Don’s shutting down Beware the Kawaii and replacing it with The Kawaii Menace, although he’s having a little, er, issue, with the host and a rocky start. I’ll wait to see what he does before changing the links in the sidebar.
Because of the change-over, his thoughts on the new season are split between the two blogs, but so far, we seem to be in a fair amount of agreement about the new season. He’s sampled far more than I have, thus far, and I’ll be putting a post up later with my thoughts on what I’ve seen. (Nagasarete, Lucky Star, El Cazador, Hayate. DL but not viewed: Romeo X Juliet.)
The most intriguing post he’s had recently (YMMV) is on his old site, and it came from here. The full posting is quite interesting, and I recommend reading through it, but this part caught my eye:
You may call it the Rational Western Mind at work: on top of research, English-speaking fans like to take a body of details and develop theories of how these details are connected. After gathering the who, when, what, where and how, English-speaking fans want to know the why. I must say – although I frequent Japanese and Chinese fandoms as well, the most interesting analysis I have ever read all come from English-speaking fans.
Edit: And the comments are even more interesting.
Indeed, I’ve been reading Wabi Sabi’s writing since she wrote those articles on Satoshi Kon’s movies early on. She has some very interesting insight into anime and her writing is quite good.