Something Is Missing in the ‘Spy x Family’ Anime: Action

This is my punishment for constantly mocking people who watch animated series for the animation, isn’t it?

Review: ‘Spy x Family’ Episode 1

That was more animated than I expected–and a well-done adaptation getting into the minds of Twilight and Anya. But I have some quibbles. 

‘Magu-chan’ Returns–in ‘Shugomaru’

How can I miss something I love when it hasn’t gone away? 

A Very ‘Gintama’ Finale

It’s like the anime, only longer–and all the good and bad that comes with that. 

The Final ‘Gintama’ Watchlist. Maybe.

With the very last film now out on home video, and any viewers of the film likely getting lost with all that’s happening, here’s a list of what I consider to be the essential episodes to watch. 

And it’s only about 200 episodes out of a total 369…Yay…

(And that’s assuming this is the actual end and not another trolling.)

A Cyclical End to ‘Magu-chan’

Well, gee, that got sad, and a little messy. 

Emotions Around Magu-chan’s Penultimate Chapter Are Like Graduations: Conflicting

While ending the series with a graduation makes thematic sense, graduations, at least for me as student and teacher, have been less bittersweet and more just imperfect and unfulfilling. Likewise, this chapter leaves me ambivalent. 

‘Magu-chan’ Goes Groundhog’s Day to Wrap Up the Series

Weird but appropriate timing to have this series wrap up so close to Groundhog’s Day with a “the day keeps repeating” storyline. 

COVID and Caring, continued

The semester has already started, or is about to start, for many of my colleagues in education. I want to discuss the challenges I fear my colleagues will face, when many schools and academic organizations have made it clear that they don’t really care about their safety against COVID, and don’t really care to protect them against a right wing that doesn’t want them to be anti-racist and anti-bigotry. 

‘They Made Poe Bishie?!’: ‘Bungo Stray Dogs’ and the Pop Culture Afterlife of Edgar Allan Poe

For Poe’s birthday, a short presentation I gave about an anime that decided to make him a cute awkward young man.