Anime roundup 4/7/2016: On Your Marks
In this week’s viewing: The starting gun fires for the spring season! What’s taking the early lead?
Anime roundup 10/24/2014: Left Behind
In this week’s viewing: Saying farewell to a few more shows, it’s time to set the lineup for the rest of the season.
Anime roundup 9/25/2014: Au Revoir, Not Adieu
In this week’s viewing: Two more shows pack their bags, but only for a temporary absence, and more!
Anime Roundup 8/21/2014: Not Always Better Together
In this week’s viewing: Romance, family ties, their unhealthy flipsides, and more!
Anime roundup 8/7/2014: Smoke and Mirrors
In this week’s viewing: Mind games, plotting, and counter-plotting all over the place!
Anime Roundup 7/10/2014: Something For Everyone
In this week’s viewing: It’s an uncommonly good start to the new season!
Summer 2014 SF Anime Preview
Sailor Moon is finally here, and it’s bringing friends! See what’s coming your way with the new anime season.
When A Hobby Becomes An Identity
Morgana does the self-observational thing regarding her fannishness: I am happy in my self-awareness and my obsessiveness and my over-thinking-it-ness. I am happy to live partially in my head…
A Year With Amazing Stories: My Anime Blogiversary!
Morgana Santilli reflects on a year of posts and blogging. Happy Blogiversary!
Is the Anime Renaissance Upon Us?
An examination of the world of anime in its current state and with its current offerings.
Winter 2014 SF Anime Preview
What’s coming to the intersection of anime and sf worlds in January? (Spoiler: No Sailor Moon, unfortunately.) So many new and renewed shows you’d think it was Christmas or something!
Itadakimasu! The Significance of Food In Anime
Can wisdom be found in a ramen noodle shop? Fans, Anime and Food collide – but there’s no need to call in Senator Blutarsky.
Consider the Magical Girl
With the Sailor Moon relaunch just a few months away, I seem to be seeing an onslaught of magical girls in the media.
Dubbing Gone Wrong: Americanization, Racism, and Willful Ignorance
It is extremely difficult, as a creator of any sort, to escape your culture.
Doujinshi: Distinctly Japanese
There are many expressions of fandom that cross genres and cultures – fan fiction, fan art, even cosplay. But there is one form in particular that is distinctly Japanese, both in its origin and in […]
Wonder Woman’s Foreign Successors
I’ve been reading Mike Madrid’s The Supergirls, a really fantastic look at the history of superheroines in mainstream American comics. I just reached the 1970s, and the karate-chopping, white-pantsuit-wearing, depowered Wonder Woman era that came with […]
Pretty Soldiers: Hotaru Tomoe
Hotaru Tomoe is abused by her father. She suffers from an illness that leaves her breathless, weak and wracked with pain. She is picked on by her classmates. Sailor Uranus and Sailor Neptune are planning […]
Pretty Soldiers: Minako Aino
Minako Aino revels in frivolity. She loves pop music and cake, she trades shoujo manga with her friends, she wants to be an idol singer someday. She loves fame and glamour and if she existed […]
Pretty Soldiers: Makoto Kino
The strength of characterization in Sailor Moon is, in my opinion, what has made it such an enduring series. When we were children, we chose our favorite and used her to represent who we were […]
Anime As An Art Form
One of the greatest things that anime ever did for me was give me the desire to create. I was a really bookish kid, and the idea of writing had always been pretty appealing to […]
Sex and the Senshi
(Author’s Note: This article deals with issues regarding sex and sexuality in a non-explicit manner. Regardless, it might not be safe for work.) Usagi, the titular character of Bishoujo Senshi Sailor Moon, is a great […]
The Fallen Magical Girl and the Crisis of Adolescence
The Fallen Magical Girl is a trope as endemic to the mahou shoujo genre as the transformation sequence. Though she once swore fealty to ideals of love and justice, now she obeys only herself, or […]
Cat Heaven: Neko-sama in Animanga
There is a small fishing island in Japan, Tashirojima, which has been dubbed “cat heaven” because of the phenomenal amount of stray cats living there – there are more cats than people! It sounds, to […]
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