Adventures in Anime
Via Steven I came across this posting by BeckoningChasm on his conversion into the otakusphere collective. I kid, of course. I’m not an otaku, and I only use the term because, like BeckoningChasm, I...
View ArticleSerial Experiments Lain
Possibly spoiler-ish musings below. So last night I finished watching Serial Experiments Lain. My reactions are alternately, “Wow.” and “What?” I’m still not sure I understand what happened. If...
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OS-Tan
or, “People Scare Me (especially Japanese people)” I remember seeing this image awhile ago and thinking how crazy someone must be to make something as weird and fetishistic as this. Apparently though,...
View ArticleHaibane Renmei – Impressions
We’re coming up on 2008 and I finally got around to watching this one. I’ve been meaning to watch it for a really long time, but had never gotten around to it. What’s a really long time? I first heard...
View ArticleHaibane Renmei: What are Haibane?
If there’s one question which I felt was central to the anime Haibane Renmei, it was “What are Haibane?” This is also a question that the anime doesn’t seem to answer for us, and has been discussed...
View ArticleThe Trouble with Haibane Renmei
Now that we’ve got Christmas mostly behind us, I figure I may as well mention one of the issues I kept running over in my mind until now. With how much I enjoyed Haibane Renmei when I watched it...
View ArticleFallout
So Shamus recently made a post on, to put it broadly, the direction of the arts industry. The whole thing was apparently sparked off by an ongoing conversation on some other blogs about anime,...
View ArticleBleach
About a month or two ago my TiVo decided to record the television show Bleach off of Cartoon Network. This is a manga/anime that I’ve heard of, but I didn’t know anything about it and the name didn’t...
View ArticleManga Multimedia
Been awhile since I posted anything, so I’m going to pick up from an earlier post I made on Bleach — I didn’t want to totally dismiss the series out of hand having simply watched the anime. After all,...
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