Japanese animation
In which memory is not reality Talking about anime online is equivalent to walking into a field of anthills and wildly swinging a baseball bat about. You’re bound to hit on something while simultaneously upsetting large groups of people. For … Continue reading Millennial Malaise 10: Ghost in the Shell
Mushishi is an anime very faithfully based on the manga by Yuki Urushibara. A first season was broadcast in 2005, and a second one in 2014, with Hiroshi Nagama as a director. The music was written by Toshio Masuda. I’d … Continue reading Anime Worth Watching: Mushishi
Run with the Wind is a novel by Shion Miura about a group of Kansei University students who train to run the Hakone Ekiden, a 200 km relay marathon held annually in January. It has been adapted into a live-action … Continue reading Weekly Japanese Pop Culture Thread (March 13th, 2019)
Hi folks. Apologies for the delay in getting this thread up. The Price of Smiles is a currently airing anime series about the young princess of a kingdom known as Soleil. Orphaned at a young age, she’s thrust into a … Continue reading Weekly Japanese Pop Culture Thread (March 6th, 2019)
The Promised Neverland is a manga series about a group of children who live a happy, comfortable existence in an orphanage, albeit cut off from the outside world. Everything seems fine until they discover that there’s more to their existence … Continue reading Weekly Japanese Pop Culture Thread (February 27th, 2019)
That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime is exactly what its title says: it’s a light novel series about an office worker who is killed in a stabbing incident and gets reincarnated in a fantasy world as a slime, … Continue reading Weekly Japanese Pop Culture Thread (February 20th, 2019)
Way back in 2003 I was reading an article in Animerica about all the anime/manga titles being looked at by Hollywood, with options already out on Akira, Dragonball, Evangelion, Speed Racer, Kite, Ghost in the Shell, and Alita. Since then … Continue reading Movie Reviews: Alita: Battle Angel
The Quintessential Quintuplets is a shōnen manga series written and illustrated by Negi Haruba. It tells the story of an ordinary high school student who has to tutor five badly-behaved identical quintuplets from a rich, prestigious family. The manga has … Continue reading Weekly Japanese Pop Culture Thread (February 13th, 2019)
Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind is a 1980’s manga series written and illustrated by famed animation director Hayao Miyazaki. It is set in a dystopian, post-apocalyptic future where most of Earth’s formerly habitable land is corrupted, and warring … Continue reading Weekly Japanese Pop Culture Thread (February 6th, 2019)
Hey folks! Welcome to the final Japanese pop culture thread for the month of January. I apologize for the delay in getting it up. Today, I’m spotlighting Kingdom Hearts III, the long-awaited conclusion (?) to the Kingdom Hearts trilogy (?), … Continue reading Weekly Japanese Pop Culture Thread (January 30th, 2019)
Boogiepop and Others is a light novel in the Boogiepop series about a series of mysterious disappearances at a Japanese high school. The teachers say the missing kids are just runaways, but the students suspect something more sinister and supernatural. … Continue reading Weekly Japanese Pop Culture Thread (January 23rd, 2019)
Welcome to this week’s Japanese pop culture thread! Today I’m spotlighting Kaguya-sama: Love Is War, a romantic comedy manga series about two high-performing high school student council members who are too proud to confess their love for one another. The … Continue reading Weekly Japanese Pop Culture Thread (January 16th, 2019)
The new winter anime season has begun, and it’s time to take a look at what’s available to watch. From what I can tell, it’s a relatively sparse season, though it does feature two series about female air force pilots … Continue reading Weekly Japanese Pop Culture Thread (January 9th, 2019)
Happy new year! Welcome to the first weekly Japanese pop culture thread of 2019! I’m going to do a full run-down of the winter anime I’m interested in next week, so for now, let me ask you: what were your … Continue reading Weekly Japanese Pop Culture Thread (January 2nd, 2019)
Hi Score Girl is a romantic comedy manga series by Rensuke Oshikiri that ran for eight years and ended its run this September. It tells the story of Haruo Yamaguchi, a slacker and obsessed gamer who gets caught in a … Continue reading Weekly Japanese Pop Culture Thread (December 26th, 2018)
Granblue Fantasy began life as a mobile game: a turn-based RPG for Android and iOS released in 2014. The game quickly ballooned in popularity and has since become a full-blown franchise. An anime series based on the property aired last … Continue reading Weekly Japanese Pop Culture Thread (December 19th, 2018)
Gintama is a 367-episodes comedy and action anime started in 2006 which ended (?) in 2018, based on the manga by Hideaki Sorachi. Synopsis In Edo era Japan, everything was turned upside down twenty years before when aliens invaded and … Continue reading Anime Worth Watching: Gintama
Hey folks! Welcome to this week’s Japanese pop culture thread, brought to you by Skull-face Bookseller Honda-san, a comedy web-manga series about… well, the title tells you pretty much all you need to know. An anime series based on the … Continue reading Weekly Japanese Pop Culture Thread (December 12th, 2018)
Editor’s Note: Feel free to post as big or as small of a list as you would like below but please keep your lists contained to these posts and do not open up your own or fill up the OT … Continue reading The Pits: Best of Anime 2018
Have you ever seen those posts about machine learning generated movie scripts or D&D monster names or pies? I have and I got curious about it. I’ve been toying with neural networks for a bit and in particular with text … Continue reading A Neural Network Creates Some Anime
Sorry for the hasty thread. I was busy at work and forgot to put one up. You know the drill. Talk about what you’ve been watching/playing/eating/reading/listening to lately! Or not lately. I’m not your boss. (Header image from Noragami, just … Continue reading Weekly Japanese Pop Culture Thread (December 5th, 2018)
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