Author: gendomike
Half a Decade of Dieting on Anime
Anime Diet turns 5 years old today. A few brief thoughts.
Blu-ray Review: Onigamiden (Legend of the Millennium Dragon)
Onigamiden (Legend of the Millennium Dragon) is a pretty, mediocre anime film, whose lovely background art and battle animation cannot quite make up for a lack of character depth and emotional connection.
Chihayafuru: The Rules of the Shoujo Game
I’m now caught up on Chihayafuru, which is an interesting experiment in how much an anime can be fixated on a single subject without losing its human focus. Is karuta really a metaphor for everything?
Future Diary: Careful With That Axe, Yuno
Why is “Future Diary’s” Yuno (and yanderes in general) so appealing?
Dusty Disc Review: Kino no Tabi (Kino’s Journey)
In the first entry in the Dusty Disc Review series, Mike watches his DVDs of Kino no Tabi (Kino’s Journey), a memorable, if slightly uneven, example of symbolic and allegorical storytelling in anime.
Conventional Wisdom: The Year of Our Con 2011 (Part 4: I ♥ ABTS)
Meeting, eating, and joking with our friends from the ABTS: the Ani-Blogo-Twito-Sphere.