A bright shining future
I can’t speak for Japan, but right now in England, young adults are having a hard time. Money seems harder to come by than ever for many who are working a...
Author: bateszi
For good anime
Through preference as much as necessity, the way I’m consuming anime today is different to how I used to, say, 10 years ago. Back then, I relied on downloading ...
Pure Anime
Hey guys. I know, I know. It’s been nearly 2 years. Putting pen to paper hasn’t been easy. I’ve been a bit jaded and distracted, but still, I think about writin...
The older I get the more I realise the less I know
Well, this is weird. This is the first time I’ve sat down to write something for a really long time, too long for a blog that inexplicably still has some ...
The best decoy ever
Is this the era of the sports anime? Without doing the research, it really feels like it, more so than at any other point in recent history, and what’s mo...
Blood tastes like iron
Even when there’s a guy like Masaaki Yuasa handling the adaptation of one of your favourite stories, there’s always a small worry that something won...
Unspeakably beautiful
A belated new year’s resolution for me is to publish more posts this year than last, but rather than try to come up with a bunch of boring editorials, I w...
Anime blogging 2015
Over the last four or five months, I’ve written half a dozen new articles for this blog that haven’t made it through to being published. I don’...
Kill la Kill and (my) great expectations
Kill la Kill defies comparison. It’s from the writer and director duo that brought us the beloved Gurren Lagann and it reads a lot like the classic Revolu...
Rin's labyrinth
“If you were stronger, I don’t know how this would have ended. But I know one thing. That woman would be dead. Those who gain power must pay a price, some...