Ode to Anime Studios – Science Saru

Eizouken is making waves this season, so it’s time to set our sights on this small studio backed by a big name. Keep Your Hands off Eizouken! gives insight into the animation business as seen from the animators’ points of view, so it’s perfect for something like this, I think. Science Saru started on the...

Give It a Light Novel Title Challenge (Tag Post)

Thanks to Scott for leaving the nominations open and Dewbond for starting this tag. (Update: Apparently Irina tagged me for this too, but I didn't receive the pingback...thank you too.) The Rules For this Post Choose up to five anime, manga or visual novel series that have a short title. Light novels that have shorter...

Fate/Stay Winter: Fanservice…Fanservice Everywhere…

Synopsis Detective Waver 5 - 8: After setting the stage by wrapping up the fairy case from episode 4 and having a girls' day out between Gray, Luvia and Reines...the main Rail Zeppelin case begins! Impressions I feel like Adashino is meant to be an Irene Adler-type figure…Update: Or she could be a rival, Moriarty-style....

Drifting Dragons: Pretty Yet Problematic

...not that that's a question anyone would ever ask, but here's the answer anyway. Drifting Dragons has an anime being held back by Netflix (apparently it won't drop until April), but that doesn't stop this series from being popular anyway. Outside the anime, it is a manga series by Taku Kuwabara that features Mika, Takita and...

Fate/Stay Winter: One Truth Prevails

Of course, I'm going all out with my knowledge on mysteries here. Shinjitsu wa itsumo hitotsu, amirite? Synopsis Detective Waver eps. 1 - 4: When your name is Waver Velvet - aka the new El-Melloi II - life ain't glamorous. Not only do you pine for your ol' Grail War buddy, you have to deal...

Must-read Monthly Monday (Feb. ’20 ed.)

 If it's not specified, the time period covered in this post is from the 20th of January 2020 to the 24th of February 2020.Navigation: Other People's Reads | Spellbook Offerings|Current Obsessions|Coming up next...Other People's ReadsIt wouldn't be a round-up post without them. However, since I scour people's archives on a regular basis, these may not even...

Fate/Stay Winter: Let the Mysteries Begin!

"Catching up, only to fall behind again" seems to be a bad habit of mine lately. Real life bit me in the butt yesterday by snatching two jobs out of my reach in two days and I ended up drowning my sorrows in ID: Invaded instead to avoid my usual yo-yoing of emotions (because when...

Death Note One-Shot (2020): Taking It Too Far…?

The fact of the matter is that Death Note has always been fairly global, but it's never had an existing political figure in it...until now. For the most part, Scott's post on this one-shot (and the things I omitted from my comment on it) are what inspired me to write this post, so mosey on...

Fate/Stay Winter: Shirou Keeps His Ideals

I finally finished enough to be ahead for only the second time in this project. Waver OVA rewatch, ahoy! Synopsis F/SN: UBW 19 - 22: A whole bunch of characters take far too long to die and some even come back from the dead briefly, whether in flashback or in...uh, spirit. (I mean, this is...

Fate/Stay Winter: Rin Was (Probably) Wrong About This Archer

The Archer class really is made up of archers, amirite? Synopsis F/SN UBW 15 - 18: Several big players fall as we finally get around to unravelling why Archer is a huge mess. (However, we still don't know who Lancer's Master is...) Impressions “Going through the front door would be a bad idea.” – Yeah,...