In my case, was the false hope the internet gave me about a new season of FMP.

It is the most popular sport there, but soccer is the 2nd biggest and it’s very close to it’s popularity.

Sumo is also very popular, but not widely practiced (for obvious reasons).

I saw the videos, based on that all I manage to see was the usual Artefact crap antics, outside the one guy who climb the taxi cab, what is exactly the hooliganism these people are making? I’m sorry but I’m just seeing people celebrating, okay, they’re not acting like the usual reserved japanese behaviour, but [...]

I disagree. I don’t like when one game takes 3 hours to end and have to make a pause each 15 seconds.

Here’s his Twitter : @takazo_chori_su

You got that just now?

I don’t think he means ”nature” as in the sense of how industrialized a country is, but in the sense of how is the social and political environment of that society. Putting in that context japanese people are more prone to ”go with the flow” and try to live as accommodate as they can in [...]

They already do that, why do you think there are so many korean and chinese names in your japanese anime credits? Many companies send their anime to be 70% animated in South Korea, China and Thailand because there the cost of production is much lower (not only japanese companies but american companies do that too). [...]

I can’t say about the US but soccer in Japan is extremely popular, is actually the 2nd biggest sport in Japan in both popularity and participation, only loosing to baseball. Heck, the national league of Japan (J-LEAGUE) is the biggest and the most successful soccer league in whole Asia. And Japan is the country who [...]

For all the bogans of this site, including Artefact, who thinks that this happen only in China check the Kitty Genovese case on Google and look how americans can be even worse than chinese.

Not always. NoitaminA animes for example are much more focused on TV ratings than disc sales, the producer already said that and you post it here too. If they sell something, great, but that its not the main target. Disc sales are models of niche marketed animes ”only” (in parentheses because as you said, 80% [...]

Usually animes that the ”Type A” of fans likes are not focused so much on DVD and BD sales, these usually are the source of income only for those niche marketed shows (moe and yaoi for example). Instead of that they are more focused in the mainstream, that don’t buy much anime on DVD (except [...]

Wait, that’s kinda wrong Artefact, it must be only otaku moe-oriented shows so, according to the DVDs (not BDs) ranking of Oricon and MAL this lists miss titles like Durarara!!, Hetalia and Hakuoki, all of them selled more than titles like Hidamari Sketch for example. But this shows are focused more on the yaoi fandom, [...]

Yutaka Yamamoto, same director of Kannagi, Suzumiya Haruhi 2006 (together with Tatsuya Ishihara) and producer of the Black Rock Shooter OVA.

Fractale it’s the new anime of Fuji’s TV noitaminA time slot.

You already post some things about him:
http://www.sankakucomplex.com/2010/07/29/yamakan-ridicules-k-on-pulls-head-off-ui/
http://www.sankakucomplex.com/2009/07/20/yamakan-sorry-for-endless-eight-it-was-inexcusable/
http://www.sankakucomplex.com/2010/07/30/k-on-otaku-threaten-to-behead-yamakan/