Posts Tagged “This Week in Akiba”

It’s been a while (about nine months) since I’ve composed a This Week in Akiba post, probably because I check out each entry that week and from Oct 29th to Nov 4th, there were about forty-seven. I picked out nine that I thought were interesting enough to share with you.

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That’s right, I’m bringing back “This Week in Akiba” and this edition covers stuff from February 5th to the 11th.

First off, cake boxes were spotted featuring a caricature of failed prime minister candidate Taro Aso, Rozen Maiden characters, and the Engrish sentence “It is a sponge cake that used fresh milk and the egg enough”.
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Okay, last week I forgot to do this feature because I was busy with other stuff. I also guess I could blame it on a lack of interesting stuff that week but I’m not going to do that. I did manage to make a banner and picked out some good stuff to highlight this week.
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I regularly check on Akibablog to see what kind of weird shenanigans are going down in “Electric Town” and I think there’s enough interesting stuff to make it a weekly feature. I don’t know if this will work out but I’ve been watching less anime since time demand from classes has risen and that means fewer summaries written. So hopefully this will help keep my weekly post count decent along with occasional musings and news commentaries. Ikimasu! (Forgive the roughness of my translations of Akiba entries because rikaichan, the Firefox extension, hasn’t been updated since I upgraded to FF 2.0 Tuesday. T_T)

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