Why is Back Arrow So Fun?

Squeezing this in just before Mecha March. I have professed I'm not the biggest fan of mech anime. However, in the past few years, I've been paying attention to them more. Partially, that is the fault of a certain mech-loving anime club media manager, but because the seasonal circuit makes you sit up and pay...

Animage Jan. 2021 Interview: Wataru Komada (Translation)

I was gonna postpone this to the 3rd of March's weekly slot, but to celebrate the MTC/FP battle, I moved it up a bit. Part 1 here. Highlights: Jyuto going to the supermarketMTC in bathrobes, particularly Riou in a black bathrobe, sipping wine You can find the interview on Bookwalker if you pay to read/purchase...

Anime Valentine’s DLC Pt 2

Even I didn't expect there would be a part 2 until I finished all the Valentines... Part 1 here. So, from part 1, you already know how I made the base design. However, after seeing some other Valentines on my Twitter feed, I was inspired to make the rest of the HypMic divisions...meaning I had...

Anime Valentine’s DLC

This is part of Jon's server event. K occasionally has a "DLC" post to show how things went behind the scenes, hence the name of the post. Basically, I spent a few hours over 2 days perfecting these and almost threw everything out at one point because I was worried people would take the lines...

A New Challenger Approaches!

...okay, this is actually just a big ol' play on K's post. This "who can you defeat in a fist fight?" meme has been going around for a bit. So, I figured I'd split it into a list post of sorts - 5 characters and 5 bloggers in a situation like this - and let's....

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...

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...