Hey all! Real quick, I am aware that I am ludicrously late on both the 2023 Anime of the Year awards and the preview for the next season and some reviews. Don’t worry, I’m workin on them. I have just been… So ludicrously busy outside of the blog and it’s taking everything I have just …
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 …
(This review covers both seasons, not just the first one) Fairy tales have always been a staple in our lives, whether because our parents read them to us, we learned about them in school, or saw the Disney movie versions. Everyone’s probably heard of at least one fairy tale, like Snow White or The Little …
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 …
