Good Bands of Anime
Japanese animation has its share of famous composers. You have Joe Hisaishi’s myriad contributions to the films of Studio Ghibli, from Castle in the Sky to Princess Mononoke and Spirited […]
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Day Thirteen: A Tiny Glimpse of the Scars You Bear
2016 has been a rough year. Britain voted to leave the EU, cities around the world were hit by terrorist attacks, major news publications wrote puff pieces about white nationalists, […]
Day Six: Everything is Terrible in Mob Psycho 100
Most high school stories in anime go something like this: the protagonist transfers into a new school that is presided over by an all-powerful student council. There he joins a […]
Day One: A Shadow of Eagles Across the Moon
Welcome to the 12 Days of Anime! Here we pay homage to our favorite moments of 2016, our favorite shows of 2016, our favorite animators of 2016, and anything else […]
Day Four: Present Day, Present Duel HAHAHAHAHA
You might not know this, but before my family moved back to the United States I spent eight years (from first to eighth grade) in the Philippines. This affected my […]
Day Two: Where We Talk about Gatchaman Crowds and You Know Who
Gatchaman Crowds has always lived on the bleeding edge of modern debate. The first season featured a showdown between a supremely empathetic high school student and a malevolent alien […]
Playing to the CROWDS: Gatchaman Crowds and “insight”
Gatchaman Crowds was one of my favorite anime series of 2013: a forward-looking superhero story that combined social media, the ethics of heroism and a call for greater empathy into a […]
The Optimism of Shirobako
Shirobako occupies a liminal state between reality and fantasy. Here’s a show that purports to tell How Things Are in the anime industry, that makes accessible information that up to this point has […]
The Comeback Kid; Introducing Tomorrow’s Joe
This is how the legend begins: a man wearing a grey coat, his red hat shading his face. Behind him stands the Tokyo Tower, in front the seemingly infinite slums […]
The Bear Necessities: Yurikuma Arashi Episode 3 Roundtable
[Two bears sit in a courtroom. The third bear is nowhere to be seen. In the meantime, they watch some anime on a projector screen hanging from the ceiling.] Bear […]
