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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. Below is a list of anime I’d love to see again, with the only requ...

CIAG Attempts to Wax Poetically about the Decade in Anime

CIAG Attempts to Wax Poetically about the Decade in Anime

Let’s get this party started! 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 ...

Yumeiro Patissiere: An Anime for Girls

Yumeiro Patissiere: An Anime for Girls

Hi everyone, I’m back. And I’ve brought cookies. Actually they’re madelines, but you wouldn’t know that because you’re not a girl.

Japanese Drink Fads: Pepsi Sweet Azuki Bean

Japanese Drink Fads: Pepsi Sweet Azuki Bean

Beans? In MY Pepsi? It’s more likely than you think. 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…

Look, it's a CLAMP Scientist. 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 no real completion in sight. While I’m no Doctor in CLAMP-ology (I still h...

Japanese Drink Fads: Intro & Pumpkin Pudding Latte

Japanese Drink Fads: Intro & Pumpkin Pudding Latte

Yes. That's a pumpkin drinking pudding with a straw. He loves pudding. 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 wasn’t really that good. Well seeing...

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

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

How the title card should actually have read. 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 stand love and idolize these shows. (It...

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 you’ll soon discover that I’m the good kind. And hopefully the good kind is the kind...