Otaku are con­sid­ered by soci­ety to be those who “replace nor­mal social inter­ac­tions with hours spent fan­ta­siz­ing about a world that doesn’t actu­ally exist” (Giz­modo). Eroge/visual novel otakus have it espe­cially bad given the occa­sional fan’s ten­dency to pub­li­cize their ongo­ing rela­tion­ship with a daki­makura or marry a 2D girl… well, guess what this series is about? An eroge otaku try­ing to find her place. Read the rest of this entry »

No, it actu­ally feels more like some shounen­fied ver­sion of Honey & Clover… expected given the direc­tor.

Most of us had our ‘unre­al­is­tic’ child­hood dreams at one point: to become sports stars, artists, arche­ol­o­gists, astro­nauts, etc etc. Then at some point in life we’re all faced with the same truths: those ide­al­is­tic careers were often either so com­pet­i­tive it took only the truest (or luck­i­est) of geniuses to accom­plish, or were such under­paid, thank­less jobs — like every­thing from police­men to ani­ma­tors. Many ado­les­cents gave up on their dreams upon learn­ing this ‘real­ism’ and set­tled for some­thing more accom­mo­dat­ing, while oth­ers wither amidst their ini­tial attempts. After all, life isn’t shounen manga right?

But that’s pre­cisely why Baku­man really hit the spot with the burn­ing pas­sion of a revived child­hood dream in an almost real­is­tic manga indus­try~ Read the rest of this entry »

Wayyyy too many series to watch >.< [mosu]

Fall anime is usu­ally the best dur­ing the year, and fall 2010 is just spetac­u­lar; def­i­nitely the best since the leg­endary fall 2008 sea­son. In prepa­ra­tion for the Uni­ver­sity of Vir­ginia anime club pre­sen­ta­tion and dis­cus­sion, we (Aorii [Major Arcana] and Honya [Lyri­cal Spark]) have decided to join up for a pre­view post~ (if you have an anime club you should totally do this). Charts here and here. Read the rest of this entry »