I’m just happy about this thing—and I hope I have more reason to be in the future! At about the ten-minute mark of the first episode of Yesterday wo Utatte (Sing “Yesterday” for Me), I was starting to feel like the episode was getting ready to close, so I took a quite look at the …
In which soldiers do un-soldier-like things. In Sora no Woto, all five of the main characters are soldiers. Despite the comfortable, relatively untroubled lives they lead from day to day, reminders of their past and current realities of military service are always present. But presence isn’t the same as prominence, and you could be forgiven …
“So,” she asks. “You said that you were going to try to do better about watching anime this year. How’s that coming along? After all, we haven’t seen a blog post since Weathering with You, and that’s not even a seasonal anime!” Ordinarily, I think to myself, I’d be expecting to have to go on …
Drown the city to save yourself and your love. Spoilers for the entirety of Weathering with You/Tenki no Ko. I have to applaud Makoto Shinkai. After producing what could arguably be called the most successful anime movie ever (and a film I genuinely loved), he returns two years later with a follow-up that not only …
There will be a few confessions made, and some resolutions declared. It’s the end of the year after all! It’s time to look forward, even as we reflect on the past. As I said last year around this time, I’m a bit loathe to allow the anime year to end without some sort of chronicle …
In the year 2000, a great explosion caused by an alien life-form wiped out half the earth’s population—an event that came to be referred to as Second Impact. Now, fifteen years later, these aliens (known as Angels) are beginning to reappear, and the only defense mankind has against them are giant biomechanical robots, called Evangelions. …
