Otaku Links: Keeping up with the industry
A new season of Free! is coming this summer. Listen, I liked Free! and its sequel (and even reviewed it for ANN) but I feel like this is a little…
How I’m silencing my inner critic
It’s a lot easier to critique than create. I should know. It was in August 2014 that I started as a weekly streaming reviewer for Anime News Network. There are…
Otaku Links: Past, Present, and Future
How Netflix Is Disrupting, Empowering Japan’s Anime Industry. It’s always interesting to see how general film industry sites like Hollywood Reporter regard anime. On that same note, Teen Vogue wrote…
Every Anime I’m Watching As Described Through My Neuroses
Ancient Magus’ Bride I interviewed Kore Yamazaki, the creator of Ancient Magus’ Bride, at Crunchyroll Expo. It was one of the worst interviews of my life. Yamazaki kept deflecting my…
Otaku Links: Analog fun
John and I spent all week building our puzzle from the Playing Grounded Kickstarter. In case we want to preserve that hard work, we can use the creators’ tutorial on…
‘My Girlfriend is Shobitch’ and what we teach teen girls about sex
I would have thought there was nothing that would convince me to watch an anime with “bitch” in its title. But then Vrai, my colleague at Anime Feminist, gave it…
Otaku Links: We’ll miss you, Grape-kun
Have you figured out what you’re watching this anime season yet? I just got my Anime News Network review assignments: Land of the Lustrous, Anime-Gataris, and URAHARA. Another show I’m…
Be scared of something and do it anyway
Last month I taped a segment with Fox News. I haven’t watched any of it and I don’t plan to. When I tell people that, even my loved ones who…
Otaku Links: Even more self-promotion than usual!
Fox News came to my house and interviewed me about my 2015 book, Cosplay: The Fantasy World of Role Play. Here’s the video I still have not watched. The Anime…
The double-edged sword of making people mad
In 2015, I wrote Why you want to make readers emotional, and included this line: “In the future, I’d like to avoid articles that make people angry, but even that…