Mammoth marshmallow mounds of mammary marvelousness are a common theme in anime. It isn’t just for fan service or comedy either. Breast size is a common shorthand for characterization too. Okay, not all the time. Sometimes the impossible gravity defying perkiness is just for guys (and girls?) to fantasize over. What Breast Size Represents Anime…
Category: Anime
Ouran High School Host Club
It’s hard to review an anime that isn’t my cup of tea. Ouran High School Host Club is one of those. It is shojo, but I tend to enjoy their stories and characterizations better than shonen. So it isn’t that. I even enjoyed the satire Ouran High School Host Club has. Yes, satire about the various elements…
School Rumble
Well paint my butt blue and call be a baboon! I actually enjoyed this series. I normally find these style of anime too random, cute, or feminine for my taste. School Rumble is most definitely random, cute, and feminine, but I found myself laughing and chuckling at the awkward social moments. School Rumble follows the…
Anime and High School
I already griped about anime and high school. It’s time I look at exactly why so many anime use high school as the main focus…other than letting the artists draw cute uniforms. Certainly teenagers are a good audience to market to, but many manga and anime oriented for adults still feature teens as characters…Perhaps this…
Rosario + Vampire
Tsukune is a normal high school teenager. Of course, in the anime world that means abnormal events are on the menu. Tsukune is unable to get into a private school because of his poor grades. With help from his parents, he lands a spot at the Yokai Academy. Yokai is a class of monster in…
Brief Visual Anime History
Anime as we know it has been around in Japan since the Edo period…ok at least it draws it’s roots to that period. Ukiyo-e were woodblock prints. Ever heard of Katsushika Hokusai? His work is ukiyo-e. You can see many of the elements anime will draw from: the simplified yet expressive faces, the vibrant colors,…