The Gallery - 2008
- Prodigy Bombay (Dec 20)
- Studio Qube (Dec 13)
- Ziang "Jadedice" Her (Dec 6)
- Alexander Shen (Nov 29)
- Robin Ha (Nov 22)
- Audra Furuichi and Scott Yoshinaga (Nov 15)
- Sho Murase (Nov 8)
- Grace Chen (Oct 25)
- Lisa Tao (Oct 18)
- Jessie Lam (Oct 4)
- Mason Hyodo (Sep 20)
- Sarah Arai (Sep 13)
- Hans Tseng (Sep 6)
- Yasmin Saaka (Aug 30)
- Alice Meichi Li (Aug 23)
- Lanny Liu (Aug 16)
2009 [39]
December 2009 [3]
November 2009 [4]
October 2009 [5]
September 2009 [2]
August 2009 [5]
July 2009 [1]
June 2009 [3]
May 2009 [4]
April 2009 [2]
March 2009 [2]
February 2009 [3]
January 2009 [5]
2008 [16]
December 2008 [3]
November 2008 [4]
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Answerman - What Will The Trans-Pacific Partnership Do To Anime?
industry
There's an enormous trade agreement on the table right now that could impact the anime industry and, in particular, the legality of fanart and other fan-created works. Justin gets into it.
― Usakun asks: I haven't been following news about the impending Trans-Pacific Partnership very closely, but most of what I am hearing now is increasingly negative, at least from fans living in Japan and how they ...
Shelf Life - The Ghoul, the Bad, and the Ugly
anime
Another avalanche of this week's new releases, alongside full-length reviews of Tokyo Ghoul and Please Twins, two shows that really couldn't be more different.
― One would think that, after two and a half decades of dealing with daylight savings time, I'd be used to this time of year by now. One would be wrong, though, because I feel a tiny flash of personal outrage whenever I go outside around 5:30...
A Silent Voice GN 3
manga
A Silent Voice rises to new heights of emotional acuity in a volume that perfectly captures its protagonist’s roiling emotions.
― Welcome back to A Silent Voice, your source for good kids and sadness. In this third volume, we rejoin Shoya and Shoko as they attempt to make up for lost time, growing slowly closer in spite of hesitance on both sides. In Shoko's case, we see most of her desires secondhan...
The Mike Toole Show - Sports Anime Spikes Back
anime
Mike lowers his sunglasses, ties up the net and gets ready for an onslaught of volleyball anime, including Attack No. 1 and the omnipresent Haikyuu!
― Earlier this year, my convention buddies the Reverse Thieves ran a panel at Otakon called “I Hate Sports,” as a vehicle to introduce fans to sports anime they might have otherwise ignored due to a lack of interest in the sporting activities themselves....
Claymore GN 27
manga
The dark fantasy series Claymore comes to a close, but will it satisfy longtime fans of the series?
― While many fans of the franchise have insisted that the anime version of Claymore spoiled things at the end by deviating from the manga, I have always insisted that the anime's ending was the better and more satisfying option at the time. Sure, the manga continued on and explained a lot of things tha...
The List - 6 Anime Based on Eastern Legends
anime
We've been over anime based on fairytales, but what about all those anime based on Eastern myths and famous bedtime stories? Here are a bunch of 'em!
― In 2013, I wrote up a list focusing on reimagined fairy tales. A few focused on Eastern fairy tails (Fruits Basket, Saiyuki, Ceres, Celestial Legend) the other five pulled from Western staples like Cinderella, Snow White, and The Little Mermaid. Enou...
Monthly Girls' Nozaki-kun GN 1
manga
What do you do when your dream guy turns out to be a shoujo mangaka? Chiyo's started working as Nozaki's assistant, but she still isn't sure if this is the way to his heart in this very funny 4-koma series from Oresama Teacher's Izumi Tsubaki.
― Izumi Tsubaki is best known in the English-language market for her two shoujo series, both published by Viz: The Magic Touch and Oresama Teacher. Monthly Gir...
Why We Still Love Digimon
anime
15 years since Digimon's debut, with a reunion film right around the corner, Hope Chapman unpacks why Digimon of all things has endured as a seminal fan favorite.
― At the turn of the millennium, Japan was burning up with a contagious monster fever. Pokemon had become a worldwide phenomenon, and all sorts of other monster-based children's franchises began flooding the market. There was the Tamagotchi...
Blood Blockade Battlefront Episodes 1-12
anime
Nick Creamer visits Yasuhiro Nightow's world of Hellsalem's Lot and finds a few compelling reasons to stick around.
― There's a lot to get through with Blood Blockade Battlefront, so I'll just start at the top. The show starts off by introducing us to Leonardo Watch, a boy who three years ago was caught in the “Great Collapse.” As New York City shattered to pieces in the distance, Leo and his sister ...