12 Days of Anime #5: The new Berserk fan

Berserk is phenomenal. It may not be my favourite anime of all time, but it’s the ‘best’. Perfection in story-telling beyond anything else I’ve ever seen in anime, or entertainment in general. But I’m never going to write a better post about what happened in Berserk than this one, so that’s not what this post…… Continue reading 12 Days of Anime #5: The new Berserk fan

12 Days of Anime #12: Simon vs Anti-Spiral

The 12 Days of Anime project is the closest the aniblogsphere has to a tradition. Started by CCY and now on it’s fourth year, anime bloggers recount 12 anime related moments of the year that affected them in some way. This is my second year doing this and you can read all last years posts…… Continue reading 12 Days of Anime #12: Simon vs Anti-Spiral

No longer the newbie and the latest generation of anime fans

Hey Scamp, do you have a MAL account? I’m curi­ous as to what these new “you­tube gen­er­a­tion” fans are into these days. kadian1365 I had always seen myself as the latest generations of anime fans. Not an incorrect assumption either. I only started watching anime mid-2007. The Youtube Generation was symbolised by the ever-present and easy access…… Continue reading No longer the newbie and the latest generation of anime fans

12 moments in Anime #3: I still love this series

A title like that could mean anything. It could be a deluded Haruhi fan, declaring anyone who didn’t like Endless Eight not a true fan. It could be an oldfag returning to their favourite 1980’s series for the 6th time as the latest season of anime disappoints him yet again. What I am referring to, however, is my…… Continue reading 12 moments in Anime #3: I still love this series

12 moments in anime #4: There’s always more to watch

Spurned on by the combination of the brilliance that was this years Eden of the East and the ingenuity of the Ghost in the Shell movie, I finally got around to watching Ghost in the Shell:Stand Alone Complex this year. For the record, I prefered Eden of the East mainly because of the annoying level of inconsistency…… Continue reading 12 moments in anime #4: There’s always more to watch

12 Moments of Anime #6: The year I thought Crunchyroll would dominate the anime scene

This was originally going to be the first post I wrote in regards to this 12 moments of anime project. I decided to save it for later because I wanted to start off these posts with something happy and uncontroversial. Crunchyroll can certainly spark of some heartfelt comments and they have done before, even when I’ve only…… Continue reading 12 Moments of Anime #6: The year I thought Crunchyroll would dominate the anime scene

Predictions for the inevitable 'best anime of the 00's'

Are you ready for the inevitable? The newest and largest pub argument amongst anime fans for the next year or so is on it’s way. While others can argue how anime has changed over the decade, most notably in the internet explosion, the average folk will slam their glass on the table and proclaim that ‘Code…… Continue reading Predictions for the inevitable 'best anime of the 00's'

Now I understand how Akira created a generation of anime fans

Anime Source is running it’s latest grand fan survey on your favourite anime movie, so do pop on over if you haven’t voted yet. The thing is, I had only watched about 6/7 anime movies when they announced the poll so I realised ‘hot dang, I gotta watch myself some of these anime movie things’.…… Continue reading Now I understand how Akira created a generation of anime fans