Archive for the ‘Anime Articles’ Category

The Aniblog Tourney begins for real: a few words from both persona of Canne

VOTE NOW! Canne’s anime review blog has finally stepped into the arena! It’s a pleasure to have friends, new and old, gathered here even for a short while. In order to make this post (which many people said was obligatory) more entertaining, I have employed the post format I occasionally used in my anime reviews; [...]

Five things I learned from re-watching Princess Mononoke: a 10-year late anime review

Hopefully, I can finally watch and review it with eyes unclouded. It’s been more than 10 years since the last time I watched Princess Mononoke back in my school days. This was one of the first Ghibli films I was exposed to. I remember that I did not love this anime all that much. I [...]

Canne’s Criteria for Identification of True ‘Anime Fan’ (plus common scenarios!)

This post is a direct continuation of ‘When did your anime fandom truly begin?’ in which I talked about the time when anime fandom truly began. After I wrote that post, it occurred to me that I was also discussing about the nature of ‘anime fan’ as well. What I wrote could be used to [...]

When did your anime fandom truly begin?

To celebrate 10 years of being an anime fan (can you believe that?), I am writing a multiple post series focusing on anime fandom. I reckon despite more than four years of anime blogging, I seldom wrote about anime fandom at all (with few exceptions). So for this first part, I’ll discuss about that specific [...]

Anime Fandom Discussion Part 1: When did your anime fandom truly begin?

To celebrate 10 years of being an anime fan (can you believe that?), I am writing a multiple post series focusing on anime fandom. I reckon despite more than four years of anime blogging, I seldom wrote about anime fandom at all (with few exceptions). So for this first part, I’ll discuss about that specific [...]

The 2nd Aniblog Tourney first impression: the Good, the Bad and the Ugly

Yellow Bracket…what a coincidence! It’s that time of year again. And before I go any further, big salute goes to the tourney staff s who labored for months and finally made the tourney happened again, this time bigger and probably better. As you might have guessed, the final bracket has just arrived and I, as [...]

Did ‘Snow White and the Huntsman’ steal the forest scene from Princess Mononoke?

From what I saw, it kind of did. Why did I start seeing anime scenes in every movie that I saw lately? Maybe I was just becoming a real anime fan now. This post is almost like a pop-up post for me. It is definitely short and I wrote it purely by impulse. But I [...]

Life is a game and freedom is the prize: a discussion about Battle Royale and The Hunger Games

Life is a game…but whose game? I feel like I am jumping on the bandwagon. Right now, everywhere I go in the online community, everyone is talking about The Hunger Games and more than a few also mentioned its similarity to Battle Royale. Both stories were mainly about a group of teenagers who were trapped [...]

Canne’s favorite live-action movies of 2011; a rather odd choice from an anime fan(?)

Surely most of you also watch movies from time to time. To me, live action movie is like an oni-san to anime; he is more serious, more realistic, more pessimistic but he is less dreamy and less carefree. I am, without a doubt, an anime fan and anime blogger. But I am also a self-proclaimed [...]

Canne’s distant world No.1: The war between shinobi is hell of blood

Dear loved one, please go to hell… This world was quite generic at first glance. In fact, what made it special was how this world seamlessly combined many generic features into itself. Basilisk: Kouga Nippou Chou was particularly praised for its character building rather than world building. But the world is not made of only [...]