Be Careful What You Wish For Upon the Pleiades…

Houkago no Pleiades (or Wish Upon the Pleiades) may have been just the thing I was looking for to get me out of that writing funk. You know I'm a bit of a magical girl fan, right? Basically, I went on a bit of a magical girl binge over the weekend after both the AniList...

#AniTwitWatches Round 3: School Days 4 – 5

Okay, there's a bit of a story behind the delay of this post... Here's how that story goes: After trying to back up my computer (which I previously failed to do explicitly because it would keep me up late, or it would get rid of the data on the backup hard drive because I'd need...

Why Is It Always the Girl?

This is a response to Galvanic Media (or specifically Voyager's) post. You're going to need to read that before this (and that will also explain why some works are tagged on this post, even though they're not mentioned). In retrospect, I did bring a lot of Anglophone and/or general assumptions to the post, so I...

#AniTwitWatches Round 3: School Days 2 – 3

  Previous episodes Episode 1 Episode 2 2007???? Geesh, this thing is 12 years old! (Update: I meant the book, but that also applies to the show, which aired in the summer of 2007.) Poccari Sweat (sic). “Dunny’s” - *laughs quietly* (“Dunny” is a word for a toilet, essentially. Not that anyone knows that...it's a...

#AniTwitWatches Round 3: School Days 1

You know why I never mentioned being part of this earlier? The other two times, Jon Spencer and crew picked shows I've already watched - in fact, I finished round 1's Seki-kun for a watching challenge a few months before JS floated the idea with Seki-kun as the pilot anime. Anyhoo, I'll run this similarly to...

Failure as a Way to Move Forward in Aoharu x Kikanjuu [Nov. ’19 OWLS Blog Tour]

Hello again, people. I’ve fallen into a writing rut after having to produce mountains of words upon mountains of words for non-blog purposes (and being distracted by The Amazing Race, which is currently occurring in some capacity or other 3 times a week on local TV channels), but we’ll see how this fares. For those...

No Guns, No Life

No Guns Life turns heads...because its protagonist has a gun for a head. (I don't think I'll be sick of that joke for a good few weeks now, y'know?) Opening note: Thanks to Inskidee for making the title pun up. Anyways, to the more serious stuff. No Guns Life is underway as I type this and...despite...

Why We Don’t Have Enough Horror Anime

Bear with me...the intro's a bit long. Prior to my trip to Japan, me and my family were working through a storeroom so we could find things to sell (to scrounge up extra souvenir money). One thing I found was a copy of The Bachman Books and, having previously known of the reputation of Stephen King...

Ode to Anime Studios – Studio 3Hz

I'm trying a little something with this post... Between Flip Flappers, Princess Principal and the most recent (but not ongoing) entry into their oeuvre Blackfox, this studio’s become one to watch. This studio’s name is actually pronounced “3 Hertz”, not “3-H-Z” or whatever else you might think it is. It’s formed from ex-Kinema Citrus staff...