Stop pitying yourself. Pity yourself, and life becomes an endless nightmare. Osamu Dazai, Bungo Stray Dogs Season 2 Episode 7 Who doesn’t know the anime series Bungo Stray Dogs? For starters, the anime title means Literary Stray Dogs. Nakajima Atsushi is the series protagonist who early on in the series ran away from the orphanage he lived in. Eventually, Atsushi […]
Imagine this, you are on your semester break and nothing feels the same while taking a cup of hot chocolate when it’s raining outside. Sometimes you get the most serene feeling while other times you might not have something to do and boredom can take over. If you are bored, how about reading some manga? Luckily for you, I can […]
For years, there has been some speculation about why the classic movie ‘Dragon Ball Z: The Tree of Might’ villain Turles resembles Goku so much. Let’s find out why. All about Turles Turles’ first and only appearance was with the launch of the third feature film of the Dragon Ball Z series. As a low-class Saiyan who lusted for power, he planted […]
Yeah, I know. That’s what you guys think whenever you see a moe anime, right? Jokes and sarcasm aside, I can relate where you’re coming from if you’re one of those people. There are many prejudices and hypocrisies floating around about moe, even among some veteran anime fans. And I can’t defend 100% of them. But I can at least […]
Magic Knight Rayearth is an early 90’s Shojo series that was written and illustrated by CLAMP. It tells the story of three Japanese high school girls, Hikaru Shido, Umi Ryuuzaki, and Fuu Hououji, who all meet while their individual schools are visiting Tokyo Tower on a field trip. It is inside Tokyo Tower that the three school girls hear a […]
Chiaki Konaka is a very celebrated writer in the world of anime and for good reason. Mr. Konaka has consistently proven himself to be among the most challenging, innovative, and important anime writers in the last 25 years. While most people would choose Serial Experiments Lain as his magnum opus, Texhnolyze is actually my favourite Konaka work I’ve seen so […]
Citrus is a yuri romance manga that started in late 2012 and just recently ended. Although it looks like a second manga called Citrus Plus is planned. I don’t know if it’s going to follow the same characters nor have I read the manga. Early this year the studio Passione, also behind Rokka no Yuusha, aired a twelve episode adaptation to cover the first […]
Sailor Moon Super or just Sailor Moon “S” is the third instalment of the five season anime adaptation of Naoko Takeuchi’s original manga work from the 90’s. The story begins with Rei Hino (Sailor Mars) having a psychic dream (or a psychic premonition) of the end of the world. A time of ruin and destruction when darkness engulfs the light […]
I once reviewed an anime called Noir, a really well-done series from Bee Train. At that time, I also briefly mentioned that it has two spiritual successors. The latter one ran in ’07. Six years after Noir. This is El Cazador de la Bruja, written by Kanemaki Kenichi. Does it live up to its predecessor? Story: Nadie is a bounty hunter […]
After waiting for a really long time the much anticipated One-Punch Man Season 2 has been officially announced. Viz Media, which has secured the license of the show, took to Twitter to reveal the release date of One-Punch Man Season 2 Episode 1 as of April 9, 2019. Viz Media announced that it will start streaming the first subtitled episode […]