Anime Monographia’s Top 5 Anime of 2014

Picking up right where we left off, I conclude 2014 Anime Awards with the Top 5 List. This year, I sampled over 50 anime titles, consistently following at least 7-8 titles per season, and finished 30. While many have commented that 2014 was a weaker year than 2013, I would say that 2014 had a […]

Anatomy of the Smile in Black Butler: Book of Circus

For a grim story, Black Butler’s got a lot of smiling. One interesting thing about smiling is that it’s an exclusively human thing. Funnily enough, animals don’t smile, at least not for the same reasons that we do. They might pull facial expressions that resemble smiling–baring of teeth, pulling of lips–but it’s almost certainly not […]

Through Rose-Colored Lenses: My Summer 2014 Viewing Schedule in Haiku

With the last of spring anime shows wrapping up this week, it’s time to look forward to summer! I usually have so much anime backlogged that my backlog is need of a backlog. So I scarcely have time to look at seasonal anime charts or read seasonal anime previews to see what we have to […]

An Interlude: AM’s Top Ten Most Played Anime Openings

Despite being pseudo-musical (mediocre violinist for ten years), I didn’t really start listening to music just for the sake of just listening it until sometime in high school. And even then, it was just a few select songs from some of my favorite anime. In fact, it wasn’t until I got to college that I […]