Archive for June, 2008
The Place Promised in Our Early Days (2004)
I first heard of director Shinkai Makoto through a brief mention of his work in Asia Pacific Arts’ Best of 2007: Asian Film roundup. I do not usually find anime recommendations over at APA, which made this mention worth investigating, so I added Shinkai’s work to my Netflix queue. I started with Shinkai’s most recent [...]
Anime and manga that rock
I’ve just started watching the BECK: Mongolian Chop Squad anime courtesy of Netflix (verdict so far: not bad at all!), and it inspired me to brainstorm all the manga and anime that I know that feature rock music as a subject or as a central theme.
First, there are the obvious shojo and shonen-ai counterparts to [...]
Arakawa, Hiromu: Fullmetal Alchemist, vol. 16
My review of vol. 16 of Fullmetal Alchemist is now up at Manga Life. An excerpt:
In Volume 16 of Fullmetal Alchemist, the story returns to the present after the long flashback to the Ishbal campaign in Volume 15. As such, this is very much a transitional volume in the series. The characters are scattering to [...]
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