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Category Archives: Anime
Farewell Satoshi Kon
It’s difficult to express the disappointment I felt when I learnt of Satoshi Kon‘s passing last week. Since then, many heart-felt tributes have been published and half-way through writing this, I started wondering whether it was worth posting at all. … Continue reading
Posted in Anime, Editorials, Reviews
Tagged drama, dreams, magnetic rose, millennium actress, Movies, paprika, perfect blue, psychological, rest in peace, satoshi kon, tokyo godfathers
4 Comments
Can you make a giant killing happen inside of you?
This is a show about football (out of respect to Bateszi I’ll avoid using the word soccer…). The featured team, East Tokyo United (ETU), is dysfunctional. ETU’s fans are running away, the team keeps losing managers and players and worst … Continue reading
The town where nothing ever happens: FLCL & I
Frankly, I lack the words to talk about Satoshi Kon’s passing; there are others who have said and will say things more eloquently. Instead, I offer you a diversion: FLCL. I meant to write this post a while back, but … Continue reading
Posted in Anime, Reviews
Tagged FLCL, Fooly Cooly, Furi Kuri, gainax, Kazuya Tsurumaki, nostalgia
15 Comments
This is the Naruto I remember
There were times when I considered dropping Naruto.
Posted in Anime, Reviews
Tagged action, drama, masashi kishimoto, Naruto, naruto shippuuden, sasuke, shippuuden
18 Comments
One Piece, or when the anime is better than the manga
Before I start, a preamble: One Piece is a great anime. Ever since our little agreement a month back I’ve been tackling the series, from 229 onwards at a pace of about 3 or so episodes a day. Unlike the … Continue reading
Posted in Anime, Reviews
Tagged awesome, chopper, Eiichiro Oda, happy, One Piece, shounen jump
14 Comments
Opinions on current anime
Although the vast majority of my recent scribblings concern mostly older series, I am (and have been) keeping up with some newer anime, too. Densetsu no Yuusha no Densetsu is a name that suggests parody, but this new fantasy series … Continue reading
Posted in Anime, Reviews
Tagged Densetsu no Yuusha no Densetsu, Giant Killing, noitamina, rainbow, shiki, The Legend of the Legendary Heroes
15 Comments
You’re gonna carry that weight
What is the ending of Cowboy Bebop trying to say? It feels like such a waste. Spike doesn’t have face Vicious, he could just stay with Faye and Jet, leave Mars and fly away, but he doesn’t.
Posted in Anime, Reviews
Tagged cowboy bebop, drama, introspection, science fiction, Shinichiro Watanabe
30 Comments
The candy-colored afterlife
Occult Academy, you’ve made a fan out of me.
Posted in Anime
Tagged anime no chikara, beautiful, colorful, Mamoru Hosoda, occult academy, surreal, tomohiko ito
9 Comments
The future of “anime” is bright
Let’s take this Dai Sato discussion for another spin, shall we? The above image is from the film My Beautiful Girl Mari. It was released in 2001, and is being distributed in the US by ADV films. Moreover, you can … Continue reading
Posted in Anime, Editorials
Tagged avatar, dai sato, future of anime, micheal arias, my beautiful girl mari, Tekkonkinkreet
36 Comments
The future of anime (is bleak?)
Will the people inspired to create the anime of tomorrow want to create another K-ON? Or another Cowboy Bebop? Continue reading
Posted in Anime, Editorials
Tagged dai sato, Ergo Proxy, Eureka Seven, future of anime, industry
22 Comments
Naruto & child soldiers / The thrilling tragedy of Kakashi Gaiden
Does Masashi Kishimoto think about how children are depicted in Naruto? Ninja are tools of war, after all, and Konoha trains its children to become ninja; isn’t that wrong? On a base, moral level? Of course, Naruto is intended as … Continue reading
Posted in Anime, Reviews
Tagged action, kakashi, masashi kishimoto, Naruto, shonen jump, war
13 Comments
Low-brow good times [Occult Academy first impressions]
If there’s one thing I’ve learned about anime over the past year, it’s that these Anime no Chikara projects start out strong, only to have me lose interest after four episodes. When faced with the latest offering in the project, … Continue reading
Posted in Anime, Reviews
Tagged anime no chikara, comedy, magic, occult academy, science fiction, summer 2010
8 Comments
Get back to watching One Piece
One Piece. Oh, man. Where do I start.
Play it safe. Stay inside. Watch anime.
After tackling time travel in The Girl Who Leapt Through Time, Mamoru Hosoda returns in Summer Wars to the more provincial and realistic world of the Internet. Luckily the Internet here is not the boring, text heavy internet of our time, but … Continue reading
Posted in Anime, Editorials
Tagged digimon, digital world, Mamoru Hosoda, Summer Wars, The Girl Who Leapt Through Time
2 Comments
In which I contemplate One Piece (and nothing less than the meaning of life)
One Piece begins with the execution of the Pirate King, Gol D. Roger. His death was intended to symbolize the power of the World Government, but had the opposite effect instead, conceiving the Golden Age of Pirates! One Piece is … Continue reading
Posted in Anime, Editorials
Tagged ambitions, dreams, friendship, One Piece, philosophical
7 Comments
The curious case of Kannagi
Watching anime for a long time (I’m talking years, really,) one can fall into certain patterns of viewing. I’ve grown accustomed to knowing what I like, and what I don’t, and picking the anime I watch according to my own … Continue reading
Posted in Anime, Reviews
Tagged comedy, harem, Kannagi, magical, moe, romance, Yutaka Yamamoto
14 Comments
Why didn’t you shoot? I meant to. – Jin-Roh: The Wolf Brigade
The thing is like a wolf. The thing is a wolf. Thus, it is a thing to be banished. I’ve been an anime fan for a long time. At 22, the portion of my life in which I’ve been a … Continue reading
Posted in Anime, Reviews
Tagged action, atmospheric, dark, ghost in the shell, Jin-Roh: The Wolf Brigade, little red riding hood, mamoru oshii, rewatching, riot, seinen
18 Comments
Horrible fun / Exhuming Ga-Rei -Zero-
If just because there’s something exciting about proving yourself wrong every now and then, I’m trying to watch a bunch of recent series that I’ve snubbed or otherwise ignored in past. This all started when, on a whim, I began … Continue reading