Kill la Kill FINAL : A Farewell To Uniformity
Well there’s a feeling I haven’t experienced in an age. Looking back at the first piece I slapped together regarding Studio Trigger’s initial leap into the television series gauntlet, I’m pretty...
View ArticleThrough Older Lenses: Prefectural Earth Defense Force (1986)
Meanwhile, at Hazama Medical University Hospital.. Ever have one of those bad hospital experiences? The kind that shake your faith in the medical establishment, and all that is right with the universe?...
View ArticleBridging The Gap: Longing For The Lyrical (Galaxy Express 999)
To expound feelings about the upcoming tweets, I cannot help but feel like anime as a medium has long been teetering between iconographic storytelling and didactic overkill. And as a longtime viewer of...
View ArticleThrough Older Lenses: Cosmos Pink Shock (1986)
It’s the year 2206, and a bright pink spacecraft has made an unauthorized launch from Pluto Space Base #17, and is sporting its hyper rocket engines with intense haste. As authorities seek to control,...
View ArticleHow To Muddle A Rebellion: Space Pirate Captain Harlock (2013)
Reinterpretation can often be an exciting, yet dicey thing, especially in regards to classic characters. And upon first catching the often breathtaking teasers for Shinji Aramaki’s opulent computer...
View Article20 Years of Macross Plus: What Pioneers May Come
“Dedicated to all pioneers..” A wink to both the past, and maybe things to come? It’s a difficult thing, topping what many consider to be a genuine cultural milestone. So many variables to be concerned...
View ArticleNew Chassis/ Classic Engine – Ghost In The Shell: ARISE
Newport City: A.D. 2027 Whilst exhuming a murdered body under investigation, Chief Daisuke Aramaki of Public Security Section 9, meets a young and already dangerous Motoko Kusanagi. There to protect...
View ArticleThrough Older Lenses: The Malleability Of Dieting
Been quite busy these last few months, and while in the office, I tend to listen to co-workers dish out what they enjoy via their streaming. It has become a unique period in time, one where we are now...
View ArticleThrough Older Lenses: Letting Go Of Live Action
Anime fans, asian cinema lovers, genre hounds. It’s time to grow a little. That’s right, I said it. It is no longer the “salad days” of fandom. It’s train that has long passed. In fact, when the best...
View ArticleGhost In The Shell At 20 (Now on Hulu Plus)
As raved about over Twitter just a short while ago, subscribers to Hulu Plus can now enjoy the recently released HD edition of Mamoru Oshii’s classic adaptation. Now alongside the later (and equally...
View ArticleThrough Older Lenses: A Candy Colored Pill They Call Shirobako
Someone recently asked me about current anime television, and what I have been spending limited time watching lately. And they were surprised to hear that a soft series like Shirobako, has pretty much...
View ArticleOtaku No Video Kickstarter Success (Why It Still Matters)
Upon catching up with the news via Twitter, among all the other amazing things happening yesterday, news came that Animeigo’s ambitious Blu-ray Kickstarter had ended to incredible success. More than...
View ArticleSense Impressions: NGE 20th Anniversary Celebration at AX 2015
If you had asked me two weeks ago if I was headed out this year toward the Los Angeles Convention Center for the anime celebration of the west coast, I likely would have given you a proud “no”. Truth...
View ArticleWho Killed The World? – The Bureau Of Proto Society Delivers
When anime has such a clear-eyed perspective on the zeitgest, I perk up. Imagine my bemused surprise when a medium so often concerned with appeasing our most questionable wishes, takes a well-timed...
View ArticleEvangelion at 20 – That (Brutal) Age
Being young hurts. Never let anyone tell you different. We can wax nostalgic all we want, but youth is the place where all the muscles get their first taste of resistance in the form of daily life....
View ArticleKabaneri Of The Iron Fortress: Same Club, New Woofers
Everything Is A Remix, as the touted video series suggests. Not unlike how favorite music finds itself warped into a virtually endless number of permutations, bound by the creativity of the remix...
View ArticleYour Name(2016): A Telling Tale (Film Thoughts)
In the race for anime box office domination (a race largely reserved for studios, and the occasional anime industry wonk), the unexpected can often be the most telling barometer of where art and...
View ArticleThe Convergence Miracle of Blade Runner Blackout 2022
Well over twenty four hours since it landed, and I remain in that rare place. A place where something one remembers in fragments, but is jolted back by a newly formed memory. A refrain of an old poem,...
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