Anime roundup 1/1/2015: Best of 2014
In this week’s viewing: Celestial Method finishes in the nick of time, and then it’s time for some awards recommendations!
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Anime roundup 9/25/2014: Au Revoir, Not Adieu
In this week’s viewing: Two more shows pack their bags, but only for a temporary absence, and more!
Anime Roundup 9/18/2014: Moving On
In this week’s viewing: JoJo reaches halftime, Hunter x Hunter starts wrapping things up, and more!
Anime roundup 9/11/2014: Things Are Seldom What They Seem
In this week’s viewing: Nothing goes as expected, from the latest introduction in Sailor Moon to everything in Hunter x Hunter!
Anime Roundup 9/4/2014: Back From the Brink
In this week’s viewing: Miraculous recoveries are everywhere, including two major characters and Aldnoah Zero’s writing!
Anime Roundup 8/29/2014: Friends With Disadvantages
In this week’s viewing: Sphinx is going to be sorry about making a friend on Terror in Resonance, Polnareff is very sorry about thinking of his loved ones in JoJo, and more!
Anime Roundup 8/21/2014: Not Always Better Together
In this week’s viewing: Romance, family ties, their unhealthy flipsides, and more!
Anime roundup 8/14/2014: Hen Party
In this week’s viewing: Female antagonists are everywhere! Except for JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure, which lives up to its name once again.
Anime roundup 8/7/2014: Smoke and Mirrors
In this week’s viewing: Mind games, plotting, and counter-plotting all over the place!
Anime Roundup 7/31/2014: Message Alert
In this week’s viewing: Aldnoah Zero and Terror in Resonance go heavy on the symbolism, and more!
Anime Roundup 7/24/2014: Too Much Fun
In this week’s viewing: After disposing of the worst premiere of the season, the lineup is brutally cut to the maximum of five shows. Who will survive?
Anime Roundup 7/3/2014: Out With a Bang
In this week’s viewing: Epic fireworks are ahead with the conclusion of Brynhildr and a look back at Hunter x Hunter’s Chimera Ant arc.
Yoshihiro Togashi and Growth As A Creator
A look at Hunter x Hunter by Yoshihiro Togashi in comparison with his other major manga-turned-anime, Yu Yu Hakusho
An Homage To Feminine Male Characters (And The Women Who Voice Them)
It has long been a fascination that the shonen manga industry has allowed male characters who are not typically masculine to be interesting, complex, and relatable characters, as well as allowing women to take on the roles of young men.
Anime roundup 10/25/2013: Step By Step
In this week’s viewing: The shows that will be covered in this discussion column for the rest of the season are chosen! And the others are whined about!
Anime roundup 10/4/2013: Judgement Day
It’s time to wrap up the shows we’ve been following this past season and look at the first harbingers of the new one.
Anime roundup 9/27/2013: Chekhov’s Arsenal
In this week’s viewing: The Eccentric Family does a clinic on setup and payoff, Day Break Illusion demonstrates how not to do it, and more!
Anime roundup 8/20/2013: And They Made a Most Agreeable Thump When They Hit the Ground
In this week’s viewing: It’s that late-season moment when the plot cards are all on the table and fisticuffs break out in all directions!
Anime roundup 9/13/2013: Cut Day
In this week’s viewing: The Eccentric Family lays bare a dastardly plot, Gatchaman Crowds creeps out its local viewers, and more!
Anime roundup 9/6/2013: Always Look On the Bright Side of Life
In this week’s viewing: Gatchaman Crowds continues to go to unexpected places, the Shimogamo family tree contains surprises, and more!
Anime roundup 8/23/2013: Your Princess Is In Another Reality
In this week’s viewing: Space Brothers gets drop-kicked, Day Break Illusion causes a lecture on honorifics, and more!
Anime roundup 8/16/2013: Take Heart
In this week’s viewing: Hunter x Hunter lays on the foreshadowing, Space Brothers, of all shows, does something mindbogglingly, cringingly offensive, and more!
Anime roundup 8/9/2013: The Zero’s Journey
Hunter x Hunter #90 – Nodding to old sf tropes once again, the new Chimera Ant king is after both braaaaaaaains and our women. And he demonstrates how mustache-twirlingly evil he is by killing two […]
Anime roundup 8/2/2013: Take a Number
Gatchaman Crowds #3 – This is the first sf work I know of to grapple full-on with the implications of widespread social networking. In any medium. You can point to any number of stories where […]
Anime roundup 7/26/2013: The Safety Dance
Gatchaman Crowds #2 – Gatchaman Crowds has declared its thesis topic, which is the gamification of human interactions as mediated by the Internet. Gamification is, broadly, the application of game-like scoring systems to Internet sites […]
Anime roundup 7/19/2013: Expository Lumps
And now, the rest of your season premieres! For those who were eagerly awaiting Symphogear G or the new Milky Holmes, I regret to inform you that they haven’t been picked up for international streaming. […]
Anime roundup 7/5/2013: The Moving Finger Writes
Gargantia on the Verdurous Planet, end – By golly, they managed it. The big fight scene and enough time left over to wrap up all the loose ends, including what Earth was doing as one […]
Anime roundup 6/28/2013: Fall of the Guardians
Gargantia on the Verdurous Planet #12 – Is it an act of insubordination if you refuse the orders given by your superior officer’s ghost? Or does that mech fight just count as damaging government property? […]
Anime roundup 6/21/2013: The Great Chain of Beating
Hunter x Hunter #84 – One of the recurring features of shōnen series is a tendency to look at characters exclusively through who they can and can’t defeat in a fight. The shōnen world can […]
Anime roundup 6/14/2013: Strange Aeons
Gargantia on the Verdurous Planet #10 – So the magical glowing trails from which all the fleets of Earth draw their electricity are, basically, squid dandruff. Next it will probably turn out that the lightbugs […]
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