Archive for February, 2012

Shin-chan Snack for Sale!

Many years ago I worked on the Shin-chan anime for FUNimation. Throughout the anime there’s a snack called Chocobees that Shin absolutely loves. It even appeared in some of the episodes FUNi licensed: Eventually, they made this snack for real! I’ve been keeping one for a while now, but since I’m decluttering the place maybe [...]

Getting Rid of Stuff

I’ve been selling a lot of stuff of mine on eBay lately, but I have a bunch of stuff I know wouldn’t sell for very much and that I’d end up losing money on if I listed them. So I’m planning on either donating these or giving them out to anyone here who’s interested. If [...]

A Japanese ROM Isn’t Always a ROM

Some years ago, when I was reading the Mother 1 or 2 novel I think, I read in the afterword that the author had gotten an advance copy of the game so she could start writing the novel early on. I was confused though, because she said she had gotten a “ROM”. Given that the [...]