100 Days of Anime 2018 100 Days of Anime: Day Thirty – Historical Intermission 11 Jul 201811 Jul 2018 We're a little over 3,000 words into our brief history of anime. We're 30 days and 21,619 words into this anime challenge. I have spent the better part of the…
100 Days of Anime 2018 100 Days of Anime: Day Twenty Nine – A Brief History of Anime Part 3 10 Jul 201829 Jul 2018 Group TAC's Space Battleship Yamato did not take the world by storm when it first aired in 1974. But in 1977, Star Wars came to theaters around the world, igniting a hunger…
100 Days of Anime 2018 100 Days of Anime: Day Twenty Eight – A Brief History of Anime Part 2 9 Jul 20189 Jul 2018 In 1973, Mushi Productions, Osamu Tezuka's first studio, shut its doors. The decline of Mushi Pro would serve as a catalyst for massive growth in anime over the next decade.…
100 Days of Anime 2018 100 Days of Anime: Day Twenty Six – Magical Girls 7 Jul 201815 Jul 2018 In 1942, Columbia Pictures produced I Married a Witch, a movie about a witch whose magic backfires causing her to fall for a mortal man against her family's wishes. Over a…
100 Days of Anime 2018 100 Days of Anime: Day Twenty Five – Anime Vocabulary Unit 2 6 Jul 2018 We're a quarter of the way through this challenge now, and today's post is the second in the anime vocab series. Last week's vocab post covered some basic publication terms…
100 Days of Anime 2018 100 Days of Anime: Day Twenty Four – What’s Your Type? 5 Jul 2018 Two of the anime I've watched recently made heavy use of stat screens like the on above as commercial bumpers. I really like when anime do something neat with commercial…
100 Days of Anime 2018 100 Days of Anime: Day Twenty Three – Time to Duel 4 Jul 2018 Sometime in the 2001 or 2002 there was a period of what felt like months where my parents and grandparents would take me around to different stores to let me…
100 Days of Anime 2018 100 Days of Anime: Day 22.5 – I Still Don’t Speak Japanese 4 Jul 2018 I re-read last night's post on anime and translation. What I was really getting at, obviously, is subbing and dubbing anime, but it occurred to me that I didn't really…
100 Days of Anime 2018 100 Days of Anime: Day Twenty Two – Nihongo o hanashimasu ka? 3 Jul 20183 Jul 2018 I don't speak Japanese. I've made half-hearted attempts at learning the language multiple times since I was a pre-teen. I still have the battered Japanese-to-English dictionary that I carried in…
100 Days of Anime 2018 100 Days of Anime: Day Twenty One – Blogging in Another World 2 Jul 2018 The premise is fairly simple. Our protagonist is stranded in another, innately magical world. I don't think anyone reading this is going to be unfamiliar with the basic concept. It…