Last year I was too busy not watching anime to commemorate The END DAY. This year I’m writing a double post to make up for it. Nodame Cantabile: Paris-hen The first season of Nodame Cantabile (++) told an excellent story. More importantly for the purposes of this post, it told a complete story. There was […]

“Anna and the Snow Queen”, the most uninspired Japanese title since “Wanda and the Colossus“ I first watched Frozen in a cheap theater pretty late into its U.S. release. With the hype seeming to dissipate and the movie being fairly average (+), I felt no need to review it. Then I got on the plane […]

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Stand-up comedy is hard. Stand-up comedy in front of literally six people in Milwaukee is downright sadistic. But hey, props to Anime Milwaukee for at least giving me a shot. Now that I have a badass highlight mixtape to send around, it’s only a matter of time before Otakon comes calling.

Kuroko’s Basketball – 0:07 Shingeki no Kyojin – 0:37 Laputa: Castle in the Sky – 1:33 Death Billiards – 1:55 JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure – 2:24 Berserk Movies II & III – 3:09 Robotics;Notes – 3:43 Chihayafuru 2 – 4:47 Hunter x Hunter – 5:28 Moyashimon Returns – 5:53 Extras – 6:37 Just like two years […]

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 […]

One of my earliest posts criticized the Black Cat anime for cramming too much material in to too few episodes, as exemplified by its superficial development of Flora-chan, a dinosaur brought to life by advanced cloning techniques. I finally got around to reading Black Cat in its original form of matter. As expected, it was […]

Although I’ve never cared about anime seasons, I do occasionally get bored enough to take quick glance at season preview charts. A few years ago, a peculiar title in the top right caught my eye. Halted? Whatever for? I dug around to find this anime, but all I could find was the J-Drama. No sale. […]