To push the rock or not in Galaxy Express 999

Sometimes it’s best to start at the beginning with one of these posts. I don’t really have a clever anecdote or a personal revelation to start this with. I just have a quote. A perfectly nonsensical quote stuck sideways in my head. It comes near the end of Episode 52 – Artemis of The Transparent […]

Love in the time of existentialism in Galaxy Express 999

No one really gets to live happily ever after in Galaxy Express 999. OK. That might not be entirely true. There are a handful of stories about people chasing their dreams that end happily — Chromeria the revolutionary, Fraiya the artist, Sakezan, the booze-swilling Tarzan ripoff. But these are the exceptions. What is strange is […]

Yuu is the moral center of Girls’ Last Tour — an #AniTwitWatches post

We wrapped up watching Girls’ Last Tour for #AniTwitWatches a couple of weeks ago and it has taken me that long to put my feelings together about the show. For those of you who don’t know, #AniTwitWatches is a group of folks led by Jon Spencer Reviews, who watch a show and talk about it […]