Anime Review: Love Live! Superstar!!
“Idols” function as the Japanese equivalent to pop stars or boy bands, scouted to sing and dance on stage and create parasocial relationships with their fans. They’ve been growing as […]
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BC Club Represented at 2022 Sakura-Con
Sakura-Con is a celebration of Japanese culture, specifically anime. It is the oldest and most attended anime convention in the Pacific Northwest, with over 22,000 people in attendance every year. […]
TV Show Review: Arcane
The term “League of Legends” evokes several different emotions depending on who you talk to. It’s long been criticized as a game for having an unfriendly new player experience. However, […]
Danganronpa: A Death Game
The breakout popularity of Netflix’s “Squid Game” interested me greatly because death games are uncommon in Western media. In “Squid Game,” competitors are gathered together and “forced” into games where […]
Anime Review: Slime 300
When did watching anime stop being about having fun? Rather than for enjoyment, it seems like the only way for an anime to get noticed in 2021 is to ask […]
Anime Review: Maria-sama ga Miteru
Religion is a touchy subject in 2021, due to a world that politicizes everything, even belief systems. “Maria-sama ga Miteru” is a relic of a simpler time, approaching religion from […]
Anime Review: YagaKimi
What does it mean to love someone for the first time? The experience is different for everybody, but the sensation of falling in love is unlike any other. For Yuu […]
Anime Review: The Asterisk War
The animation studio A-1 Pictures had an irreversible impact on the anime scene, playing a large part in helping the medium go mainstream. “Sword Art Online” and “Seven Deadly Sins” […]
Anime Review: So I’m a Spider, so What?
Isekai is an anime genre where a normal citizen of Earth is injected into an alternate fictional world. In common storylines, the protagonist dies in their original world to be […]
Anime Review: Steins;Gate
Time travel is such a fickle thing to consider: the pros and cons of altering history, the questions around if we’re living in one of those altered histories, why nobody […]
Anime Review: Chivalry of a Failed Knight
What makes an impressive action anime? The popular shows from the last two decades seem to follow a similar method of storytelling. The main character is set apart, typically seen […]
Anime Analysis: Action Shows
What makes an impressive action anime? The popular shows from the last two decades seem to follow a similar method of storytelling. The main character is set apart, typically seen […]
Anime Review: 86
The Republic of San Magnolia was at war against the Giadian Empire and had been for multiple years. They were proud to announce that they had suffered zero casualties whatsoever, […]
Anime Review: Jujutsu Kaisen
Growing up, I looked forward to Saturday nights when I could sit on my couch and hope my dad would let me stay up late enough to watch Naruto. Entertainment […]
Anime Review: Assassination Classroom
Comedy in anime usually takes on one of two different forms. The one you will see the most is raunchy, tasteless humor that plays off the over-sexualization of characters. The […]
Anime Review: Death Note
Anime as a medium is booming right now, with shows like “Sword Art Online,” “Attack on Titan,” and “My Hero Academia” expanding into the mainstream media. As a society, we […]
Hibike! Euphonium Review
When I was in sixth grade, my parents made me join the school band. I picked the trumpet and shuffled between a few different instruments throughout junior high before settling […]
Dorohedoro on Netflix – anime vs manga
Dorohedoro is a well-received manga on the internet, written and illustrated by Q Hayashida, that has finally approached the anime spotlight. To look back, in 2009, publishing company Viz Media […]