Tag: anime
My dearest Ri-chan
A love letter to Ri-chan from Sakamichi no Apollon from The Paper. Complete with virtual mix-tape.
Spit Take: Why Mysterious Girlfriend X’s shock value works
Mike makes a case for why drool has to be there to shock the audience in Mysterious Girlfriend X, while attempting to write an article under 1000 words!
The Fujiko Telegrams: Lupin III Fujiko Mine 4
In the latest installment of The Fujiko Telegrams, wintermuted and dcbebop consider the changes made to the character of Zenigata. And they don’t approve of them.
The Fujiko Telegrams: Lupin III Fujiko Mine, Episode 3
Wintermuted and DCBebop, our resident Lupin experts, continue their discussion of the new series. And this time, they disagree (just a little), on this episode introducing the samurai Goemon.
What if I had never gotten into anime?
Ray gives a heartfelt confession of what anime, fandom, and God has meant to him over the years. Another entry in the “Diary of an Anime Lived” series.
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?