Japanese animation
Welcome to The Avocado’s weekly discussion of Japanese pop culture! It’s rainy and sleepy today where I am, so I’m going to need some J-Pop to get me ready for the day. Lately, I’ve been listening to a lot of … Continue reading Weekly Japanese Pop Culture Thread (September 9, 2020)
Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya (涼宮ハルヒの憂鬱) is a 14-episode supernatural slice of life comedy from 2006 by Kyoto Animation based on a series of novels by Nagaru Tanigawa. Synopsis Kyon (not his real name) is a high school boy who gets … Continue reading Anime Worth Watching: Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya
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 … Continue reading Animation Time
Welcome to The Avocado’s weekly discussion of Japanese pop culture! Today I have another cooking adventure to share with everyone. I’ve been wanting to attempt baking shokupan (Japanese milk bread) for a while now, but bread is pretty intimidating to … Continue reading Weekly Japanese Pop Culture Thread (September 2, 2020)
With the conclusion of our 30 Days of Anime Challenge yesterday, we’re getting ready to move onto the next phase. We’ve had a lot of fun running the last couple of these with the comic book challenge, Disney, films, and … Continue reading 30 Days Of Anime Challenge Day 31: Epilogue
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 … Continue reading Animation Time
If there’s a part of me that’s both pleased and frustrated with myself, it’s that over the course of this run of the 30 Days of Anime Challenge is that there is some consistency when it comes to certain questions. … Continue reading 30 Days Of Anime Challenge Day 30: The Show You Wish Would Never End
If there’s one thing that anime fans do is that the majority consume a lot of things that come from their favorite shows. Sometimes it may be the source material manga or book, other times posters, soundtracks, figures, pins, keychains, … Continue reading 30 Days Of Anime Challenge Day 29: Your Favorite Anime Memorabilia
There was, once upon a time, no legal streaming services when it came to anime. Then one of them went legit and the whole thing spiraled from there. It didn’t take long for one to become two and then first … Continue reading 30 Days Of Anime Challenge Day 28: What Streaming Services Do You Use?
With the previous day being all about the opening sequences, it’s no surprise that the next day will be about your favorite ending sequences. Like the openings, there’s a whole lot to like here since there’s so much variety out … Continue reading 30 Days Of Anime Challenge Day 27: Your Favorite Ending Sequences
Welcome to The Avocado’s weekly discussion of Japanese pop culture! I have a confession to make: I don’t really enjoy most movies. There’s a running joke among my friends that if I like a movie it must be spectacular because … Continue reading Weekly Japanese Pop Culture Thread (August 26, 2020)
The 26th day of the challenge is to pick out your favorite opening sequence/song and just go with it. If there’s a category that I can’t really narrow down to just one, this is definitely going to be it because … Continue reading 30 Days Of Anime Challenge Day 26: Best Opening Sequences
Are we there yet? Almost, as we’re in the final stretch of the challenge and we’re being asked who your favorite villain is. What makes a good villain? We talked about that briefly before, knowing that the 25th question would … Continue reading 30 Days Of Anime Challenge Day 25: Your Favorite Villain
When new anime projects are announced, be they feature films or TV series, one of the first things you want to find out about it – especially if it’s an adaptation – is which anime studio is working behind it. … Continue reading 30 Days Of Anime Challenge Day 24: Your Favorite Anime Studio
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 … Continue reading Animation Time
The twenty-third day of the challenge is most definitely a challenge and one that I’m going to cheat in a way. The basic premise is to come up with an “Anime you think had the best or most interesting art.” … Continue reading 30 Days Of Anime Challenge Day 23: Best Visually Designed Show
As I write about anime on a daily basis for my own site, we cover a lot of announcements of new projects that are coming up. The majority, as one would expect, are adapted from light novels, manga, or video … Continue reading 30 Days Of Anime Challenge Day 22: Your Favorite Original Anime
As we’ve found with some installments, some of these challenges are harder than others because of what they’re really asking. With this one, we’re going to dig into talking about our sometimes fuzzy friends, the anime animal character. Some of … Continue reading 30 Days Of Anime Challenge Day 21: Your Favorite Anime Animal
The twentieth day of the challenge has us trying to pick out our favorite cast of characters that are attending high school. Considering that the majority of shows these days are of this arena, this is a difficult choice when … Continue reading 30 Days Of Anime Challenge Day 20: Best High School Ensemble Cast
Welcome to The Avocado’s weekly discussion of Japanese pop culture! I don’t have anything fun to write about this week, so let’s just admire the amazing Studio Ghibli Museum in Tokyo by watching these YouTube virtual tours. And, as always… … Continue reading Weekly Japanese Pop Culture Thread (August 19, 2020)
While we looked at Studio Ghibli movies specifically before, for this day we want to find out what your favorite anime film is overall. Anime films are just as varied as anything out of Hollywood and while I was mostly … Continue reading 30 Days Of Anime Challenge Day 19: Your Favorite Anime Feature Film
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