Must-read Monthly Monday (Jan. ’20 ed.)

New year, new decade (?), same old posts...If it's not specified, the time period covered in this post is from the 23rd of December 2019 to the 20th of January 2020.Navigation: Other People's Reads | Spellbook Offerings|Current Obsessions|Coming up next...Other People's ReadsIt wouldn't be a round-up post without them. However, since I scour people's archives on...

Visions of a Brighter Future [OWLS Jan. ’20 Blog Tour]

Dr Stone is the perfect series for this prompt, no? Hiya again. By now you probably know the drill, but if you’re new around here, I’m commonly known as “Aria” (pseudonym) and this is the Animanga Spellbook. This month’s OWLS topic is “visions”, so while we’re at it, here’s the vision for OWLS: we promote...

Act-age: Master of White Space

White space? Well, it's not always "white", but that's what you can call it. White space is that...well, space...that's got nothing on it. When learning how to make a basic website years ago, I ended up taking this away as a critical factor for design in general. What's that gotta do with Act-age? I noticed,...

Put a Tune to It (Tag Post)

So, it's time to show off my taste in music (which has shown up in awards and tag posts before, but not as much as it has in this particular capacity). Depending on your own tastes, you might like all or none of them...your call. I decided to pick up Chris Joynson's (Never Argue with...

9 Years of Manga (10th Day of Anime 2019)

Okay, here's the scenario. I was young - far too young - in late 2010 and borrowed a volume of manga, after having been introduced around that time to the Wii game which brought me back to anime. (Well, there might still be records from 2009, but 2010 is the date of the earliest records...

The End of Another Decade in Anime…and then Shorter Times in Other Stuff (11th Day of Anime 2019)

Inspired by Yon Nyan's self-care post. If we don't count Pokemon and start with Sailor Moon as a point where I started engaging with anime in general (since I don't really remember when I started engaging with the Pokemon anime), then my first decade wrapped up in about 2014...that is, if I remember the year I...

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...

Mangaka: Evolution

You know one of the things I love about manga? Being able to follow an author's evolution through different works and see what their preferences are like. Before you begin: Yes, I know the title of this post can be considered ironic since it's focussing on manga and not live-action stuff...but come on, I can't...

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...