Mizukami Festival: Spirit Circle
Satoshi Mizukami has been having a moment lately! He’s always had a cult following, but his recent work on the Planet With anime shows him at the height of […]
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Dreaming of Cobblestone in Dragon Quest XI
Today we’re going to talk about a scene from early in Dragon Quest XI. Warning, there will be spoilers for this game! There’s a good chance you’ll predict this scene […]
Otakon Memories
“What did you think of Otakon?” My good friend A asked me this as I bit into a pulled pork sandwich half an hour before our blogging meet-up would split […]
Present Lain, Present Time
I finished watching Serial Experiments Lain a few days ago, just before the 20th anniversary of its premiere on July 6th, 1998. Take a moment to think about how much […]
12 Days of Christmas Day 9: This Sure Beats Leveling Up Alone!
When I was in high school, I became obsessed with webcomics. I tore through the archives of Sluggy Freelance, Gunnerkrigg Court and Narbonic. I visited the website of No Rest […]
12 Days of Christmas, Day 12: Pascal’s Children
Hello, and welcome to 12 Days of Anime 2017! Leading up to the holidays, we on this site will be writing (eventually???) twelve pieces about things we thought were cool […]
Just Enough Things: Brief Thoughts About Nier Automata
This piece will spoil all of Nier Automata for you. If you care about those things, I suggest you get at least Ending E before reading it. You’ve been warned! […]
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 […]
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 […]
