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 »
Cedar Rapids–Movie Review
Cedar Rapids starts out looking like a Judd Apatow comedy but it ends up more like a Frank Capra movie–a descent into an abyss of corruption and disillusionment ultimately ending… 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 »
Thousands of Naked Men Fight Over Incense Stick
2DT takes his life in his hands by participating in the Okayama Naked Man Festival (Hadaka Matsuri).
The Illusionist–Movie Review
The Illusionist (L’illusionniste) is a French animated film that is…well…very French. There are no subtitles though. That’s because there isn’t much dialog and it is mostly in English, except that… 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 »
Robot Cop Scatters Live Grenades in San Francisco Street
If this isn’t an anime it should be. In an apparent instance of mindless mechanical nihilism, a police robot in San Francisco scattered live grenades across a street using its… 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 »
Black Swan–Movie Review
Black Swan is a dark and surreal story of a ballerina going insane under the pressure of her life and her role. Nina Sayers (Natalie Portman) is a young dancer… Read more »