The Red Bird in The Penguin Tribe: My Life in the Past Year

Do you want to know what happened to me during the past year?

Final Impression and Review of All Four Seasons of Natsume Yujinchou

Don’t let the fact that I spent over 5 years to complete all four seasons of Natsume Yujinchou discourage you from this series. It was quite brilliant, actually.

Challenging Gender Roles: Review and Discussion of Wandering Son

It was still the story of boy and a girl. But this time, we had the boy who wanted to be a girl and a girl who wanted to be a boy.

Life can be cruel, but not without hope: Review of Silver Spoon

Of course, Silver Spoon was an anime about farming. The anime took us far deeper into the agricultural world than we could ever imagine possible. Even more impressively, the show also had several ideas hidden beneath the farming stories (also read this post). Here I gave my general impression of both seasons of the show.

How Watching Silver Spoon Could Affect Your Life: a discussion

According to Silver Spoon, farming could lend you some perspectives about life. So did watching anime about farming, apparently. Here I explored some of the topics that I thought was interesting from both seasons of the show.

Battles of Sinners, Dreamers, and Lost Souls: Review of Fate/Zero

After the disappointment of watching bland high school kids playing magical war games in Fate/Stay Night back in 2006, I was delight to see this series finally reached its full potential in Fate/Zero. This time, we got to see real magi in real battle. This review contains spoilers.

New Year, New Perspectives

A Boy and His Magical Piano: Review of Piano no Mori

Piano no Mori was certainly interesting and inspiring. But why did it have to be in the forest? Couldn’t it be piano in the attic, instead? (This review contains minor spoilers.)

Let’s Live a Colorful Life! – Review of Colorful

It was really hard to make Colorful sounded attractive. The anime overall was incredibly somber. Grey and blue made up for most of the film’s color template. Despite that, Colorful talked about how complex people could be and seriously explored several issues in our society. This review contains minor spoilers.