Behind The Nihon Review

It’s the busy review writing period, so most of the activity in the next couple of weeks will be on the front page. Just today we’ve published reviews of the recently finished Nodame Cantabile ~Paris Chapter~ and Detroit Metal City, which ended in October, and we’ve got reviews of Kannagi, Akane-Iro ni Somaru Saka, [...]

I was originally planning on writing about something else, but after the discussion that came out of the last post, this topic was too interesting to ignore. The last post was about my disagreements with some of the ratings handed out by my fellow reviewers, and trying to justify those disagreements. As happens [...]

Here at The Nihon Review, we’re all civil enough to have the occasional respectful disagreement on anime (although it doesn’t actually happen all that often, arguably to do with the fact that the site possibly attracts like-minded people). Just yesterday we uploaded a review written by Kavik Ryx in which he panned Gasaraki, one [...]

This will probably come off as a bit of a “State of the Union” type blog post, similar to the ones you used to see on the now neglected 4chan staff blog (as an aside, I’ll admit that I’ve always greatly admired some of the philosophies behind how 4chan is run as an internet site… [...]

I was actually hoping for a couple more comments, particular from fellow staffers, before I replied to comments. I figured I’d just make a new post, rather than comment within the old post, since I left this for so long. Thanks to everyone who posted comments, it’s good to see that there are [...]