Write What You Want (Or, the Not-Very-Stringent Guide to Winning Followers)

You ever heard of the Butterfly Effect? When I read Jane's post on Artiswitch and noticed her hesitance in covering it for a so-called "lack of doing the work justice", I go, "Stuff and nonsense! Write about what you want." For instance (and I promise this is relevant!), I could talk about the package I...

The One With the Podcasts

In which discovering a podcast (on Wikipedia, no less!) helped a blogger put their own identity issues to rest. (...yes, the title is a Friends reference, although I don't watch much of that show in the first place.) I was reading about feminist translation - as one does in a post-grad course about translation -...

Hyping Up Winter 2022

Noting how much I've got backlogged, I'm probably going to sit this one out entirely. If we count the rewatches (+ Kekkai Sensen and Beyond) and this upcoming week's ATW (2 eps) from the post I linked in the intro (as of the time of writing) plus the fact I attempted to watch Disappearance of...

The Write Process (2)

The first post is here, although this was also inspired by this Side of Fiction post. Sidenote: This tacking of numbers to the end of post titles seems to be a completely new thing, spurred on by my return to the blogging scene. I don't know if my return will last as long as my...

Looking Back and Moving Forward (Update Post)

4 years can really change a person... When I first thought up this blog in late 2017, I gave myself a schedule which I thought would be sustainable. It was just that...for the years where I made it my priority, enough to write until 2 am for several of the round-up posts. I never saw...

Dropped – What Could Have Been (Anime Vers.)

Again inspired by Phoenix's series of posts. My manga version is here. I start a lot more anime than I do manga, due to reasons like doing mostly anime watching challenges but not manga reading challenges, plus the fact my entire anime consumption was structured around the "try basically everything as part of the seasonal...

Dropped – What Could Have Been (Manga Vers.)

Inspired by Phoenix's Dropped post series. I've gone through some of the series I've dropped here, but I don't think I've done a proper runthough of Everything I've Ever Dropped. Note I am only using the drop list of 100 manga series as of the time of writing (I've taken a screenshot of everything so...

Sending Off Summer 2020

As always, spoilers below. Fugou Keiji Not quite what I expected in the end. It went from "kinda silly anime about a rich detective and a poor detective (in relation to said rich detective) fighting crime" to "rich dude tries to prevent an unlimited energy source from being revealed to the world" - to put...

Show-ha Shoten Has Struck Comedy Gold

They say comedy is subjective... From the moment you open up Show-ha Shoten, you immediately understand why Takeshi Obata was chosen to do the art - it's comedy Bakuman, right down to how Azemichi Shijima becomes "Everyday Shijimi" in a similar manner to Ashirogi Muto. However, what is it that makes it tick? It runs...

(Late…?) Fall 2021 First Impressions: For the Artsy Ones

You might've thought I was gone from seasonal anime for good, after I chose not to catch up to the summer season. Well, you can't keep a good(?) blogger down. No ratings this time. I'm just taking what I'm getting, in an attempt to get back into the swing of things. As promised in this...