This isn't how I imagined it; Hanasaku Iroha
Teenage girls are a tricky thing to do well in anime. Anime about (and often aimed at) teenage girls is a continually saturated market, making it hard to improv...
Tag: slice of life
Where Everybody Knows Your Name
The older I get, the more I start to wonder if the messages in anime are still relevant to my life. I’ve even started getting self conscious about what I watc...
The secret life of the otaku
As I grow up, I don't want to lose the things that were important to me as a kid. But I also want to address my shortcomings, have relationships, get a job, an...
“Next time, let me see a Matsuri Special.”
Something about the transience of adolescence never fails to inspire. More often than not we wake up, 20, fully grown, and confused as to how we got there. For ...
People with cold hands have warm hearts (Air Doll review)
Two years is a long time. Just two years ago, I’d seen very few Japanese live-action films, only to eventually realise that my interest in anime was linke...
Bitter sweet school days; All About Lily Chou-Chou
Back in June, I reviewed a Japanese live action film called Linda Linda Linda. It was a great movie, so great, in fact, that it encouraged me to dig deeply into...
Linda Linda Linda; slice of life done good
While I’m fairly confident that I’ve built up some decent knowledge of anime over the past few years, I can’t say the same for Japanese live a...
Don't cry… it was Only Yesterday
In a very profound way, our memories define who we are; their sudden recollection can be empowering or haunting, yet we can’t control what we remember or ...
"If I told you that I came from the future, would you laugh?" Review of The Girl Who Leapt Through Time
If a good movie is hard to come by, surely a good anime movie is like one in a million; what a relief then, because for now, my long search is over – The ...
Hataraki Man – Entering the hard boiled wonderland
While the spring season blossoms with new anime, I’m still frozen in winter wonderland with Hataraki Man. This is another show that, for whatever superfic...