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...
Tag: shonen jump
Childhood's end: Naruto and Pain
To compare Naruto now to the naive kid he was when this series began tells us of how much he's grown since. He's now the person he always dreamed of becoming, a...
Naruto & child soldiers / The thrilling tragedy of Kakashi Gaiden
Does Masashi Kishimoto think about how children are depicted in Naruto? Ninja are tools of war, after all, and Konoha trains its children to become ninja; isn’t...
Naruto Shippuuden episode 82 is a masterpiece
After all these years, I still love watching Naruto. I’ll place it on hiatus every now and then, but it still is, and always will be, one of my biggest fa...
One Piece and why a man is only as good as his word
Brook: “He may think that we’ve betrayed him, but if he’s waiting even now, how miserable must he be? […] I can’t help but think t...
Soul Eater 11
If you mess with Tsubaki's stage… I'll kill you!
Naruto Shippuuden: The return of Orochimaru, stuff happens
There is perhaps no anime I want to love more than Naruto. I've been following this story since 2003 and even if it drags on for another decade, I'll still be c...
Naruto Shippuuden rises from the ashes! A dramatic return to form!
I relapsed like a hungry junkie and gobbled up the last dozen episodes of Shippuuden… Why does it feel so wrong, yet taste so good? My name is bateszi and...
Is it the Franky or the beans? One Piece 321
It sounds superficial, but something as stupid as a smile goes a long way; after a tiring week, it’s just a lot easier to relax in front of anime thatR...
Demonic rumbles as claymores get squished in episode 21
I’m really digging Claymore at the moment and each episode is ending on the kind of gut-wrenching cliff hanger that so tempts me to gorge on manga spoiler...