Author: bateszi

My anime diary: A Place Further than the Universe & Smile Down the Runway

Post author By bateszi
Post date 10th May 2020
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I suppose I’m not the only one turning to the comfort of their anime backlog right now? I don’t feel like I have much patience at the moment and would much rather digest a finished story than be left hanging by one that’s still on-going.

Anyway, I figured I’d watch Smile Down the Runway since it seemed like a series with good reviews that I’d overlooked in the Winter season, whilst A Place Further than the Universe, one of the most beloved anime of the past few years, needs no introduction. Why did I wait so long to watch it? I suppose I needed to be in the right mood, and 2020 is definitely that!

Here’s my brief thoughts.

Tags A Place Further than the Universe, Runway de Waratte, Smile Down the Runway, Sora yori mo Tooi Basho, Winter 2018, Winter 2020, ランウェイで笑って, 宇宙よりも遠い場所

Anime Editorials

Spring 2020 anime season rankings (and thoughts on anime blogging)

Post author By bateszi
Post date 13th April 2020
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3,112 words later, I’m finally finished with my Spring anime season reviews, and what a promising season it’s turned out to be! I ended up reviewing 9 anime over the last few weeks, and I couldn’t say any of them were even average, let alone bad.

Phew!

Given the state of the things in the world right now, with so many of us living in isolation, we need anime now more than ever, and it’s delivering guys.

We all need escapism, to let ourselves go wander in other worlds. Like dreams, anime can help us process reality in abstract ways, to make sense of how we’re feeling at a deeper level than simply watching the news all day and feeling like the world’s collapsing around us. Read, watch, play: give yourself a break, and take care!

Tags Anime blogging, meta-blogging, Spring 2020, status update

Anime Reviews

Listeners episode 1 anime review

Post author By bateszi
Post date 12th April 2020
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Listeners is a welcome return to the imagination of writer Dai Sato. Just like his Eureka Seven, Listeners is an adventure in a desperate post-disaster world, a world set to be remade by the triple threat of music, love and giant robots!

Tags Listeners, Spring 2020, リスナーズ

Anime Reviews

Appare-Ranman! episode 1 anime review

Post author By bateszi
Post date 11th April 2020
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An anime original from P.A. Works, Appare-Ranman! is the story of Appare, a scientific genius cum adventurer from Japan, entering into a larger than life car (some may say, wacky!) race across the US.

Tags Appare-Ranman!, Spring 2020, 天晴爛漫！

Anime Reviews

The Millionaire Detective – Balance: UNLIMITED episode 1 anime review

Post author By bateszi
Post date 10th April 2020
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A fun and satisfying debut that feels in many ways like a throwback to late Nineties anime like The Big O and Cowboy Bebop, albeit with a less masculine and more homoerotic subtext for the Noughties.

Tags Fugou Keiji Balance - UNLIMITED, Spring 2020, The Millionaire Detective Balance: Unlimited, 富豪刑事 Balance:UNLIMITED

Anime Reviews

Kakushigoto episode 1 anime review

Post author By bateszi
Post date 7th April 2020
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The chaotic story of a responsible Dad that’s also a pervy ecchi manga artist.

Tags Kakushigoto, Spring 2020, かくしごと

Anime Reviews

Gleipnir episode 1 anime review

Post author By bateszi
Post date 5th April 2020
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Gleipnir’s first episode pings between being a fascinating psychological thriller and a creepy erotic comedy. It starts weird and only gets weirder.

Tags Gleipnir, Spring 2020, グレイプニル

Anime Reviews

Sing “Yesterday” for Me episode 1 anime review

Post author By bateszi
Post date 5th April 2020
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Sing “Yesterday” for Me is an easy anime to love and, quite frankly, I fell pretty hard for it.

Tags Sing "Yesterday" for Me, Spring 2020, Yesterday wo Utatte, イエスタデイをうたって

Anime Reviews

Wave, Listen to Me! episode 1 anime review

Post author By bateszi
Post date 4th April 2020
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In Wave, Listen to Me!, we’re dragged into Minare’s world: the world of a hungover and bitter adult, looking to regain some momentum in her life and ranting into the void whilst she waits.