I’ve never been quite so perplexed by my own need to project meaning onto what I’m seeing. Read more
Series Reviews
Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Gou – 24 (Season Finale)
At the risk of sounding a little pretentious, I think Satoko’s new arc can be seen as a kind of Buddhist parable. Read more
Hyouge Mono – 39 (End) and Series Review
3,625 days. 87,000 hours. 5,220,000 minutes. Two moves to Japan. That’s how much time has passed since I started blogging Hyouge Mono. Read more
Noblesse – 13 (End) and Series Review
Noblesse kind of limped across the line if we’re being honest. Read more
Golden Kamuy 3rd Season – 12 (End) and Series Review
Golden Kamuy 3rd Season managed the elusive double of being both an entirely satisfying self-contained story and a fantastic tease for the rest of the series. Read more
Tonikaku Cawaii – 12 (End) and Series Review
The euphoria of being close to someone you’re in love with is a feeling quite unlike anything else in the human condition, and rarely do you see it captured as beautifully as it is in Tonikaku Cawaii. Read more
Major 2nd Season 2 – 25 (End) and Series Review
That Mitsuda Takuya has managed to keep Major fresh and vital after almost 100 volumes of manga is a great achievement. Read more
Great Pretender – 22-23 (End) and Series Review
This final arc made me think that there really should be a caper flick version of Ronald Knox’ 10 Commandments. Read more
Seirei no Moribito – 26 (End) and Series Reflections
In every sense of the word, this has been a labor of love for me. Read more