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Paradise Kiss – An Assembled Mess of Believable Angst
I feel like a very lucky person. A while back, I wrote a post about how I want to watch Nana again (legally) and I can because it’s…
Review: WALKIN' BUTTERFLY
There's a lot of great josei that got completely overlooked in the 2000s, and few were as overlooked as this title. WALKIN' BUTTERFLY ( U-ok...
Overview of my Anime March Madness
Anime March Madness, the anime challenge to watch 31 anime in 31 days. I completed 2022’s challenge.
Moriarty the Patriot, Ninja Collection, Over the Sky, Super Cub, The Orbital Children
Anime Series Like My Dress-Up Darling
Living with his grandfather who makes beautiful Hina Dolls, Wakana Gojo has loved them since he was a child. He aspires to one day make Hina Dolls as…
Smile Down the Runway, Welcome to the Ballroom, Bottom-Tier Character Tomozaki, Horimiya, My Dress-Up Darling
Ep. 14: Paradise Kiss 20th Anniversary Edition
Fashion. Glamour. Sex. Highschool? Manga-ka Ai Yazawa takes on turn-of-the-millennium fashion culture in PARADISE KISS, recently re-released in a spiffy all-in-one edition! The Mangasplaining crew digs into this…
ANN Guest article: Osamu Kobayashi
I had the honor of writing about the career of Osamu Kobayashi's career for ANN recently, though tragically due to the fact that he passed...
Chatty AF 129: Paradise Kiss Retrospective
Vrai, Dee, and Caitlin look back on one of the most beloved titles from the Queen of Josei, Yazawa Ai, from its rare depiction of a woman's coming-of-age…
Weekly Round-Up, 4-10 November 2020: Magical Girl Gift Guide, Boys Run the Riot, and Fandom Gatekeeping
AniFem Round-Up Love Me for Who I Am is inclusive, but falls short for some non-binary people Ghia Vitale does a deep dive on the first volume of…
ParaKiss Lost: The Reductive Adaptation of Paradise Kiss
Paradise Kiss is one of the great josei manga classics, but subsequent versions of the story erode the focus on its lead’s agency that make the original so…
Catch Us on Shojo & Tell!
This summer, we were privileged to be able to guest on one of our favorite podcasts, Shojo and Tell! Join us and Ashley as we discuss Paradise Kiss.
The infamous Gurren Lagann episode that broke the internet
The reaction, and subsequent fallout, to episode 4 of Gurren Lagann was extreme, to say the least. In the immediate aftermath, bemused anime fans still buzzi...
Dororo, Gurren Lagann, Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt, Paradise Kiss, Beck: Mongolian Chop Squad
Paradise Kiss (with Lucy and Robin from CLAMPcast in Wonderland)
Covers all of Paradise Kiss by Ai Yazawa.Welcome to the world of high fashion (or at least, high drama). Paradise Kiss is one of those rare josei titles…
Ouran High School Host Club, Paradise Kiss, Princess Jellyfish
Haruka Pt. 2 (with Asher Sofman)
Covers volumes 10–17 of Haruka: Beyond the Stream of Time by Tohko Mizuno.We’re back to discuss the second half of Haruka, a manga series based on one of…
Year 1 Issue 20
Arcadia Dragnet, Year 1, Issue 20 May 13 - 19, 2020 Hello and welcome back to Arcadia Dragnet. So I…
A Certain Scientific Railgun, Super High Speed Galvion, Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba, Koyomimonogatari, Mecha-Doc
Sit Down and Read Your Manga! 003
Timestamps below! Karakuri Odette 3-4 [03:36] Princess Jellyfish 1 [05:50] The Rose of Versailles 1 [12:13] Karakuri Odette 5-6 [20:19] Cross Manage (full se...
Anime Taste Testing: Runway de Waratte
There are very few anime titles that center entirely around the professional modelling and fashion/design industries (in fact, I can only think of one, that being 2005’s fascinating…
Paradise Kiss and Princess Jellyfish
It’s coming to the end of the anime season, and I’ve already finished Recovery of an MMO Junkie and Juni Taisen, with more coming in the following weeks.…
Paradise Kiss, Princess Jellyfish, Recovery of an MMO Junkie
Rambling About Paradise Kiss
I just watched Paradise Kiss. The epic tale of a high school girl who is influenced and dragged around by some people who make clothes in a basement.…
OSMinterview! Vedetta Marie & ScatterDOTFashion @ MTAC In Love
Vedetta Marie ScatterDOTFashion Sometimes, you gotta spin the wheel, play the cards, hit the Greed button in an MMO and hope you come out of the dungeon with a pretty…
Impressions and thoughts on Paradise Kiss
Paradise Kiss (12 Episodes – Fall 2005) Finally after all this time an anime where I can show my true colors with my knowledge of both being a…
OSMcast! The 2013 OSMawards Part II: Anime and Manga (But not in that order) 1-20-2014
The 2013 OSMawards for most Awesome Anime, Manga, and geez wow more anime again good lord are we ever going to shut up? OK FOLKS! Strap in because we…
OSMcast! Anime, Games, Interviews, & More!
Paradise Kiss, Vividred Operation, AKB0048, Fire Emblem, GeGeGe no Kitaro
Happily ever after for everyone! – beta couples in shojo manga
One of the most common elements of shojo romantic-comedies is the presence of beta couples. Beta couples are secondary romantic relationships, which often serve as a contrast to…
Overseas filming trend continues with Eriko Kitagawa's "Atarashii Kutsu wo Kawanakucha”
by Chris MaGee We've discussed the trend of Japanese films shooting overseas before here on the J-Film Pow-Wow. It seems that recent films...
Gokinjo Monogatari My reaction to the news, from Ojisan, that I...
Gokinjo Monogatari My reaction to the news, from Ojisan, that I am being pitted against some other proper anime blog in the AniBlog Tourney has left me with the…
Neighborhood Stories, Boys Over Flowers, Paradise Kiss, Sailor Moon
OtakuGeneration (Show #215) OTAKON (review)
NOTE: This was also cross posted in the otakugeneration LJ community. Shownotes :: (show 215) :: (website) :: (podcast feed) :: (direct download) :: (direct iTunes link) With OTAKON (review),…
Eureka Seven, Hayate the Combat Butler, Mezzo, Mobile Suit Gundam, Mobile Suit Gundam 00
OSMcast: Kimagure Orange Road 9-29-2008
In our first true post-AWA podcast Basil and Lee weigh in on the 1980’s anime classic, Kimagure Orange Road (KOR)! OSMnotes: Fun Fact #1: Basil’s first ever anime soundtrack on…
OtakuGeneration (Show #172) FMA
NOTE: This was also cross posted in the otakugeneration LJ community. Shownotes :: (show 172) :: (website) :: (podcast feed) :: (direct download) :: (direct iTunes link) With FMA, recorded…