12 Days of Anime 2018 Day #9: Do You Remember That Promise
For many fans of SSSS Gridman, Akane Shinjou (disaster, nerd, vengeful god) is their favorite character in the series, and the true protagonist. I agree with this: Akane is great! […]
Category Archives: 2018 Twelve Days of Christmas
12 Days of Anime 2018 #8: WHAT’S UP DANGER
Over the past few years, I’ve steadily built up a tolerance for superhero comics. They are hamstrung by their tangled continuity, their narrow focus on appealing to thirty-something hardcore comics […]
12 Days of Christmas #7: Grief, Loneliness and Meditations on a Rainy Day (1)
Ever since I started playing Breath of the Wild last year, it’s been very difficult for me to get into video games. I’ve tried playing a bit of Deltarune, Persona 5, and other games, […]
12 Days of Christmas #6: Deep Diving into SAO
In some ways, I feel like MMO-styled isekai shows have kind of become the new superhero genre of anime for me these days. They’re not as engaging, feel stale, and are […]
12 Days of Anime 2018 #5: Extra Credits
I’ve been watching anime as it airs for several years now. “But wendeego,” you may ask. “Why continue to watch anime seasonally when statistically, most of the stuff that airs […]
12 Days of Christmas #4: reflexion, allegretto, you.
I excitedly attended AX this year in the hopes of watching Naoko Yamada’s new film, Liz and the Blue Bird. While I didn’t get to see it then (the sacrifices […]
12 Days of Anime 2018 #3: NYAH!
READER’S NOTE: This blog post contains some discussion of reading illegal manga scans. Industry folks and comics authors despise those scans, for good reason: artists aren’t compensated when readers solicit […]
12 Days of Anime 2018 #2: Pain Split Evenly
High school was a tough time for me. I moved from the Philippines (where I had a small but tight group of friends) to the United States (where I knew […]
12 Days of Anime 2018 #1: KISS OF DEATH
Hello, and welcome to 12 Days of Anime 2018! Over the next few days we’ll do our best to write 12 posts about our pop culture experiences of this year, […]
