Mainichi Anime Yume

“Light” or “dark” anime – do you have a preference?

November 8, 2013 by Yumeka 24 Comments

Most anime fans I know, myself included, enjoy all kinds of anime with a wide range of stories and themes. But there are also plenty of fans who prefer anime on one end of the spectrum or the other; either they prefer “light” anime that never get too sad or disturbing, or they prefer “dark” anime that are raw and gruesome rather than idealistically pleasant. Everyone has their reasons for why they prefer light anime over dark anime or vice versa, and today I want to think about what those reasons could be…

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Pokemon X and Y review

November 1, 2013 by Yumeka 13 Comments

Now that I’ve completed the main storyline on my copy of Pokemon X, as well as explored a number of the post-game quests and new features, it’s time for me to continue my now 7-year tradition of reviewing the main series Pokemon games here on the blog…

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Posted in Pokemon, Video Games
Tagged games, Pokemon

First impressions of the fall ’13 anime I’m watching

October 25, 2013 by Yumeka 18 Comments

I usually get my “first impressions” post up when all the new anime have aired 2-3 episodes, but due to being so busy the past couple of weeks, this one’s a tad late – all these shows have now aired 3-4 episodes XD Better late than never though! So here are my thoughts on the six fall anime I’m watching after 3-4 episodes…

Fan art roundup (and quick announcements)

October 16, 2013 by Yumeka 13 Comments

As much as I want to, I unfortunately don’t have the time or energy for my usual posts this week. I’ve had extra hours at work, I’m in the midst of preparing for a short vacation I’ll be taking with my mom next week, and I’ve been wanting to use the little free time I have to play through my copy of Pokemon X. But I didn’t want to completely neglect the blog this week, so I decided to do something easy – share nice pieces of anime fan art I’ve found on pixiv over the years…

Anime, manga, and video games – can you balance all three?

October 9, 2013 by Yumeka 28 Comments

If you consider yourself an anime fan, chances are you also partake in related hobbies like reading manga or playing video games. Even though I do like the other two, anime is the hobby I spend the majority of my time, money, and energy on, but I’m always impressed by people who manage to more or less equally balance themselves between all three of these big hobbies…

Summer ’13 reviews part 2: Free!, Attack on Titan, Railgun S (plus OreImo finale)

October 2, 2013 by Yumeka 24 Comments

Continuing from last week’s post, here are the rest of my reviews for this season’s anime I completed (also threw in the final three episodes of OreImo since I haven’t discussed them yet)…

Summer ’13 reviews part 1: Watamote, Kami nomi III, Blood Lad, Kiniro Mosaic

September 25, 2013 by Yumeka 19 Comments

The way the one-cour summer ’13 anime and two-cour spring ’13 anime ended/are ending this season, I’ll be able to review all the ones I completed in this post and my post for next week. There’s lots of anime to talk about so let’s get started!…

A concise guide to Weiss Schwarz

September 18, 2013 by Yumeka 15 Comments

Due to lack of time and brainpower for editorial blogging this week, I’m going to post about something I’m always looking to promote – the anime crossover card game I’ve been into for roughly the past year: Weiss Schwarz…

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Posted in Anime Products, Miscellaneous
Tagged games, Weiss Schwarz

When is an anime “too old” for us

September 11, 2013 by Yumeka 48 Comments

For roughly the past decade we’ve been able to watch the same anime at about the same time as fans in Japan, at first only illegally through fansubs, but in recent years, many legal options became available such as official simulcast streaming sites. Now, through legal and illegal means, we have easy access to pretty much every anime ever made, new and old. Despite this, the majority of fans I know, myself included, prefer to watch only new anime – anime that’s currently airing right now in Japan – and might pick up an old series only once in a while. But by “old” series they usually mean a series that aired within the past few years or even months, not something that aired decades ago or even just 10-15 years ago. So when does an anime become “too old” for us?…

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Posted in Editorials and Ramblings
Tagged anime fandom, editorials

The gods and demons of anime

September 4, 2013 by Yumeka 28 Comments

Having Japanese literature as one of my major fields of study in college, there’s a trope I discovered during my studies that’s always fascinated me. Actually, reading a lot of Japanese literature made me aware of it, but anime and manga is where I see tons of examples of it. It’s when an anime has a character that is some kind of immortal being, whether a god, a devil, an angel, etc., but they’re presented as more or less…human.

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Tagged editorials