By: Beata Garrett | @zhongxia246 Salaryman’s Club only has two episodes out in comparison to other Winter 2022 anime, but it’s filling that sports anime hole in my heart pretty well and is a contender for my favorite this season. The anime follows Mikoto, a prodigy badminton player who only plays singles. After being fired from Mitsuhoshi Bank’s top-ranked badminton team, he becomes a salaryman … Continue reading Salaryman’s Club (Review)
By: Beata Garrett | @zhongxia246 Tribe Nine is set in Neo-Tokyo, where the government decided that the only way to stop its warring gangs was by promoting XB, also known as Extreme Baseball. All disputes are settled through the game that is a fun twist on regular baseball. It has most of the same rules with the main differences including entire cities functioning as fields … Continue reading Tribe Nine (Review)
By: Beata Garrett | @zhongxia246 My Dress-Up Darling has a lot of things going for it. What has drawn me to the series is its message of respecting people’s hobbies, its depiction of the work and dedication involved in cosplaying, and the sweet burgeoning romance between Wakana and Marin. It’s also undoubtedly fanservice-y, with close-ups that linger on Marin’s exposed body–sometimes it’s minimal, but other … Continue reading My Dress-Up Darling (Review)
By: Beata Garrett | @zhongxia246 PPPPPP is a manga about a family of geniuses with piano superpowers, and it’s everything I expected something with that premise to be, yet underwhelming in ways that I’ll do my best to describe. I feel like it’s the kind of work you’d read if you want to read a mashup of The Umbrella Academy and Scott Pilgrim vs. the … Continue reading PPPPPP – Why I Keep Reading a Music Manga That I Can’t Fully Recommend (Review/Analysis)
By: Beata Garrett | @zhongxia246 Haunted houses are a staple in horror, and have a rich history of terrifying us as places that blur the boundaries between the living and the dead, hell and heaven, and reality and delusion. What I love about haunted houses are the ways in which they prey emotionally and psychically on their inhabitants, and the parasitic relationships that emerge in … Continue reading The House – Parasitic Horror in Three Parts (Review)
By: Beata Garrett | @zhongxia246 Belle won me over for the first hour with its gorgeous visuals, nuanced take on the power of the internet, and soundtrack. At least, that was until I saw the turn it was taking in the latter half and thought, Please no, don’t do this. It’s hard to reconcile my overwhelmingly positive feelings for the first half with the dismay I … Continue reading Belle – Please Erase the Last Half of This Movie From My Mind (Review)
Title: Belle: The Dragon and the Freckled Princess (2021) Teaser Trailer #2 | Anime Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sj6BAnKphNY&ab_channel=FilmCon By: Peggy Sue Wood | @pswediting Friday night I watched Belle in theaters. As I expected, Studio Chizu has come out with another fantastic feature that is sure to be yet another favorite on many people’s lists. Now, I’d been avoiding any news, reviews, and talk of Belle since it came … Continue reading Many Thoughts Going In and Out of Belle (Review/Analysis)
By: Peggy Sue Wood | @pswediting Saiyuki is a series near and dear to my heart. The original anime and its several seasons, movie, and OVAs are all top tear action anime with deep stories that I obsessed over in high school (and now, as an adult). So, when I scrolled through MAL’s (MyAnimeList) Winter 2022 anime lists last season, I literally screamed in excitement … Continue reading Saiyuki Reload: Zeroin – We Need More Goku (Review/Analysis)
Disclaimer: This is a movie review for Encanto and, therefore, includes spoilers. Read at your own discretion. By: Peggy Sue Wood | @pswediting All I’ve heard about lately is how great Encanto is, followed quickly by a “but” or some variation there of, and so I would like to just be straightforward and tell you all that it’s not great. It’s a good movie… but it’s … Continue reading Encanto: Good–not Great
By: Peggy Sue Wood | @pswediting The Witcher: Nightmare Of The Wolf released on Netflix last August and was a fantastic animation to go along with The Witcher show. I, personally, loved it and felt it blended the fantastical nature of magic and story better than the live-action show. Animation really is a great form to adapt such stories and can do a lot more than … Continue reading Recommended Watch: Behind The Animation of Nightmare Of The Wolf
