The Top Animes

I can under­stand why you may have decided not to watch Aquar­ion EVOL. It’s a sequel to a show made in the early 00’s that wasn’t par­tic­u­larly well received. Even if the sequel is set 12,000 years into the future, it prob­ably wasn’t worth check­ing out. Let me tell you now, as a per­son who never watched the [...]

Upon return­ing from my self-imposed hiatus, the first anime I caught up on was Space Bros. The intent was to do a quick post sum­ming up my thoughts on the latest batch of epis­odes so I could get back into the groove of epis­odic blog­ging. I figured this might be dif­fi­cult though. Try­ing to cram in 3 epis­odes worth of [...]

When a show is pop­u­lar, more of it gets made. Sequels, pre­quels, spin-offs, retell­ings, reit­er­a­tions, recaps, altern­ate worlds, altern­ate char­ac­ters, altern­ate focus. Fan con­sensus begins to decide where is the best place to start, what to skip, where to move next, what the cor­rect chro­no­lo­gical order is. To a new­comer, this can all be intim­id­at­ing. Where on [...]

Boy I’m not very good at this whole ‘being on hiatus’ thing. Already I’ve writ­ten two really long posts since the sup­posed hiatus. This just hap­pens to be how I wind down. I’m weird like that. For the record, I haven’t watched anime in over a week, so I’m at least one epis­ode behind on everything. A– Sank­area Epis­odes 1–3 [...]

Wel­come to another addi­tion to Noth­ing To Do With Anime What­so­ever. It would be rather dif­fi­cult to write about anime any­way, con­sid­er­ing I haven’t watched any in well over a week. I’ve been too busy com­pos­ing my final year uni­ver­sity dis­ser­ta­tion, which is focus­ing on Brit­ish TV news com­edy shows. The main driv­ing force behind the dis­ser­ta­tion [...]

Site News / 27th Apr 2012 You may have noticed my blog hasn’t been in the health­i­est state lately. I exceeded my monthly band­width limit, which in my ini­tial panic meant “oh shit oh god oh golly I’ve been DDoS’d”. Turns out I was just too pop­u­lar for my own good. I con­tac­ted my hosts ask­ing what it [...]

Anime Analysis / 21th Apr 2012 The dad in Sank­area wants to mono­pol­ise his affec­tion for his daugh­ter. The main char­ac­ter in Kids on the Slope really likes this girl and wants to appear cool in front of her. These are two dis­tinct char­ac­ter traits for two char­ac­ters, but what I really like about both of [...]

That old beast, The Anib­log Tour­ney, has star­ted up for the second time. The aim is quite simple. Smash the egos of blog­gers who get crushed under the weight of voters from well-established blogs who barely register the tourney’s exist­ence. Actu­ally the aim of the tour­ney is to provide a tool for people to dis­cover new [...]

More than any­thing else, I’ll miss these shots of Yuno’s crazed eyes. For any other prob­lems Future Diary had, the one area you can’t deny it excelled at was depict­ing Yuno as a psychotic lunatic. I was expect­ing some­thing a bit cra­zier from Future Diary’s finale. The final few epis­odes kept ramp­ing up the lun­acy from epis­ode [...]

Future Diary / 17th Jan 2012 The winter sea­son has so far been the sea­son of extraordin­ar­ily shitty open­ing songs. Even Per­sona 4 changed it’s kick­ass ori­ginal song to some other dull thing. With all that com­pet­i­tion elim­in­ated, Future Diary takes the award for the best open­ing from an anime I’m cur­rently watch­ing. But hey, I talked [...]