Go-Go-Gaijin: Baseball Mascot Misnomers
Japan loves mascots. I mean, anything and everything gets a smiling, fluffy, easily recognizable official symbol for bumper stickers and keychains and whatever other marketable venues there may be. The police have a mascot, the newspapers have a mascot, the national broadcasting association even has a mascot. But with the mascot demand as high as […]
Posted on June 6, 2010 at 23:21 by Brooke Stephenson · Permalink
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In: Japanese Entertainment, Opinions/Editorials · Tagged with: baseball, Japan, mascots, sports, what did I just watch?
In: Japanese Entertainment, Opinions/Editorials · Tagged with: baseball, Japan, mascots, sports, what did I just watch?
Comic Non-Sans: Sledgebunny
It’s your classic sports anime setup: a teenage girl with little experience and lots of heart joins a team ruled by a brutal coach, and faces seemingly insurmountable odds (and a bitchy rival) to realize her hidden potential as a true star on the field. But it’s a webcomic, not an anime … and the […]
Posted on May 4, 2010 at 07:39 by Kara Dennison · Permalink
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In: Columns, Webcomics · Tagged with: roller derby, secretly special, sports, teenage girl, underdog story
In: Columns, Webcomics · Tagged with: roller derby, secretly special, sports, teenage girl, underdog story