Category: Anime

  • Attack on Titan Season 1: The Rollercoaster

    Attack on Titan Season 1: The Rollercoaster

    Remember when everyone was talking about this season? Like, literally everyone? And how they’d compare it to Game of Thrones even though the only thing they had in common was the tone? Yeah, I remember. I honestly don’t think I can ever forget it. The first season of Attack on Titan can best be described…

  • Gabi Braun: Creating a Controversy The Right Way

    *MAJOR SPOILERS FOR ATTACK ON TITAN AHEAD!! READ WITH CAUTION!!* Bear with me for a second as I set the stage, would you? It’s 2013. Attack on Titan’s first season is mid-swing. The hype is unreal. Everyone’s watching it, everyone’s talking about it. But for some reason, there aren’t many characters that people can actually…

  • Rascal Does Not Dream of Bunny Girl Senpai: The Diamond in the Rough

    My god, this show is two years old… it still feels like it came out yesterday. But it also feels like it came out a thousand years ago. Does that make sense? Probably not. Life these last few months has turned my brain to pudding. Initially, I wrote Bunny Girl Senpai off as just another…

  • Berserk 2016/17 Gives Me Clinical Depression

    Berserk 2016/17 Gives Me Clinical Depression

    Berserk’s anime run has been a rough one. The 90s anime was good, but it didn’t last. The Golden Age movies were decent, but dragged down by an overabundance of inconsistent CGI. Then, for years, the Berserk anime just… vanished. Until this disaster came out. I’ve talked about a lot of anime that I dislike.…

  • Why The Quintessential Quintuplets Works

    The reputation surrounding harem anime is understandably not an extremely positive one. Most harem shows boil down to a series of cardboard cutout anime waifus falling in love with a moron that they have no reason to be attracted to, then hijinks ensuing. The story itself is just wacky scenarios that builds to nothing except…