The visual eccentricity of Mob Psycho 100
The new Mob Psycho 100 II trailer was released last week and I’m pumped! I admire its story but what’s really pushing me over the edge is the animat...
Author: bateszi
Surviving as an anime fan
It’s easy at first. You just need to watch anime. That’s all it takes. For a few years, that’s all I did. I finished one anime and moved to th...
When it’s easier to pay than to pirate
Earlier this week, Netflix announced that it will begin streaming Neon Genesis Evangelion in April 2019. The 1995 Evangelion TV series is not only one of the mo...
Winning & losing, running & writing – Run with the Wind
If the end goal is to win, how easy is it to enjoy doing a thing? Be it playing table tennis, running in a marathon or just writing for your blog, we do things ...
Exciting new anime coming out in 2019
In the afterglow of last week’s Fruits Basket anime announcement, it dawned on me that 2019 is going to be a particularly exciting year for anime. Enthuse...
Existential sci-fi manga! Identity & control in Toward the Terra
Set in the infinite blackness of space, where single lives are like grains of sand thrown to the wind, Keiko Takemiya's Toward the Terra unfolds.
There’s just no escaping anime, is there? (Autumn 2018 impressions)
It’s Autumn in the UK now. It’s cold and wet outside, the nights are drawing in and there’s the first inkling of frost in the mornings. Don...
The balloon scene in Made in Abyss
A message in a bottle cast into a bottomless ocean.
Rediscovering Shonen Jump anime
Watching anime, I go through peaks and troughs. The start of the year was a peak, but throughout February, I’ve been in a bit of a trough trying to find somethi...
Great romantic fools: The Night Is Short, Walk on Girl
In 2017, Masaaki Yuasa directed The Night Is Short, Walk on Girl, which is a film set in the same fictional universe as his 2010 series The Tatami Galaxy. I rea...