Category Archives: Editorial

If you call it BokuTomo you are a damn Weeaboo

16th December, 2011 (Fri) Category: Editorial 32 Comments

Exactly, that’s what I said. The other day I was having a conversation on Google+ about the acronyms Haganai and BokuTomo, ways to refer to Boku wa Tomodachi ga Sukunai, so I idly googled it and found a pretty bizarre post arguing that BokuTomo is not only plainly wrong (not the Way the Japanese have ended up abbreviating the title), but also a sign of Weeabooism (whatever that means).

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Tags: anime, boku wa tomodachi ga sukunai, opinion

Bitterness: looking forward to hating an anime

22nd September, 2010 (Wed) Category: Editorial 33 Comments

What makes me describe them critics precisely as “bitter”? Here’s the perfect example. The other day I read this fall preview where one guy actually gave a list of the anime he was looking forward to hating this season, emphasizing he was going to have a lot of fun doing so. Isn’t this bitterness, doesn’t this mean that you actually hate this hobby, when you are looking forward to hating shows, rather than to enjoying shows?

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Tags: critics

Oops, I’m finally watching Rosario + Vampire… despite criticism

13th September, 2010 (Mon) Category: Editorial 24 Comments

Imagine you aren’t familiar with anime at all. There’s a dozen of anime airing at the moment, and hundreds of older anime you could watch. How to decide what to watch? Do you read some random blog, or do you actually pay attention to what a very serious-looking site such as ANN tells you?

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Tags: bamboo blade, critics, editorial, rosario + vampire

Example of limited innovation: Ookami-san and Amagami SS

29th August, 2010 (Sun) Category: Editorial 27 Comments

Just as a follow-up top my last post on this which was pretty controversial, I’d like to give two examples of what I mean when I say that I like small changes and not radical artistic eccentricity, which is not what usually happens in anime to begin with, but rather what them critics persistently demand, and hardly ever get.

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Tags: amagami, anime, editorial, hayate no gotoku, Ookami-san to Shichinin no Nakamatachi

The importance of genre conventions

23rd August, 2010 (Mon) Category: Editorial 48 Comments

In the mythology created by them critics about what we should expect in anime there’s a whole bunch of ludicrous assumptions often borrowed from literary criticism, usually emphasizing that good anime is anime that breaks the mold, that does something radical.One of their obsessions is doing away with conventions

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Tags: candy boy, critics, editorial, kampfer, romance, slice-of-life, toradora

When you aren’t excited about your hobby anymore…

07th August, 2010 (Sat) Category: Editorial 17 Comments

I think we all have lost interest in a particular hobby at some point in our lives. It happens. But I think there are times when you just have to admit you don’t like it and move on; but there’s also another case: being in denial. When you stop enjoying new things, when you stop being enthusiastic, and you only derive pleasure from criticizing and being bitter about it. When you write more about what you don’t like than what you enjoy.

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Tags: critics, editorial, moe

Deeper, deeper!!!!

29th July, 2010 (Thu) Category: Editorial Be the first to comment

“Deep <———> shallow” is one of the most hackneyed metaphors used in criticism. Deep means good, related to the mind, the intellect, the soul, something deep down there. Going beyond plebeian assumptions. Shallow means it has no “substance”, no relation to the mind, but the surface, where the body is. Shallow means ignorance, vulgarity. Shallow waters are often dirtier than the deep, pure ocean. But in the end it’s as meaningless and fetishistic as its clichéd pornographic counterpart—in cheap porn, deep also happens to mean better.

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Tags: critics, editorial

Perversion in Seitokai Yakuindomo

26th July, 2010 (Mon) Category: anime, Editorial 2 Comments

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The perverted female is no rare species in anime — whether as comic relief, her usual role, or as a main character, I think we’ve seen plenty of them. Sometimes annoying, sometimes funny and sometimes hot, they strike a chord with us healthy males — or annoy us to no end.

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Tags: ecchi, Seitokai Yakuindomo

Subversion and Ookami-san

25th July, 2010 (Sun) Category: Editorial, Ookami-san to Shichinin no Nakamatachi 10 Comments

Let’s talk about Ookami-san to Sichinin no Nakamatachi, another show not getting too much love. I’m not going to discuss whether it offers good, memorable entertainment or not, which is another story and should be probably discussed once the show is over, or maybe not. Who knows.

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Tags: critics, editorial, Ookami-san to Shichinin no Nakamatachi

My “editorial policy”

20th July, 2010 (Tue) Category: anime, Editorial 5 Comments

This is of course not a newspaper, but I’d like to discuss a little about the way I write and I approach anime. You will find that very often what I write can be pretty conscious, even if I don’t …

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Tags: anime, editorial, Essay, moe

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