Behind The Nihon Review

It feels like just yesterday that I was ripping on Gundam AGE for being a boring kid’s show.  There was so much wrong with the Gundam/Pokemon hybrid that I could only help shake my head in disbelief at how dreadfully mediocre the whole thing was.  Now one could argue that the show made no strong [...]

I am a child of the era of Pokemon, Final Fantasy VII, VII and IX.  Now before you bash me for lacking Final Fantasy IV under my belt, hear me out when I say that in the era of Fallout 3, God of War and Starcraft 2, it is extremely hard back to go back and play [...]

Title: Saya no Uta Genre: Drama Company: Nitroplus Platform: PC Release Date: Dec 26 2003 Synopsis: After surviving a serious car accident, medical student Sakisaka Fuminori undergoes brain surgery and comes to perceive the world in a whole new way. To him, what was once everyday objects have become twisted and malformed. Normal people look [...]

Near the beginning of this decade, I looked at the anime medium as a source of fresh ideas full of creativity and passion, completely unlike the everyday drivel that filled the American airwaves. For the first few years when I feasted on the cream of the crop my belief was seemingly reaffirmed. As my internet [...]

Now that anime has normalized to the level of everyday television sitcoms and dramas for me, I have reduce my consumption of the medium to hardcore mainstream titles and the seasonal aberrations. The simple fact is that the odd ducks tend to be the real winners of any season, and anything else just redefines mediocrity [...]