Why Are Anime and Manga So Obsessed With “Blue Spring”?

It's partially a language thing, partially something else... After starting to watch Blue Thermal (Buru- Sa-maru), since I narrowly missed out on watching it with Jon Spencer and friends thanks to a work shift, that brought me back to a thought that's been nagging me for a while - why "blue spring"? I mean, there's...

Why, As Anime and Manga Fans, We Should Learn to Rely on Others (+ Announcement)

...yes, even if you're a Japanese translator of the highest degree. It's a bit boring to keep discussing gender and politics whenever I want to discuss something deep, so let's turn our attention to something a bit more broad - being able to rely on others. What do I mean by this? Well, we aren't...

(Irregular) Manga Reads

Where I shoot the breeze on what I've read recently, much like this post. Note I read a lot of Bookwalker digital manga from my backlog while I was sick with COVID over the 2024 new year period, so I'm definitely not covering everything I read since the last time I talked about manga on...

7 of My Favourite Snacks to Eat While Consuming Anime/Manga

Sometimes you want to write an intense post with a purpose...and sometimes you just want to write a fluffy little list to tide you over. Meta note: This was pulled from the depths of the drafts folder. The reason I hadn't published it until now is it really doesn't fit my current writing style for...

Why I Love Hypnosis Mic

I love HypMic because of its banger tunes. It's not a music project without bangers and Hypnosis Mic brings the goods in this department! Whether you want tunes to dance to or mellow tunes to study to, HypMic has a song for every mood and then some. I love HypMic for its complex plotline and...

Striker vs Spriggan (1998 Movie)

I happened to pick up the first volume of Striker - yup, that old Viz version of Spriggan which came out about 20 years ago - from my thrift shop exploits. The biggest differences between Striker and Spriggan are Rie and Jean. Who's Rie? Rie, a teen genius anthropologist (...and Yu's childhood friend, because anime...

The Next Generation Sequel

Inspired by/adapted from a comment I made on this post. I've seen a few next gen sequels (Soul Eater Not, Fruits Basket Another, Yashahime etc.), but never to the end. It's particularly egregious in manga format - it's just that a lot of the sequels never get picked up for anime adaptions, because in TV...

Spy x Family and Friends (3 More Manga Like Spy x Family)

With the popularity of Spy x Family right now, it's no surprise that there are a bunch of spy manga. So, let's do a little comparing and contrasting of them all... Before we begin: I'm only looking at manga on the English Shonen Jump website because that's more than enough to talk about by itself,...

8 Ways to Watch More Anime

We're (almost) all in it to watch more, right? Parading around one’s anime list can be a real badge of honour sometimes and the mind boggles at some of the numbers some of these anime list users can put in...So how do they do it? There are many methods and people who watch a lot...

Differences Between Anime, Manga, Manhua, Manhwa, Aeni and Donghua

Even anime and manga databases don't distinguish between these media lately... I've mostly written this post for people who've stumbled here rather blindly, but with anime and manga databases such as AniList not really distinguishing between Japanese, Chinese and Korean works (plus - for existing anime and manga fans - all that self-deprecating joking about...