Anime Digest: Late Spring

I ended up watching 7 shows from this season, so we’ll make this a Spring Exclusive.

Slices of Mango: Anthology Edition

It’s always interesting to get a glimpse of renowned mangaka’s talent, headspace, and style in bite-sized form, outside of The One Work that made their name.

Anime Digest: Life Ends… or You Get a Sequel

As I finally put out the winter candle and transfer the flame to the candle of sequelland spring…

Real Life Girls (The World God Only Knows Review)

 

I don’t think it’s possible to summarize the premise of TWGOK without making it sound like your garden variety otaku-wish-fulfillment-sleazefest harem comedy, but let’s try regardless. Keima Katsuragi, the titular God who’s better at dating sim than Michael Jordan at basketball or me at procrastination, has his life turned upside down when a ditzy demon girl from another world enlisted his help to solve the problem of evil spirit escapee hiding themselves in human girls’ body.  Apparently you can whisk away the spirit by winning the vessel girl’s heart and kiss her, and Typical Animango Misunderstanding happened as the girl mistaken Keima’s godlike capacity in 2D realm as proof of being real life Casanova. Keima decided to treat this situation like one of his games,  he eventually found that somehow the evil spirits really really like the girls in his school, he set out to kiss these girls one at a time to save them… okay, better stop here. How convenient, pandering, and tiresome, right?

Except it’s really not. Instead, it’s a sharply written, subversive, piece of work that  consistently amused, engaged  and surprised me throughout its run. It works.

Anime Digest: Let’s Go to Hell Together

In which I talk about storytellers, conspirators, chessmasters, hellish creatures, and a family of idiots. 

Brief Encounters

Sometimes, there is a work that just pierced your soul, leaving deep cuts all over the place.

Live Telly Digest: And Then There Were Five

Thoughts on some (non Japanese toon) TV shows.

Golden Realist’s Top 10 Anime of 2016

There’s an obvious recurring theme here.

Golden Realist’s Top 10 Manga of 2016

Some strange serendipity: my favorite manga and anime from the last two years all start with the letter ‘s’.

To a Storyteller

My heart has joined the thousand, for my friend stopped running today.