Editorial

Introduction: Fan Service or Art?  Is it fan service? Is it art? Or is there really a difference?  A couple years ago, I read a blogger’s review of Miru Tights. The review elegantly spoke of the beauty of the characters and their tights. The site has vanished even from the Internet Archive. That’s sad, not […]

Vivy Fluorite Eye’s Song: It Was So Close! Every new season, I observe the same ritual: The Selecting of the Shows. I’m not alone in this, of course. Other bloggers have even shared their decision-making process. GEATSXSHOGUN at Fortress William posted about how he chooses what series to review. Irina at I Drink and Watch […]

Introduction Why don’t studios crowdsource to fansubbers and profit? In a previous life, I oversaw a software development practice. I worked for a visionary who saw the potential of something called crowdsourcing. That’s where you package work in compartmentalized chunks and ask folks on the internet to complete a unit of work on spec. I’d […]

Five Years of Anime When I published my first post on August 5, 2015, I had a general idea that I wanted to share my passion for anime by reviewing anime. That’s a little vague, isn’t it? I mean, there are a lot of review sites out there. I began to think about what would […]

This site’s tagline is “A place to celebrate anime. Reviews of series with interesting characters and moments of beauty.” Would you believe that in those two sentences, I’ve issued a challenge to some of the most toxic trends in the anime community and in the world at large? And in myself as well? A year […]

Let me just get this out of the way: I prefer subs. It’s not a religious thing. I don’t think people who love dubs are crazy or lesser fans than I am. It’s just that, in my experience, subs are closer to the original material than dubs. Well, subs are closer to the original than […]

I just watched Darling in the FranXX episode 14 (Punishment and Confession). Since the episode aired, I’ve been seeing memes blaming Ichigo for the train wreck at the end. Some of them are really funny, but here’s the thing. I don’t agree with them. Before you read any farther, I should probably mention that this is […]