This inaugaral Maywatch edition features Gurren Lagann’s otaku delight, a reminiscence upon key Kyoto Animation figure Yoshiji Kigami, the Utena-isms in Ouran Koukou Host Club’s first episode, a deep dive into star animator Naoki Yoshibe and his contributions on ZUTOMAYO’s music videos, 2008 Hatsune Miku fanmade music videos, the slow decline towards insanity in Aku no Hana, and delinquent camaraderie in Kyou Kara ore Wa!!
Category Archives: anime
Kakegurui Review
Becoming entangled in each other / Stealing from each other / Deceiving each other / Exposing each other / Wanting from each other / Going mad with each other
JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure: Diamond is Unbreakable Review
You have the power to do the world a kindness nobody else can.
Summer 2024: Seasonal Anime First Impressions Part 1
First impressions include the middling Isekai Suicide Squad, the unsettling wish fulfillment of My Wife Has No Emotion, and the genre shortcomings of Twilight Out of Focus.
Ghost in the Shell (1995): Motoko Kusanagi’s Identity in the Information Age
“When the advent of computers made the externalization of memories possible, you should have taken its meaning more seriously.”
Alice in Deadly School (2021)
“Either way, we die,”; 2021’s anime of the year is Shigeyasu Yamauchi’s already forgotten anti-establishment coming-of-age tragedy.
It’s Bunsnax!: short animation you should watch in February 2021
If ever you grow tired of long TV series take a look at the first It’s Bunsnax; an article examining five exemplary short animations.
In Rachel’s Defense: hate the game, not the player
Barrages of hateful posts towards Tower of God’s Rachel have become popular as her actions have drawn the ire of anicommunites. Her character’s reception is unfair and a shame because she allows for Tower of God’s most interesting insight to its broken system making villains out of victims.
Tower of God #9 – The One-Horned Ogre
Tower of God’s ninth episode is a fine exhibition of the series’ dazzling heights and subsequent pitfalls in its most dramatic chapter thusfar.
Konohana Kitan (2017)
Endlessly fluffy and wholesome —a shining example of the best the iyashikei genre has to offer.
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