Ogiue’s appearance marks a shift in Genshiken from loosely organized slice of otaku life to something a little more like a recognizable romance plot — but, I emphasize, only a little more like a recognizable romance plot, as Genshiken has that fantastic way of maintaining absolute subtlety, subverting every trope in the book, and hitting [...]

Funny story: Cuchlann and I chose the same moment again, and completely by accident. Unlike our Gurren-Lagann overlap, this one’s actually mildly obscure. If you didn’t believe me before when I said I was assuming his identity, you ought to believe me now. But we’re taking different approaches to said moment, so you really should [...]

Oh, Genshiken, is there no awesome you can’t handle?  Yes, there is no awesome you can’t handle.  Luckily for me this just happens to fall into 2008, as I bought the final volume of Genshiken just a week into January.  The “moment” this is about is the point at which Madarame gives up, entirely, his ambitions [...]

I’m getting my Genshiken images from One Manga, but only because I can’t find my scanner. I do own it all, and it’s good enough that I suggest you buy it rather than read it on the internet. With that out of the way, I suppose this isn’t an anime moment, per se — but [...]