While browsing my archive of blog posts and drafts from our original anime club blog, BBAMAJAM—acronym for Boogie BAM Anime Jam, as we met at a Book-a-Million, in 2009; eventually renamed Scenic City Anime & More in 2011; which then was then revived in 2024 as just Scenic City Anime Club, I found a text […]
Here is an invitation to join a small community of fellow readers, listeners, and viewers of the Centaku Media circle. We have a Discord server that has been a few years in the making! We’ve been working on a true community aspect of Centaku Media for roughly a decade. We originally launched the message board […]
If you’ve never seen a Japanese drama, then let me say there are often 3 key elements to each series: brevity, “trendiness”, and melodrama. 1) Each series is usually 10 or 12 episodes max, unless incredibly popular in which case a follow-up movie will be made, or special as it’s called. Only rarely does a […]
The organizers of the JapanFest event held annually recently announced their dates for the 2024 show. The JapanFest event will be held at the Gas South Convention Center on September 21 & 22 in Duluth, GA.
What countries do you want to visit? Running a blog called Centaku Media for over 15 years and having the word “Otaku” in one form in the name, you would think I have visited the land of all things Otaku: Japan. As of 2023, that has yet to happen. But here are some observations of […]
Another year of MomoCon is in the books! It was a great year for the event’s 2023 show, and to share the memories with fellow readers, I managed to take some video footage of one area of the con that is underappreciated: the Itasha Showcase!
After two years of lockdowns and shutdowns due to the Coronavirus pandemic, MomoCon is returning for a full weekend of activities and guests at the Georgia World Congress Center on the weekend of Memorial Day 2022. Since it’s been a while since a large-scale event like this has been held for anime fans and otaku […]
The latest Channel Surfing post is about a TV anime series that premiered on Netflix a while back called Carole & Tuesday. Directed by Shinichiro Watanabe of Cowboy Bebop anime fame, this anime is nothing like Cowboy Bebop at all but will have a familiar theme or two throughout the series–including one that is rarely […]
