Tag Archives: Anime

Serial Experiments Lain: Postmodernity In Full Retro Cyberpunk Glory

There are rare moments when you start browsing through anime as a newbie, trying to familiarize yourself with the medium. You look at one in particular that catches your eye almost immediately. From looking at its description and everything else around it, you know it will either be your favorite anime or not. Serial Experiments Lain was that for me, and to say it kept me invigorated from beginning to end would be an understatement.

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Plastic Little Review

There are a lot of silly OVAs from the late 80s to early 90s. While not every one of them is of the type of high quality you’d want out of an anime in terms of production and narrative quality, you get a sense of nostalgia from watching them. Even if you never grew up during the early 90s, at least for me. I’m only at the tip of the iceberg during my journey, watching many OVAs that became ever-present during its golden era. I decided that Plastic Little would be the one to start it off.

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Some Change of Plans!

It’s 2022, and this blog is almost 10 years old (circa 2013) when I started doing this regularly. I’m almost shocked, as some of you might be that I have been keeping this up for so long considering how dead blogging has become for anime or, in general, due to everyone just opening up a youtube channel for these types of things. I’m still on the fence on whether I want to move to that or not because I feel more comfortable writing than talking into a microphone with a script and worry about editing in visuals and so on. I don’t know. It just takes less effort doing this than that. But enough about that, I want to discuss some changes that might benefit me going forward.

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