It seems to be something of a cult hit in Japan, probably the closest equivalent to the myriad of anime cult hits in America. You can find a lot of weird Japanese fanart for the show, like these:

Portal 2 was the best written piece of entertainment of the past year. First time I can ever say that about a videogame.

And Paprika.

Scott Pilgrim. I'm THAT guy.

For the other categories, you just rank your top choices. For the song category, you review everything and give each song a rating of 6/10 to 10/10 (yeah, why they don't do a simple scale of 1 to 5 is confusing). Only songs with an average rating of over 8.25 get nominated. So naturally it's easy for people to give a…

Chico and Rita's rated 15+ in England, so I'm guessing it's more adult than Tintin. Figure the Tintin snub is animators really not liking motion capture (and to be fair, Tintin did look kind of creepy even though the movie itself was good).

Attack the Block. More realistically, Drive or Harry Potter. Going completely off the wall with a film that wasn't even submitted, Redline.

The song category is odd because it's the only category where you can vote AGAINST a choice rather than for it. Thus why it's never satisfactory and why the other Muppet songs and that great Alan Menken Captain America number got snubbed.

In Pulp Fiction it was shocking, but it was off-screen (unless you saw the version the MPAA first saw where they showed it on-screen knowing the film would get an NC-17 so that they could cut it out and the MPAA would be satisfied enough to give it an R while letting other content pass).

You know I might have a guess at why he wasn't a fan of Drive. The one thing that stopped me from loving that movie was the unexpected and excessively graphic nature of the violence. Now, that would be why a lot of people would think Tarantino would love it, but looking at his films, they're generally not particularly…

You know I might have a guess at why he wasn't a fan of Drive. The one thing that stopped me from loving that movie was the unexpected and excessively graphic nature of the violence. Now, that would be why a lot of people would think Tarantino would love it, but looking at his films, they're generally not particularly…

I'm still waiting on his mash-up of Toy Story 3, The Social Network, and Animal Kingdom based off his list last year.

Ghost in the Shell's their big one. And most anything with some of the creative team behind Ghost in the Shell on it (the manga creator's Ghost Hound, the film director's Sky Crawlers, Jin-Roh, and Blood: The Last Vampire, the TV show director's Eden of the East and Moribito). They also co-produced animation for The…

Ed Wood was less than 20 years old, so your taste points are lost (or memory points; and I also liked Big Fish and Corpse Bride for what it's worth).

Into the Woods needs a much stronger visual stylist than Marshall. Terry Gilliam, perhaps?

Obama's fine on foreign policy. His continued violations of civil liberties, however (renewing the Patriot Act, signing this year's NDAA when he said he'd veto it, etc.), is atrocious, enough so that I might not vote for him this year if not for most of his competition being so scary. If only Fred Karger had a chance;…

I guess one could say it's fanservice-y, but there's a world of difference between something like Panty and Stocking (which uses crude sexual content for comedy, and doesn't even try to turn on anyone outside of arguably the transformation scene parody bit) and something like Queen's Blade (which is basically just…

Yotsuba&!'s interesting. Perfect for all ages but it ran in a magazine aimed at teenagers. Said magazine also published Gunslinger Girl. Oh, Japan…

Except, you know, studies show trans people's brain development tends to more closely match that of the gender they believe they are and not that of the sex they're born into, and if they're passing as their desired gender why does their birth sex even matter, and then there's intersex conditions further complicating…

Not really any except that they share the same enemies. Sexual orientation and gender identity are two different concepts but people who are bigoted against one tend to be bigoted against the other (though transphobic gays and even some homophobic transsexuals exist, neither group poses as much of a wide-scale threat…