Month: March 2009
Anime Diet Radio Episode 33 – Tuneless
[display_podcast] EDIT: Counters fixed. This late episode, recorded a while back, may be tuneless–as might be expected when seiyuus since punk rock songs–but it is…
Blue Dragon Plus (DS): First Impressions
Blue Dragon Plus, a strategy RPG in the vein of Final Fantasy Tactics for the Nintendo DS, turns out to be a pretty easy-to-learn and…
O Pocky! My Pocky!
O Pocky! My Pocky! our shopping trip is done; The pack has weather’d every press, the space we sought is won; The chair is near,…
Oshii with a penny-pinching budget for a film – Good?
From ANN – Sky Crawlers’ Oshii PLans 1 Anime, 2 Live-Action Films …the writer and director known for the…revealed his upcoming film plans at a…
Alien Nine: Utter Alienation
To steal a line from Spike Spiegel, there are three things I hate: crying kids, incompetence, and strange, unidentifiable fluids. So tell me, why has…
Aversion and hikikomori
Sayonara Zetsubo Sensei makes the argument that the hikikomori complex is an elaborate form of aversion. In fact, all the people portrayed in the show…