Jonathan Clements on Akira Toriyama for his obituary:

https://blog.alltheanime.com/akira-toriyama-1955-2024/

#AkiraToriyama #DBZ #JonathanClements #GinyuForce #Eurovision (believe it or not)

Akira Toriyama (1955-2024) – All the Anime

While reading Jonathan Clements's adventures in learning Finnish for this #Kalevala day, I learned Japanese has 1194 ways of saying I love you. And a whole lot else, as you're wont to with Clements.

(Serious 'clicking forward to read the next article' warning for anything he writes though.)

https://schoolgirlmilkycrisis.com/2011/09/30/new-finnish-grammar/

http://www.salonfutura.net/2011/02/1778-ways-to-say-i-love-you/

#JonathanClements #Finnish #WordsForSnow #Linguistics #ILoveYou

New Finnish Grammar

One day, I asked my Finnish teacher if it was true that her language had 30 different words for snow. She fixed me with her big, blinky eyes. “No, you poor deluded fool,” she sighed. “We Finns only…

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“When it comes to the likes of Netflix and Amazon, they have really tied up production in Japan. You have studios that can't take on new work until 2026 because they are booked up the wazoo working for the streamers. But as you say, the problem is that the streamers will fork out all this money for a show and then just kill it for the tax write-off.”

https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/interview/2023-09-07/a-new-decade-of-anime-a-history-with-author-jonathan-clements/.201940

#Anime #ANN #JonathanClements

A New Decade of Anime: A History with Author Jonathan Clements

Historian Jonathan Clements discusses the advent of artificial intelligence, what fractured the Chinese-Japanese anime investment pipeline, and the buying power of otaku.

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