Category Archives: anime

Before the recent boom in supernatural fiction, I never really thought much about the undead.  Sure, I’d hacked my way through my share of animated skeletons and zombies in many an RPG, but they were just sort of incidental monsters, … Continue reading →

It’s a bit odd to be talking about “Sanctuary” now.  I mean, it’s not exactly a new release, it came out during the mid 1990s and is long out of print in this country as far as I can tell. … Continue reading →

Let’s be perfectly clear: I am horribly, horribly tempted to write a whole new set of lyrics set to the tune of “Rainbow Connection“, starting with the title of this post and continuing apiece, but that is dangerously close to … Continue reading →

I “discovered” anime on Compuserve’s Comics and Animation forum in 1990, but I didn’t get my first hands-on-fix until I found that the local comics shop actually had a few tapes available for rent.  Most of these were untranslated multigenerational … Continue reading →

Fair warning: Wall o’ Text follows. The first time I went to an anime convention was 1993.  I didn’t even know such a thing existed before 1992, and I certainly couldn’t afford to get from the middle of Oregon to … Continue reading →

I’m going to come right out and say this: I’m stealing a Char quote for the title of this post and it’s intellectually dishonest to do so because I really haven’t watched much early Gundam.  I did buy the box … Continue reading →

I’ve been watching “Rosario+Vampire” lately, even though I have a lot of other stuff I really should prioritize in front of it. After all, it’s a show about goofy hijinks and panty shots, and I have Serious Dramas and Significant … Continue reading →

It’s been a month full of disembowelments. Firstly, my Japanese history class took two periods to watch Harakiri, a rather dark period film about poor Edo-era samurai, ritual suicide, bloody revenge and so on and so forth, and secondly I … Continue reading →