At some point, I hope to continue this series of posts I started over a decade ago documenting my life as an assistant English teacher, and eventually transition to looking at the start of my salaryman life. However, now is not that time. But since I’ve let that series...

In August of last year, I turned on Gundam Wing for the first time in what must have been 25 years. As it was the third anime I had ever seen, I was keen to see how it would hold up. Furthermore, 2025 was the 30th anniversary of the...

Like many American anime fans of my generation, Gundam Wing airing on Toonami acted as a major gateway to a now decades-spanning fascination with Japanese animation, and Japanese culture on the whole. As documented on this blog, after initially being sucked into anime via Pokemon and Dragon Ball, 12...