Anime
The Anime Love Handbook: Learn How to Avoid Romance In A Few Simple Steps
If you want your love for someone to remain in the static gray area or unrequited, anime has the guide for you! The steps within this handbook will ensure you too can remain in the perpetual will-they-won’t-they zone! You too can remain indecisive and string romantic interests along, creating a space for perpetual confused connection.…
The Fragrant Flower Blooms with Dignity
Anime and manga don’t shy away from gentle, charming stories. And sometimes at the end of the day, a gentle slice-of-life story about friendship and love is just what the doctor ordered. The Fragrant Flower Blooms with Dignity is one of those stories. I will spoil the story in this article: this is one I…
“Never Accepting What You Want,” One of the Themes of Urusei Yatsura
Urusei Yatsura stands as Rumiko Takahashi’s first serialized work. Rumiko, if you aren’t familiar with her, is one of the most influential manga artists: her career spans from 1978 to today. She created a range of works, including Inuyasha. Urusei Yatsura ran as an anime series in the 1980s and was remade in 2022. Urusei…
The “Precious Memories” Theme in Anime
If you’ve watched anime or read manga for any length of time, you will have come across the phrase “precious memories.” This phrase appears across all sorts of genres, most often in slice-of-life stories. When I first got into anime, in my early-to-mid 20s, the phrase made me cringe a bit. It struck me as…
Suzume: A Door Opens to Another Coming of Age Story
Suzume released in 2022, and I only got around to watching it in 2025. You might be surprised to learn that I don’t watch cinematic, stand-alone anime films all that often. I find it hard to cordon two hours to watch a single film. I don’t watch live-action films for the same reason. I’m bad…
Witch Watch: Rom-Com With True Wingmen
I can sum Witch Watch in a word: forgettable. As I sit down at my laptop to bang out this article, I remember little of the series, and I had finished watching the series a few days ago. It’s not that Witch Watch is terrible, that I remember of it. The story is a romantic…
