Or, a Diary of an Anime (Sort Of) Lived: the unforgettable spring and summer in which I made an 8mm film and girls (kind of) liked me. Inspired by the nostalgic haze induced by Ano Natsu de Matteru and my ability to recontextualize screenshots.
The first of Mike’s thoughts on nearly every new show this Winter 2012 season.
The IFC Studio Ghibli retrospective give me the chance to revisit an old Miyazaki classic after many years. Its uniqueness in his catalog, and in anime in general, is undeniable.
Anime Diet turns 5 years old today. A few brief thoughts.
Onigamiden (Legend of the Millennium Dragon) is a pretty, mediocre anime film, whose lovely background art and battle animation cannot quite make up for a lack of character depth and emotional connection.
I’m now caught up on Chihayafuru, which is an interesting experiment in how much an anime can be fixated on a single subject without losing its human focus. Is karuta really a metaphor for everything?
Why is “Future Diary’s” Yuno (and yanderes in general) so appealing?
In the first entry in the Dusty Disc Review series, Mike watches his DVDs of Kino no Tabi (Kino’s Journey), a memorable, if slightly uneven, example of symbolic and allegorical storytelling in anime.
Meeting, eating, and joking with our friends from the ABTS: the Ani-Blogo-Twito-Sphere.
Or, how we totally rocked those connections at Comic Con! Sort of.
You might have heard about the various troubles we’ve encountered with the Mikunopolis concert videos we shot. This is the inside story of what happened.
What it was like working in the trenches—and in the aftermath—of this summer’s big conventions.
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