Anime and Manga Budget Buys – eBay Style

Now that I've wandered eBay and started trying to offload books and unwanted anime discs there, I have some eBay-specific updates to this ol' OWLS post. On eBay, as with other content on a budget, remember to keep your eyes out for signs the content is pirated, such as "rainbow stripes" where the photocopier failed...

The Weirdness of Merchandise

Inspired by Irina's post on anime perfumes. Merch is weird. https://twitter.com/zetsubouzhainu/status/1514775605417439241 (Note the "couches" are actually tissue box covers that oddly happen to look like couches, but otherwise this is legit.) So why do franchises do weird things like have collabs with companies you really wouldn't expect? Or produce merch you don't expect? The most...

Why Don’t People Like Anime Feminists?

Inspired by this Artifice post and...well, Anime Feminist itself. Obviously, some people do like anime feminists - hence the blog in question - but there are some who don't. Admittedly, my stance on the word "feminism" has been bugging me since 2015 or so, when someone asked me if I was a feminist. I said...

Are People’s Tastes in Media Crap?

Inspired by a years-old post which still holds relevance to this very day. (It also contains a mild spoiler for Hypnosis Mic not addressed by Rhyme Anima.) Does liking evil things mean you condone them? This is a moral quandary which I still have to sit with, as an admin of a Hypnosis Mic server...

Tales of Luminaria: Press Play, Fast Forward

The title refers to the opening line of this song. I'm not familiar with the Tales of series all that much, aside from the fact I watched a few episodes of Tales of Zestiria the Cross back when it simulcasted. That meant I came to this anime - lured by Yuichiro Umehara, as I do...

12 More Manga I Want Adapted into Anime (and the Odds of That Happening)

With the announcement of anime Spirit Circle, it's time to get back on that wishlist bandwagon! Just to keep a scorecard of what happened last time, I've gotten 1 out of my 12 manga choices (Jigokuraku) so far. I'm using the same criteria as last time too, so please brush up on that before you...

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...

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...

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...