I was first recommended Revolutionary Girl Utena after watching Princess Tutu (obligatory PRINCESS TUTU IS THE BEST OMG) seven years ago, and I've been wanting to watch it ever since! While I wasn't able to watch it to follow along with Mark Watches Utena, I was put on a Worldcon panel about feminism and magical girls so now watching it became ( Read more... )

Certain combinations of words pique your interest. Zombie dinosaurs. Guitar ninjas. Plane golem. So allow me to introduce you to Baccano! with the following two words:

Immortal gangsters.Sold? Good, that was easy. But I'll continue. "Baccano" means "ruckus" in Italian, and, my God, is there ever a ruckus in this series. There are ruckuses. Rucki. ( Read more... )

Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood has a fervent, devoted following, and, my God, it's easy to see why.

A simplistic blurb describes the series as about two brothers who, after having failed to resurrect their mother through alchemy and paid a heavy price, go in search of a way to restore their original bodies. When I say this it not even the half ( Read more... )

I had never heard of Puella Magi Madoka Magica until it was suggested and recommended highly for Mark Watches. Initially, I wasn't terribly interested in watching it because I didn't know anything about it except that it was a magical girl series, and I didn't really have an interest in that. Then I discovered that it was actually a trope-smashing ( Read more... )

Following Perfect Blue and Paprika, I moved up my intention to watch the late Satoshi Kon's anime series, Paranoia Agent. It sounds like some sort of dark conspiracy thriller, but...it's not. Paranoia Agent is about this skater kid who goes around Tokyo hitting people with a baseball bat. He's dubbed Shonen Bat, or Lil' Slugger ( Read more... )

From Gainax, the madmen who brought us Neon Genesis Evangelion and FLCL, comes Gurren Lagann, the show whose motto is "The only thing better than a mecha is a BIGGER MECHA."

My brother had been telling me to watch it for a while, and allsunday recommended it as well, so she let me borrow her DVDs in exchange for 100 Bullets. Coincidentally, the last anime ( Read more... )

So remember that time three years ago when I wrote about the Buffista F2F? No, you probably don't. But that's why I link! Since these posts are like the sequel! Every year, the Buffistas descend upon an unsuspecting city and rock out, and this year, we gathered in Seattle. Which, luckily, contained other people I wanted to see, so it was all sorts ( Read more... )

Last Exile is apparently quite highly regarded by anime fans, but I had never heard of it until allsunday recommended it to me. She then proceeded to lend it to me. Eight months later, I finally got around to it. I was able to watch with my brother!

Last Exile is notable for being steampunk anime. Better yet, the story is centered around airships, so most ( Read more... )

Serial Experiments Lain was the first anime I ever wanted to watch, and it's taken me something like seven years to get around to it. I remember seeing the box set in Emily and Shari's room, and it looked intriguing. All I knew about it was that in the beginning, a girl kills herself, but then later, this other girl gets an e-mail from her! Oooh, ( Read more... )

During my tour of anime, I came across this awesome-sounding anime called Death Note. Doesn't it sound awesome already? Right? Anyway, I was told by multiple sources that the manga was superior, so I decided to give it a shot. I'd never read manga before. sistakaren showed me that I could read it all online, but, to my surprise, the Oakland Public Library ( Read more... )