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 LA Conventions

Anime LA 2013: Tokyopop Panel

Here’s a liveblog from Tokyopop’s “Past, Present, and Future” panel at Anime LA 2013. TP is staging a comeback and has plans for the future.

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Posted in Anime Reviews Reviews

Secret Santa Review: A Certain Scientific Railgun (70%)

Gendomike got Railgun as a Secret Santa choice. He’d never usually choose to watch this series all the way through, but he did anyway. Find out what he thought.

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Posted in Anime Reviews Chuunibyou Diary of an Anime Lived Editorials

“But To Be Chuunibyou Was Very Heaven!”: A Memoir of Art and Embarassment

Another reminisce of gendomike’s teenage years: those foolish, imagination-soaked days of late middle school and high school, when a king named Sareth Darva Arakin Tanera ruled Andor and started showing up online. Oh, and some parallels to the recent anime Chuunibyou demo Koi ga Shitai.

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Madoka Magica Movies 1 and 2: A Roundtable Discussion

gendomike, M. LaMoe, and wintermuted went to see the first two Madoka Magica movies together last week and boy did they talk. Are these movies that different from the series? What’s the social and religious significance of the story now, and does the third film promise anything interesting?

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Psycho-Pass: Where Does Criminality Come From?

Why do people commit crimes? What makes people “good” to begin with, and are some people just born to be “bad”? The debate is as…

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Posted in Anime Reviews Podcasts Reviews

Fall 2012 Anime Audio Preview

Ray and gendomike look over a chart of the new season on (virtual) tape. And propose a PSY anime while they’re at it.

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