Month: March 2010

Things have been quiet here on the Mistakes of Youth blog. I got my reasons. One of them is school, but other (more important) reason is that I am preparing for my Anime Boston panel in a few days by watching a bunch of Shinbo shows, taking screen captures...

Original Post This is a cheapshot, I know, but I love cheapshots, so there we are. I had a hard time aping Yaz’s style, so I think this comic turned out pretty bad. I still think it’s funny, though, because my sense of humour is lame like that. I’ve...

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Okay guys, first of all–the moe debate has been beaten silly. I would ask you all to stop arguing about it on Twitter, but since I don’t follow the full complement of muppets that enjoy having the same argument week after week, it’s not really bothering me. But it’s...

Those of you who follow me on Twitter (For the love of God, do not follow me on Twitter.) will probably notice frequent mention of something called “Omokage Lucky Hole”. Omokage Lucky Hole is–as wonderfully described by Japanese Wikipedia–a “Japanese funk band”, but that’s far from the whole story....

A month and a bit ago I said that while I enjoy SHAFT’s adaptation of Dance in the Vampire Bund, my feelings for it are complicated. After ragging on the background music for a bit, I launched into a 700 word rant about how the show looks, then kind...

When one is 10 episodes deep into Baccano! a lot of shit has already gone down, a number of mysteries are being answered, and the show’s confused narrative begins to take on a fairly solid shape. On the other hand, we’re 10 episodes into DRRR!! and not much has...

Original Post Even though they have changed their tone a bit regarding this issue, the fact that we’re still talking about editing anime in this day and age is quite nostalgic. When I was younger I used to read sites documenting the multitude of edits done to various Toonami...

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