Sword Art Online began airing in 2012 . I was really excited for the show, but I wasn’t quite ready to get my hopes up after I had been so excited for Guilty Crown, which though pretty, wasn’t very good. I started watching the first episode. It was a bit slow until the climax, but… Read More Throwback Thursdays: Sword Art Online
A few years back, I was hearing a lot of good comments about a few different anime: Steins Gate, Anohana, and Madoka Magica. Now of these my favorite is Anohana: The Flower We Saw That Day. This series follows a group of childhood friends who are now high schoolers who have not gotten along since… Read More Throwback Thursdays: Anohana
SKET Dance is a former Shōnen Jump manga, that was adapted into an anime in 2011. This comedic series follows the mysterious school club known as SKET Dan, which functions practically as a “Helper’s Club.” The organization consists of three main characters who work together to help people who come to them with requests. The… Read More Throwback Thursdays: SKET Dance
At the start of the 2013 fall anime season, I was looking at different synopses for different series. One that seemed interesting to me was for a series called Arpeggio of Blue Steel: Ars Nova. The description didn’t sound great, but the ship designs looked cool. When the first episode came out, I watched it,… Read More Throwback Thursdays: Arpeggio of Blue Steel – Ars Nova –
Samurai 7 is based on the Japanese film Seven Samurai (Shinchinin no Samurai), produced by the legendary film director Akira Kurosawa, the difference being that Samurai 7 takes the period action and drama of Seven Samurai and throws it into a into a mix of science-fiction, diesel-punk, and historical-ish timeline that feels like the anime… Read More Throwback Thursdays: Samurai 7
A month ago, TWWK offered all of the readers on this blog the opportunity to decide what anime you wanted me to review. I am stunned at the result. I never imagined that Natsume Yuujin-Cho would win, especially against Sword Art Online. Well anyway, prepare yourselves as I am about to begin. Natsume Yuujin-Cho (aka… Read More TBT Readers Choice Winner: Natsume Yuujin-Cho
Every other Thursday, Zeroe4, a long-time columnist here and real life missionary in Japan, reminiscences about some of his favorite series from yesteryear. If you haven’t read his column yet, I highly encourage you go through his posts so far – you’ll probably either get nostalgic yourself, find a gem you missed, or both! For… Read More Throwback Thursday Readers Choice
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