Everyone here at Anime Jam Session was distraught over the story of young Michael Morones who tried to commit suicide because was bullied over being a fan of My Little Pony. So we tried to come up with an idea to show our support. One idea happened from our friend Kat from Kat’s Play Commissions. […]
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Blowing Around a Lot of Hot Air
For those of you not completely in the loop about the situation in Chicago, here’s the abridged version of it: Chi-Fi, a convention planned to be held at the Westin Chicago River North hotel, but according to the former, the staff of the latter referred to everyone involved as “freaks”, harping on the old addage […]
What Killed The Anime Industry?
While scouring the interwebs today, my good friend Mario posted this article about what had happened to the anime industry. The way it is now isn’t how it was fifteen plus years ago. So Rob Bricken over at io9 wrote up a pretty much straight to the point version of how things came to be […]
Man who Loves Cosplay Kills Woman who Also Loves Cosplay
Somewhere in the Malaysian city of Petaling Jaya, a 23-year-old man man murdered a 15-year-old girl and stuffed her body in a suitcase. But what was specifically jarring was the man’s love of the anime series One Piece. Mostly because he’s famous among the Malaysian cosplay community and even helped many get more involved with […]