25 Days Anime Male Challenge – Day 21 and Extra Day 1

  Day 21 - Anime Male with Orange Hair I actually don't have that many boys with orange hair, come to think of it. I only had the one choice which I was set on - Chuuya from Bungou Stray Dogs - but after thinking over all the Touken Ranbu boys, it turns out I...

The Cover Art’s Half the Fun!

After Cactus Matt brought out a favourite manga cover art list, I ended up thinking over all the fun things you can do with cover art and ended up with this list. It’s interesting to see what manga artists can do with their cover art to keep readers coming back…A lot of these are just...

A User By Any Other Name…

This seems like a strange dilemma to have...but I have it, so I'll go ahead and explain it. A great blogger is always associated with their content. I mean, when I mention some bloggers' names, you'll instantly think of their blogs and vice versa. But this is not a post to test that. I've noticed...

Spellbooks and Horoscopes – Mahou Shoujo Ore Ep 9

It’s PRISMA’s time to shine in Mahou Shoujo Ore this week. Let’s see what Astral and Aria thought about it... Astral: I really enjoyed this week’s episode! What did you think of it, Aria? Aria: I enjoyed it more than I thought I would last week, that’s for sure. Astral: Ruka and Michiru are anime-original...

25 Days Anime Male Challenge – Days 19/20

Hmm...what am I going to do about the bunch of new prompts? I know what to do for the titles of the posts, but I wonder if I'll be able to pick some good choices... Day 19 - Anime Male with White Hair Eesh, the white-haired boys, the grey-haired boys and the silver-haired boys all...

The Scare Factor in Girls’ Last Tour

The problem with Girls’ Last Tour is that it’s implicitly horrifying when it’s not being chill. Girls’ Last Tour is apparently relaxing to people who watch it…I understood that for the particularly straightforward segment The Sound of Rain, but otherwise the war implications made me fear what would’ve happened in a show that wasn’t as laidback as...

Tricky Terminology

I was reading this article by ZeroReq011 (for the Juuni Taisen bits, of course) and I realised that my definition of “oneshot” and theirs differed. So, let’s think about some terms that differ between us anime and manga fans, and why they differ... I think the biggest term anime fans mix up would be “season/series/cour”...

Spellbooks and Horoscopes – Mahou Shoujo Ore Ep 8

After a draining past few weeks, Astral seems a bit worse for wear. Nonetheless, our heroes continue their quest to mow down their enemies...or as much as they can manage, anyway. Aria: You win some, you lose some. In exchange for you suffering through Boueibu’s fanservice episode, Astral, today’s Mahou Shoujo Ore episode was a...

25 Days Anime Male Challenge – Days 17/18

These hair colours are really arbitrarily thrown together, huh? Day 17 - Anime Male with Green Hair Well, after that complaint with the blue-haired boys, I can finally talk about Ohjiro as he is in the Angelic Layer anime! Since he hails from a CLAMP work, of course he's easy on the eyes but I...

Breaking Pedestals in Bungou Stray Dogs

Did you know that Crunchyroll got the Bungou Stray Dogs OVA? No? Well, once you finish watching it...let me tell you: the Walking Alone OVA reminded me why I love Bungou Stray Dogs so much, writing-wise. I don’t think I’ve ever mentioned my love of Bungou Stray Dogs on the Spellbook yet. It sort of...