I don’t understand how people can comment on anime they haven’t seen

I don’t understand how people can comment on anime they haven’t seen

Here’s an interesting phenomenon that has, for various reasons, been brought to my attention: people commenting on anime series and episodes they haven’t seen. It’s something that really makes no sense to me, for reasons that are (I would have thought) obvious. People claim they are able to get enough of an understanding of a [...]

Two years later and Air is still Kyoto Animation’s best animated series

Two years later and Air is still Kyoto Animation’s best animated series

Surely with a contentious post title like this I’ve grabbed everyone’s attention.

AnimeReactor Community Awards 2006, results and discussion

AnimeReactor Community Awards 2006, results and discussion

Since I don’t really take a great interest in the Anime-Reactor.net community, I can’t say I know a great deal about the process by which these awards are decided, so there’s no real point in me commenting on that. These awards are just as weighty as any other community decided “awards”, but they have a [...]

Is Death Note on its way downhill?

Is Death Note on its way downhill?

Warning: This post contains Death Note anime spoilers (up to ep 20) Under normal circumstances, I probably wouldn’t write a half-way-through “review” (and this isn’t a review, since I’m purposely keeping it too informal for it to be labeled such) about a currently-airing anime such as this. But I know I can get away with [...]

My thoughts on the “horse race” mentality in dating sim anime

My thoughts on the “horse race” mentality in dating sim anime

Warning: this post has Kanon 2006 spoilers. I think I’d probably surprise a few people after a certain post I made on the ASuki forums, but I actually think the “horse race” mentality in harem/dating-sim anime has its place… sometimes. For those who don’t know what it is (which isn’t a surprise, since I’m almost [...]