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Jul 28, 2021
Atama Yama (Anime) add
Adapted from a Rakugo play from what would appear like ancient times, Koji Yamamura's 2002 tour de force of allegorical dungeoneering into the murkiest depths of the ailing human psyche is nothing short of poetic. The way he weaves sometimes trustworthy, sometimes unreliable visual correlation with the written form enthuses, all while viewers are left by their lonesome to decode what's really to be taken as fact within the mental strain of the character's descent into maddening despair.

One major takeaway would be the integration of motifs as the crux of all chaos that is seen to its causal endpoint on the artifice of destiny. ...
Jul 27, 2021
Jumping (Anime) add
This was recommended to me by a friend whom I had told not long before being instructed to wander this rabbit hole out of plaintive desire that I was only into animated shorts now and that I had long worn thin of the longform narrative in cartoons. I sensibly wanted a respite from the inconsolable might the average 12-24 episodes had on my fragile emotional state, and thus didn't want to have to deal with any potential long-term investment in established worlds and mundanities associated with "the continuity", so to speak. This friend of mine, you see, was a major Tezuka enthusiast. He would collect ...
Apr 16, 2021
Ryuu no Michi (Manga) add
There are two gripes that I have with stories that take place after their protagonists awaken from cryogenic stasis. One, they tend to be about the unending sliding scale of reinvigoration, the ripple-like but otherwise fruitful clamoring for sustenance, the acceleration and exacerbation of discord on top of fringe ideas, followed by the eventual time of reckoning, where either the “heroes” live to tell the tale, or do not. They -- methodically and generously filling us in on the various trajectories heralded by these pioneers by whom we are cordially invited along to invest our energies into providing affable running commentary lest their prayers go ...
Jun 26, 2020
~ this review contains a fair amount of spoilers. reading it ahead of the manga may very well sour your experience so it's thoroughly advised that you go over at the bare minimum three quarters of the material beforehand. you have been warned. ~

i have always been fascinated by the prospect of dystopias, especially those with a particular emphasis on the potential for technological advancement the further we plunge our necks into a convergence that never comes, or at least isn't prescient enough to warrant a look back at certain bygone epochs. you know, works of such sophistry and wonder that you can't help but ...
Apr 12, 2019
Mixed Feelings
[This review accounts for both seasons of Oregairu]

As much as I'd like to give the prior season a higher rating, I just can't bring myself to do so for a number of reasons. First of all, the first season felt like it lacked exuberance in a multitude of different ways. A large majority of the characters seemed uninteresting, the animation felt languid in some places and even the dialogues of all things didn't feel all that special. While I do think the interactions between the main trio of characters had their share of redeeming qualities, namely the pseudo-intellectual prattle between our main protagonist, Hachiman and ...
Nov 11, 2018
Disclaimer: I wrote this review when I was still fairly new to anime so the languid pace of the writing is to be showered with a cackling roar of mockery in this particular instance. Go ahead and laugh at my inexperience evident below to your heart's content. Haha.


I'd like to start off by saying that I'm by no means a hardcore anime enthusiast. Therefore, it is strongly advised that you take whatever I'm gonna be scrutinising in this review with a grain of salt. Now then, with that aside, let us briefly talk about the premise of the show.

To put it simply, this show is ...


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