Ode to Anime Studios – White Fox

This studio was founded by Gaku Iwasa in April 2007 (White Fox 1999). It’s based in Suginami (White Fox 1999), like many other studios. Previously, it was a spun-off studio from OLM and in turn, it created Studio Bind…(so now you know who’s responsible for the gorgeous animation in this season’s Mushoku Tensei, in a...

Why is Ex-Arm so Horrible?

...Aside from "because it just is", that is. The V-CRX panel I attended at 6 am one day was here to hype this anime up, but when even Saito's little sample of when Akira "wakes up" was surprisingly sparse, it was the first sign of how bad it was going to be. The question is...why...

Winter 2021 1st Ep. Impressions: Crunchyroll Edition

So this is the order I'm taking this time - although a bunch of anime have come out at this point and some have even aired their 2nd or 3rd episodes, I'm gonna take each one roughly as it came out originally, meaning the list looks something like this: VladloveSkate-Leading StarsSuppose a Kid...(etc.)Hortensia SagaKumo Desu...

Winter 2021. 1st Ep. Impressions: It’s Egg Time

...I've made several egg jokes in this post alone, so naturally I would end up calling my post what I did. So this is the order I'm taking this time - although a bunch of anime have come out at this point and some have even aired their 2nd or 3rd episodes, I'm gonna take...

Must-read Monthly Monday (Jan. ’21 ed.)

If it's not specified, the time period covered in this post is from the 21st of December 2020 to the 25th of January 2021. Other People's Reads It wouldn’t be a round-up post without them. However, since I scour people’s archives on a regular basis, these may not even be from the right time period…...

Winter 2021 1st Ep. Impressions: The Action Never Stops

So this is the order I'm taking this time - although a bunch of anime have come out at this point and some have even aired their 2nd or 3rd episodes, I'm gonna take each one roughly as it came out originally, meaning the list looks something like this: VladloveSkate-Leading StarsSuppose a Kid...(etc.)Hortensia SagaKumo Desu...

A Criminally Underserved Niche

As inspired by a small rant I had in Scott's comment section. You know what I want? An anime about coding and/or hacking. Not Hollywood hacking, like Akudama Drive's Hacker does (warning: TV Tropes link)...a faithful version of it. I know, I know...no Japanese anime studio is ever going to stumble across a blog in...

#AniTwitWatches Rd. 10: Kanon 23 – 24

Previous eps. Eps 1 - 3Eps 4 - 6Eps 7 - 8Eps 9 - 10Eps 11 - 12Eps 13 - 15Eps 16 - 18Eps 19 - 20Eps 21 - 22 Episodic Impressions Episode 23 茜 (akane) actually means “madder”, literally translating, but considering it’s bright red…it’s not that far-fetched to call it “scarlet”, either (although...

Winter 2021 First Impressions: Drama and a Double Dose of Cells at Work

So this is the order I'm taking this time - although a bunch of anime have come out at this point (see explanation at end of post), I'm gonna take each one roughly as it came out originally, meaning the list looks something like this: VladloveSkate-Leading StarsSuppose a Kid...(etc.)Hortensia SagaKumo Desu Ga, Nanika?2.43Cells at Work!!Cells...

Publisher’s Digest: Glossy Magazine Edition

I think this post has more in common with this post than any other, hence its name - its aim is to inform, but not like a Wikipedia article (you'd actually go to Wikipedia for that). Note in order to understand more deeply about where I'm coming from on some aspects of this post, such...