The best thing about watching anime (besides the shows themselves) are the songs. Here’s my personal Top 20. It was hard to cull from a list of 50-ish songs. To think I was foolish enough to attempt a Top 10 list at first. That was, of course, a […]
The Age of Making Dreams I took a while to settle into this story that examines the relationships between a quartet of young people. Ah, the irrepressibility of youth. At an age old enough to be their parent, I am already over the hill or as one Chinese […]
Beastars was a silent dark horse. A big one. I dropped it quickly at the start of the season, no hesitation, no previews – because the title didn’t sound sexy. Only came back to it when someone recommended. Hurray! for the Otakus in our midst. Such connections ought […]
Loosely translated, it means “grown-up women’s anime time”. 4 vignettes of 4 females at varying stages of life (based on 4 short stories written by award-wining novelists): Kawamo wo Suberu Kaze (The wind that slides over the river): Noriko, 33, married with a 4-year old son Yuuge (Dinner): Mimi, 29, […]
I’ve been wanting to say this from the very first episode: I’m a big fan of Juuni Taisen. With 1 more episode to go, we’re already down to the winner of this war. The anime has been quite consistent, except for Rabbit’s backstory. But I suppose there’s more […]
the last word 