Whether you love or hate them, McDonald’s is one of the biggest fast-food chains in the world. Everyone in America can recognize those iconic golden arches that promise cheap food. And they’re just as successful in Japan, to the point where they’ve made cameos in various anime. Or rather, it’s WcDonald’s, the cheeky, fictional counterpart, that …
Yubisaki to Renren (A Sign of Affection) – 08
One tends to think of seinen – romance as much as any other genre – as having fewer tropes than shounen or shoujo. But seinen has tropes for sure, and seinen romance seems often to revolve around the sort of group dynamic we’re seeing play out in Yubisaki to Renren. To wit, the group dynamic …
Kingdom 5 – 07
Kingdom has always danced an elaborate tightrope with war. It must, by nature of what it is, glorify the military exploits of its main cast. It must make them heroes, despite the fact that their job is to kill thousands of people for the crime (mostly) of being from somewhere else. But if it’s going …
Kusuriya no Hitorigoto (The Apothecary Diaries) – 20
Goodness me, what an avalanche of revelations that was. Once more the theme here is coincidence and conspiracy, and a detective’s (and that’s what Maomao is, let’s not kid ourselves) ability to spot the difference. Even by conspiracy standards there’s an awful lot of coincidence here, to the point where it does have a whiff …
Boku no Kokoro no Yabai Yatsu (The Dangers in My Heart) Season 2 – 08
I have a few quibbles with this episode, which is a rarity this season. It was still tremendous, and if I weren’t a manga reader I very much doubt I would have noted anything whatsoever out of place. What was there was perfect, but there was some stuff that wasn’t there. As none of this …
Azur Lane race cars
Pixiv user kcar66t has been doing some comission art featuring the girls of Azur Lane posing with race cars and here is a small image board of his designs. Enjoy!!