I’ll likely be taking this post down in around a week or so, but given that I ended up watching the season premiere of a lot more anime than I have for probably at least the last year, if not longer (although granted, “a lot” for me these days really only means “more than about 5”), I thought I’d get a kind of masterlist up with links and scores for people’s general convenience. Read More
Funny story, I almost passed up on giving this series a look entirely (I don’t even remember why, but possibly simply because there was so little info on it back when the other shows of the winter season were being announced). Sure glad I changed my mind on that one. Read More
While quite possibly the series I was least looking forward to giving a watch, this ended up being surprisingly alright. Read More
Fast and Furious: Okinawa Drift. Read More
Aside from the creepy teacher, this series is actually pretty okay. Read More
So it’s mecha but with backwater villagers dressed as old-west cowboys and the more tech-advanced folk looking like something out of a Chinese-inspired historical-fantasy. Cool cool. Read More
Come for the promise of a decent sports anime, stay for the Fukui-ben. Read More
This would have felt lackluster and cliché had it been released 20 years ago – and what’s more, nothing would have changed between then and now aside from the CG. Read More
I think I would have enjoyed this one a lot more had I not felt like it was trying so hard to be purposefully enigmatic – with the result that I was left more confused and vaguely annoyed than intrigued. Read More
Given the name of this blog, it seems only fitting that I make a post dealing with the word ‘otaku’ – its linguistic roots, the connotations it carries, and why many people today (myself included) feel okay labeling themselves as such, regardless of how the term may have been used in the past. Read More
