I love slice-of-life comedies. Everyone loves slice-of-life comedies. Sure, I appreciate a good plot once in a while, and creative jokes are also a plus, but after a long day of work, I just want something simple and soothing to help me relax. As such, I’ve decided to fashion my new webcomic in the hallowed [...]

I once complained that Candy Boy had a misleading title. The upside, which I failed to appreciate at the time, is that it was the good kind of misleading: the kind that surprised you with lesbians. Yuru Yuri’s deception isn’t so generous. It has yuri in the title, another word that’s 3/4 yuri, and a [...]

I’d failed in my three prior attempts to put up with Luffy’s carefree idiot schtick as he lucked his way through needlessly close battles against weak opponents. Since then, like an indefatigable shonen hero, I’ve once again leveled up my ability to tolerate shitty anime, this time by quitting anime for a year. With my [...]

I didn’t think I’d have to write a post about this show. Then again, I didn’t expect Polar Bear’s Café to be getting such a massive free pass even by the standards of itiswhatitisism. As with so many “slice-of-life” anime that’ve come out over the past half-decade, the jokes suck. Sometimes it’s due to poor [...]

Shameless indeed. I tried playing nice. The next thing I knew, Inushinde took the crappiest of the crappy sketches, published them a week ahead of schedule, and, worst of all, preempted the post I was going to write parodying Fate/Zero episode 11. No more Mr. Nice Raptor. Image dump. Then swift death to evil. Inushinde [...]

Higurashi can make as many filler episodes as it wants. Lazy premises, cheesy jokes, plot holes, rampant pedophilia—who cares? I will watch every one, buy all the merchandise, and then burn it when I find out the seiyuu aren’t virgins. Only Higurashi can get away with an opening theme called Happy! Lucky! Dochy! The Higurashi [...]

You know what hurts people more than telling them their favorite show sucks? Telling them their favorite show is simply ok. They react as if I threw their kittens in a wood chipper. Perhaps I’m being insensitive since it’s morally impossible for someone of my refined taste and unbridled honesty to praise mediocrity. But isn’t [...]

I’d been looking for a way to hook up my mp3 player to my car radio ever since I found out that listening to headphones while driving is relatively illegal. At first I tried an FM transmitter, which worked great the 10% of the time it didn’t produce a static-garbled mess. Then I came across [...]

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VS. Round 1: Japanese Title Jellyfish Princess: Kuragehime (5 syllables, all one word) Squid Girl: Shinryaku! Ika Musume (8-9 syllables, three words, questionable punctuation) Advantage: Jellyfish Princess Round 2: Not Improperly Called Slice-of-Life Jellyfish Princess: Animesuki 2010 Choice Awards Squid Girl: Anime News Network Advantage: Draw Round 3: Tentacle Rape Jellyfish Princess: Only date rape [...]

Back in the early days of my site, I wrote a post defending Kaavya Viswanathan during her plagiariasm scandal. In a nutshell, I argued that her book sucked so much that it couldn’t have been plagiarized. Well, it’s time to come clean with a little ethical scandal of my own: I hadn’t read the book—until [...]

I’ve walked by Italian Village Pizza so many times and yet never tried it.  Is it really that orgasmically good? – Kabitzin Res ipsa loquitur, bitch Kabitzin’s poor taste isn’t limited to pizza. What was he thinking when he named his blog? Sea slugs are lame. They lack mantle cavities, and their eyes are able [...]

Current Status: Better in some ways, worse in others. This may take a while…

Remember how Kure-nai couldn’t stop fucking around? Shockingly, in the greatest redemption story mankind has ever witnessed, the author of Kure-nai bounced back and wrote Denpa teki na Kanojo. This time he didn’t fuck around one bit. Just look at the cover. There’s rain…a girl with an umbrella…doesn’t look like anything special…and then— OH SHIT, [...]

(This is a remake of Robots Don’t Have Feelings)

2.5 years in existence 135 days since selling out (2/29/08, so I won’t have to celebrate it next year) 0 pre-sellout page rank 1 post-sellout page rank (still 0 by my original page rank checker) 40,000 pre-sellout hits 20,000 post-sellout hits 64 pre-sellout e-mails 63 post-sellout mail-mails 0 pre-sellout comments 1,000 post-sellout comments 258 spam [...]

Last year I listed four New Year’s Resolutions on this site. Let’s see how they’re progressing: 1. Play More Video Games Goal: Beat Kingdom Hearts II and Final Fantasy XII Status: Beat Kingdom Hearts II in early March, currently about halfway through FFXII Progress: 75% 2. Make More References to Heretofore Underrepresented Anime Progress: -20% [...]