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What is it? It's an anime blog. A blog about anime (literally, "pornographic cartoons from Japan"). It's written by:-
otou-san
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ghostlightning
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digiboy
Disgusting perv.
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What I’m Watching.
Secret Santa Non-Review — Giant Robo OVA: The “-est” anime
Of all the various mounting traditions that anime bloggers have been saddling themselves with, the most well-organized and effort-intensive is probably the Secret Santa project, masterminded by the Reverse Thieves. This year it was the magnificent Giant Robo: The Day The Earth Stood Still OVA by the retro-robot master Yasuhiro Imagawa. It was the anime’s [...]
12 Moments in 2011: It was actually child molestation all along
People said a lot of things about Fractale. Like Guilty Crown later, it was decried as the harbinger of noitaminA’s doom, and as Yamakan’s downfall, or the reason why otaku-cum-academian Hiroki Azuma should never touch anime from the inside ever again. It was also called confusing at the end, but honestly was it? It was [...]
12 Moments in 2011: A depressing person
Wandering Son was a near-universally lauded anime adaptation at a time when that reaction was not exactly universal on the blogs where noitaminA was concerned. I found episode 5’s focus on the maudlin Saori Chiba to be a heavily affecting bit, for some reason. Anime can’t hurt me with its melodrama the way it used to, [...]
12 Moments in 2011: Mamoru Oshii Bowling League
I didn’t end up watching The Sky Crawlers until this year, and I was struck like so many other people that Oshii seems to have come to a pretty definitive point in his career with the flick. As in, if you had to answer “What is a Mamoru Oshii?” you could easily point to The [...]
12 Moments in 2011: The shift, part two
In hindsight, how did we really not know what was going on here? Many will say now that they did, although the evidence points to otherwise. Most certainly did expect something, but like Blair Witch, the marketing and lead-up to Madoka Magica was a huge part of the experience. Unlike Blair Witch, the end product [...]