Editorial

Introduction: Cute Anime Girls and AI Content Creation If you’re a writer or an artist, you’ve probably seen advertisements for Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools that’ll write blog posts or create graphics for you. I’ve seen lots of them. They’re apparently popular. But honestly? I can’t understand why I would want to use them. Until now, […]

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 […]