Could I Have Some More Monogatari With That?
Nekomonogatari: Shiro – why are you so good at being so damn pretentious? Are you justified in talking down to us? Is there something we don’t know, some secret you’re holding […]
Monthly Archives: July 2013
From Sailor Moon to Pretear: In Defense of Shoujo
I’ve been working on this post forever! I figured it’s time to finally give up on the editing I keep saying I’m going to do and just put it up […]
Quick Updates
Some quick updates about the blog and stuff.
Summer in Japan (Tentaibutsurigaku): A Whirlwind Tour of Kyoto (with random otaku moments) [Part 1]
After finishing up our day in Nara, we grabbed our bags and hopped on the train up to Kyoto for the evening, where we’d be spending the next couple days. […]
Summer in Japan (Tentaibutsurigaku): A Day in Nara
So following my exciting day in Kanazawa and Super-K, we got on a train and headed over to Nara. Nara, like Kyoto, is a steeped in historical sites, since it […]
Summer in Japan (Tentaibutsurigaku): Super-Kamiokande
Following the morning in Kenrokuen Garden that formed the first part of our (me, the other student, and our adviser) week traveling around Japan, we headed back to Toyama in […]
Summer in Japan (Tentaibutsurigaku): Kanazawa, Kenrokuen Garden, and the “Kotonoha no Niwa” Effect
It’s been a while since I’ve talked about my time here, so I’ll start these posts back up by talking about some of the stuff I did during my third […]
Seirei no Moribito: I Really Wanted to Like it
I have watched a ton of fantasy shows. By a ton I mean that the vast majority of the shows I’ve watched have been fantasy or contained fantastical elements. Seirei […]
Monogatari: Second Season is BEAUTIFUL
And oh so glorious. So glorious. Anyways, I caved and finally started watching Monogatari: Second Season (and so far nothing else). And I just was so overwhelmed with the first couple episodes […]
Book Review: “Otaku: Japan’s Database Animals”
In this book review, I take a look at what I think is probably the most important book a more academically-inclined anime fan could read. While it might or might […]
Chromatic Aberration Everywhere 