Skating on Thin Ice: When Fandoms Collide (It’s Beautiful)

What do you get when you take the insane cocktail of artistry and ligament-tearing terror that is figure skating and channel that story through the quintessentially eccentric and trope-glutted visual monster that is anime? You either end up with something utterly mediocre, or you end up something that is brilliant to watch.

When Seto Kaiba Finally Gets His Movie…He’s Still Yu-Gi-Oh!‘s Biggest Fanboy

You’d be hard pressed to find a better contender for the illustrious title of Yu-Gi-Oh!’s biggest fanboy than Seto Kaiba. Maybe you’ve bought enough booster packs to support half the game stores in your neck of the woods. Maybe your hours of watching (or playing) children’s card games rivals your hours in class. Or maybe, just […]

Housekeeping- Awards, Nominations and Lists

Ain’t no one who cleans like Levi. Now there’s more to life than just statistics, but a couple months back, WordPress informed me that Anime Monographia hit the 100,000 hit milestone. Now that’s small beans compared to the big-name aniblogs out there, but in a small, awkwardly shaped corner in mind, the aniblogger in me […]

Top 9 Characteristics of Good Fanfiction

(This is Part I of “So You Want to Read a Fanfic: A Beginner’s Guide to Finding High Quality Fanfiction”, a four-part post series geared toward anyone interested in reading decent fanfiction. Given the primary audience of this blog, anime fanfiction examples are primarily used.) What is Good Fanfiction? We certainly know what bad fan […]

So You Want to Read a Fanfic: A Beginner’s Guide to Finding High Quality Fanfiction (Introduction)

High quality fanfiction? Ain’t no such thing, or is there? If you’re reading this, you probably have at least some inkling of what fanfiction is. Or that it exists. Perhaps you’ve heard it mentioned a passing conversation with your otaku-ish friend. Or you’ve heard it spoken about in the most scathing tones by authors or your more […]

The Official Seraph of the End Drinking Game

“I won’t kill a friend. I promised I wouldn’t abandon them…and you can’t kill me either…if you’re the same as me, if your family died right before your eyes, then there’s no way you can kill a friend!” -Hyakuya Yuu Despite being an unabashed shonen fan, I do my best to be critical of the […]

Beyond Tune and Event: Why It’s Important to Watch Anime Critically

“In reading great literature I become a thousand men and yet remain myself. Like the night sky in the Greek poem, I see with a myriad eyes, but it is still I who see. Here, as in worship, in love, in moral action, and in knowing, I transcend myself; and am never more myself than […]

Music, the Food of Love: An Ancedotal Account on How J-Pop Changed My Life

“If music be the food of love, play on.” William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night, Act I, Scene I, Line 1 When I was little, I didn’t get why people listened to music. I mean, sure, it sounded nice and the lyrics could be catchy, but in the tender years of childhood youth, I didn’t get the […]