A Stroll Through The Band's Albums
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Make Believe Mailer #132: White Girl
Winter Has Arrived
Make Believe Mailer #123: Jock Rock
The Action Isn't Just On The Diamond!
Make Believe Mailer #134: Fun Japan
A Year Where Government Involvement Really Impacts Music
Make Believe Mailer #129: "Turning Up"
Five years since the musical end of Heisei...and beginning of Reiwa
Make Believe Mailer #127: Perfume (2014)
Allow A Little Indulgence For A Pivotal Moment In My Career
Make Believe Mailer #137: Virtual Possibilities
Hoshimachi Suisei, VOLTCATION, Tsukino Mito And More From VTuber Music World
Make Believe Mailer #122: Promotion And Catharsis
"Jellyfish Can't Swim in the Night" And "Girls Band Cry"
Make Believe Mailer #138: Butter Sugar Cream
A Decade Of Kawaii Future Bass...And The Final Days Of Japan's 21st Century Cute Phase
Make Believe Mailer #121: Reol 2015 Interview
Hints Of Where J-pop Would Go
Make Believe Mailer #126: What Was FAKY?
The Group's Role In Modern J-pop History
Make Believe Mailer #133: Make Believe Melodies' 100 Favorite Japanese Albums Of 2024
(More Than 100, But Ehhhhh All Good)
Make Believe Mailer #135: BABYMETAL Interviews (MTV 81)
Early Chats With A J-pop Pioneer On The Global Stage
Make Believe Mailer #128: Toshiyuki Nishida Musical Sampler
The Actor, Who Died Last Week, Found Himself Connected To Many Pop Institutions
Make Believe Mailer #125: Bandcamp Friday Special September 2024
The "heavy Vocaloid" edition
Looking Back at Look Back
No matter how good you are, even if you have the style and sense of humor of a grade schooler, you possess the capacity in some form to…
A Personal Look Back at Matsumoto Leiji
The news of Matsumoto Leiji’s death shocked me. While the passing of an 85-year-old shouldn’t be too surprising, it still makes me contemplate so many things. The number…
Make Believe Mailer #131: An Assortment Of Thoughts On NewJeans In Japan
Featuring Summer Sonic, The Powerpuff Girls, And "Plastic Love"
Make Believe Bonus: TWICE Treats At Family Mart
SELL THE SOCKS IN BIGGER SIZES!
Make Believe Bonus: Technique At Fourth Floor II
Underground Nostalgia
Make Believe Bonus: Hiromi Go At Belluna Dome
Somehow, my second time seeing Hiromi Go perform after a baseball game
A Look Back At Disney’s “Atlantis: The Lost Empire”
Disney’s 41st animated feature, Atlantis: The Lost Empire, was born at a Mexican restaurant. During lunch in 1996, it was there that producer Don Hahn and directors Kirk…
Make Believe Bonus: Utada Hikaru At Yoyogi National Gymnasium
What Makes Utada Utada
Make Believe Bonus: PAS TASTA At Spotify O-EAST
A Thrill To End The Year
Make Believe Mailer #136: A Definitive Ranking Of The Yuming Songs Featured In "Watashi Wo Ski Ni Tsuretette!"
The Sound, Sights And Skis Of The Bubble Era
Employees at Seven Seas Look to Make Waves
Krystallina takes a look at something potentially historic in the manga/light novel industry space as Seven Seas workers aim to unionize.
Make Believe Mailer #124: Tuned In (Music Magazine's Best 100 J-pop Songs Of The 2010s)
A Weird Decade, For The Better
A Thankless Passion: Look Back
Why is it that we create art? Certainly not for the adulation of the crowd; for beyond the theoretically accommodating audience of your close family and friends, there…
A LOOK BACK ON 2024
Hello friends! I was supposed to finish the recap I mentioned last Friday yesterday, but oh well. I wanted to reflect on the partly tumultuous but mostly whatever…
A look at Lackadaisy
Hey, you like me putting this one into the anime category? Well very strictly speaking it is, since the word anime in Japanese applies to our cartoons here…
Look Back
Well, we made it through another year. And, in a bit less than two months, Animétudes will celebrate its second anniversary. So, as I did last year, I…
Year in Review: A Look Back at 2024 on Blerdy Otome
Hey there Blerdy Tribe! Its the end of another year and I’ll be honest, this year was a test. 2024 brought with it some amazing opportunities and growth…
Year in Review: A Look Back at 2021 on Blerdy Otome
It’s crazy to think that 2021 is almost over, it kind of feels like this year just started and now 2022 is right around the corner. This year…
medorē #28 – A Look Back at My First J-Music Playlist
featuring Ohashi Trio, Suchmos, WANIMA (and more!)
Make Believe Bonus: "Valentine's Radio"
A Few Variations On A Valentine's Favorite
Make Believe Bonus: Tokyo Swindlers
The Show And The Soundtrack
Make Believe Bonus: The Church
I Broke A Glass Here Accidentally So I'll Probably Never Go Back...But You Should!
A Look At “The Apothecary Will Make This Battered Elf Happy” Manga
AstroNerdBoy takes a look at the web manga"The Apothecary Will Make This Battered Elf Happy", where a human apothecary saves an abused elf.
a LOOK BACK into Fujimoto's mind
! SPOILERS FOR ALL OF LOOK BACK ! Look Back by Fujimoto is probably my favourite work of his - and it begs the question "Why do you draw?".…
Make Believe Bonus: A Night Out, In One Hour
Extended Flo Rida Remix...Please, I Have A Family
Summer 2024 Anime Week 7: A Look Back at Winter & Spring 2024
August 17th, 2024 We’re past the halfway point for this Summer season! Usually, this is around when I would write my mid-season thoughts on all of the shows…
Moving Heaven and Earth – A look back at Castle in the Sky
While Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind may be the first original film project cited in Miyazaki’s canon, the honor of being the first true Studio Ghibi…
A Look Back at the 2010’s Part 1: Creators and Franchises
When I originally was thinking about doing this, I didn’t want to create yet another list of shows from the 2010’s that people loved. All for a wide…
Make Believe Mailer 120: You Aughts To Know (Music Magazine's Best 100 J-pop Songs Of The 2000s)
Aiming For Cohesion When Everything Is Starting To Crack
A Look At – Succubus Academia
Due to the sudden appearance of the seductive Succubi, the Academy begins to collapse due to the influence of the Dream World, becoming a dream-like setting where fantastic…
A First Look at YashaHime
For a brief moment in the early 2000s, Rumiko Takashashi’s InuYasha was the shonen franchise in America. It was a constant presence on cable television, where it anchored…
A look at HoloCure 0.7
Even with the world on fire, there was at least one thing I was looking forward to this month: the release of the 0.7 update to the free…
A Look-See at Azuki
New digital manga service Azuki is out, and Krystallina checks out the web, iOS, and Android apps in this week's Please Save My Money.