In Search of Number Nine — An anime blog
A search for my ninth favorite anime
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 […]
Read More In Search Of … Moribito: Guardian of the SpiritThis 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 […]
Read More Talking about Real Girl and Higehiro and bad endingsAdaptations 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 […]
Read More How Bad is Fate/Stay Night? An #anitwitwatches PostSo 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 […]
Read More The story of Two Watches and RahXephon — an #AniTwitWatches postGood morning, afternoon or evening where you are in the world. It’s Sunday in my corner of the Hinterlands, which means it’s time for another trip around The Otakusphere. So I’m wrapping up my vacation today, which is a bit depressing. It’ll be back to the grind tomorrow, but overall, it was nice to get […]
Read More The Otakusphere: So many controversies and EvaSo, it’s always felt that the Friends, Roman, Countrymen speech gets an unfair shake in popular culture. It’s never gets treated with the same gravity as the To Be or Not to Be. It’s not as rousing as the St. Crispin’s Day speech. It doesn’t even get the traction that the I am a Jew […]
Read More The Evil that Lives After in Galaxy Express 999“It makes sense to basically everybody to imagine ‘non-Japanese anime’: this doesn’t provide any of the difficulties presented by imagining, for instance, a ‘square circle’; similarly, we can also imagine ‘live-action anime.’ In fact, we do not merely need to imagine these things: there is media that gets classified this way (Stet), and whether or […]
Read More In My View: Where fewer distributors, marketing and anime definitions meetWhen I watch anime, I watch it from a Western viewpoint, or to be more accurate, a very American viewpoint. In a lot of ways, this is not a surprise. I mean, I am American. I grew up in the United States with all of the propaganda and indoctrination that includes. I celebrate the Fourth […]
Read More Science the destroyer in Galaxy Express 999Good morning, afternoon or evening wherever you are in the world. It’s Sunday in my corner of the hinterlands, so that means it’s time to see what is going on in the Otakusphere. This has been a rough couple of weeks for me here in my corner of the world. We have what I like […]
Read More The Otakusphere: Polyamory, School Days and beware the grease apocalypseOne of the hardest things for me to do is to separate my general proclivities from my analysis. See, at heart, I’m a contrarian. When everyone says something is bad, I tend to look at it more favorably. The opposite is true as well. When people tell me how wonderful something is, I will tend […]
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In Search of Number Nine — An anime blog 