Lost in Animeland: Suzumiya Haruhi
Django Wexler is back with another installment of Lost in Animeland, and this time, he takes an in-depth look at Suzumiya Haruhi [Read more]
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Lost in Animeland: Berserk
Django Wexler returns with another Lost in Animeland and asks "Can you love half a show?" [Read more]
Lost in Animeland: Fall 2014
Fall season, traditionally probably the biggest of the anime seasons, is finally upon us! There’s an enormous avalanche of shows, more than even I can watch. Even [Read more]
Lost in Animeland: Ghost in the Shell SAC and Dennou Coil
While we don’t know what aliens will look like, I think we can all agree that they probably won’t look like this. One thing that’s fairly rare in anime is [Read more]
Lost in Animeland: Sword Art Online
Last time I mentioned that I was watching Sword Art Online II, and enjoying it quite a bit. Unfortunately, it’s very hard to talk about part three of a series without [Read more]
Lost in Animeland: Summer Season’s Picks
I’m back! It’s been a while — lots of cons, book stuff, and other exciting happenings on my side. I’ve got a new John Golden novella out (and a [Read more]
Lost in Animeland: Checking In with Recent Anime Seasons
Due to various people being absent at cons, I haven’t really dug into the new season yet, and in any event it only just started. So I’ll save the first episodes [Read more]
Lost in Animeland: Kino’s Journey
For me personally, the term “episodic” is usually not a compliment when it comes to anime. It depends on the genre, of course: comedies work better in an [Read more]
Lost in Animeland: Code Geass and Endings
Endings have always been a problem in anime. Even among my favorite shows, those that actually come to some kind of satisfying conclusion at the end of the series are a small [Read more]
Lost in Animeland: Spring 2014, Part 2
More shows from Spring 2014! Lots of SFF this season. Related posts: Lost in Animeland: Spring 2014 Lost in Animeland: Ghost in the Shell SAC and Dennou Coil Lost in [Read more]
Lost in Animeland: Spring 2014
Apologies for the break! I’ve been a bit busy launching my new middle-grade fantasy, which means I haven’t had as much time to watch anime, let alone write about [Read more]
Lost in Animeland: Lain, Boogiepop, Paranoia Agent
Today I’d like to look at three shows that aimed to create a roughly similar atmosphere, with varying levels of effectiveness. Serial Experiments Lain, Boogiepop [Read more]
Lost in Animeland: Read or Die
Read or Die deserves its place on the list of Best Anime Ever, but I’ve always had a extra fondness for it, both because I identify with the heroine at times and [Read more]
Lost in Animeland: Hare+Guu and Nichijou
Comedy is hard. To date, I haven’t talked much about anime comedies, for a couple of reasons. First, and most important, in my experience they are much more of a [Read more]
Lost in Animeland: Winter 2014, Part 2
Today we have the second half of the Winter ’14 season, alphabetically speaking. We’re now four weeks in, so I’ve seen three or four episodes of most of [Read more]
Lost in Animeland: Winter 2014
Well, we’re almost two weeks into the Winter season, which has given me a chance to take a look at the first episodes. This season I’m trying a slightly different [Read more]
Lost in Animeland: Lyrical Nanoha and Gunslinger Girl
In the name of the Moon, I will punish you! The tradition of schoolgirls fighting things — monsters, criminals, each other — is an old one in anime, going back [Read more]
Lost in Animeland: Black Lagoon and Black Heaven
This week, we have two shows that (a) are called “Black Something” and (b) fall well outside the norm for anime in terms of setting and protagonists. Anime fans [Read more]
Lost in Animeland: Index and Railgun
Going Forward Now that I’ve done a once-over of the present season, here’s the plan. I’m going to talk about some shows that I have seen which (a) I think would be of [Read more]
Lost in Animeland: Fall 2013, Part Two
Here’s my look at the rest of this anime season. Most of the shows I’d been particularly looking forward to were in the first installment, so this was a matter of [Read more]
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