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My Top 10 Revival Wishes

My Top 10 Revival Wishes

With American Hollywood remaking every movie in existence, I decided to think about what anime I’d love to see get remade, revived, or rehashed. Recently there was the new Mahoromatic OVA, the Birdy the Mighty remake, and the new Trigun movie… the anime of our past isn’t going anywhere. So, almost anything is open game.

CIAG Attempts to Wax Poetically about the Decade in Anime

CIAG Attempts to Wax Poetically about the Decade in Anime

These past 10 years have been truly amazing. Around the year 2000 is when I came into full swing and acceptance of my love of anime and it wasn’t going anywhere in my life. I had spent the previous 5 years watching almost every bit of Ranma 1/2 on VHS I could get my hands on. I had the Tenchi OVA on VCD (who remembers those?) and had just purchased the first volume of Cowboy Bebop, subtitled, in clamshell VHS. (Who remembers THOSE?) This was not only a new decade, but also the next era in anime. I bought my first anime on DVDs (the Tenchi Muyo in Love movie and the first volume of Saber Marionette J) and saw fansubs on VHS disappear altogether. Anime had gone digital. Then everything exploded.

Yumeiro Patissiere: An Anime for Girls

Yumeiro Patissiere: An Anime for Girls

Hi everyone, I’m back. And I’ve brought cookies.

Japanese Drink Fads: Pepsi Sweet Azuki Bean

Japanese Drink Fads: Pepsi Sweet Azuki Bean

I waited awhile to review this because I was curious as to how the blogsphere would take to it. I tried it the first day it came out and it tasted exactly how I thought it would, which I will explain in a bit.

Kobato.: The CLAMP Research & Development Team Must be Proud…

Kobato.: The CLAMP Research & Development Team Must be Proud…

I love CLAMP. In fact, when I started to write this I did tons of research. I started pouring all sorts of theories and trying to bring it all together on how Kobato. makes perfect sense for CLAMP and today’s market. It started to grow out of control, turning into a thesis of sorts with [...]

Japanese Drink Fads: Intro & Pumpkin Pudding Latte

Japanese Drink Fads: Intro & Pumpkin Pudding Latte

I had heard about food fads and drink fads in Japan before I moved here. We see them on TV when they get really bizarre, we hear about them online when they get really weird, we see the reviews on Youtube. I’m sure a lot of you heard about Pepsi Ice Cucumber… and how it [...]

GA: Geijutsuka Art Design Class, an Anime Made Just for Me

GA: Geijutsuka Art Design Class, an Anime Made Just for Me

I’m sometimes very specific as to what I’ll even give a chance when it comes to anime. Unfortunately, that means that I miss out on some great shows, but there’s some things I just don’t like. I’ve never seen Naruto, Bleach, One Piece, or Full Metal Alchemist mostly because a lot of people I can’t [...]

I once wrote speeches for the President!

I once wrote speeches for the President!

… of a very small company. … that doesn’t exist anymore. Hi! I’m one of the new writers here! You may already know me as Cirno is a Genius, but you can call me CIAG. If you’ve seen my videos or follow me on Twitter, you already know I’m a bit of an oddball. Hopefully [...]