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Pacific Rim: A Triumphant Ode To Anime’s Golden Age
Oh yeah. It’s here.. For those less familiar with many of the other things I tend to post on the internet, I also happen to share views of other forms of entertainment via The Wandering Kaijyu, a blog...
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Fate/kaleid liner PRISMA ILLYA, moe pigs euphoria!
Euraka!!! Fate/kaleid liner PRISMA ILLYA, the cuteness is overwhelmingly moe. That’s what I’ve been waiting for. Moe pigs euphoria! First of all, I was very disdainful of this spin-off magical girl...
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WataMote 2: Turn and Face the Strain
Summary While fantasizing about getting verbally abused by handsome yandere boys, Tomoko receives a call from an old friend, Yuu (c.v.: Kana Hanazawa). Yuu wants to meet up on the weekend to catch up,...
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WataMote 3: Avoidance
SHOKKU Summary Tomoko will go to great lengths to avoid socializing with her peers, especially if they are boys. She’d rather go without a textbook she forgot to bring than share her neighbor’s,...
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Free! wasn’t an otome bullsh@t.
I wasn’t going to watch this show. I mean this was primarily catering to otome (young girls). Yes, young otaku girls, or if not otaku, then anime fan girls. I mean, from the PV, it’s already showing...
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WataMote 4: You Can (Not) Be Touched
Summary After surfing the web for too long one night, Tomoko, knowing deep down that she won’t be getting skinship with a real boy anytime soon, tries other means to get into sexual situations: first...
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Review: The Garden of Words
Makoto Shinkai admits to not knowing why he is drawn to stories about koi–”lonely sadness” or longing. “if you want to psychoanalyze me, there might be various reasons, but even I don’t know what they...
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Attack on Titan: “Why We Fight” For the Otaku Age?
There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them, the same became mighty men which were of old,...
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WataMote 5: Personae
Summary In her never ending quest to become more popular, Tomoko attempts three different personality changes: first, inspired by an anime, she tries to become a Yuki Nagato-like “expressionless...
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WataMote 6: Delusions of Grandeur
EVA REFERENCES FTW Summary Tomoko suddenly looks…cuter? So she thinks, after a round of otome games seems to make her lose the bags under her eyes. Her newfound confidence, fueled by the belief that...
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Nobuo Uematsu’s Pinocchio take in Blink-0 1946
Any video gamer familiar with Square Enix RPG games would know Nobuo Uematsu’s credit on being the composer of Final Fantasy music. This summer of 2013 however, Blink-0 1946 was released as Uematsu’s...
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Silver Spoon, reminds me of Mutsugorou-san
Oh yes, Silver Spoon. Hachiken, a disinterested city boy, goes to a remote agricultural high school in Hokkaidou. Yes, this show reminds me of that Fuji-TV show, Mutsugorou’s animal kingdom. I used to...
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WataMote 7: Voices
Summary Summer vacation has started, and isolated Tomoko–true to herself–does not bother going out of her room, choosing to while away the hours in front of a computer, a book, listening to more...
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Attack On Maid, moe-Xplosion, Maid-phillya!
Fate/kakeid liner PRISMA ILLYA, ep 7, Illya turns into a sexual predator. That was really unexpected. I was very astonished. She got cold so she calls in sick, stays home and just stays in bed. But...
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Porno Graffitti: AX 2013 Press Conference Transcript
L: Haruichi Shindo (guitar), R: Akihito Okano (lead vocal) This is a full, translated transcript of the band Porno Graffitti’s press conference at Anime Expo 2013. Porno Graffitti, best known for doing...
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Porno Graffitti at AX 2013: Photo Gallery
Anime Diet was privileged to attend and take photos of J-rock band Porno Graffitti at this year’s Anime Expo! Pornograffitti is best known for anime OPs and EDs for Great Teacher Onizuka, Fullmetal...
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Porno Graffitti, Live at Anime Expo 2013
Prominent J-Rock band Porno Graffitti performed their many anime songs and others live at Anime Expo 2013 this year. Both Monsieur LaMoe and Shizuka were on hand to cover it, with Shizuka taking...
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Attack of Common Sense
Philosophically, there’s really not a lot going on with Shingeki no Kyojin. Power corrupts; power is inhuman; the strong eat the weak. Anyone who has taken more than a few minutes to observe how...
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Illya, cutism, kawaii, rezu-rezu-janou. Already fin?
Ahhh, Illya series already ended? So sad…saudade, as if my love affair has just ended…short-lived koi…I didn’t really enjoy the plot though, the story was rather boring, so the only reason I was...
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Nagi No Asukara, first epi…beautifully saudade…
Nagi No Asukara, just watched episode 1 and oh my god…really beautiful! And the feeling, koi, or saudade or sehnsucht or mono no aware is there! Totally, yeah, female childhood friend, and a fear that...
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