March is doing great… Things are certainly happening, aren’t they? So many things! We’ve hardly had time to catch our breath! I guess that’s one way to make the audience relate with Fushi! And yet for all that, he’s still not reunited with March. But things are getting closer. March is his mother after all,…
Dima is back with another great post. If you guys remember the wonderful Peach Girl review, you will be thrilled to get one more post from Dima. Also check out: Most recent posts by Dima High-Rise Invasion is a popular Netflix Anime that came out on the 25th of February 2021 and gained a pretty good…
The great Demon Empire has been brought to its knees. The Demon king was slain and his kingdom lay in ruins. Humans can finally rest easy, no longer daunted by the threat of Demon kind, right? Right??? You know what they say, you can’t keep a good demon down…or a bad one. Actually, this mostly…
What a boring title. And this is going to be a bit of a boring post. I’m mostly going to talk about copyright and theoretical licensing rights so you know, feel free to skip this one if you’re already dozing off. But for all you intellectual property nerds out there, let me tell you about…
Osamu and all of team Tamakoma are getting closer to being part of the away team but their hardest challenges are yet to come. The last leg of the rank wars is now underway and Osamu, Yuma, and Chika are going up against seasoned veterans with years of experience and stockpiles of trion. This is…
So lately I’ve been ordering a lot of manga. I’m in the mood to discover my next big manga love story. I’ve also not been reading as much webcomics. At least not family-friendly ones. As such, I figured I would switch my webtoon recommendations for manga first impressions until I build up a nice stock…
Sea urchin cat was the cutest. I want one like that now! And it’s such a quintessential cat thing to do. Ball up until you’re nothing but a big sphere. Even the relatively simple animation of Play it Cool, Guys captured it perfectly!
I’m not going to like the next few episodes of Bungo Stray Dogs. I didn’t particularly llike this one either. Not as in I didn’t think it was a good episode or anything. But things are starting to look rough for the Agency and I don’t think I’m spoiling much by saying it’s going to…
As soon as the girls mentioned entering a Kyoudo competition themselves as a three-person team, I got very excited. Tsurune is a fairly rare Sports anime in that not only are there female characters with talking parts who aren’t managers and/or potential love interests but actual competitors with their own arcs. Nevertheless, the girls’ characterization…
They are really stretching out Fushi and March’s eventual reunion. And I understand why. The inherent tension in the very idea of it is enough to keep me hooked for the next few episodes. I wonder if there’s a reason we haven’t heard March talk yet. We know that she did from the folks that…
I don’t mean this in a deep way. I’m not going to talk about characters that could destroy us all because of the interplay of their morality and intelligence or how layers of trauma and experience can come together to create figurative monsters. I’m not even talking about anime characters with superpowers that could g…
Natsume is a young man who exists in liminality. He’s no longer a child and not an adult yet. He is an orphan but is building a found family. He lives among humans but talks to yokai. Natsume is a young man who walks paths that most of us will never be able to see….
A little while ago I read an article that said that China was trying to ban all Japanese animation. This proved unpopular and not particularly sustainable. Of course, young Chinese kids watch anime legally or not, online, and the effort to police that is substantial. However, the initiative still does exist and to some degree…
Deep in the inner palace, there lives a consort known as the Raven Consort. She holds a special position, and despite her “consort” title, she does not perform night-time duties. Though she lives there, it is said that she can perform mysterious arts and even gain some friends along the way, but she has no…
Once you decide that fan translations are ok, it’s difficult to stop. Yup, The Solitary Castle in the Mirror is another manga that hasn’t quite been officially licensed yet. It’s actually based on a novel that might have an official translation. I’m afraid I didn’t do my homework there. The original title is Kagami no…