Love always remains: a twenty-year-late review of Porco Rosso

It’s been twenty years but love remains as fresh and sweet as I could ever hope for.

How can I determine the gender of anime bloggers?

How often did you mistake male bloggers for a female bloggers and vice versa? Without looking at their MAL profiles, how can you tell if the bloggers are female or male just by looking at their blogs? Here’s the solution!

How Watching Hyouka May Help Improve Your Life

Hyouka is truly an amazing show, not perfect but amazing. It utilized familiar setting but filled in that setting with interesting characters and unconventional high school-based mystery. This post is not a direct anime review but rather my reflection on Hyouka. Read on to learn how you can make your life better (like I did) using lessons from this anime.

Recovering from Crisis: From Up on Poppy Hill anime review

I was inevitably skeptical after seeing Tales from Earthsea. Going in the high-fantasy route might not work well for Goro Miyazaki. In this anime, he went in a different direction by making down to earth, drama anime. I am glad to say that it was the right choice.

The Bittersweet Impermanence of Life: Mai Mai Miracle review and discussion

We meet and then we part. We live and then we die. On the surface, Mai Mai miracle felt like someone holding on to sweet nostalgic memory. But in fact, the anime was more about dealing with the impermanence of things in life. Memento Mori in children’s movie…I’m impressed! (this article contains spoilers)

Canne joins the Anime Blogger Interrogation Game

 

It felt good to be tagged by the lovely Starburst-chan. Despite my acting relatively low profile in the past month, it’s great to be regarded as part of the community. The Anime Blogger Interrogation Game was started at Nabe!! and I suspected that it would go viral around the blogsphere soon. Everyone loves jumping on the bandwagon :)

Stumbling across new anime blog: it is a matter of destiny!

Foxy Lady came up with this idea of ‘animanga blog carnival’ post series. I think it’s interesting and easy to respond to. From what I understand, I have to write something about how I approach to a new anime blog and what I expect from it. I’ll make this post short and precise since no one likes wall of text including myself.