Anime Diet

Anime Diet turns 5 years old today. A few brief thoughts.

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.

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?

  So it has come to pass. As the great Stephen Tobolowsky once said that was something to the effect of, “When you take a…

In honor of Fête des lumières.

Tamayura Hitotose, episode 9 was funny.