Around two years ago or so, emmapoe and I were watching an episode of K-ON! on her tiny blue netbook and fangirling all over it while her husband sat across the room looking at the strangeness of the two of us enjoying this show about a girls' high school music club. The songs were bad, but they are supposed to be bad. After all, these songs are supposed ( Read more... )

OK, this, unlike the previous list, has no criteria other than "What are the 10 animated movies I would want to watch right now?" There is a reason for doing these lists that I want to cover in this post:

We have to distinguish between favorite and best, and be honest about the things that we like. That may seem snotty and snobbish, but until we ( Read more... )

So, a few notes about this list. I have been trying to compile and explain this list for about five years now. For those of you who do not know, I am very passionate about animation as a medium and I think that it is largely under appreciated and misunderstood. I had a few rules going into this in order to make the list more useful. So, here they ( Read more... )

I have been bouncing this idea around for some time about discussing the 10 or so best animated feature films, as distinct from my favorite animated feature films because they are very different lists. This list is in a little bit of flux because I cannot decide on the placement of certain films, but I think I'm pretty set on the 10 best as well as ( Read more... )

And yes, I know it was the Ides of March in Julius Caesar, but I'm not a ruler of Rome and it's not March, now is it? Here's the deal ( Read more... )

OK, for those who do not know, every year, I sit down and intentionally watch an anime which is bad and I know it's bad. I want to make sure that I know what is out there so that when I get outraged by the moe-crap that exists, I can point to a recent example of it and I can call it out. Thankfully, between Cruchyroll and Funimation, there is no ( Read more... )

I have been meaning to do this post for a long time, and it's going to be very trite and fangirlish, but what-the-fuck-ever... stop reading or don't click if you are not in the mood for trite, fangirlish bullshit... seriously... don't read... no one is making you...

( Anne rants about bad English versions of anime openings... cut for length and tons of video )

As the RIAA and the MPAA, again, fight against technological developments - for the record, they have fought every new technology that has ever come out for film/music/television, and lost - what is missing in the argument is that our copyright system is a broken system. The point of copyright was originally to 1) allow creators to make money from ( Read more... )

In the past, I had no problems posting my thoughts about the political process in America. I had a lot to say, Bush was quite possibly the worst president in history for starting two wars and not paying for them or reinstating the military draft (gonna get hate for thinking there should be a draft), and I was generally an angrier person. I got over ( Read more... )

I know some months ago, I promised never to make a "I'm sorry I haven't been posting" post... blah blah blah... and that's not what this is. Not one little bit ( Read more... )