Archive for February 2012
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4th Anime Oscars?
It was just a month ago that I covered the AnimeSuki 2011 Choice Awards, and it’s the time of year where I like to go over my own, personal mock awards for anime. To quickly go over the ground rules, not much has changed from last year. Anime are eligible if 1.) I’ve seen them [...]
Looking at Criticism: What Anibloggers can learn from Manga
I recently found a couple of copies of the Japanese literary magazine Eureka (romanized as Yuriika) at my school library. The book I checked out, the first volume of 2006, had a theme surrounding manga criticism, and strongly drew from an influential book published earlier in 2005 by Itou Gou called Tezuka is Dead. For [...]
What I Learned By Watching Anime THIS Week! #1
Last time I did something like this, I flat out admitted that I was phoning it in. Can you blame me? Posts like these are usually fairly random and just an excuse for me to not write an entire thesis on a particular scene. But that shit ain’t happening this time, no sir. This one’s [...]
Three Way Action – Episode 4
While Akira might have moved on to other things, that’s not gonna stop us from doing another ep of Three Way Action. For our first post-Akira show, I’m joined by Shadowmage and AC and we’ve gotten together for some good old-fashion adult fun. In this episode, we’ve taken a look at the current season and [...]
Winter 2012 Mid-season Impressions
The advent of 2012 seems like it was but yesterday, and already we’re halfway into the first season of the year. Coming off a resurgent year for the anime industry in terms of quality, my fellow elitists at NHRV have had high hopes that the promising titles of Winter 2012 signify a continuation of the [...]
