Breaking Down the Visions in Mashiro no Oto

By “visions”, I mean two things – mental images and dreams. Mashiro no Oto does what all good series about obscure topics do – it sucks you in, begging you to google the things it’s going on about. However, that effect has to be created by a strong framework. In Piano no Mori, this is...

Characters On Parade

Something that can make or break an entire anime is how quickly a series introduces its characters. Even long-running anime have a problem of suddenly providing a group of characters and not elaborating until later, to the point where it can put some viewers off to suddenly get a chunk of cast they don't want...

Peer Pressure (Tag Post)

Thanks to Phoenix for the tag. Rules of the Peer Pressure Tag Post Link back to the creator, which is Random Thoughts of My Fandoms.Provide a link to the person who tagged you.Answer all questions honestly.Come up with 5 questions of your own. (4 have to be about peer pressure; 1 can be random and about...

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...

Publisher’s Digest: Glossy Magazine Edition

I think this post has more in common with this post than any other, hence its name - its aim is to inform, but not like a Wikipedia article (you'd actually go to Wikipedia for that). Note in order to understand more deeply about where I'm coming from on some aspects of this post, such...

Weekly Manga Reads (…and Then Some)

Essentially my version of Scott's post here. Sometimes I forget I'm a manga blogger amidst all the anime, but I do read quite a bit of it. I just like to turn my brain off to it a lot and since it's easy to burn through, you see me update my list a lot but...

#Controversed Week 3

I have...lots of thoughts on one of this week's prompts. Previous weeks Week 1Week 2 Check out this Stack Exchange post: Why isn’t anime critically analyzed like other forms of literature or entertainment? Do you agree with this observation? What are some of your thoughts? I have to disagree with the Stack Exchange post. Hugely. See, I've...

#TheJCS: Fantasy Quest Edition (For Oct. 2020)

The world of Social Media was in strife. There was a great beast with an indescribable form, known as the Showcase! The king whose lands JSReviews were ravaged by the Showcase was distraught, having dealt with it for almost three years now, but he managed to negotiate with the beast. Now, the beast has been...

My Stand on Anime and Manga Controversies

Admittedly, I am just using a framework from various bloggers, including Joe, for this post (several of the links are dead though, which is why I didn't link each blogger individually), but...these problem are evergreen, are they not? This is just a set of opinions, like most things on here...but obvious disclaimer is obvious. Anime...

Sailing the High Seas

I ended up caving for a subscription to my region's main licensing company somewhat recently, which got me thinking, what drives people to piracy in the first place? (...and no, when I say "pirates" in this post, I don't mean those pirates.) Important note: This post is not to defend piracy as a practice -...