Month: January 2009

The Fierce War of 2008: Those Who Laugh At The Face Of Death

Between mediocre anime and really great anime lies one’s comfort shows. These are shows that generally don’t aspire to much, but do their thing well. At the same time, there are also shows which fall short of their expected potential, but are still quite entertaining regardless. Here’s a list...

Situation Vacant

This is the story of Suzy and Johnny. [audio:http://mistakesofyouth.com/music/02-Situation%20Vacant.mp3] Download It would seem this is a cover of a song by The Kinks....

The Fierce War of 2008: Casualties of War

With the dead arts, the forgotten ones, and the old 2007 shows behind us, it is now time to move onto the shows that both began life and ended life in 2008. As usual, I start from the bottom and work my way up… While we all love anime...

Comic Site Rant: Singin’ A Happy Happy Song

Original Post Even though I’ve always made a point of doing a Christmas-themed comic every year, I don’t believe I’ve ever done one to bring in the new year. Well, there’s a first time for everything. I was going to do another new years comic along with this one...

The Fierce War of 2008: The Forgotten Ones

In any given anime season, there are a select few shows you start on, but somewhere along the line they get lost in the shuffle. It is sometimes due to one having too much on their plate, or it can be due to slow release schedules. There are also...

The Fierce War of 2008: The Dead Art of “Original Video Animation”

The OVA is almost a dead art in the fast, 100MB-per-second world of today, but even so there were a few direct-to-video titles that hit shelves this year. Of course, they were either lame eroge adaptations, lackluster fanservice romps or straight up porn. However, despite these odds, an intrepid...

January 09 Anime

Hey hey hey sup 09 what’s happenin bro Current Casshern Sins: Sins carries itself on art direction more than anything else, but the light musings on what it means to live are interesting. Casshern has also stopped being a pussy, kind of. Clannad ~After Story~: I have no idea...

2009

Haruhi girls this year. Happy 2009....