Riuva : Research Institute for Unicultural Visual Arts

Reading the title above you might think I’m in no position to say otakus play with dolls are thus are sissies, since I myself own so many figures. But if you’ve been paying attention to the otaku toy market, you’ll probably notice that a few years ago, there were only fixed-pose figurines and mecha, with the occasional action figure of manly heroes. Yet recently, in what was hailed as a technological breakthrough, there are now multiple toy lines featuring moe anime girls as action figures. Now, what would otaku do with girly action figures? Play with them of course!

Now, it’s not often that I link to people. Mainly because I’m lazy and the 2 seconds it takes to link people can be better used pressing refresh on my favourite website riuva.com to see if I have any updates.

But I recently read a post on this new anime blog of which I know nothing about but have come to learn that it is like mine, supposedly funny. I was intrigued by the title, "Why Bleach is a Good Anime", which is like a total ripoff of one of our posts, "Why Naruto is not a Good Anime". I was expecting a parody, or even a satire poking fun at Bleach.