Essay may be a bit too grand a title. Let’s call these random musings on general anime topics.
- Finding Balance
- I know nothing of Japanese class structure
- Tell Me I’m Good
- A Few Ways Colour is Used in Anime
- The Importance of Relatability in Anime for Me as Seen Through My Appreciations of Sound Euphonium and Free
- Reinserting Fun in my Anime Watching
- Anime Characters that Only Work on Paper
- Are Otaku The Worst?
- I Have An Idea for a Provisional Scanslation Licence
- Anime propaganda Psycho-Pass and Cool Japan
- Guest Post – What Anime Means To Me
- My Fears for AI Art in Anime
- Color Theory and Cinematic Language in Anime
- Gakurans and Delinquents
- Fall 2022 Brought a Weird Mix of Episode Reviews
- Why Do We (I) Hate Certain Anime Characters
- The Problem With Best Anime Lists
- I Drank Good Drinks and Watched Good Anime in 2022
- Anime Fans and Chainsaw Man
- Venting Update – ‘Cmon Steal This!
- So I Played Collar x Malice and I Did Not Like It
- Venting Frustrations
- Guest Post – How To Draw Naruto
- How to Create the Most Popular Anime Character Ever!
- Even Superstitions are Scarier in Japan
- Haunted Houses in Japan
- The spookiest celebration in Japan is O-Bon
- Finally Learning to Moderate My Comments
- Making Anime Buddies
- How Much Do You Need To Know About Anime To Write A Blog About Anime?
- I Did a Poll on English Manga Publishers and This is What I found Out
- Why You Shouldn’t Worry About Anime Becoming Mainstream
- So many words, So little thoughts – Reviewing shows you have nothing to say about
- Why (and how) I Post Every Day
- Existential Drift in Anime
- I’m noticing a new trend in anime ladies, and I like it!
- Will Anime Ever Die?
- When Hobbies Use To Be Hobbies
- Ranty rant rant (about buying manga)
- The History of the Term Fujoshi – A Reclamation Victory
- Learning Japanese : But Not Really!
- Why Aren’t Anime Movies Musicals?
- Localization and the search for the “authentic” anime experience
- How One Piece Remains Trending
- The Fun and Lonely Life of an Outsider Fan
- Treasure Tropes : Kichiku
- The Many Sides of the Monetization Coin
- Madoka Brings Back the Anime Demographic Question
- Manga Influencers and Hoarding Culture
- The “Good” Reasons to Start Your Anime Blog
- Naoki Urasawa is on YouTube and it’s Rocking my World
- 3 Reasons I Read Anime Reviews
- How Do You Choose New Manga to Read
- The Strange Relationship Between Moe and Fujoshi
- Do You Read One Shot Manga?
- Do You Like Fanfiction?
- Loid Forger is not James Bond
- Tools of the Trade
- The Forgotten Charms of the Fandub
- The Power of Tears in Anime
- The Joys and Struggles of Episodic Reviews
- The Secret to my Creativity is…Boredom?
- Guest Post: Infinite Anime and Manga Recommendations Just a Search Away
- Who Wants Anime Perfumes?
- Emergency between seasons post! The Anime Convention I was promised
- The Time a Touching Thing Happened When I was Buying Cosplay Wigs
- Do You Miss Blog Tags?
- The Big Anime Crunch
- An Ode to My Hilarious Hater
- Bad Characters and BAD Characters
- The Red String of Fate
- Otaku Appropriation?
- The Pitfalls of a Prestigeous Anime Pedigree
- What’s The Point of a Worst Anime of the Year?
- My Blog Search Criteria are Bumming me Out
- In Defence of Anime Comedy
- I Had to Drink and Watch Anime to Survive 2021
- New Year’s is for Lovers – My OTP
- I’m dreaming of a Shiro Christmas – The Significance of White in Anime
- Apples to Saiyans – Comparing Anime
- My One Bad Experience with a Guest Poster
- Silly Little Animes Are Also An Art
- Why You Should Pay Attention to EDs and OPs
- I Have An Idea for a Provisional Scanslation Licence
- Why I Keep Watching Bad Anime – A Defensive Diatribe
- In Case You wanted to Dress as a Sexy Catgirl/boy : Do Cat Ears Really Make You Cuter?
- Even Campfire Stories Are Scarier in Japan
- What is Anime and What Does it Matter?
- The Art of Adaptation with CLAMP
- That Brand New Anime Feeling and What I look For in the First 10 Minutes
- How to Convert People to Anime Without Really Trying
- How Japanese Culture Changed the Anime Tomboy
- Happy Fall 2021!!!
- A Question of Semantics
- Western Influence on Anime
- How Otomes Taught Me What Diplomacy Is
- The Flanderization of Catarina Claes
- Aggressively Reading Anime
- The Producer’s Responsability to Make Anime Popular
- The Unique Dystopia of Psycho Pass
