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.
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Easy-to-Watch Shows

This season, I’ve called Nagasarete Airantou a “guilty pleasure” type of show, a series where I’m perfectly aware of how cliched pretty much every element…

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Anime Diet Radio Episode 3 – The Jerry Springer Director Gossip Edition

[display_podcast] Note: this episode contains more profanity than usual, and is thus tagged “explicit” in iTunes. I contemplated releasing a bleeped version in true Jerry…

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You Know You Watch Too Much Anime When…

…This article in your MSN Hotmail home page immediately makes you think of Lovely Complex.

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Hayate no Gotoku 6 – The Narrator’s Funny Again!

The biggest news I seem to have about this fine episode is that the narrator’s sarcastic comments actually add something to the humor of the…

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Toki wo Kakeru Shoujo (The Girl Who Leapt Through Time)

This feature film, directed by a Studio Ghibli castoff and with character designs by Gainax co-founder Yoshiyuki Sadamoto, is anime’s version of Eternal Sunshine of…

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More Anno Gold! Anno + Sixth Graders =…?

Here’s a rare glimpse of Anno from one decade ago, before Kare Kano and after Evangelion. The public TV station NHK asked him to go…

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