Category: Anime Reviews
WataMote 6: Delusions of Grandeur
The saddest episode yet, because Tomoko doesn’t even realize it.
WataMote 5: Personae
The fifth episode of Watamote is calmer, perhaps, than the last one, but no less sad in some ways, as Tomoko constantly tries to be someone else.
Attack on Titan: “Why We Fight” For the Otaku Age?
gendomike talks Titan: about its deep appeal, which uses primary human fears and emotions to advance what is, fundamentally, a militaristic narrative that calls upon not only the characters, but the audience, to fight. But to fight what, or who?
Review: The Garden of Words
The Garden of Words, despite its return to Makoto Shinkai’s perhaps overly familiar themes and motifs, is still the most concise and eloquent expression of longing he has ever put on screen. A visual and aesthetic tour-de-force by nearly any measure, it is Shinkai’s masterpiece.
WataMote 4: You Can (Not) Be Touched
The latest episode of WataMote adapts some of the raunchiest chapters of the manga to show how Tomoko, no matter how much she wants it, is literally untouchable. A troubling episode when you dig deeper into it.
Free! wasn’t an otome bullsh@t.
I watched “Free!” against my free will, and it happens to be a good anime!