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My Top Ten Anime, a Decade in the Making
Over a Christmas break in 2013, I binged Attack on Titan and became an anime fan. This often surprises the friends that I’ve made since then because, what…
Snow White with the Red Hair, Attack on Titan, Blood Blockade Battlefront, Bungo Stray Dogs, Cowboy Bebop
“Bang!” | The Guns of Cowboy Bebop
Cowboy Bebop’s cultural influences trace heavily to classic action cinema, be it Hollywood or Hong Kong, western or noir. And though most will remember Bebop for its martial…
Where Have I Been?
Fuck. I mean this is bad. I’ve been telling myself to continue writing in my spare time for months, but stuff kept getting in the way. At first,…
Yozakura Quartet is Pretty, Quirky, and A Little Horny
Plenty of shows feel hard to get into, but some only have such a barrier to entry because it’s not clear where to start. Maybe there are a…
Netflix’s Cowboy Bebop is Fine
The original title for this review was going to be “The Right Soul For The Wrong Source.” My thinking was that Netflix’s Cowboy Bebop, a 10-episode live-action series…
An Informal Praise of My Hero Academia
My Hero Academia is the only long-running Shonen anime that I have watched since its beginning and that I’ve kept up with since. Most other shonen are too…
Disney is Licensing Anime Now; So What?
In a turn of events that will certainly rock the anime community, Disney+ is now jumping into the anime streaming market. Depending on who you are, this either…
‘The Witcher: Nightmare of the Wolf’ is the Best Entry Since ‘Witcher 3’
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt is one of the best RPGs I’ve ever played. A rich yet depressive fantasy epic spanning multiple nations plagued by monsters and war.…
Stranger By The Shore Was Great & I Wish It Was Longer
I’ve spoken about my thoughts on LGBT anime in the past. I’ve grappled with my thoughts on how homosexuality is portrayed in Japan and my feelings with shows…
Check Out My New Blog For Things That Aren’t Anime!
Hey everyone! This blog has seen huge growth over the last year and I couldn’t be happier to have people reading what I write. I’m so inspired by…
Shukou Murase’s Visual Masterpiece | Gundam: Hathaway
Seldom is a movie so addicting that I find myself rewatching it within a day. Even most good films hit the spot just right that I can give…
Trigger’s Greatest Achievement Yet | SSSS.DYNAZENON
The more that time passes, the more that I look back fondly on 2018’s SSSS.GRIDMAN. At first, it was strange, but then again, a lot of the shows…
A Fate/Grand Order Movie With A Good Story? | A Review of Wandering; Agateram
The only thing more annoying than stupidly long light novel titles is unnecessarily wordy Fate titles. I bet it’s half the reason this franchise seems so alienating to…
The Bloody, Beautiful End; Castlevania’s Final Season
Castlevania Season Four. Holy. Shit. I won’t lie. I mean, I wouldn’t be a good critic if I ever did lie, but especially in this instance, I can’t…
Saying Nice Things About My Least Favorite Shows
Irina from I Drink and Watch Anime had a great idea. Go to your MAL or AniList or Excel, or brain, whatever you use to keep track of…
Is the Demon Slayer Movie Worth All the Broken Records?
Does the title seem too cynical? I mean, don’t get me wrong, I was absolutely delighted to hear that the new Demon Slayer did well at the box…
The Most Beautiful Thing | Violet Evergarden: The Movie
I love reviewing movies, but sometimes I feel like I can’t review the things that mean the most to me. How stupid is that? I’ve been doing this…
Takeshi Koike’s Lupin the Third
Ever since 1967, Lupin the Third has been a staple of Japan’s animation culture and one of the most storied and recognizable icons in the international market’s perception…
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[Context Needed]: 4 Controversial Anime From the Last 4 Years
The anime community is wide, varied, and growing all the time. Every couple of years a significant tentpole anime comes out that brings in a whole new crop…
Citrus, GOBLIN SLAYER, Interspecies Reviewers, Redo of Healer
Watching Anime As A Feminist
It’s Women’s History Month and since yesterday at the time of posting was International Women’s Day, I figured I’d write a little something for the occasion that’s bee…
Bakemonogatari, Fire Force, Fullmetal Alchemist, Ghost in the Shell, Gunbuster
Kabaneri of the Iron Fortress is Probably Better Than We Give It Credit For
Imagine: It’s 2013. You’re Tetsurou Araki, the famed director behind Death Note and Highschool of the Dead. Now, you and WIT Studio, the offspring of Production I.G., have…
The ‘Given’ Movie was Just What I Needed
Back in May, I reviewed Given and concluded that it was precisely the kind of fun that I needed in my life. It was also a sign of…
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[Repost] The Millionaire Detective Review: Silly Spy Spectacle
The following is my review of The Millionaire Detective that I wrote back in October. If you like what you read and are interested in reading more by…
‘Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon?’; The Best Series You Didn’t Give A Chance
How many shows have you passed on because you figured they “weren’t worth your time?” What were the factors that contributed to that impression? Was it a lack…
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[Repost] The Great Pretender Review: Cases 1 through 3
The following is my review of Cases 1 through 3 of The Great Pretender that I wrote for Anime Quarterly back in September. If you like what you read…
91 Days, Attack on Titan, Great Pretender, Kimi ni Todoke: From Me to You, My Little Monster
Beyond The Boundary | Kyoto Animation Unleashed
My heart has belonged to Kyoto Animation for a long time. And their shows have always looked good – that’s not even a faintly nuanced observation. The 2010s…
Eva 3.0+1.0, Crunchyroll Originals, and Blood of Zeus | Anime Quarterly Link Dump
As frequent readers know, in addition to running this blog, I am the Associate Editor of Anime Quarterly, a new site that just started back in July. There’s…
My 5 Favorite Anime Endings
It’s the end of 2020… nearly. For December, I’m taking another hiatus to do some fiction writing. While I wouldn’t call it a grand finale, given how rough…
Fullmetal Alchemist, Gunbuster, The Big O, Unico, Attack on Titan
A Project Itoh Retrospective, Part III – Genocidal Organ
Part I – The Empire of Corpses Part II – Harmony I find it amusing that the Project Itoh films adapted Itoh’s novels in the reverse order of…
A Project Itoh Retrospective, Part II – A Review of Harmony
Part I – The Empire of Corpses Rarely in discussions of book-to-film adaptations am I in a position where I’ve read the book. Most times I come at…
No New Post This Week; A Short Conversation
Hey all… I know last week I said “come back next week for the next Project Itoh review,” but this week got off to a bumpy start. As…
You Need To Check Out This Monogatari-inspired Short Story!
My good friend, “Sad Scientist,” is an awesome writer and two years ago he wrote a short story called Scorpion Grass. It was a supernatural mystery set in…
A Project Itoh Retrospective, Part I – The Empire of Corpses
I’ve only ever read one of the works by the late Satoshi Itoh. It was his first novel, Gyakusatsu Kikan, or in English, Genocidal Organ. It was a…
Harmony, Kabaneri of the Iron Fortress, The Empire of Corpses, veil, Attack on Titan
A Review of ACCA: 13 – Territory Inspection Dept.
Rarely does a show come along that makes me rethink what I want from a story. Across any number of genres I’m interested in, there is an expectation…
Creating my first AMV; Bakemonogatari | Cannibal
In my continued mission to make more video content, I produced my very first AMV, pretty much on a whim, after listening to Tally Hall’s Cannibal a great…
A Review of Burn the Witch
Bleach, despite the myriad criticisms I’ve heard leveled at it, has maintained a reputation akin to anime royalty. Even from the outside, it isn’t unfathomable as to why.…
Mobile Suit Gundam: Unicorn, My First Gundam Series
Mobile Suit Gundam is the pinnacle of the mecha genre and has been astonishing fans for decades with classic after classic. Whether in the “Universal Century” canon or…
[Repost] A First Impressions of The Millionaire Detective: Balance Unlimited
The following are my first impressions of The Millionaire Detective that I wrote for Anime Quarterly back in July. If you like what you read and are interested…
[Repost] A Review of BNA: Brand New Animal
This is a review of Trigger’s recent series BNA that I wrote two months ago for Anime Quarterly. You might recall that I wrote about how I started…
A Review of Boogiepop and Others
Sometimes a show comes on your radar that just seems impossible to fail. There are just the right people attached to get you hyped by their pedigree alone…
The Anthology From the Man Who Brought You Akira
No convention has been a greater boon to animation as a whole than the anthology. Granted, I love anthologies in most mediums. A collection of short stories from…
Akira, The Animatrix, Blue Exorcist, Genius Party, Genius Party Beyond
Masahiro Ando’s Shakespearean Epic; A Review of Blast of Tempest
Here comes Matthew again, leaping to review another anime by Bones. I suppose that’s all I’m good for, isn’t it? And it’s directed by Masahiro Ando, no less……
My Review of BNA is Somewhere Else (Also, The Future of This Blog)
I’ve been blogging here since freshman year of college and in the time since, I’ve thought a lot about what comes after graduating. For a while there, I…
A Review of Fate/Grand Order: Absolute Demonic Front – Babylonia
It’s the end of Pride Month and I’ve somehow managed to waste another one not talking about any gay anime. Mostly because my review of Given went up…
A Review of Id: Invaded
There’s something about a detective story that just immediately brings up a story’s score for me. Maybe it’s my childhood obsession with Batman or my fondness for men…
The Best Three Anime on HBO Max
HBO Max is the newest and hottest service to make us ponder the costs and benefits of paying for another streaming subscription, and boy I am excited. Not…
Kabaneri of the Iron Fortress, Bungo Stray Dogs, Fullmetal Alchemist
I’m on Patreon Now!
With the world going the way it is right now, I feel like more than ever, my life is on pause. I’ve graduated from college with a fairly…
Finally Watching Space Dandy in 2020
… What the fuck am I doing? The entirety of Space Dandy came and went in 2014, getting all kinds of buzz for all the right reasons. It…
Pondering Attack on Titan’s Final Season
At the end of the much-acclaimed third season’s final credits, a fourth and surprisingly final season of Attack on Titan was announced to be greenlit. We went from…
A Review of Given
Early in 2014, when I was just getting into anime, I decided to watch Free! Iwatobi Swim Club, the now-famous sports anime by Kyoto Animation. Being in the…