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MACROSSMAS 2010

When I coined the term ‘Macrossmas’ to some fellow Japanese fans, they thought it pretty funny. The term flows a little better in Japanese (マクロスマス) than English, and is the type of otaku pun I enjoy playing with. The idea for it was the seemingly coincidental timing of a bunch of Macross events right around Christmas time.

(1)Dec. 22: Macross Frontier Christmas Live @ Budokan (Tokyo)
(2)Dec. 24: Macross Frontier Christmas Live @ Port island Hall (Kobe)
(3)Dec. 25: Yoshiki Fukuyama – The 2nd Asia Live Tour (Kyoto)
(4)Dec. 26: Akino Arai – Sounds of Aurora Christmas Live (Tokyo)

January 27, 2011 Articles, Concert Reports, Event Reports
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The Out-Cast: EP.14 – Game of the Year 2010 and Square-Enix Premiere Show

What on earth is the Out-Cast?
Well, this was a series of podcasts I did back in 2010~2012 on videogames and videogame culture in Japan for an old website with a completely different crew.
I’m republishing them here on DecultureShock, but for anyone who is interested, the original website can be found here.

January 25, 2011 Out-Cast, SpeakerPODcast
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The Out-Cast: EP.13 – 3DS Hands-on at Nintendo World 2011

What on earth is the Out-Cast?
Well, this was a series of podcasts I did back in 2010~2012 on videogames and videogame culture in Japan for an old website with a completely different crew.
I’m republishing them here on DecultureShock, but for anyone who is interested, the original website can be found here.

January 11, 2011 Out-Cast, SpeakerPODcast
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The Out-Cast: EP.12 – “What’s the Happs?” Special

What on earth is the Out-Cast?
Well, this was a series of podcasts I did back in 2010~2012 on videogames and videogame culture in Japan for an old website with a completely different crew.
I’m republishing them here on DecultureShock, but for anyone who is interested, the original website can be found here.

December 19, 2010 Out-Cast, SpeakerPODcast
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Macross F Nyan Cli Theatrical Screening

The following impressions come from SpeakerPODcast regular & Gubabablogger Richard.

I got to the theater twenty minutes early, hoping to get some Macross swag, but there was none. All the stickers and posters and movie programs were for Harry Potter. Feh.

While hanging out in the lobby, along with a few young geeks, a number of 40-ish men who were clearly old-school fans, and a whole lotta high school girls, I stood near the “Wings of Farewell” Ranka-as-Magical-Girl poster. Four high school girls walked up to it, cooing, “Kawaii!” And then they took pictures of it. I guess we now know what demographic that poster appeals to.

The theater was nearly full, but not completely. There were two empty seats behind me, and a few others scattered around. But it was a big theater (oddly, it was EXACTLY THE SAME theater where I saw Eva 1.0 a little bit more than three years ago. Funny).

November 26, 2010 Articles, Event Reports
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