Anime Diet

On the strands that make up “slice of life” in our day, and what it means to be a fan in this time where it is the predominant standard of quality and popularity.

The story in the Welcome to the NHK! manga has now fully departed from that of the anime, and the bleakness is almost stifling. Still, it really gets some parts of human nature right: the infinite capacity for self-deception and the power of indiscipline. Note: Over a year ago, I reviewed volume 1, volumes 2 [...]

アニメ・ダイエット代表のマイケルとレイの強い推めで『N・H・Kにようこそ！』をみました。これがなんとあまりにも面白く、２４話一気にみてしまった！！！あぁぁぁぁ、そしてこのシャンソンはすばらしい！！！『N・H・Kにようこそ！』の挿入歌はなんとすばらしいこと！！！まさに神曲だ！アニソンは世界でもっとも崇高な芸術でありまする！シャンソンがまさかアニソンになるとは！アニソンはまさに文化の総合、そう、ピカソがかつてアフリカ芸術を取り入れてキュービズムを大成したように！あぁ、おフランス、行きたい、住みたい！フランスといえばカフェ（喫茶店）の発祥地、サロンなど革命の原点となったところでありやす！そして、フレンチ・メイドの原点でもあるのです。そこにフレンチ・メイドのコスチューム（メイド服）を着たウェートレスがいればもうメイドカフェとなるのです！

Anime Diet Presents: Best Kept Secret of Anime Diet’s archive, part 1. Looking for previously unread articles? Then our 10+ hours of work combing through 147 pages to find these little gems is definitely worth every second! Enjoy these as our year-end gift to you! Reviews: Alien Nine: Utter Alienation Alteil Akira Asura Cryin’ 1 [...]

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 are slightly dysfunctional and avoid facing reality in certain ways, and it is this backdrop which forms an excellent basis for equating the two. The title character continually reacts to [...]

Because that is what she is so far–like Heath Ledger’s Joker, who knows what kind of background or upbringing she really has? Who knows how much is truth and is a lie? It turns out this is a fairly suitable theme for the entire volume, too.

Note: this is not a typical review of a manga. I am mainly writing my thoughts as to how this compares to the anime, which is one of my top 10 of all time–a key reason why I even started anime blogging. With these volumes, the differences from the anime begin appearing–most of which put [...]

I’ve decided to try something different and new for me–I’m going to try to review a manga series. I might as well begin with a story that I’m very familiar with, seeing as I loved the anime and reviewed the light novel some time ago. Having already judged the story to be one of my [...]

I wasn’t totally idle in my hospital stay! I managed to finish reading the Welcome to the NHK novel by Tatsuhiko Takimoto, published in the United States by Tokyopop. The anime version of this story was one of my favorites of 2006 and is in part responsible for the very existence of this website, and [...]

I couldn’t help but notice that a lot of recent anime have been about, or targeted directly to, otaku. Genshiken and Comic Party are about fandom; Haruhi Suzumiya and other “moesploitation” shows cater to otaku fetishes (even if it’s with a wink and a nod); the Densha Otoko phenomenon has even glamorized otaku for a [...]

Impressions Though the show comes to an end with the next episode, I still marvel over how far it has come since it started. Today I was rewatching the early episodes (1-6) and while the seeds of all that has happened in the show’s second half are clearly there, the emphasis on black humor and [...]