Tag: Anime
Swimming Anime – Not Just Fan Service (Really!)
Back in March, the studio Animation Do released a trailer for a nameless anime about a group of hunky male swimmers. The trailer caught...
Who Killed My Little Pony?
I used to play with My Little Ponies. I hated dolls, kept my hair short, wouldn't wear dresses, but even I was susceptible to...
Doujinshi: Distinctly Japanese
There are many expressions of fandom that cross genres and cultures - fan fiction, fan art, even cosplay. But there is one form in...
Anime Neverland
One of the challenges of liking anime is having to sometimes admit that you prefer cartoons to more "grown up" forms of entertainment. And...
Wonder Woman’s Foreign Successors
I’ve been reading Mike Madrid’s The Supergirls, a really fantastic look at the history of superheroines in mainstream American comics. I just reached the 1970s,...
CHARACTERS: Rintaro Okabe of Steins;Gate
Just so you all know, I didn't intend this series to feature so many anime characters. I wanted to talk about the characters from...
Who Got Cultural Studies In My Fandom?
Bendições from Brazil! By the time this post goes live, I will have been in this lovely country for two whole weeks, and will...
Anime roundup 7/12/2013: The World Is Illusion
It's season premiere time, so let's set aside the continuing shows for a week to look at new stuff. (Space Brothers is taking the...
Weeaboos of the Renaissance
Weeaboos? Weeaboos?
If you don't know what a weeaboo is, you probably aren't one. If you'd rather be quite sure, visit this link and play...
Gunbuster: Adventures in Shonen Tropes
Studio Gainax veteran Hiroyuki Imaishi has been in the news lately for his upcoming project, Kill La Kill, which reminded me--I've been meaning to write...
Characters: Jet Black frmo Cowboy BeBop
Rounding out the characters from Cowboy Bebop, we end with Jet Black, the Black Dog. Yes, there's still Ed, but what else can be...
Evolution of an Otaku: Conflict of Identity
If you had asked me at the age of fourteen if I considered myself an otaku, I would have raised one snarky eyebrow at...
One Thousand Posts
Today Amazing Stories achieves a milestone in publishing its 1,000th post (and then some!)
When this project first began - the resurrection of the world's...
Hidden Treasures: Review of a Manga Reference Book
Used bookstores are veritable treasure troves, as I'm sure many Amazing Stories readers will agree. Digging through the shelves and piles of every type...
Anime roundup 6/21/2013: The Great Chain of Beating
Hunter x Hunter #84 - One of the recurring features of shōnen series is a tendency to look at characters exclusively through who...
Characters: Faye Valentine From Cowboy Bebop
My last article talked about Spike from Cowboy Bebop. I decided to write this week's article on Bebop's other fan-favorite character, Faye Valentine.
Originally a...
The Lasting Impact of Miyazaki’s Princess
There are some artists who leave a lasting impression on every life their work touches. I don't think it's an exaggeration to say that...
Michiko to Hatchin is the Best Anime You’ve Never Watched
Michiko to Hatchin is as good as Cowboy Bebop. There, I said it. It's also as good as Serial Experiments Lain and Neon Genesis...
That Fighting Spirit! Yankees, Bad Boys, and Yakuza
Girls just love a bad boy, right? At least that's what we're led to believe in Western media. But I've never been into the...
MCM Expo (Comic-Con) Part Deux
I was recently in London – less than a week ago to be exact – and had the great pleasure of once again attending...
Characters: Spike Spiegel
Ask someone to name the most important SF anime of all time, and chances are they'll say Cowboy Bebop. It's hard to argue. The...
Slice-Of-Life and the Open Ending
I have noticed a trend in newer anime in the last few months: The completely open-ended conclusion. To be fair, anime stories have always...
Anime roundup 6/2/2013: Graduation Day
Hunter x Hunter #81 - Watch that fight scene in isolation, and it's just another case of insanely exaggerated martial arts. But watch...
Pretty Soldiers: Hotaru Tomoe
Hotaru Tomoe is abused by her father. She suffers from an illness that leaves her breathless, weak and wracked with pain. She is picked...
The Trouble With Definitions; or, Not All Anime Fans Watch Hentai
Last week, my roommate posted this Nerd 101 video on my Facebook wall and asked, "How did they do with their explanation?" The video,...
East vs. West: Comic Book Showdown
Though my position here, such as it is, is that of "anime blogger," I think that my real interest in media from the Land...
The Real Manga Blues: A “Me and the Devil Blues” Review
Of all the potential stories to succeed phenomenally in manga form, not many people expect a story centering around blues music in the deep...
Hayao Miyazaki and Epic Fantasy
Since taking on this blogging position, I have been struggling to find works that would appeal to the audience that Amazing Stories has, particularly...
5 More Anime and Manga Titles for HBO to Adapt
Between Game of Thrones and the planned American Gods series, HBO has been drinking deeply from the Nerd Money well. This is, of course,...
Art in Action: A Bakuman Review
I spend a lot of time lately complaining about the state of anime and the series that have been created within the last five...