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Questioning Fandom: What’s Your Spring 2012 Anime Simulcast Status
The spring 2012 anime season has been pretty massive in terms of the number of shows that are getting simulcast, to say the least, but the general consensus is that we’re also getting a much wider range of shows and fewer of the “cutsie” moe shows that have populated past…
Questioning Fandom: Do You Share Your Interests?
When it comes to any fandom, especially in the Internet days, it’s easy to find other like minded people to talk about your interests. Having been involved in our own forums for well over a decade and a few others, as well as numerous social media sites, it’s definitely not hard to…
Questioning Fandom: Assemble Your Team
The success of The Avengers is certainly going to motivate Disney and Marvel to bring out more works and will definitely help bolster their plans for both movies, live action TV series and the animated realm. It’s a new golden time for comics fans to see some of their favorite characters…
Questioning Fandom: The Theater Experience
Last week, there was an interesting article over at Deadline that came out of CinemaCon as there are some theater owners that are looking at the potential of making some screenings of certain movies open to texting and social media during it. The whole intention behind it is to try and grab the…
Questioning Fandom: Your Most Treasured Toy
Over the weekend we were doing some office cleaning around here and ended up going through a lot of stuff we hadn’t pulled out in ages, simply because they were well stored. You can see that video here. The whole process got us to thinking though about the things we…
Questioning Fandom: Name Your License Rescue
One of the things that cropped up more in the middle of the past decade, a bit more so at the end to be sure, was the idea of license rescues. One of the earliest ones that got the term coined at the time was that of Lost Universe, the…
Questioning Fandom: What Adorns Your Walls?
One of the things that happens if you’re, well, a person is that over the years you put things up on your walls. Well, I’ve watched enough HGTV to know there are people that don’t put anything up on their walls and those that don’t do it right as well.…
Questioning Fandom: What’s Your Simulcast Limit?
As the industry slowly but surely shifted from just home video releases to doing streaming of various shows and then building stronger and stronger simulcasts offerings, fans were getting what they asked for for years. Shows as they happen in Japan. Well, nearly, since most are delayed a whopping hour and…
Questioning Fandom: The Convention Experience
Conventions are an interesting bit of the lifeblood of every fandom since it’s one of the ways many people used to get together when they had little other option and precious little long distance communication. You know, before the days of the Internet. Now you have so much instant communication…
Questioning Fandom: The Summer Blockbuster Season
Due to the absolute chaos of late around the Fandom Post office, we had to put the Questioning Fandom series on hold for a bit in order to deal with everything else. The season changes this year with the anime realm has been intense! And we’ll be getting to that…