Eh, the news reporting how many people from <local country> are involved in <topic> happens in every country I think. I suppose the reporters think viewers want to know that. I recall reading that the Philippines are a rather ethnically diverse country. Ethnicities which don't always get along very ...

RuMi, would you mind adding titles of the videos you're linking to, or using the [youtube] tag to have the embedded player show? I dislike clicking on links without knowing what they point to.

When they said 'nationalistic', did they specify which nation? Maybe you could make them nationalistic aliens or fairies.
Another angle might be to show how bad nationalism is/can be. That's still following the rule, just not the way it was intended

The kind where you can travel for 100km without seeing another human?

Well, Hayao and Goro had a little tiff between them before/during/after Gedo Senki . Hayao didn't think Goro was ready to direct a whole movie on his own, and then the movie kinda flopped/wasn't up to par for Ghibli/mangled the original story much more than necessary. They sort of made up later on t...

Yeah, that PinguDrum anime is so vaguely advertised that I suspect it'll actually be pretty bad. I mean, otherwise they'd have come up with a better synopsis/trailer, right? I haven't seen Gedo Senki , so I don't know what it's really like. I've read enough though to have avoided it so far. Are you ...

Hehehe

Bikes often have separate lanes/traffic lights here.

Anime that look interesting to me: - Natsume Yūjinchō San (liked the first two seasons a lot) - Yuruyuri (slice of life) - Usagi Drop (possibly; I'll wait for reviews) - Kaitō Tenshi Twin Angel (magical girls) - Morita-san Wa Mukuchi (slice of life) - Black Lagoon season 3 (liked the ...

Hasn't that anime finished airing/subbing yet? I want to watch it too~ ^_^

I like the idea of Rune Factory, but the forced heterosexuality keeps me from playing it