil Knievel and busts some heads. All that, and the girls wear cute wigs, too. Finally, we’re seeing the more of the full throttle featured in the first episode.
Congratulations, girls. Even though you got smacked by a pipe and kicked to the curb, you’ve earned back my attention.
