After many requests from Marquis, who should honestly get all credit for this blog still being functional or thought about at all, I have updated everything and made this part of AR usable again. I will try to make it look a little prettier and get stuff sorted better in the near future. It only took 5 years… sorry y’all. Thanks for reading if you’re still here! 🙂
Knights of Sidonia: Battle for Planet Nine People say I am prone to hyperbole. That I tend to get more angry or enthusiastic about certain things more than others. And you know what? They’re probably right. I do to get a little carried with myself, not so much occasionally but frequently, but let me tell you something. What I’m about to say, I stand by completely, and you can take it to the bank with you… Knights of Sidonia is,…
Blood Blockade Battlefront I really didn’t know what to expect going into BBB. I’m a huge fan of original creator Yasuhiro Nightow’s previous work, Trigun, both the manga and it’s anime adaption, so although I wasn’t aware he made another manga after it until I looked it up after this anime was announced, I was hoping it would be a similarly entertaining series. Bones is a studio that tends to make well-produced, well-animated series, and I consider a lot of…
Preface Thank you for purchasing a copy of my latest academic text, Who Is Imouto? – A Critical Analysis. This is an expanded and refined version of my college dissertation, Imouto: The Who, What, When, Where, Why, And How. As you are probably well aware, I graduated with high honors from the University of Texas of the Permian Basin, and am a verified expert in the field of Imoutology. This thesis is the product of more than a year’s hard…
Absolute Duo New year, new season, new clusterfuck! Will we see any real improvement over last year’s fresh supply of flaming crap? Sadly no, as Absolute Duo feels like a sloppy seconds of all that went wrong in 2014. Magic school? CHECK. Weird girls from made-up European countries? CHECK. Yoshitsugu Matsuoka? CHEEEEEEECK. Well I sure picked a winner?!? DOUBLE CHECK AND MATE SUCKAH! In Jolly Old England (at least I think it is, Big Ben makes an appearance in the…
I’ve always been a big fan of Lupin III. It’s not high art by any means, but the fun characters, cool artwork, great music, and thrilling (if often predictable) capers are simply too alluring for me to resist. It’s a nice mega-franchise, and with so many episodes and films to choose from, one that usually offers just what I need when I want to turn my brain off and enjoy some decidedly old school animation. Much like the five other…
Girl Friend Beta This anime is literally just cute girls doing cute things, even more so than past efforts such as K-On!. While previous works in the same vein at least attempted to employ other aspects such as humor to keep the viewer’s attention, this is not so in Girl Friend Beta. This episode is 24 and a half minutes’ worth of moe schoolgirls either attempting to talk to each other without falling over or adorably doing things that vaguely…
Ai Tenchi Muyo! Oh how the mighty have fallen… Believe it or not, this is the first honest to god 100% legitimate Tenchi Muyo series* since 2004, and what do we get? A four minute gag anime that’s apparently also a tourism commercial for some town nobody gives a shit about. So uninteresting is Ai Tenchi Muyo that current US rights holder Funimation passed on it when it came to simulcasting. It only took me 15 seconds to see why….
I tried weekly blogging an anime once. It didn’t end well. I wrote three fairly decent editorials about Kill la Kill. I put a lot of effort into those pieces, and I’m still quite proud of them. But that’s all I had in me; a few critical analyses about other critical analyses, as it were. Substantial arguments against other substantial arguments that fell on deaf ears because our readership was low. I wanted to engage in a discussion about how…
Black Butler: Book of Circus Did you know that Black Butler is a shounen? I always thought it was a yaoi. Hell, the first 30 seconds of the show feature a man wearing high heels, but I guess that must just be something young boys are into these days. Regardless of its demographic or genre, the first episode of Book of Circus fails to impress on any level outside of its background music. While it’s a foregone conclusion that this…