Picture yourself like this: You’re a new kid in school. The unwanted misfit of the class. No one there really likes you because you don’t act like anyone else, while your teacher spouts nonsense meaning nothing to your ears. The rest of the world is happy, naive, and wants you to smile no matter what you feel. Meanwhile, the higher-ups you’re trying to impress? They only see you as a never-ending nuisance. A pest trying too hard to impress and…
Hey, folks. Sorry to distract you from this write-up, but if you want to donate to Kyoto Animation and help them in their time of need, you can give money to their GoFundMe created by Sentai Filmworks, or buy cels from KyoAni’s site. Any amount helps. Arifureta: From Commonplace to World’s Strongest This is yet another stupid isekai churned out because that’s the ticket every studio wants to buy. The main character is one more self-insert with a ridiculously chuuni…
Carole & Tuesday I’ve been watching David Simon’s Treme recently, and while I liked it, it’s easy to agree with the consensus that it’s nowhere near as good as The Wire. Because where The Wire was a tense, calculating drama about the neverending War on Drugs, Treme was often too relaxed. There were crimes and life-threatening issues going on, but they were often placed on the backburner while Simon would prefer to focus on New Orleans music. That didn’t mean…
Boogiepop Never Laughs Oh hey. Boogiepop. I recognize that name. Boogiepop Phantom’s one of those shows people have heard of and can sometimes recognize, but few have actually watched. And of course, that applies to me. I watched the first two episodes of the old series recently, and it made no sense. Something about a guy eating bugs and running like a madman. The kind of show that expects you to rewatch several times to get the cues, but doesn’t…
As an Asian-American, Orientalism has been a difficult topic to grapple with. Because the word has been used in many different ways in recent internet discourse, inadvertently resulting in vague explanations. Literature professor Edward Said originally popularized the term to mean representations of Asian and Middle Eastern cultures that presented them as “the other”, something to fetishize or view as more an exotic theme park than its own society. But that leads to the question as to what problems there…
(this article has spoilers) When I found out Mari Okada was going to not only write a movie but direct it, despite having no prior experience animating, I was interested by that on novelty alone. The writer who has almost defined melodrama in this decade of anime sculpting a story from a whole other angle. Even if I’ve found little genuine enjoyment in most of her work, there’s still something worth taking notes on a writer whose developed an obvious…
Another anime season, another light novel adaptation. Here’s to another smorgasbord season of crappy LN titles, now adapted for a visual format! We got your isekais, we got your imoutoshit, we got your fantasy harems, we got your crappy vanilla SAO in case you thought the alternative flavor was too tasty, but perhaps the one that has everyone talking is a fantasy anime based on a little novel called Goblin Slayer. Goblin Slayer, the latest “dark” fantasy light novel to…
La Bizzare Aventura di GioGio Cinco Parte: Vento Aureo Its the Giorno show! Hoooray! The bastard son of Dio Brando/Jonathan Joestar is alive and well and driving cabs in Naples. But most importantly… he tastes like A LIAR! Of course when you’re being tongued by by a man in white Gucci pretty much anything tastes like a liar. In other news, Koichi is back!…because Josuke was obviously too busy beating up delinquents who disssed his haircut, and Yukako still wants…
So I was seeing all the hype for that Crossover Nexus short on Cartoon Network, and saw an interesting amount of fan attention to the titular character from Whatever Happened to Robot Jones pop up. And it was weird, because compared to the other Cartoon Network shows that aired in the early 00s, Robot Jones was like the stepchild. Only airing 13 half-hour episodes before disappearing into the void, as any fans the show could find desperately scrounged through their…
100 Sleeping Princes and The Kingdom of Dreams: The Animation I can only imagine this show came about because some fujoshi at a video game company thought “What if…Kirby but they were all bishies.” Now 20 years ago this would have gotten you an instant pinkslip, but such is Japan’s incresasing degree of depravity that it actually got made. And somewhere along the way that half-assed premise was deemed worthy of a tv adaptation so here we are with this…