How far would you go to make a wish come true? Rumor has it, Urashima Tunnel grants your heart’s desire, if only you can find it and if only you are willing to pay the toll, which is counted out in days and years rather than legal tender. You see, time moves differently inside that… Read More Film Review: The Tunnel to Summer, the Exit of Goodbyes
A boy approaches a girl sitting in the rain and offers her his umbrella. But these two aren’t quite strangers: they are next-door neighbors who attend the same high school. Mahiru, known around school as an “angel” for being practically perfect in every way, returns the favor of the umbrella by taking care of Amane… Read More First Impression: The Angel Next Door Spoils Me Rotten
In episode 12 of Horimiya, the manifold relationships are bouncing in all different directions. Some are growing toward romance, some are in a weird in-between state, and some, like the relationship between Hori and Miyamura, are heading toward a reckoning. It’s a great picture of our lives during this season, actually, for while Christmas comes… Read More 12 Days of Christmas Anime, Day 9: Horimiya and Relationships of the Season
In something like an early modern European-ish kingdom, Elianna thinks she’s a fake fiancée, a placeholder for some future “real” one. For reasons she seriously doesn’t comprehend, the shiny Prince Christopher proposed to her several years ago, and she accepted because…it meant she could read more books. But from the outset, Elianna expected to be… Read More First Impression: Bibliophile Princess
Blue Box is the newest manga series to hit Shonen Jump. From mangaka Kouji Miura, who previously created two different shonen romance series, this one seems to fall into the same category of romance, but with a sports-theme. The first chapter introduces Taiki Inomata, a badminton player in the combined Eimei Junior and Senior High… Read More Manga First Impression: Blue Box
Yen Press provided a review copy of one of their newest light novels, The Angel Next Door Spoils Me Rotten, Vol. 1. and so, for all intents and purposes, this is a review of that light novel. That said, my thoughts on this light novel are more personal and somewhat less review-like. ~ stardf29 Amane… Read More A Review and Musings on The Angel Next Door Spoils Me Rotten, Vol. 1
What do you do, and how do you move forward, after you’ve experienced a bittersweet, youthful love? Happy-Go-Lucky Days, currently streaming at the Asian Pop-up Cinema Festival, examines these questions through three stories, each particular in a variety of ways, but all connected by same threads of sadness, joy, and maturation. Those who have read… Read More Review: Happy-Go-Lucky Days