Monthly Archives: May 2011

The wonderous parts of the world

It’s been a long time coming, but I’ve finally had a moment to sit down with the Mushishi manga. I say a long time coming because I was the most ardent of fans during the anime’s original airing. The 2006 … Continue reading

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Eaten by giants!!

I started reading Shingeki no Kyojin because ‘giants attacking mankind’s last city’ sounded really cool. Continue reading

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Welcome to the Financial District

The Japanese economy is currently in the middle of a huge transformation.  A generation ago, a Japanese person could finish school and seamlessly transition into a company job.  The job might have grueling hours, but in return it offered lifetime … Continue reading

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Middle-aged men drinking tea

As any right thinking English gentlemen will tell you, tea is what our great British Empire was built upon and, well, most of what I knew about Hyouge Mono before it aired was that it somehow involved tea. Continue reading

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