Digging up backlogged gems, like Great Teacher Onizuka
If MyAnimeList has taught me anything, it’s that for every merely-good new anime series airing right now, there are many more excellent but old (and there...
Month: January 2008
Spiralling into insanity, looking at Junji Ito's horror manga Uzumaki
I’ve been reading a lot of manga lately. In the past, I’d go through brief fits of reading the stuff, but it always felt temporary, like a fling whi...
Thoughts on blogging; mass-market episodic anime blogging
Come hell or high water, it's like they have to write about every episode because their readers demand that 'service' in doing so, and don't forget, you have to...
Another step Toward the Terra, circa 1980; old or not, it's still great
Be it 1980 or 2008, To Terra.... is just a wonderful story, a timeless one, even, that I can always watch or read and be completely lost in imagination.
The world is not beautiful, therefore it is; introducing Kino's Journey
I quite like subversive fairy-tales; the suggestion that there is something ugly and unknown shifting beneath a veneer of superficial beauty. This is precisely ...