Attention, otaku of all ages! Rumiko Takahashi has just been nominated for the Will Eisner Hall of Fame for 2016. The San Diego Comic Convention's official website has a full list of the nominees, with the following description for Takahashi-sensei: Popular manga creator Rumiko Takahashi is said to be the bestselling female comics artist in history, with…
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2016 really knows no chill. Tony and Oscar-nominated actor Ken Watanabe has been diagnosed with stomach cancer. Japan Times and Kyodo News report that that the 56-year-old actor has already undergone surgery in order to remove the tumor, and is currently recuperating in a hospital. This has delayed his return to Broadway theaters in the 2015 revival of The King and I,…
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Here's the second in a series of posts on The Hunger Games trilogy by Suzanne Collins. You can find the first post over here. Please note that all of the articles collected under this series will contain spoilers for The Hunger Games trilogy. You’ve been warned! (more…)
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This article contains spoilers for Assassin's Creed Syndicate. You’ve been warned! I was sold the moment I saw the trailer for Assassin's Creed Syndicate. It excited me so much that I actually bit the bullet and bought Assassin’s Creed Unity in an attempt to catch up with the lore before I played. It also derailed…
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We at What's a Geek love our food, and we'd love to interview more groups like Kurikipu. If you've got your own business or if you want to recommend a place that we should check out, contact us! We can work something out. Casa Gonzales is tucked away somewhere between Cainta and Antipolo, and it has…
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In the spirit of producing “scholarly” dissections of geeky things for What’s a Geek, this series of posts revisits an old analysis I did of The Hunger Games. The original version of the paper that these posts cover was written way before the movies came out. However, in the spirit of discourse and even out of…
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