Anime x Lit Crit: Vampires & Valentines—Shiki 6!
Greetings, fellow anilovers! After many long weeks, Moya and I are pleased to bring you the sixth installment of our collab on Shiki! Let’s eavesdrop on the conversation that she and Continue Reading
Weirdest Spam Comment… Ever
So on my recent post on Weekly Shonen Jump, I got the following spam message: Michelangelo e Leonardo non facevano parte dell’ordine sacerdotale, non erano stati “chiamati al servizio sacerdotale Continue Reading
A Saunter Through Weekly Shonen Jump (September 17, 2018)
Yo, anime lovers! Weekly Shonen Jump has a couple of jump starts this week, and you know what that means: reactions! First, though, a couple of news bulletins: As of the Continue Reading
Yu-Gi-Oh! Advent Calendars!
Back in May, Anime News Network announced that Yu-Gi-Oh!-themed Advent calendars would be coming out this fall. I know this sounds like something you’d read on Satired of Anime, but I’m Continue Reading
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