Tatsuki Fujimoto is a connoisseur of what you might call “dirtbag compassion.” Though his works explore complex and difficult topics with elevated nuance, his perspective always hangs near the muck – dicks getting kicked, toilet jokes, unrepentant, gleeful acts of deviance and perversion. There’s an honesty in that; rather than maintaining the soapy, reverent tone …
Oh good. We’re a crappy knockoff Legend of Zelda now. Impressions: Oh boy. An entire episode of flashback and exposition. I would say that the only satisfying part was Finn listening to this idiot demigod’s entire story and then immediately shooting him in the head, but A.) The jackasss is immortal and wants to …
Kyuujitsu no Warumono-san has so much going for it, truly. For the record, we haven’t talked about it much but the best episode previews of the season – and those are something of a lost art in anime, with many shows abandoning them altogether. One of the things I noticed about the top ten “niche” …
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 …
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 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 …
