RJ Writing Ink’s Picks for Best Anime of 2024 By the time you’re reading this, the year 2024 will either be over or about to be over, but what a good it was for anime. From long-running juggernauts like One Piece celebrating its 25th anniversary to Dan Da Dan breaking the Internet, there were plenty …
What Was Up with Anime in 2024: A Record
Has it really been almost a year since my last post on the blog? How time flies! At least this year it didn’t take me until February to do my yearly recap. Every year I say, “I’m going to do more blog posts this year,” and while I didn’t do that in 2024, the silver …
Total Rewrite #01 — Work Will Set You Free
Subtlety Sunday! Impressions: Uh, yeah. Any merits that this may have are going to be drowned out by it being a studio wracked by scandals about overworking its animators, creating a show about an animator dying from overwork, and discovering that her special super power is being able to work extra hard if it actually matters …
Princess Lessons #01 — Letterboxing Means Drama
Expert level directing here. Sorry these are delayed. ISP people at house this morning since the TV signal has been steadily falling apart over the last month, which took an expected 1 hour appointment to about 4 hours of universal downtime, and I’m not wild on trying to upload/type these things on my phone. …
Mita from Miside
Miside terror sim game is breaking the internet in Steam. Many illustrations and walkthroughs are starting to be available. Thanks to pixiv users for female character Mita images ahead: @Hinata Mika
First Impressions – Medalist
It’s funny. Medalist ended up being about as good as I expected, but took an unexpected route to get there. Tsumaraikada’s manga is extremely well-reviewed on aggregator sites. It’s won and been nominated for a lot of awards. And it’s a sports manga to boot (albeit for a sport that doesn’t interest me all that …