In Search Of… Fafner in the Azure

Good morning and welcome to a New Year to all of you wonderful people out there in the Otakusphere. It is once more time to talk about my continuing journey In Search Of… my next favorite anime. I’m still impressed by my cleverness. So what is this feature? Well, people have been regularly submitting anime […]

Why is Sound of the Sky so Bad? An #anitwitwatches post

Let’s get this out of the way right off the bat; Sound of the Sky is a bad show. It’s on my list of the worst shows I’ve ever seen. But it’s terrible in a unique way. To be fair, this seems to be a personal opinion. Most of the fellow people watching this show […]

In Search Of … Moribito: Guardian of the Spirit

Hello, all you fine folks out there in the Otakusphere. After a long break, it’s once again time for me to take an anime from the list recommended to me as I go In Search of… my next favorite anime. So what is this feature? Well, people have been regularly submitting anime for me to […]

Talking about Real Girl and Higehiro and bad endings

This is a post about the endings of anime, in particular Real Girl and Higehiro. While I don’t think anything I’m going to spoil should ruin your enjoyment, I am talking about the ending of shows, which means I am spoiling stuff. You have been warned. The first time I watched Mr. Smith Goes to […]

How Bad is Fate/Stay Night? An #anitwitwatches Post

Adaptations are a complex art. Any adaptation is a series of choices. What should be included? What shouldn’t be? What should be changed? How can the adapters capture the spirit of the original? Then there are the expectations from the fans. Most people won’t enjoy a panel-by-panel remake of a manga with no animation. For […]

My Love Letter To OreGairu

I’m probably one of the worst people to talk about “favorite” anime of all time. If I finish a show, I’m generally positive about it. A quick glance at my My Anime List profile shows my mean score is 7.55. This means I rate most shows somewhere between a 7 and an 8. Even more […]

My Break-up Letter with Last Exile

The first time I watched Last Exile, I was blown away. I was in my mid-20s, and I picked up the show mainly on a whim. But I had never seen any combination of 2-D and CG animation look that good. The first moment when the vanships float through the air like WWI biplanes was […]

The story of Two Watches and RahXephon — an #AniTwitWatches post

So I’m writing about RahXephon again. A few months ago, we finished up watching RahXephon as part of #anitwitwatches. What is #anitwitwatches, you might ask? Well, it’s a group watch led by Jon Spencer Reviews where we watch episodes of a show every Monday and tweet about them. I’ve been participating since 2019. It’s a […]

The Otakusphere: Turkey Day, Different Opinions and, man, do I feel old

Good morning, afternoon or evening wherever you are in internetland. It’s Sunday in my corner of the hinterlands, which means it’s time for another trip around the Otakusphere. We are fast approaching Thanksgiving here in the United States, which is a holiday that I’ve never really been a big fan of. Sure, the food is […]

The Otakusphere: Snail Love, Relaxing fishing and he did what?

Good morning, afternoon or evening out there in the internet land. It’s Sunday here in my corner of the hinterlands, which means it’s time to take another cruise around The Otakusphere. It’s been a rough week for me, but I managed to survive. For the first time in a long time, I binged not one […]