Anaglyph’s Anime Appraisals

Thanks to danbooru my image of the innocence and purity of Yumi and Sachiko has been forever tarnished.

A rigorous analysis of the episode including a careful examination of the themes and subtext of the narrative using Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment as a point of comparison in considering the underlying metaphor… in pictorial form.

Warning: image heavy.

After the first two episodes I wasn’t really sure about Red Garden but episode three has convinced me it’s going to be a good, worthwhile series. So far things seem much less episodic than is usual for anime. Much as I love the medium, a lot of shows have the feeling of being thrown together […]

Introduction
It was only a short time after I first started watching anime that I became aware of the phenomenon known as the “trap”. My curiosity was piqued by the evident fascination these traps held for ostensibly heterosexual males and the resulting cognitive dissonance that was displayed, not to mention the fact that I myself was […]

What’s the “hmmm-ing” about? In a word, ambivalence. The series presents a fairly intriguing scenario but it also has some idiosyncrasies that are a little off-putting. Whether the scenario will be put to good use or not remains to be seen (for those of us not completely up-to-date, at least), but the problematic stylistic choices […]