Sea to Shining Sea: An East Coaster’s impression of Anime Expo 2013
As an East Coast member of Anime Diet, the largest anime convention I’d ever been to was Otakon 2012. That’s in the past tense, because…
Komuro composes for Railgun, since City Hunter’s “Get Wild”
Komuro Tetsuya writes Railgun’s OP.
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?
The Days of Whine and Moes. Have you met Ms. Yukino? (meditating on WataMote)
The Days of Whine and Moes. My contemplation on Mokocchi’s bocchiness.
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.