It’s hard to review an anime that isn’t my cup of tea. Ouran High School Host Club is one of those. It is shojo, but I tend to enjoy their stories and characterizations better than shonen. So it isn’t that. I even enjoyed the satire Ouran High School Host Club has. Yes, satire about the various elements…
Year: 2012
School Rumble
Well paint my butt blue and call be a baboon! I actually enjoyed this series. I normally find these style of anime too random, cute, or feminine for my taste. School Rumble is most definitely random, cute, and feminine, but I found myself laughing and chuckling at the awkward social moments. School Rumble follows the…
Anime and High School
I already griped about anime and high school. It’s time I look at exactly why so many anime use high school as the main focus…other than letting the artists draw cute uniforms. Certainly teenagers are a good audience to market to, but many manga and anime oriented for adults still feature teens as characters…Perhaps this…
Kawaii
Kawaii literally means lovable, cute, or adorable. Kawaiasa is the noun ( love-ability, cuteness, or adorableness). Kawaii refers to the cuteness that appears throughout Japanese pop culture. Both men and women are expected to look and act kawaii. Interestingly, when cute seems fake it is looked down upon. Women who try to be kawaii and…
PES: Peace Eco Smile
I don’t like advertisements. They are annoying and too ubiquitous; I do everything I can to block and avoid them. But I find PES: Peace Eco Smile very interesting. Peace Eco Smile is an advertising campaign for Toyota Motor Corporation. Promotional anime? Sounds like a corruption doesn’t it? I can only say it is about…
Rosario + Vampire
Tsukune is a normal high school teenager. Of course, in the anime world that means abnormal events are on the menu. Tsukune is unable to get into a private school because of his poor grades. With help from his parents, he lands a spot at the Yokai Academy. Yokai is a class of monster in…