Behind The Nihon Review

Earlier this week, I took a look at Anime Content Expo’s “Kami Kai Theater” feature, wherein fans and industry people voted on which special episodes of anime shows deserved the title of “kami kai”, or divinely good.  In that article I promised that I would provide a top ten list of episodes of anime from [...]

Wow, I haven’t done one of these in a while!  I apologize to both of my readers and the other BtNRV staff members who have been carrying this place while I’ve been slacking.  I do not have an excuse, so I wont make one.  I just have not been inspired to write anything.  It’s not [...]

Hard to come back from a two-week hiatus and act like nothing happened.  I don’t know if anybody has taken a liking to reading these supposedly regular postings of mine, but in case there is:  sorry for being gone for two weeks!  School finals can be a cow on us all, and I had some [...]

There is a fundamental problem with ever doing something and slapping a big old number “1″ on it; it means you have to do a “2″, or you just look retarded for putting the “1″ on the first one.  Thankfully, the first installment of this series, which I hope to do… obviously… weekly, went well.  [...]

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 [...]