Mar
26
Surely with a contentious post title like this I’ve grabbed everyone’s attention.
I had a chance recently to revisit Air. It’s an incredibly bizarre series, purely because of the way it divides audiences. Anime has always had its fair share of love-it-or-hate-it anime, the most famous is probably Evangelion, but there’s no question that […]
Mar
18
AnimeReactor Community Awards 2006, results and discussion
March 18, 2007 | 6 Comments
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 […]
Mar
11
Is Death Note on its way downhill?
March 11, 2007 | 4 Comments
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 […]
Mar
4
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 […]
Feb
18
Mixed opinions of long running shounen series
February 18, 2007 | 2 Comments
Sometimes it can be difficult to find the motivation to write about anime, whether articles be reviews or blogs or whatever. I think anyone who’s been involved in anime-writing, or any sort of writing, professional or amateur has probably felt that at one stage. Really, it should be far too early for me […]