My Dress Up Darling‘s second season continues the slice-of-life romance among Wakana Gojo, Marin Kitagawa, and their love for cosplay. The season divides into various arcs that develops Wakana’s character and goes into Marin’s realization that she loves him in addition to the stories of several of the supporting cast. This discussion will spoil the…
Category: Anime
A Mecha Pilot’s Introduction Handbook
Welcome to Earth’s premier defense and industrial team! As a mecha pilot, you’ve proven to have the character, flexibility, and capabilities to serve your fellow citizens in this exciting and challenging career. This handbook offers an overview of what you, as a new mecha pilot, need to know about the history and policies of this…
Can a Boy-Girl Friendship Survive? The Doormat and the Emotionally Unbalanced
Can a Boy-Girl Friendship Survive? is a romantic comedy with the usual love triangle set in high school. But this story has a few twists that are sadly realistic. I have to spoil the story to discuss the characters. Yu Natsume is a high school boy who has an interest in flowers and wants to…
Is AI Translation the Future for Anime and Manga?
Manga is increasingly being translated by large-language models (LLMs), or artificial intelligence as most people call LLMs. The Ancient Magus’ Bride manga, for example, used Mantra Engine for part of its English translation (Schley, 2023). LLMs are software programmed to teach itself patterns in inputs and then use those patterns to generate new patterns based…
Please Put Them On, Takamine-san: Ecchi on the Path to Censorship
If I was in Texas, I would (possibly) be going to prison for watching Please Put Them On, Takamine-san. In my quest to expand my exposure to stories I normally avoid, I gave this ecchi a watch. Okay, a half watch. I worked on writing projects and did other things as I half-watched it. This…
Rock Is a Lady’s Modesty: Music as a Sexual Identity
Rock is a Lady’s Modesty sits in the girl-band category and within the yuri genre. Categories can span different genres. Girl-band stories can fit in the yuri genre, shojo genre, and other genres, for example. Rock is a Lady’s Modesty has overt lesbian tones to it, but with a twist. In order to discuss the…