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Still warm 20 Aug 2013 | 03:29 am
In another life, I may have been a vegetarian, but in this day and age of supermarkets and their aisles of prepared meat, it’s hard to imagine something as generic as a chicken breast once belonging t...
Kickstartering the future of anime 31 Jul 2013 | 01:57 pm
This article is my third attempt at writing a piece about crowd funding and anime, each time I’ve tried to do so another development forced me to re-write it, illustrating just how quickly crowdsourci...
And Punpun is just fine, today. 26 Jul 2013 | 09:11 pm
I spent two days reading up to the latest releases of Oyasumi Punpun. I spent two days kicking myself for not reading Inio Asano’s longest-running work sooner; assuming it would be inferior to the tig...
Death to the fantasy 21 Jul 2013 | 07:49 pm
Of all the new anime that I’ve seen this season, it’s probably WataMote that has left me with the strongest impression, to the point where I went ahead and started reading the manga straight after wat...
In the Mouth of Madness: Aku no Hana 3 Jun 2013 | 01:55 am
There’s a beautiful scene at the end of episode seven of Aku no Hana (Flowers of Evil.) Finally overcome with the guilt of stealing Saeki’s gym clothes, Kasuga asks Nakamura to help him confess and in...
Ghosts in their own ghost stories: Shokuzai 19 May 2013 | 02:55 am
“If it cannot break out of its shell, the chick will die without ever being born. We are the chick-The world is our egg. If we don’t crack the world’s shell, we will die without ever truly being born....
Majestic Prince 12 May 2013 | 08:42 pm
Every season has its dark horses and this one is no different. I’ve been excited about Flowers of Evil, Attack on Titan and Gargantia on the Verdurous Planet since the offset, but I ignored Majestic P...
Power and responsibility in Gargantia on the Verdurous Planet 28 Apr 2013 | 08:53 pm
There’s something of a power struggle going on in Gargantia on the Verdurous Planet. Although he doesn’t seem to want it, Ledo could easily become a tyrant. His robot is so powerful that the sheer dis...
U mad, bro? Fujoshis, Swimming Anime and Kyoto Animation 27 Apr 2013 | 12:59 am
When I think about Free!, known and loved by all of tumblr and the internet as Swimming Anime, I find myself in a bit of a dreamlike haze. What actually surprises me about the Kyoto Animation ‘fan’ ‘b...
Don’t give up: dying in pursuit of change and The Sky Crawlers 24 Apr 2013 | 03:00 am
Mamoru Oshii doesn’t make forgettable anime. Be it Ghost in the Shell or Patlabor 2, the man injects so much personality into his films that it’s impossible not to recognise his touch. There is, of co...
