Let’s do Amanchu!

From Twitter: 3.31.2010 2:53:46 “I’ll read one or two chapters of a Kozue Amano manga before bed” = STUPID PONTIFUS, STUPID Actually I’ve had a strange relationship with Amano’s manga so far. I love it for being the basis of what is probably my favorite anime series in terms of raw enjoyability (which series that [...]

Seasons of giving in slice of life

Here’s something that occurred to me the other day when I was stumbling as usual through the fiction-writing process: speculative slice of life anime and manga, even those with some emphasis on festivals, rarely include an event analogous to Christmas as manifest in the United States. This is not to say that gifts aren’t given [...]

Moment the Second: Like hidden characters in games

Today’s post isn’t as…revelatory as 2008′s Moment the Second, I’m afraid. It is, rather, a humble post about a humble character from the humble show that changed everything (for me, anyway). That’s right — Aria. You knew it’d show up somewhere among my chosen twelve of 2009. Last year, Aria the Animation occupied no less [...]

“By silverfish imperatrix whose incorrupted eye…”

If you’re following at home, you’ll already know that I started Aria: the Animation.  And I just finished it.  I know there’s a bunch more of it, but I dunno when I’ll finish it — if I learned one thing (and I’d like to think I learned several, but still), it’s that I can’t really [...]

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