Exploring the magic of anime and manga.
Thanks to Scott for the invitation to do this tag post. Rules, schmules... 1) Accept and thank your challenger(s) by linking back to their post. 2) Make a post of one-sentence summaries and/or roasts of at least five anime. 3) No spoilers! 4) Link back to The Awkward Book Blogger so she can see your... Continue Reading →
After Cactus Matt brought out a favourite manga cover art list, I ended up thinking over all the fun things you can do with cover art and ended up with this list. It’s interesting to see what manga artists can do with their cover art to keep readers coming back…A lot of these are just... Continue Reading →
This is part 2 of a post from yesterday. It goes without saying there are spoilers here for some categories. I also included some joke categories, so have fun reading and sharing your own. Speaking of awards though, I got a total of 100 likes on my posts on Monday. Note: If not specified, only anime... Continue Reading →
It's the end of the year...and since this is the first year of doing end-of-year rankings on the Spellbook, I'm doing things a bit differently this time. ...Scratch that. It's very different, and thus a lot longer than usual. It's so long, in fact, I'm posting part II (Spellbook Awards) in 24 hours' time. I... Continue Reading →
Gender-based demographics are a strange thing… I was looking at Houseki no Kuni information, only to find it was seinen. You’d think gender-neutral gems would be shoujo from the artstyle or shonen from the fighting, but no. Its home magazine is a publication known as Afternoon, which is seinen, like almost every Cute Girls Doing... Continue Reading →
It's a question that's been asked since the beginning of time - what's it like to live? What qualities define something as "a living creature"? At first, the show questions the concept of death by demonstrating how gems can be put back together after shattering. However, in episode 4 Phos comes up with a hypothesis that... Continue Reading →
The grip of CGI in anime is both a great thing and a terrible thing... CGI is becoming a common gripe of the standard anime fan, whether they’ve seen only shows from 2017 or shows from all over the temporal joint. However, it is getting easier to tell that the graphics are getting better as... Continue Reading →
I bumped Weekly Wednesday up to its proper weekly schedule instead of biweekly because I found myself way too willing to write more on a biweekly schedule. I know, I know. It’s three quarters into the season and my second week on Weekly Wednesday. Why didn’t I start with this? Well, there’s a few reasons... Continue Reading →
