Mainichi Anime Yume
Unlike the previous No Longer Human and the upcoming Kokoro, I have not read the original novel of Ango Sakaguchi’s In the Forest, Under the Cherry Blossoms in Full Bloom (Sakura no Mori no Mankai no Shita). After the dramatic, psychological-intense No Longer Human, Aoi Bungaku switches to this more horrifying though slightly comedic story…
This is a followup of my previous post, “Anime – a product of commercialism or art?“…
As much as anime fans love praising their favorite series for artistic values, many will still acknowledge that anime is, in the end, a commercial product that is precisely tailored to what fans want, and whose main goal is to increase ratings and merchandise sales…
Scans (and a mini-review) of the 2010 Kemono no Souja Erin calendar that I recently purchased…
A Kannagi desktop clock, calendar, icons, o-mamori charm, and a chibi Nagi running around my screen…
For want of a better post to write today, here are some cute, funny, and/or disturbing Japan videos that I’ve come across on YouTube over the years…
We’ve finally reached the last installment of my 100 favorite character countdown that I started almost a month ago. After a lot of second guessing, image/video searching, and brain-wracking, it’s finally done. I had a lot of fun with these posts despite them being a bit repetitive at times. Anyway, onto the characters of this series that you’re probably most interested in – my top 10 favorites…
From what I’ve observed in the many anime titles I’ve watched over the years, the concept of love, especially compared to most Western TV shows and movies, is much more ambiguous, and sometimes downright strange…
Continuing the countdown of my 100 favorite anime characters, here are characters 20 to 11. Almost at the end…
Anime Halloween pictures are harder to come by than Christmas ones, but here are some I’ve come across over the years…
