Author: gendomike
On Retitling Anime, Part 2: Higurashi License and Haruhi Order
A couple of weeks ago, I made a few comments on poor choices of English titles for anime. The official announcement of Higurashi no Naku…
Nodame Cantabile 7
Actual musical animation returns! For once, they finally spared the budget to show us musicians actually bowing and hitting keys. Even if it was, in…
Scattered Cels Podcast #8 — The “Old News is Better than No News” File
Missed us? School and other obligations, and numerous technical recording issues, held up the last podcast–which was recorded two weeks ago, so the news that…
Asatte no Houkou – First Impressions
It looks like somebody in Japan watched Freaky Friday and thought: hey, wouldn’t this actually make a nice serious drama? That’s basically what Asatte no…
Byousoku 5 Cm, Part 1 – the Raw Review
This shot pretty much captures Makoto Shinkai’s essence in a nutshell: light, shadows, gleam, and two kids holding hands. It’s a strange experience, watching anime…
On Retitling Anime: or, Turning Poetry into Mush
Translation is hard and inexact work, and something always gets lost in the process. I’m conscious of this every time I read Greek and Hebrew…