How I learned to stop worrying and love the Harem
I recently watched Amaenaidayo, a rather generic fanservice anime with a mind-numbing plot and cliched characters and, shoot me, I actually thoroughly enjoyed it. It wasn’t special, it wasn’t brilliant or intellectually stimulating and most other critics would happily can it, but I found it incredibly fun and entertaining. I laughed at the jokes, I [...]
Disagreeing with reviews
I haven’t done an NHRV related article for a while, so I figured now was the time. I think we have a great staff with mature opinions and appreciable anime knowledge, but, as is the case with any review database stitched together by multiple people, there are going to be disagreements. I’m the strange one [...]
A ‘Bokura ga Ita’-related aside
Friendly shout-out to all Bokura ga Ita fans (I like to think I’ve converted a few around these parts): check this out. It’s a vocal album with (I think) all of the OP and ED pieces from the anime, and some of the songs (particularly Sasaki Nozomi‘s works) are outstanding. I think all Bokura ga [...]
Spring 2007: First thoughts
Spring is traditionally the strongest season of the year, and I can’t see any indication so far why that won’t be the case again this year. There’s a real plethora of entertaining titles out there, and while we haven’t had an entry of the calibre of Suzumiya Haruhi (which really took the anime watching world [...]
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 [...]
