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November Member Promotions
It's time for member promotions once again. So congratulations to everyone who was promoted. Keep up the good work! Otaku Legend Aemi Ani...Fan Comic Sizing Glitch Fixed
Multi-Paged Fan Comics now appear correctly and are no longer distorted. We never noticed this glitch before and thank everyone who recently discussed it in our brainstorming thread. Enjoy!
theOtaku.com's Winter Writing Contest
Winter is fast approaching and what better way to enjoy it than to tell stories? So for the next three months if you or any of your friends have ideas for Winter/Christmas/New Year’s themed stories, articles or essays, we encourage you to give it a try. Everything from series-based fanfiction to your own original ideas will be accepted.
Once all the entries are in, a panel of judges will select one of the works as “Editor’s Choice”. The author of the chosen work will also receive a free year’s subscription to theOtaku’s Premium Service! If you already have a premium account then it will automatically be renewed for another year.
Guidelines for theOtaku’s Winter Writing Contest are:
- All submissions must follow Fan Word standards such as grammar, spelling, and rating.
- Don’t forget to check the box for “Nominate for Fan Word Publication”.
- All submissions need to have “winter contest” in the submission’s tags. Don’t put a comma between ‘winter’ and ‘contest’ since that will make them seperate tags.
If you’ve never submitted a Fan Word before or just need some help getting one ready to submit, then take a moment to visit The Writer’s Bloc, the home base for theOtaku.com’s beta-readers and a place for writers to come with questions.
Click here to visit the official challenge page. You can post any questions you have over there. Good luck!
theOtaku.com Anime Podcast VII - Ep. 4
My name is SomeGuy, and I approve of this opening theme. Also, Tachikomas or Gundams? Also, I think the truck was 11 feet tall or somewhere around there, so yeah, big enough truck - not articulated, but still big enough.
Further, Ikea rules. End of story.
Music - Hekireki by Last Alliance from Hajime no Ippo: New Challenger
The following podcast may contain some coarse language that may offend some listeners. Discretion is advised.
For a link to Anime Pulse's theOtaku.com World, go here.
For a link to The Watercooler World, go here.
And finally, you can find Ichigo's travel log over at the Anime Pulse website (under the "features" tab). He's gettin' some crazy adventures over there. Go read. Right after the podcast.
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Caption Battle: Stage Magic Is Hard...
"It's that time again..."
"To watch more of CBC's brilliant show Being Erica online?"
"To figure out why The Beatles had such horrible sound equipment in Japan?"
"No... it's time for this week's caption battle!"
But first, last week's winners:
In third place, playing on something I never had to learn in school: wallpaperotaku!
I pledge allegiance, to the manga of the United Fans of Shoujo, and to the Bishounen, for which they stand, one genre under Japan, with love and beauty for all!
In second place, with the power of conviction: Ace!
Current count of Pat Benatar songs that would provide awesome captions for this image: 3 and rising.
And in the coveted first place, just baaaarely getting the crap past the radar... Wayward Warrior!
Curiously humorous given that it is posted on a site affectionately deemed "TheO."
Gotta say, lots and lots of good captions this week. Thanks guys! Moving on...
This week's screencap comes courtesy of Kitty K.O. and features the series Gintama. "On the left is Hijikata, on the right is Gin, and the old guy in the middle is... well an old guy." Got it? Good:
You know the drill: type up the funniest, wittiest, most original caption you can think of for the screencap above in the comments below. Also, if any of you would like some tips on writing a great caption, you can find those here.
And like always, theOtaku is open to all submissions and suggestions for weekly feature content. You have a screencap you want used, you can PM me and we can do somethin' about it. So good luck, and remember: moocows are serious business.
