A few months ago, I met up with a friend and noticed that she was wearing a Demon Slayer hoodie. A really nice one. I didn’t make her strip in the middle of the street so I could check out the tag, but I bet it was an officially licenced product. A nice heather gray…
Let me tell you what lead to this post. The short of it is: Platinum End! Actually, I am currently watching the second cour of the show and I think I’m one of the very few people that hasn’t already dropped it. It got me thinking: what happened with Platinum End? Why is it so…
I’m writing this in late December so we’re just starting to get all those BEST and WORST anime of the year posts, videos and threads going around. Just the other days on Twitter, I saw that only WORST anime was trending which sort of shows you how negative 2021 has been for some people. And…
Every year I write a post that goes over my blog searches for the year. That is the searches that have led people to finding my blog as far as I can tell. It’s usually a funny little post that leaves me amused and baffled. If you are interested, you can find the past years…
Those of you who were around before 2020… 2020d all over us, might remember me mentioning that I take public transit to work and it’s where I do most of my writing. A long time ago I decided to stop taking my car to work for several reasons and started taking the bus instead. Unfortunately,…
I had a very difficult time coming up with a title for this post. Let me start off by saying I don’t think anime fans are murderers. So I click baited you. Sorry about that. But I am going to talk to you about the fact that I heard someone imply that anime fans are…
I do this post on my blog every year. For those who are reading it for the first time, even though I watched these in 2021, the series may have come out years ago. I do have a few classics this year. There are a few posts I enjoy writing over and over again and…
I like comedies. I’m just a person who likes to laugh a lot. That’s why it’s always a bit hurtful to see people disparaging the genre. So today I’m going to defend comedies. Despite it being one of the most popular genres, arguable and arch-genre, that has no need to be defended. I feel useful!
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Some of you may have picked up on the fact that I’m not much of a romantic. It’s not that I have anything against lurve really but I am just generally bored by romantic storylines and find most of what passes for epic love stories to be frankly very unromantic…. I mean people still think…
I originally wrote this for 100 word anime Anime bloggers, as people who watch and talk about anime a lot we naturally have a tendency to compare series to each other. I see it all the time, especially in comments or Twitter. But is there any point to it? Considering all the variables in an…
Hello again one and all. Some of you faithful readers may already know this, but I don’t really follow the three-episode rule. You know, that informal rule that some anime fans have to give any new series three episodes before passing judgement on it. It’s not a bad idea, I totally get where it comes…
When you’ve had a blog for a while, you’ll eventually start to get some business offers. Requests for sponsored posts, press releases or offers for paid guest posts. Sometimes they pay you. Hmmm…. As some of you may know, I do accept guests posts. Generally, I let other bloggers who are interested in using my…
From time to time I will review a series and mention something like the characters are very inconsistent or the themes contradict themselves. Basically pointing out a hitch in the subtext or how the narrative was structured. Often these aren’t enough to destroy a viewer’s enjoyment of the series but it’s something I noticed. And…
If you’re new here or to anime in general and you don’t know what OPs and EDs are, don’t worry about it. I didn’t either before I started this blog. Although I should have figured it out. It’s the opening and ending sequences of episodes. Now a lot of people care about these already. Mostly…