Until Wednesday, May 22nd at 6pm Japan time, second-hand retailer Suruga-ya is offering free international shipping. That’s a discount that could save American collectors anywhere from $30 to $300 off shipping fees! I took advantage of the opportunity, and recorded a show-and-tell with the items I purchased for my own collection.
Skip and Loafer – Episode 7
Hello folks, and welcome the heck back to Wrong Every Time. Today I’m eager to stop back in with Mitsumi and the gang from Skip and Loafer, and see what those crazy kids are getting up to now. After half a season of largely warm and fuzzy adventures, last episode saw Mitsumi and Shima experiencing …
Boku no Hero Academia Season 7 – 03
Ah, this chapter. Now that the anime has reached this point in the story, I thought once more about Season 4, Episode 17. The one time Aoyama Yuga was really at the center of the story. At the time (when I knew none of what I now know about him) I wrote this: As Deku …
Anime nuns
Although the two main faiths in Japan are Shinto and Buddhism, you can sometimes see anime girls in a nun outfit. Historically speaking catholicism made its entrance back in 1540 in Japan and has a very small number of the population as catholic. Moe image board of anime girls in nun outfit after the jump:
Ooi! Tonbo – 07
There are no easy answers when it comes to what Igaiga is doing and Tonbo (though it’s tempting to look for them). What matters is that Ooi! Tonbo isn’t pretending there are. It’s too much to say it’s symbolic of the entire collapse of rural Japanese society – I can’t assume the mangaka is going …
Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End – Episode 2
Hello folks, and welcome back to Wrong Every Time. Today I am eager to continue traveling beyond the journey’s end, catching up with Frieren and maybe learning something about human nature or nostalgia in the process. Frieren’s first episode demonstrated a refreshingly meditative approach to fantasy drama, focusing not on some big arbitrary external threat, …