An American Writer's Thoughts on Japanese Animation

Protoculture Shock – Super Dimension Fortress Macross Spoiler Review

I have a tradition, in the month of March, to at least approach the Mecha genre. Giant robots are cool, there are a ton of shows featuring them, and of course it’s hard to resist the alliteration. This year, though, things are going to be a bit different… or rather, a bit more specific.

Welcome, my friends, to Macross March.

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Fragment of Nothing – Glasslip Spoiler Review

In 2014, Studio P.A. Works made Glasslip, a story about a group of friends in a world that’s at least somewhat mystical despite otherwise seeming like it belongs to the familiar, whose lives and dynamics are disrupted – possibly for the better – by the arrival of a stranger to their clique, with a heavy focus on the romances within the group. If that sounds familiar, it’s because you could bump the year up by four and change the name to Iroduku and give the same introduction.

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