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12 Regressor Anime Where a Main Character Can Redo Their Past
Youth is a resource we all waste, but regressor anime indulges the fantasy that some characters can change the past by redoing their younger years. Sometimes
A Returner's Magic Should Be Special, Charlotte, Ragna Crimson, Redo of Healer, Revenger
The Tatami Galaxy – Episode 3
Returning to The Tatami Galaxy feels a bit like returning home. It was a show I initially watched early on in my post-college return to anime, and even…
The Beauty Of Anime Backgrounds
https://www.apari-shop.com/?ref=internetpitstop Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/apariart/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/ApariArt Shoutout @inakyu for the collab shoutout to https://twitter.com/Holdsworthands for the decades of the backgrounds pixel art map! A very short analysis deep dive into anime background art and…
MUSHI-SHI, Sailor Moon, Soul Eater, Spirited Away, Angel's Egg
The Tatami Time Machine Blues
By Tomihiko Morimi and Yusuke Nakamura, based on the play “Summer Time Machine Blues” by Makoto Ueda. Released in Japan as “Yojōhan Time Machine Blues” by Kadokawa. Released…
The ‘Forgotten’ Anime of 2022 | GITM Podcast Ep. 118
Get In The Mecha is officially back! In this episode I’m catching up on some of the analysis that I missed by talking about some of the sleeper…
15 Dialogue-Heavy Anime Where Talking Carries The Plot
Dialogue-dense anime certainly isn't for everyone, and it certainly isn't for those who watch with subtitles and have slower reading comprehension. Sometimes
Bakemonogatari, ODDTAXI, Rascal Does Not Dream of Bunny Girl Senpai, The Tatami Galaxy, Boogiepop Phantom
Tatami Time Machine Blues: The Journey of One Remote
Random Introduction Thoughts If you haven’t noticed, Disney has gotten into the anime licensing game. They are only taking a small amount of anime compared to Crunchyroll and…
15 College Romance Anime About Love As A Young Adult
College romance anime often enjoys the best of both worlds. Characters are old enough to enjoy drinking and all the shenanigans that come with adulthood. Yet,
Nodame Cantabile, Love Hina, My Love Story with Yamada-kun at Lv999, Honey and Clover, Maison Ikkoku
Fox Tales Novel
Fox Tales by Tomihiko Morimi, author of The Night is Short, Walk on Girl and The Tatami Galaxy, is more aptly a collection of vaguely interrelated short...
Books: Tatami Galaxy
By Tom Wilmot. Any mention of The Tatami Galaxy usually brings to mind Masaaki Yuasa’s much-loved 2010 anime. The charming series has become something of a modern classic,…
12 Days of Anime 2022 – Day 07: Yojouhan Time Machine Blues
Reasons contributing to Yojouhan Time Machine Blues not having many viewers yet is easy to imagine. It is a sequel. Content-wise as well as visually it isn’t very…
The Tatami Galaxy
By Tomihiko Morimi and Yusuke Nakamura. Released in Japan as “Yojōhan Shinwa Taikei” by Ohta Shuppan. Released in North America by HarperVia. Translated by Emily Balistrieri. I was…
Fox Tales
By Tomihiko Morimi. Released in Japan as “Kitsune no Hanashi” by Shincho Bunko. Released in North America by Yen On. Translated by Winifred Bird. After getting a couple…
Fall 2022 – Premiere Impressions
Welcome to the fall season, or spring for you southern hemisphere folks! Either way the leaves are changing and so too is our regularly scheduled anime. I had…
Akiba Maid War, BLUELOCK, Chainsaw Man, Mob Psycho 100, My Hero Academia
Is Tatami Galaxy still one of my favourite anime of all time?
The Tatami Galaxy is by the acclaimed auteur director Maasaki Yuasa. I saw it as it aired back in 2010, only 2 years after his previous work Kaiba,…
17 Anime Series With Exceptionally Satisfying Endings
There are a lot of ways to end an anime. You could cleanly cut off at the end of an arc or leave things particularly vague in hopes…
Fullmetal Alchemist, Gosick, Gurren Lagann, Kids on the Slope, Tsukigakirei
22 Mindfuck Anime Series Designed to Leave You Ponderous
Mindfuckery – You're supposed to avoid swearing in articles you are writing. It's not professional. However, there is no better way describe some anime
Boogiepop Phantom, Haibane Renmei, Kaiba, Sonny Boy, Steins;Gate
Anime Cult Classics: 15 Anime Series Lacking a Broad Audience Appeal
It is easy to forget sometimes that anime in and of itself is an art form, and art is an explosion! I mean, art is expression, and experimentation,…
The Heike Story, The Tatami Galaxy, From the New World, Legend of the Galactic Heroes, Ranking of Kings
Animecast: Jedi Owl Does Anime ASMR
The hosts of the Otaku Spirit Animecast are here to give the rundown on anime news of today. Listen in and get caught up, or just get their…
Penguin Highway
I just finished reading the novel Penguin Highway by Morimi Tomihiko author of The Tatami Galaxy, The Night Is Short, Walk On Girl, and The Eccentric Family. This…
Floating Catacombs 2020 Roundup
Merry Christmas! I’m really happy with how my creative endeavors this December turned out. Thank you to everyone who stumbled upon my blog this year, it’s always nice to…
Dear Brother, Gatchaman, Gatchaman Crowds, The Tatami Galaxy
The Tatami Galaxy Before and After College
Obviously 2020 was one fuck of a year for everyone except for a handful of billionaires. Everyone’s coping mechanisms vary, but returning to old media is a classic.…
Night Is Short, Walk on Girl
In this review of the anime movie Night Is Short, Walk on Girl, I discuss how it compares to the series The Tatami Galaxy.
Ten Commandments. Ten Anime.
Near Eastertime, our newest write, Gaheret, began developing a series meditating on the holiday and relating specifically to the Ten Commandments. With this morning’s post, the series has…
Mob Psycho 100, Serial Experiments Lain, The Tatami Galaxy, Kino's Journey
VTubias: MomoConline 2020
I want to give a quick shout-out to MomoCon for asking me to present panel content for their virtual convention this weekend. I know life is weird for…
Easter: Ten Anime for the Ten Commandments (I)
Christ is Risen, Alleluia! After the long wait, Easter comes in like a lion, even through the struggles of the pandemic. The circumstances make it a time for heroism…
The 10 Must-See Anime Series of the 2010s (2010 – 2014)
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The Night Is Short, Walk On Girl – Film Review
A spin-off of The Tatami Galaxy, this film builds on the style of the acclaimed series with a youthful, feel-good story bursting with fun and creativity!
Top 10 Anime of the 2010s
The 2010s were a major decade for myself personally and solidified my anime fandom as a permanent fixture in my life going into adulthood. Early in the decade…
Land of the Lustrous, Penguindrum, The Tatami Galaxy, Chihayafuru
#3 — Ping Pong the Animation (2014)
There is likely to be a lot of Masaaki Yuasa’s work in decade top tens, especially if they include films (which mine does not). Beginning with The Tatami…
Anime On the Big Screen: “Penguin Highway”
Venue: Dendy Cinemas, Level 2, North Quarter, Canberra Centre, 148 Bunda Street, Canberra City, ACT Date: Saturday 10 November 2018 Di...
Fastening Days, I Want to Eat Your Pancreas, Mirai, Penguin Highway, The Eccentric Family
Narration in Anime: The Tatami Galaxy and Beyond
Narration in Anime: The Tatami Galaxy and Beyond aka "This Podcast is (Not) About Evangelion" Welcome to our jam-packed episode on narration in anime! Starting with The Tatami…
The Tatami Galaxy, Arakawa Under the Bridge, Baccano!, His and Her Circumstances, Kino's Journey
Editorial: My Top 5 Favourite Anime directors (that aren’t Hayao Miyazaki)
In the history of anime the director who is certainly the most famous and revered in the Western hemisphere is Hayao Miyazaki (Spirited Away, Princess Mononoke). He has made quite…
Anime Secret Santa 2014: The Tatami Galaxy
After nearly 5 years, I finally decided to muster up the wherewithal to participate in the Anime Secret Santa project by the fantastic folks over at Reverse Thieves. In…
Relating to an Anime Character Pt 1 – A Post Inspired by Frog-Kun
Pretty much what it says on the tin. Frog-Kun recently made a more personal post about the anime characters with which he has felt a “quasi-spiritual kinship”. Inspired,…
Flowers of Evil, Penguindrum, Mind Game, Revolutionary Girl Utena, The Tatami Galaxy
2010: ANIME IS DEAD, LONG LIVE ANIME
Mike (@ cinco_bajeena ), a lapsed anime blogger, has the same origin story as plenty of other fans of a certain geography and age: a cloud...
K-ON! Season 2, Oreimo, Ouran High School Host Club, Space Battleship Yamato, Cat Shit One
The Anime Music Tournament 2013 Bracket Pedro – Round 1 – Polls 1-8 “Analysis”
By TheBigN We get a nice “YEEEEEEEEEEEEEES!” here compared to the bracket namesake’s trademark “NOOOOOOOOOO!” as we come to the last bracket of the first round, with t…
Space Battleship Yamato, Space Battleship Yamato 2199, Flowers of Evil, Angel Beats!, Sailor Moon
Stories Worth Telling: We Are More Than The Parts We Play
Anime and its consumer-base is a funny thing, isn’t it? I mean, look at us Western fans who relentlessly pursue a narrow range of culture-specific fiction, often obtainable…
Number One Pick of 2010
My number one pick will be a full review. Jon’s Pick The Tatami Galaxy Every once in a while, a mirale of an anime comes along. One which…
I just can’t write a Spring 2010 Anime Preview. I’ve...
I just can't write a Spring 2010 Anime Preview. I've been trying for weeks! (And by "trying" I mean putting it on the backburner~) But I'm not interested…