Author: wah

Original Post While there certainly are parody elements in Angel Beats, I find the very setting to be ironic. There was that scene in episode one where the main character was hesitating to fire his gun at the flat-chested, loli-looking Tenshi. I couldn’t help but see this as a...

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I don’t get this Anime no Chikara thing. Honestly? It just seems pretentious. And I mean that in the truest sense of the word. I think one can argue that something like Evangelion is not pretentious, but you can’t do that with these shows. These shows are actively pretending...

Before my memories of this sweet little show get washed away into the deep abyss, there was one other aspect of it I meant to address before I was suddenly handed the most work I’ve ever had to do in my entire college career. This won’t take long, I...

Thanks to a tip from a Shinbo/SHAFT fanboy more dangerous than myself, I have found Shinbo Akiyuki’s Twitter account. What kind of deep and insightful comments lie within the man’s 22 tweet long history? Find out here, in a Mistakes of Youth: The Blog exclusive report! Translator’s notes are...

Original Post While not a totally widespread practice, it’s become more common to leave titles of Japanese properties untranslated to appease the needs of the 13-year-old Japanophile crowd. However, this practice seems to limit itself to titles which most Americans can kind-of-sort-of pronounce, not titles in which they’d just...

Original Post This meant to go up on Saturday, but in all the confusion that was Anime Boston, I neglected to post it. Gonna keep this short and sweet. This month is going to be hell, as it’s my last real month in college. I say “real” because after...

Let’s get this out of the way first: I was completely let down by Anime Boston this year, but it’s more or less my fault. I seem to always forget that the previous outings at this con have been less-than-stellar, so I don’t know why I thought this time...

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...