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Thanks! I suppose it does bear remembering that different parts of the world have very different attitudes to monarchy (if you can call a Japanese Emperor a traditional monarch. If anything the old Shoguns fit that description better). In fact I find it vaguely funny that Japanese media, the...

A quick question concerning anime, especially those that veer into more serious and political matters. The Emperor of Japan is a highly esteemed and prominent figure in that country, but Japanese Emperors have hardly any presence in anime or manga. By contrast, in British literature the crown...

The Japanese speak a little differently to us even to begin with, but in anime the characters almost speak in prose at times. It doesn't always translate well to English.

Lad Russo is a gift from God who practically devours every scene he's in. Me and my friends watched Baccano a long time ago, and I recall it being one of my favourites.

I utterly despise Miyazaki's attitude towards the military. It's old bloody talking points about the World Wars that metastasized during the 1960s and 1970s with Vietnam, nothing more. Soldiers are merely people, and nobody chastises animals when they fight over resources. Make no mistake, they...

"Hilariously out of left field" is a good way to describe Evangelion in general, in my view. That aside, to the topic at hand, Eva fans do come up with some very strange ideas, don't they? I've noted that about them more than some other fandoms, which I reckon is to do with how...

Just repurposing a reddit post of mine (which was initially an explanation for Evatards as to why some people might not like the show), that strangely enough, I reckon actually surmises Evangelion's key flaw. "Now, I say this as someone who's never liked Eva, but can be charitable. Shinji has...

One of the things that got my noggin joggin about Geass was how studio sunrise made an Anglosphere empire commit the atrocities of Imperial Japan. It comes off a bit as "pot meet kettle."