“Nuclear Boy” Explains Fukushima Crisis to Children
Supposedly this was broadcast on Japanese television. (via) UPDATE: Japan Times describes the origin of the video here.
Category: Anime
Coelasquid on the Uncanny Valley
“Coelasquid” provides a short, simple and fairly comprehensive explanation of the “uncanny valley” problem here. This is the bane of computer generate animation, but can also occur in other contexts…. Read more »
Apocalyptic Fantasy vs. Reality
Kylaran, who experienced the Sendai earthquake firsthand, muses on the differences and similarities between real life and depictions of catastrophic earthquakes in manga and anime (specifically the manga Kanojo wo… Read more »
Criticising the Premise of Puella Magi
I am bemused by the number of people who seem less upset by Kyuubee’s morals in Puella Magi Madoka Magica than by his “entropy” explanation in Episode 9. Nerdy and… Read more »
Fractale Absurdities?
I’ve been able to accept most of the technical details of the world of Fractale as the result of super-advanced technology, but some things in the last episode don’t make… Read more »
Cardcaptor Madoka
By now most of the people watching Puella Magi Madoka Magica have concluded that the real villain is the cute animal mascot character Kyuubee. (I’m just going to transliterate the… Read more »
More Than You Ever Wanted to Know About Buddhism and Anime
I’ve been meaning to write a long post about Japanese ideas about death, but I can’t seem to deal with that without discussing the Buddhist religion first. I’m not going… Read more »
Thoughts on Fractale
I hate to say bad things about Fractale. This is the sort of anime that I would like to encourage. It clearly has ambitions to give us something new and… Read more »
Gosick–Anime First Impressions
Gosick is a series of detective stories based on a series of light novels by Kazuki Sakuraba. “Gosick” is apparently what you get when you take the Japanese word for… Read more »
Yumekui Merry–Anime First Impressions
Merry Nightmare (Ayane Sakura) is a muma (dream demon) who somehow finds herself trapped in the Real World with no memory of how she got here. All she wants to… Read more »