The Anime Industry

not this shit again

Re: THE ANIME INDUSTRY IS DYING by Frog-kun

Frog-kun has written a post with a highly sensationalized title that aims to prove how and why the anime industry is dying. Too bad it’s written in such a sloppy manner, with all sorts of ideas thrown haphazardly into a pile of rant. I’m particularly interested in the opinions of jstorming, who commented:

A well-articulated post!

I don’t see anything well articulated here.

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Female Empowerment in Kill la Kill

The strong female lead in Kill la Kill

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RIP O-New, Barely Even Knew You

As you may have heard, a prolific blogger hung his hat up earlier last month. He was one of the few people from the aniblog community who semi-regularly followed my blog, and I’d always remembered him as a silly guy with silly posts and that goddamn ugly orange color scheme on his blog.

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ASSumptions

Re: Is It Wrong To Make Assumptions About People From Their Tastes?

So I visited an anime blog today and read half of a post, and I thought it was interesting and here’s some crap about it.

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Suisei no Gargantia

Frequently Asked Questions

Hey flomu, I’ve noticed you haven’t posted much recently. What have you been watching this season?

I’ve been watching a gem of a show called Suisei no Gargantia. It disregards your usual mecha anime stereotypes and instead goes for a more slice of life feel, emphasizing moral battles over physical ones. It’s also a coming-of-age story masked under a “Stick it to Authority!” theme, but it accomplishes this without seeming cheesy or dwelling so long on the moral of the story that various fallacies pop up.

And the visuals aren’t half bad, either!

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