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Bridging The Gap: The Value Of Penguindrum (An Ode To Change)

Bridging The Gap: The Value Of Penguindrum (An Ode To Change)

Well there was no real way this post could be avoided. After finishing this series and realizing that there was little to no way this couldn’t be openly discussed in mere tweets/Facebook discussions, it finally came to pass that an extended post would have to be made regarding Kunihiko Ikuhara’s return to anime television. The [...]

Bridging The Gap: How Oncoming Trucks In Slo-Mo Went Mainstream

Bridging The Gap: How Oncoming Trucks In Slo-Mo Went Mainstream

Initially, I had been looking to avoid any posts on this subject after reading endless posts regarding the news in the wake of Bandai’s shuttering of new acquisitions of physical media, and now its backing out of several other regions, including France. But the ensuing talk and blogging that has come since has more or [...]

Wintermuted’s 2011: Meeting Futures Halfway

Wintermuted’s 2011: Meeting Futures Halfway

    2011; what it mean to me? Well to look back, dig deep, and investigate would mean having to consider something that wasn’t a list of some sort. And while something like a list surely would offer up some kind of marquee-type value to the  site, I find it much more important to point [...]

Live-Action Ranma 1/2: Damage Assessment With Joy To Spare

Live-Action Ranma 1/2: Damage Assessment With Joy To Spare

  So it has come to pass. As the great Stephen Tobolowsky once said that was something to the effect of, “When you take a Japanese cartoon, which is in it’s very nature, iconographic, and translate it into live action, you could be in sucky territory.” NTV’s one-shot live-action Ranma ½ has aired, and for [...]

Through Older Lenses : California Crisis

Through Older Lenses : California Crisis

  Sure we’re virtually well out of the sphere of merely looking into the 1980s as a trendy hot-point of discussion, but what often doesn’t get shared within many writeups are the hidden, those unseen few, and often completely forgotten gems of the past that make up for much of this column. Beginning in the [...]

Things Just Happen – IN SPAAACE! (The Macross Frontier Features)

Things Just Happen – IN SPAAACE! (The Macross Frontier Features)

  As they say, familiarity breeds contempt. So when it comes to celebrating a quarter century-plus of one of animedom’s most iconic creations, what can one do, but wonder what could have been if those in charge (and this is also considering the franchise’s fractured, litigiously spotty past) retained some manner of focus regarding their [...]

Bridging The Gap: Fall 2011 At A Tweet

Bridging The Gap: Fall 2011 At A Tweet

  Being that post-quake industry has chosen to stagger out a number of titles over the course of several weeks, and because a bigger post is still in the works, I figured it time to actually strap in and share some blurbs regarding the Fall 2011 season.   Now as basis for what comes is [...]

Embracing The Fear: The End Of An Industry

Embracing The Fear: The End Of An Industry

Ready for something truly scary? For a long time, I had been formulating thoughts on the state of the industry, as well as what is possible within the framework of what has been the home of not only people I regard, respect, and am friends with in many ways. And have come to the conclusion [...]

The Usagi Drop Effect Part Two

The Usagi Drop Effect Part Two

  Now that another impressive noitaminA adaptation has come to an end, and an incomplete one at that, I’d like to share a simple wish. And it isn’t like this is a desire for a complete overhaul of what remains of the anime industry in its broken, tattered form. But rather a striving for more [...]

Bridging The Gap: Why The World Needs Sailor Moon

Bridging The Gap: Why The World Needs Sailor Moon

Can a shining light from the tail end of the brightest days of Japan be just what anime and manga need today?     There was simply no way I could resist. Ran to my local Kinokuniya to swipe up my own copy of the Kodansha Comics release of the girls manga-milestone Bishoujo Senshi Sailor [...]

The Usagi Drop Effect Part One

The Usagi Drop Effect Part One

So perhaps this is as far opposite as the anime timbre needle can reach? Could Usagi Drop be the penultimate symbol of a medium reaching the end of the reflex line in regards to how it is presented, and sells itself to the masses? Admittedly, not having not spent a lot of time with the [...]

The Pure, Savage Fury Of REDLINE

The Pure, Savage Fury Of REDLINE

  There comes a time when it feels as if the things you liked have up and passed you by, or encompassed nowhere near the appeal that they once embraced, allowing you to be pulled in with insurmountable force. It could either be that a) one has outgrown these things, or b) trends & concepts [...]