Author: gendomike

Michael "Gendomike" Huang is the co-founder and was the editor-in-chief of Anime Diet from 2006-2015. He lives in the Los Angeles area and works as a software engineer, though he also holds a divinity degree from Fuller Theological Seminary. Mike has been a fan of all things anime, manga, and games for over 25 years ever since he watched Evangelion on a fuzzy video shared by a friend. He continues to watch, read, and play today.
Posted in Anime Reviews

School Days 11 – Does Makoto Have a Conscience?

Answer: nah. I totally underestimated how much more repulsive and conscience-free the writers could make Makoto. Just when I thought they couldn’t make him any…

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Fangirls: Please Educate Us Ignorant Fanboys!

We have, at last, retired the venerable and successful “Favorite Fanboy Fetish” poll. Thanks to the nearly 400 of you who voted! I have even…

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Fellow Bloggers: What Keeps You Going?

Lately I’ve been thinking about how having a growing anime blog and podcast has changed my viewing and even writing habits, and about the motivation…

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Hayate no Gotoku 24 – At Last! Character humor!

I’m still watching this show? Indeed, I am, mostly out of habit more than anything else. It has been a long while since the humor…

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Posted in Anime Blog Collective Editorials

“I’m Only Interested In 2D Girls!”: On Lust, Animated Desire, and Gender Expectations

This is part of a series of articles about anime and gender across the blogosphere. Visit here, here, here, here, here, here, here, and here…

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Thanks to you, Japanese otaku, Konata’s creators can eat it right too!

Japanese DVD sales of Lucky Star have been excellent by anime DVD standards, with volume 1 selling 60,000 copies, and the second volume expected to…

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