Film Review: Redline (2009)

Redline is perhaps the most eagerly anticipated anime film to come to the U.S. in years. Seven years in the making, with stellar hand-drawn animation (I really cannot overstate it), Redline‘s release in the U.S. was a point of anxiety (no one was picking it up, or announcing dates), but Manga Entertainment and Anchor Bay (remember [...]

Persona 4: The Animation – “You’re Myself, I’m Yourself”

Shin Megami Tensei: Persona 4, was the last game I purchased for the PlayStation2 (I even pre-ordered it), it’s the focus of a chapter in my thesis, and it, perhaps more than Persona 3 (another game I particularly enjoyed), made me very interested in not only other games in the SMT franchise, but in Atlus as a game [...]

Catching Up On…Anime

I’ve pretty seriously neglected this blog, so I’m going to do a series of “Catching Up On…” posts to discuss and respond to some of the various media I’ve been consuming and my experiences with them. While these posts may be long depending on how many titles I’m discussing, I don’t want to spend too [...]

New Voices Conference – “It’s not funny if I have to explain it”

This Saturday I’m attending the New Voices Conference, a graduate student conference run out of the English Department at Georgia State University (where I’m currently enrolled). I was a bit surprised to not see it very advertised on campus, especially since they welcome (indeed, encourage) non-literary studies folks to attend. Perhaps I’ll recommend that they [...]

Brief update and some links

Two great pieces of particular interest to me that I wanted to share. I won’t generate much traffic for either of them, but every little bit helps! First off, Brian Ruh has a new column over at Anime News Network. I like ANN, but sometimes the information overload of news they provide kills my RSS [...]