A couple of our faithful readers pointed out after episode four that it’s difficult to tell what’s real and what’s not in Lain, what the truth is and what isn’t. It’s a tricky series, one that keeps you guessing and, if we didn’t already know how acclaimed the show is, at times makes you wonder… Read More Serial Experiments Lain Revisited: Episode 05
“That sounds like a great story! Can I watch it with you?” “Well, I want to watch it with some regularity…so no.” After completing Avatar: The Last Airbender and Violet Evergarden with me, my roommate has learned well how hard it is to align both our schedules, even though we live in the same house.… Read More Lynna’s Journey (Entry #5): Will You Watch This Anime With Me?
Part of what makes Steins;gate 0 such a treat is that we get to see our beloved characters interacting with one another as friends. While the original series showed how this group came together as one (at first, there were pockets of friends, mostly associated with Okabe), by this season, there’s one massive group, a… Read More Steins;gate 0 Shows that Friendship is Hard
I’m a skeptic, especially when it comes to the “goodness” of humanity—even how it’s expressed in anime. When Nile, struggling with himself about what’s right and wrong, chooses to side with Erwin in doing what he’s feels is right, I almost harumphed. In Attack on Titan‘s fascist society, I felt it would be almost impossible… Read More Attack on Titan Episode 42: Doing Right or Doing Might
Serial Experiments Lain famously delves into topics like communication, technology, and social constructs, and we’ve seen all those expressed in the first few episodes. But as we continue our dive into Lain for the show’s twentieth anniversary, we’ve hit an episode with another theme that hasn’t yet been explored, and a title that matches. Episode… Read More Serial Experiments Lain Revisited: Episode 04
It’s sometimes difficult to find a series that my wife and I both enjoy, that we can watch together. But in Re:Zero, I think I may have found one. It hits all the accessibility points for her, and is a series that I would like to watch again as well. I realized I’d forgotten so… Read More Whether Its Hapa Elf or Hapa Asian, Still the Same Old Discrimination
Episode 41 of Attack on Titan is very appropriately entitled, “Trust.” Hanji rescues Flegel from Interior Police troops who seek to kill him, but should he trust her and the scouts? Levi and the others capture Hitch and Marlo, who decides he wants to join them: should they trust him? And should Hitch and Marlo… Read More Attack on Titan, Episode 41: Think Like Hanji, Act Like Flegel
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