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
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?
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
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 [...]
Mixed opinions of long running shounen series
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 to feel [...]
