They grow up so fast, don’t they? There may in fact be another significance to the name of this series and the titular gang at the heart of it, and while I certainly was suspicious of the significance of a a certain vehicle that’s cropped up as a motif a […] Read more
Rita was the first patron to commission a work, so Rita – here’s your haiku. Thanks again for your support. Rita requested any sports anime/manga as the theme, so I went global… “It’s All About the Pairings” Sports fans do exist, But if it’s sales you want Aim for fujoshi Read more
Never let it be said that I’m not responsive to my readers. Update: MYPIC Japan is one of those companies I talked about a few weeks ago that have approached me to advertise on the site. I like what they do, and it’s relevant – they have a group of […] Read more
All work and no play makes L-Elf a dull boy. As we get closer to the end of this series one truth is certainly emerging – Valvrave is suffering. It doesn’t seem that any of the good guys are immune to it – dying, losing parents, being raped by friends […] Read more
This one went exactly as I expected, top to bottom. Here’s the results of the Doctor Who 50th Anniversary poll. I figured that enough people only know the post-2005 reboot that the new Doctors would win, and that Tom Baker would emerge victorious among the oldies. For the record, here’s my […] Read more
This isn’t the show I expected to fly under the radar, but it’s funny how things work out. Nagi no Asukara had a fair amount of hype going into this season, but as the weeks have progressed it’s fallen behind other Thursday shows to the point where not many people […] Read more
To sum up my feelings about Samumenco, I can do no better than the words of Crazy-Eyez Killa. OK, so if that was bad coke or some kind of dream sequence happening at the end of last week’s episode, this week gave no indication of it. If anything the weirdness […] Read more
Thursdays this season are one big challenge for me to put my money where my mouth is. A couple podcasts back the Random Curiosity gang and I played a round-table game I’d suggested, about what the one element was that tied all our favorite series together. It was an interesting […] Read more
It seems almost unfair to have two anime episodes this good airing on back-to-back days. For sheer brilliance, there are really only two anime series on the schedule right now, this one and Hunter X Hunter. There are other shows I like an awful lot, maybe even love, but as […] Read more
It’s at the point now where I notice every anniversary in Japan. I went to a couple of Tori no Ichi festivals last November, soon after I arrived in Japan, and did a post on it then. But I decided to check out the big one this year, in Asakusa’s […] Read more