Since last month I talked about a classic with Barbara Stanwyck and Gary Cooper, I decided to continue the trend and take into consideration another movie starring the two of them, but this time a more serious one. Meet John Doe is a 1941 movie directed by Frank Capra which this year also reaches its…
Category: Animation & Comics
Rascal doesn’t dream…period
Rascal Does Not Dream of Bunny Girl Sempai is an anime that came out back in 2018 and one would assume that with a name like that it would have had much more visibility (for the better or worse of it). Although it has its popularity, it is nowhere near as famous as it should…
What Flowers may Bloom
The Fragrant Flower Blooms with Dignity (Kaoru hana wa rin to saku) is a manga by Saka Mikami that started to be serialized back in 2021. Given that recently it received an anime adaptation, it just so happen to pass under my radar and I’m here to talk about it. It is, once again, a…
Scissor salad
Anime is not only a Japanese thing anymore! Although they certainly still dominate a huge part of the market, in recent years more and more Asian countries have been giving their fair share within the animated medium. It is not only the case of famous manhwas that later received an anime adaptation either, as Solo…
Devotion to the craft
Tatsuki Fujimoto is the mangaka who wrote Chainsaw Man, a series that undoubtedly gave him wider recognition given the relatively recent anime adaptation and popularity. Before that, he had written Fire Punch, another fantastic story that portrays a gritty dystopian world (it is a series that would deserve a separate article). It comes as a…
Goldberg…I mean Grimm variations
Have you ever wondered how the story would have turned out if Cinderella would have been a manipulative demon-spawn that actually gaslighted her two big sisters into becoming hated by the entire family? No? Yeah, me neither…but someone did. The Grimm Variations is an anime that takes several of the Grimm stories and re-envisions them…
The Horizons of Shangri-La
Given that I already discussed several of the deconstructions and strong suits of Shangri-La Frontier, now that season 2 has finished airing, I decided to revisit what I said, explore some new tropes that were used as well and make a comparison with a sort of a classic – Log Horizon. In other words, we…
Komi-san can finally communicate… more or less
After almost ten years, Komi’s story reached its conclusion, clocking out at 500 chapters. I will say that at the time the anime adaptation was pretty well made, which in turn had given me the curiosity to binge read the manga; now, after about a year and a half since, I returned to finish reading…
Dan-Da-What?
How do you recommend to someone a series that is so preposterous, so over-the-top, so absurd that it will make you go ‘wut’ at every scene? A series that in the very first episode has aliens wanting the human’s ‘banana organ’ and a malevolent spirit called turbo-granny saying that she will let the protagonist ‘suckle…
My star pupil
These will be just a few fast taught on an anime series that recently had its second season, Oshi no Ko – My Star. The reason I wanted to write something about it and why I find it interesting enough to do so is because the anime manages to combine the murder mystery genre with…