Genre : Slice of Real Life Episodes: 24 Studio: P.A.Works In high school, Aoi and her friends had a dream. A good one. They wanted to be part of a world that brought so much joy to their lives that they were willing to dedicate their futures to spreading that joy around. In Japan anime is more…
No no wait! Don’t unfollow yet!! Hear me out! I know, I know we all hate those uptight people that get their panties in the tightest of bunch at the slightest provocation. I’m not going to say you should love them. I’m not planning on turning this blog into some type of manifesto either. Let’s…
This will come as no surprise to long time readers…. I can’t believe there’s even the possibility of me having long time readers. It sounds so weird… but those of you who are more recent may not know of my weird preoccupation with color in Anime. Since colour palette in animated works is an active choice,…
It’s so cold again…. This winter has been non stop up and down in temperature and as a result the entire world is essentially a skating rink. Everything had been covered in thick slippery ice for months. In other words, the perfect day to stay at home and catch up on some Morose Mononokean. And…
This episode you guys! THIS episode. I was floored. My mind is still not completely able to process it properly. It a very good thing Crow was there to attempt to make some sense out of the pile of gibberish this episode reduced me to. Honestly this has got to be one of our best…
Irina: A straw man can mean a few things. Either it’s a a person regarded as having no substance or integrity, or it could be an intentionally misrepresented proposition that is set up because it is easier to defeat than an opponent’s real argument. Scarecrow was neither if you ask me.
It’s been a weeeeek! I mean WEEK! I’m exhausted. I’m so tired in fact that I had one of those radom kissy dreams with people at work who I am definitely NOT attracted to (…I think…) and it was all very PG but then I felt weird and awkward the next day (being today). I’m…
You know you’ve watched a sufficient but completely non-alarming amount of anime when you start to spot similarities between unrelated characters from completely different series. It’s happened to me a few times lately and for some reason it fills me with glee. What can I say, I lead a life of adventure and excitement! What’s more, in…
Can you all believe it!?! We actually made it to the SECOND I Drink and Watch Anime and Discover New Anime Blogs post! Yeah…I had a whole month and I didn’t come up with a better title. For those of you who are new here, let me catch you up! (It’s the same as last week…
You all know that I’m tragically behind on my tag posts. Embarrassingly so really. I should be working on getting those that have been sitting in my to do file for over a year and I hope to slowly go through them. However, in the past few weeks two wonderful bloggers tagged me to cheer…
-or – Teammates aren’t friends and rivals aren’t enemies You know I keep telling you guys I like sports anime but I’ve very little proof to back it up. I rarely talk about the genre, heck I haven’t even watched that many lately. I’m not even sure why. I just got distracted I guess. But…
In case I’ve been too subtle on the point, I really liked Gurren Lagann. It’s not a particularly kind story though. It gets pretty rough with its cast. Of the survivors, few if any are unscathed. One of the prevalent themes of Gurren Lagann seems to be that a life well led is as rich…
So do you guys think Matt just moved to Japan? I wouldn’t blame him or anything. I’m just curious. Either way, I do hope he and IRL waifu are having the best time and way too busy enjoying themselves to think about us. In the meantime though it’s time for sock puppet Matt to make…
Prophylaxis is a key concept of positional chess. It is a move, or sequence of moves, to deal with an opponent’s plan before it starts. Sometimes one can completely stop the threat; sometimes one just makes the plan relatively harmless. You make me wish I had studied chess instead of learning just enough to get…
Soooooo….remember last week when I waited until last minute to put this post together and had to comb through the posts exhausted in the middle of the night, risking missing half of them, cause I’m not smurt? Yeah I did it again. In my defense though, I went out drinking. OK! – defense made!