This essay was not originally written for this blog, so the style might seem a little different. I'm currently busy with work so I've decided to lightly edit this and post it here. This post contains spoilers for Memories, Perfect Blue, Paranoia Agent, Millennium Actress and Paprika and I recommend watching them before reading. Kon …
toatali’s best TV show of 2018
Well, it's that time of year again - where my wallet runs low, I begrudgingly start wearing a scarf, and I have to make some decisions about what things I want to recommend to an audience of about ten or so people. In terms of TV, my interest and expertise tends to lie in the …
Netflix’s Fullmetal Alchemist
This post contains spoilers for Fullmetal Alchemist, the Fullmetal Alchemist anime and won't make any sense if you haven't seen at least one of them. Perhaps a natural consequence of being a Japanese student at university, I have recently found myself drawn slowly back into the murky waters of anime. A big contributor to this …
ERASED vs The Whodunit
Spoilers for all of ERASED follow. It is worth noting that I have not read the manga as of the time of writing. ERASED has been somewhat controversial as an anime, something I admit I didn't really see coming, at least not in such an extreme way as to divide opinions into what seems like …