Category: Reviews
Memory and Oblivion in Sora no Woto
Guest contributor Foxy Lady Ayame of The Beautiful World discusses, in depth, the shaping and memorializing of war in Sora no Woto. A deep and erudite look at an anime with much deeper ambitions than its moe exterior suggested.
Through Older Lenses: Urban Square – Kohaku no Tsuigeki (1986)
“For years, I didn’t understand the concept of writer’s block. I was like, “what’s that?”, you know? And then I realized a few weeks…
“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.
Stepping into Shiro Kuma Cafe.
Since the summer, this happens to be one show I find myself following, though the jokes do get repetitive and there happens to be a character…
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?
Psycho Pass – an emotional and joyful moment for Cyberpunk fans…Eh?
I wrote about my thoughts on Cyberpunk in a paper back in 2007! https://animediet.net/wp-content/uploads/2007/08/cyberpunk-anime.doc , and I must say, I’ve become much dumber and can’t…