Watching Steins;Gate with my wife: a re-evaluation of my favourite anime

Sometimes sharing a cherished pastime with your significant other can be a fraught experience. Common interests are essential to maintaining a healthy relationship over the years. How do you cope when they’re just not that into the stuff you like? When I first discovered anime fandom back in the mid 1990s, it was an offshoot … Read more

Forget Darwin’s Game . Mirai Nikki: The Future Diary is the unhinged death-game escapism you need right now.

What better way to occupy oneself during the increasingly bleak pandemic apocalypse than with a show that proudly bears the DVD cover tagline #You’re all gonna die? As a medic, I have become increasingly frazzled by the growing horror that has erupted not just in my country, but all over the globe. There’s a sense … Read more

2011: The Year Of Survival Tactics, BAH-SAH-CARS and Satanic Bunny-Cats

As I write this, 2011 was only 8 years ago, approximately 56 in dog years, or something closer to three-and-a-half millennia in anime years. Given the typical demographic of anime fans, many reading this may have little idea what came out in 2011, much less if any of it was any good. I hope to … Read more

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