Watching Gundam Wing in Your Late 30s: Part 2 – The Not-So-Hot Stuff
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...
Watching Gundam Wing in Your Late 30s: Part 1 – The Hot Stuff
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...
Tsukuyomi: Moon Phase – Over 20 Years of Furufuru Moon
As it’s been a while since I’ve written about the man, I would like to remind everyone about a key fact central to my personality: I like the anime director Shinbō Akiyuki. In fact, the second review I ever published on this blog was a review of one of...