Rejecting the letterboxed world in RahXephon

Way back at the end of December, when I started these posts, I said I would likely revisit the themes of RahXephon. Well here I am, one month and 11 episodes later, and I am back talking about the struggle between having the world that you want and having the world that is provided for […]

Why we need to stop comparing RahXephon characters to Eva

One of the first things I ever wrote on this blog was about the common comparison between RahXephon and Evangelion. In a nutshell, people will often go with a simple straight-line comparison between the characters in the two shows. They’ll say Haruka is Misato, Quon is Rei, Megumi is Asuka, Itsuki is Kaji, and sometimes […]

The Otakusphere: Different perspectives, #anitwitwatches and I can’t stop copying Crow,

I got some good news this week. After bemoaning that normally the anime films only come to Spokane or Seattle, I learned Weathering with You is actually playing right here, in the town I live in. So I don’t need to travel for five hours. Neat-o. Granted, I waited a bit too long before making […]

The Bluebird of Sadness in RahXephon

Of all of the characters in RahXephon, Jin Kunigi is my favorite. There is a piece of myself that hates this realization. He is exactly the character that I’m meant to like. He’s a conflicted leader, who is trying to redeem himself for his past wrongs. He is a complicated character. On the one hand, […]

School Days is complete and utter BS and it doesn’t matter — An #AniTwitWatches post

A long time ago (in 2006), I worked in a Blockbuster video store. Around the same time, Rian Johnson’s first movie “Brick” came out. When I watched that movie, I loved it, but I realized that the premise of the movie is ludicrous. On paper, the plot is the kind of high school power fantasy […]

The Otakusphere: Movies I can’t see, shows I haven’t watched and old, old arguments

What’s new fellow ani-bloggers in the Otakusphere. Well, let me tell you. There’s a new season, and a new movie and new drama and new… well… shoes? This is just a long way of pointing out that Makoto Shinkai’s new film “Weathering with You” hit the big screens in the U.S. I can’t escape it […]

It’s time to RECOGNIZE… some bloggers

Way back in the before time, when I blogged before, there were no tag posts. In fact, there was this strange divide between what we called editorial blogs (like mine) and episode review blogs. There were a few outliers, but mostly they could be put into one of those two categories. I wish tag posts […]

The Ice Prince and His Brother The Sun in RahXephon

Beware! For ahead lay mild spoilers for RahXephon, or at least items I did not pick up until the second or third time I watched it. You have been warned. There were a lot of things I expected when I started this series of posts about RahXephon. I expected interest would dry up. I expected […]

The Otakusphere: Battle goats, Higurashi reborn and piles and piles of shame

We’ve made it out of the sucking hole that is the post-holiday season, and I’m starting to get ready to do all of my other work. That said, I’m slowly feeling better after having a rough patch there. I’ve fortified myself with some of the rotgut that I call coffee, and I’m prepared for another […]

Impressions: The end of 91 Days has brought a Concrete Revolutio to Dororo

I’ve been under the weather for the last couple days, so I’ve been doing what any right-thinking anime fan should do — I’ve been watching anime. Specifically, I’ve been catching up on my insane backlog of stellar shows that I have not watched during the last decade and change. It’s not all during the last […]