Japanese animation
Welcome to The Avocado’s weekly discussion of Japanese pop culture! With Christmas approaching, I assume that you have all put in your orders for this year’s KFC Christmas Dinner Set. Or maybe you plan on getting your chicken from your … Continue reading Weekly Japanese Pop Culture Thread (December 16, 2020)
Welcome back to VTubing with Quinley, a column about a relatively recent and very online phenomenon, Virtual Youtubers. Today’s column will attempt to answer a question that I imagine lingers in the subconscious of anyone who has happened across VTubers, … Continue reading Virtual YouTubing – What are VTubers?
Sorry, was recovering from finals last week and overslept. I’ve got a lot to talk about this week, though! It’s Animation Time! Continue reading Animation Time
Welcome to The Avocado’s weekly discussion of Japanese pop culture! It’s the most wonderful time of the year. The time for cake! Okay, you can have cake any time of the year, but what about a delicious and beautiful Christmas … Continue reading Weekly Japanese Pop Culture Thread (December 9, 2020)
Gamers! (ゲーマーズ！) is a 12-episode “romantic”-comedy from 2017 by Studio PINE JAM adapted from a light novel. Synopsis Keita Amano is a loner whose only friends are the video games he plays constantly when one day the school idol Karen … Continue reading Anime Worth Watching: Gamers!
Welcome to The Avocado’s weekly discussion of Japanese pop culture! As you may have heard, The New York Times included Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken! on its “Best TV Shows of 2020” and “Best International Shows of 2020” lists recently. … Continue reading Weekly Japanese Pop Culture Thread (December 2, 2020)
Not quite Adventure Time, but with a comment section not much less off-topic than the AV Club review ones. It’s Animation Time! What animated things have you been into lately? What’s a recent episode of something you saw that lacks a dedicated review … Continue reading Animation Time
Welcome to The Avocado’s weekly discussion of Japanese pop culture! I think it’s been a reasonable amount of time since I last took advantage of this space to promote Kenshi Yonezu’s music. If you didn’t give him a listen last … Continue reading Weekly Japanese Pop Culture Thread (November 25, 2020)
Note: I will be reviewing the whole Fate/Heavens Feel trilogy, as such there may be some generalized spoilers for the first two and you’ll want to be sure to have read last weeks article on the Fate/ franchise as a … Continue reading Anime Worth Watching: Fate/Heavens Feel movie trilogy
Not quite Adventure Time, but with a comment section not much less off-topic than the AV Club review ones. It’s Animation Time! What animated things have you been into lately? What’s a recent episode of something you saw that lacks a dedicated review … Continue reading Animation Time
Welcome to VTubing with Quinley. This column is a space for me to explore a sometimes fascination sometimes hyper-fixation of mine: Virtual Youtubers. The idea for this column came about from a comment I made in the Weekly Japanese Pop … Continue reading Virtual YouTubing – An Introduction
Welcome to The Avocado’s weekly discussion of Japanese pop culture! This week I have another cooking adventure to share. This time, it was inspired by my mom. Well, she was actually inspired by The Great British Bake Off, which is … Continue reading Weekly Japanese Pop Culture Thread (November 18, 2020)
Were doing things a bit differently this week and next, because some series can’t be confined down to just one “series” and are multi-media franchises were going to take a run through all of Fate/ to tell you where should … Continue reading Anime Worth Watching: Fate/ Franchise
Not quite Adventure Time, but with a comment section not much less off-topic than the AV Club review ones. It’s Animation Time! What animated things have you been into lately? What’s a recent episode of something you saw that lacks a dedicated review … Continue reading Animation Time
Welcome to The Avocado’s weekly discussion of Japanese pop culture! I don’t have anything planned for this week, so I’ll just feature the cute anime With a Dog AND a Cat, Every Day is Fun. It’s exactly what it sounds … Continue reading Weekly Japanese Pop Culture Thread (November 11, 2020)
Suisei no Gargantia is a (翠星のガルガンティア aka Gargantia on the Verdurous Planet) is a 13-episode 2013 sci-fi series from Production IG with series composition by Gen Urobuchi. Synopsis While fighting an intense inter-galactic war, a mecha pilot was accidentally warped … Continue reading Anime Worth Watching: Suisei no Gargantia
Not quite Adventure Time, but with a comment section not much less off-topic than the AV Club review ones. It’s Animation Time! What animated things have you been into lately? What’s a recent episode of something you saw that lacks a dedicated review … Continue reading Animation Time
Welcome to The Avocado’s weekly discussion of Japanese pop culture! During the month of October I fall into a kind of Halloween wormhole where I only listen to spooky music, watch spooky movies/TV, and read spooky stories. So I didn’t … Continue reading Weekly Japanese Pop Culture Thread (November 4, 2020)
Jungle wa Itsumo Hare Noiichi Guu (ジャングルはいつもハレのちグゥ in Japanese; the US release is known as just Hare+Guu because the original title is a bit of a pun that does not translate well directly and Hare+Guu is the title of the … Continue reading Anime Worth Watching: Jungle wa Itsumo Hare Noiichi Guu
Not quite Adventure Time, but with a comment section not much less off-topic than the AV Club review ones. It’s Animation Time! What animated things have you been into lately? What’s a recent episode of something you saw that lacks a dedicated review … Continue reading Animation Time
Welcome to The Avocado’s weekly discussion of Japanese pop culture! I’m a big fan of Japanese candy, so let’s talk about some of our favorites today. Pocky is a classic favorite of mine, and it was the first Japanese treat … Continue reading Weekly Japanese Pop Culture Thread (October 28, 2020)
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