As I said before, this series of blogs contains songs I think would make for good Opening Themes AND Ending Themes. Last time we had an obvious candidate for an OP, and with “IF” we have my fir...
2021-04-08 18:04:39 +0000 UTC View Post
...I suppose I could have said it made the show more "grounded," but then one of the very first things Sakura learns to do is fly. Oh, and before some smartaleck brings it up I KNOW THEY'RE N...
2021-04-08 01:46:54 +0000 UTC View Post
I wonder that about a LOT of the entertainment industry, honestly.
...but not the cartooning industry. It makes all the sense in the world that WE'D rather deal with drawing of people i...
2021-04-06 17:07:54 +0000 UTC View Post
...and this is just the tip of the iceberg. Look, I love CCS, but we gotta acknowledge that the ladies at CLAMP had some veeeeeeeeery misguided notions about what constitutes a healthy, non-t...
2021-04-01 21:01:05 +0000 UTC View Post
Oh… Oh dear… I do believe this may be the worst thing I’ve ever done as a human being. It randomly came up in conversation recently that Blip didn’t have a character soundtrack, and you kno...
2021-04-01 06:17:32 +0000 UTC View Post
Well, that's ONE "weekly anime comic" to actually come out a week after the previous one! Let's see if I can keep this up!
Also, just for the record, I'm actually PERFECTLY aware ...
2021-03-25 13:20:05 +0000 UTC View Post
See? SEE? I TOLD you I was finally going to start posting the comics from the next MadLibs that went out to the $5+ patrons! And now we're finally getting doing it! ...gradu...
2021-03-23 02:06:24 +0000 UTC View Post
.aaaaand right off the bat I’ve made things challenging for myself here. Obviously, the whole concept of these blogs hinges on the songs they’re about being playable with a single click, and at...
2021-03-19 09:58:20 +0000 UTC View Post
AAAAAAAND WE'RE OFF! Let's see how long I can keep the actually "weekly" this time around! Cross your fingers, folks!
...but seriously, 2021-03-18 10:16:02 +0000 UTC View Post
YAY! We're back! Sorry again for the delay, folks! If you missed the other bits of news, I really needed to focus entirely on website stuff for a bit, and am only just now at the ...
2021-03-15 06:00:36 +0000 UTC View Post
See? Didn’t I tell you there was more of me blabbing on about music in your future? There is no escape from my fantasies of being a music journalist! Don’t worry, I’m still finding ways to ti...
2021-03-07 05:41:34 +0000 UTC View Post
And with this, we reach the end! The last installment in this blog series! This is far from the last Japanese album I’ve added to my collection, even if we are limiting the discussion exclusively...
2021-03-01 19:38:12 +0000 UTC View Post
Okay, I think I’ve fallen into another one of those slumps where I’m even worse at communication than usual, so let’s have one big blast of info to try and keep everyone up to date. Earlier t...
2021-02-28 02:49:16 +0000 UTC View Post
AAAAAAAND THAT'S IT! I'm calling it! We have a winner! ...and we also have a lesson for the future: next time we hold a vote, I need to remember to give an official cut-off date r...
2021-02-16 12:04:09 +0000 UTC View Post
I was trying to come up with some new blog ideas that WEREN’T music related, and hit upon a totally unique and original topic that’s entirely fresh and hasn’t in any way been beaten to death ...
2021-02-16 08:01:25 +0000 UTC View Post
If you’re following me close enough to actually pay money on Patreon and read this, you already know what’s been up with my comics over the past year plus. My old host SmackJeeves drastically c...
2021-02-12 08:15:32 +0000 UTC View Post
That's right! It's finally time! After all that teasing and promising, I'm FINALLY bringing...
2021-02-02 02:07:40 +0000 UTC View Post
On several occasions so far, I’ve alluded to a certain milestone I was waiting to reach: the first Japanese CD I bought without any connection to an anime. I’ve disqualified several albums that...
2021-01-15 19:45:41 +0000 UTC View Post
You can't blame any of these characters for not recognizing Jenna right away. That did happen a soul-crushing 2021-01-14 18:23:41 +0000 UTC View Post
Okay, so I was caught COMPLETELY off guard by this (so off guard that it’s really screwed with my comic re-posting process) but SmackJeeves, my old hosting site for around a decade, finally shut ...
2021-01-02 10:13:17 +0000 UTC View Post
See? SEE? I TOLD you the Weekly Anime Comics were coming back! And they are! …eventually. In, like a month or so. I really need to focus on finishing the new website stuff over the course of this...
2021-01-02 08:10:15 +0000 UTC View Post
See? I TOLD you I was gonna do this again! If you missed the previous “Most Played” installment...
2020-12-25 08:31:49 +0000 UTC View Post
It’s no secret that I love me some nostalgic introspection. The only thing better than reminiscing over The Way Things Used To Be™ is to accompany it with a sigh of lament over how Kids These D...
2020-12-19 22:59:28 +0000 UTC View Post
Holy CRAP it's been a long time since we saw any of these people, isn't it? You just might want to peruse the backlo...
2020-12-19 21:21:48 +0000 UTC View Post
Okay, let’s take a break from all the lengthy lists of Christmas songs and focus on the true reason for the season, the heart and soul of the holidays: THE ACQUISITION OF MATERIAL POSSESSIONS! WO...
2020-12-12 03:07:35 +0000 UTC View Post
"I suddenly feels so... easy to animate!"
Yeah, that's right, an opportunity to make a Die Hard reference just landed right in my lap, and I made a conscious decision to go with 2020-12-05 21:05:55 +0000 UTC View Post
Yes, I’m doing this AGAIN. As I’ve said several times over the years, I may be an unrepentant Christmas junkie, but I CAN somewhat sympathize with people who just get sick of the whole thing. I...
2020-12-05 20:07:47 +0000 UTC View Post
When I tried to come up with a set of new blogs to try and attract some different eyes over the holidays, the most obvious idea was “My Top 10 Favorite Christmas (whatever)”. Of course, I autom...
2020-11-28 20:00:20 +0000 UTC View Post
I'm pretty sure I've already make this joke, but this is still how I feel most times I look out the window.
So, on both the blogs I just posted, I added a note at the bottom that regular stuf...
2020-11-26 02:08:44 +0000 UTC View Post
Okay, several blogs back, I joked about remembering The Goode Olde Days when L’arc-en-Ciel were the biggest thing ever, but that is NOTHING compared to the excitement of when Puffy was gonna take...
2020-11-26 02:02:35 +0000 UTC View Post