K-Pop Minicon Making a 2025 Comeback in Atlanta
Alabama-based K-Pop Minicon is holding their second annual convention in Atlanta, GA this year. Held at the Gas South Convention Center, the same venue as their inaugural event in 2024,…
Centaku Media: Otaku Omnibus | Quarterly Newsletter – Volume 2
Welcome to Centaku Media’s second edition of the Otaku Omnibus newsletter! When we first published our newsletter in October 2024, we originally intended the series to be on a quarterly…
Centaku Media: Otaku Omnibus | Quarterly Newsletter – Volume 1
Welcome… back? It seems that we’ve lost touch since the last time we made a newsletter on Revue back in 2022. However, there has been a change of scenery with…
SPY x FAMILY “CODE: White” Coming to North American & Global Theatres
The first film from the 2022 hit anime SPY x FAMILY is getting a worldwide release, which includes a release in North America in 2024!
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Channel Surfing: Carole & Tuesday
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 incorporated into an anime that helped its success.
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What is the Best Anime Convention?
Declaring an anime convention the “Best Anime Convention” can go based on certain situations. That can be geographic location, experiences, and guests. This is a question asked in many communities, especially for those who have yet to go to an anime convention.
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Interest Treasures: The Unusual Journey of Yang Joon Il
Many of you are probably into, or at least heard of, the latest K-pop acts such as BTS, TWICE, BLACKPINK, and Stray Kids. But there is Yang Joon Il (Hangul: 양준일), a solo artist who made his debut at the very beginning of the 1990s, and who was largely ignored by the Korean media because of his approach to the norms of the era.
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The Seoul Searching Chronicles: 5 Takeaways From Seoul
Thank you for sticking around the blog and for following the Seoul Searching Chronicles series! As a bonus, I wanted to post my thoughts about my recent trip to South Korea, and talk about some things that I would really, really like to see in my home country (although that is easier said than done, as the thought of it wouldn’t “make any sense” to us Americans).