Did Nisemonogatari Jump the Shark?
A couple weeks ago there was a lot of clamoring over Nisemonogatari’s infamous tooth brush scene. Reading certain reactions over the web might lead you to believe that there was an overnight revolution. That possibly, a new standard for fanservice and anime in general has been set by writer Isin Nisio and director Shinbo Akiyuki. Well [...]
What I Learned By Watching Anime THIS Week! #2
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. [...]
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 [...]
