Over the next few months, we’ll be posting pieces written by Micah, a former Christian aniblogger. While his site, Otaku Collision, is no longer extant, we’ve arranged to keep a few of his treasured works (greatest hits?) alive on our site. This is the second post in the series (the first covered Rurouni Kenshin Trust… Read More Otaku Collision Series #2: The Full-Suffering Alchemist
While there are far fewer new anime this winter 2022 season than in the fall, there’s no shortage of wonderful openings! So many, in fact, that we couldn’t include many of our favorites, settling on these five awesome OPs: “Naked Hero” by Vaundy (Ranking of Kings) “Sansan Days” by Spira Spica (My Dress-up Darling) “Kaze… Read More Five Best Openings (OPs) of the Winter 2022 Anime Season
Happy Chinese (lunar) New Year! No surprise that the characters from Genshin Impact are celebrating, at least here in this lovely work of fan art. Do you celebrate Lunar New Year? It’s not a big deal in our household, though it is for my sister-in-law, who is Vietnamese, so she kind of brings the cheer… Read More Happy Genshin New Year!
Forget Being the Villainess, I Want to Be an Adventurer, Vol. 1 At age three, Serephione realizes she’s in one of those reincarnated-as-a-villainess isekai. Amid the stereotypical trappings of such tales (noblewoman engaged to prince, magic school, magically gifted commoner girl), Serephi’s character dies abandoned and rejected by all. Naturally, she wants to change her… Read More Reader’s Corner: Tribute to Star Wars, Rosen Blood Vol. 2, and Endo and Kobayashi Live!
It seems it’s not necessary to philosophize about the SOS Brigade to enjoy the clever, absurd comedy of the Haruhi franchise. On the other hand, it may be a lot of fun to do a little philosophizing, so in these coming weeks, I’ll be engaging with some of Koizumi’s theories about everyone and everything. How,… Read More Welcome to Haruhi’s Five Ways: On Philosophers and Giants
Neg has quickly become one of my favorite artists on Pixiv, at first because of Chainsaw Man fanart, but other pieces, too, including this lovely one of Howl’s Moving Castle. ★ 【Neg】「 少年ハウル 」 ☆
For 2022, I decided to tackle a number of manga that I had not yet read. Some I owned digitally via older Humble Bundles. Others were planned based on recommendations from friends. One of those recommendations was Bakuman—which was from the creators of Death Note. Much like that series, Bakuman is an thrilling manga with… Read More Newman’s Nook: Bakuman and Women
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