While legends are written by huge risks taken, sometimes the most effective way to go about things is to keep everything controlled and collected. It doesn’t matter if it is as minor a school project or as huge as a film production, the notion carries weight. With anime and a market that is always looking like it is…

Good Afternoon everyone, I just wanted to write a quick thing about my year here on this lovely site. I wrote my first article while on the bullet train from Seoul, a week after returning to South Korea for work. I had been encouraged by those close to me to try to put my writing out somewhere on a forum or club that…

I have the biggest love/hate relationship with shounen anime and manga. There is always a respect for what it does for getting a lot of people into the medium that might not have otherwise, but I can’t shake the anime hipster part of me that pouts over people (particularly Americans) flooding the likes of Fairy Tail …

One of the greatest unknowns we had entering the modern era was just how technology would affect our daily lives. A plethora of 90s films such as The Lawnmower Man, Terminator 2: Judgement Day, and Hackers all painted wild depictions of what technology would look like and how things would evolve. Completely normal 90s…

I have been receiving quite a few emails and tweets asking about the status of my Dubs w/ Dil articles. The last time I wrote for the series, I had, quite honestly, the best thing that could happen to me writing such an article happen. Stephanie Sheh, the voice director and star of Your Name. promoted my article and…

Horror is a really difficult genre to win with thanks to how quickly the product can sour or dully go by. Stuff a work with lots of characters getting waxed off and the result is something thoughtless and difficult to sit through; keep everyone alive, liter the story with jump-scares to move things along and it is…

Yesterday, the much anticipated announcement trailer for Production I.G.’s follow up to the 2000-2001 hit series FLCL dropped at Anime Expo. The high profile anime gained a considerable amount of traction earlier this year due to the news that Adult Swim (the late night blocks on the cable television channel Cartoon…

It is that lovely time of year again! The sunshine brings barbecues, camping, swimming, and gardening just to name a few of the staple activities accompanying the weather. If you’re an anime fanatic, however, this time of year usually means one key thing is added to your agenda: binge-watching series (new and old)…

After the Cleveland Cavaliers lost in five games to the unhealthily stacked Golden State Warriors team featuring defensive monster/sharpshooting human tarantula Kevin Durant and the hero for every twelve year old and fan of less than two years in Stephen Curry, there seems to be no stopping their dynasty. Since then,…

Growing up I had fond memories of finishing my homework at the living room coffee table and watching television with my father at the end of a long weekend. More times than not, he would doze off by the time I finished my work and would patiently wait for him to wake up. This was my pastime of choice because whenever…

I have always been incredibly grateful for my family, but my hero bar none is my mother. No matter what, she has always been super supportive of what I was doing and not only supported it, but also embraced it to get an idea what I was into and to have more family experiences. Growing up on shows like Dragon Ball, my…

Spanning back to January of last year, the blockbuster NISIOISIN novel KIZUMONOGATARI-Wound Tale was adapted into a movie trilogy. Like the rest of the Monogatari franchise, animation studio Shaft took up the difficult task of adapting a work known for exposition and a hellish scenario for the main character. In a…