Wisdom from Anime: Isekai Izakaya Edition
Well, that explains a lot!
Frankenstein Family 3 & 4 (and I come out of the closet about my job)
The next two episodes of Frankenstein Family are out, and they’ve kicked my opinion of this show up a notch. Here’s why: First, the tension/plot development. At the outset of Continue Reading
The Incredible Journey, with Bugs—IN SPACE!
One show I haven’t seen discussed at all this season is Journey Home (or, if you go with a more literal translation from the Japanese, “Space bugs”). Could be a number of Continue Reading
First Impression Haiku!—Frankenstein Family
Parents arrested Children must survive alone Spider legs are hot The new anime adaptation of the Creatures Family Days manga is part Japanese and part Taiwanese. Whether or not the partially Continue Reading
Master of Ragnarok and the Blessing of History
More than once recently, I’ve heard the term “medieval” thrown around with respect to anime like The Master of Ragnarok & Blesser of Einherjar. In point of fact, there’s little Continue Reading
A Jaunt Instead of a Saunter
Hi, folks! So normally I’d do a Saunter through Weekly Shonen Jump today. However, last week WSJ was on hiatus and this week there aren’t any Jump Starts. So instead Continue Reading
Cultivating a Robust Twitter Community
Someone asked me how to get a robust Twitter following. Here’s my three principles thereunto.
With Apologies to Rogers and Hammerstein
(to the tune of “My Favorite Things” from The Sound of Music; best enjoyed by imagining Julie Andrews singing it while dancing around in her nightgown… what?) Naruto x Sakura would Continue Reading
Cho-Cho Filler
I guess it had to happen eventually. The first true filler arc of Boruto just wrapped up: a three-episode exercise in pointlessness that tries to do little and succeeds in even Continue Reading