Impressions: Let’s talk about the best or worst show from 2021

One 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 […]

Reflections: Reviewing the stuff you hate

You are getting this post because I didn’t like the post I planned to put up this week. It veered a bit too personal, and I wasn’t really comfortable with that. So instead, I’m going to talk about opinions. A couple of weeks or so ago, Yomu put up a writing prompt that asked an […]

The Otakusphere: It’s still Sunday, right?

I’m always impressed by the amount of effort the various anime bloggers put in. I have a list of about 150 blogs that I peruse when I start putting together The Otakusphere, and I don’t always get through all of them. Today was no different. I started going through posts sometime around 10 a.m. and […]

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 […]