As I said before, this series of blogs contains songs I think would make for good Opening Themes AND Ending Themes. Last time we had an obvious candidate for an OP, and with “IF” we have my first offering for an ED. We also have a song here that I have a LOT for personal nostalgia for. Back when The Internet was still you...
2021-04-08 18:04:39 +0000 UTC View Post
...I suppose I could have said it made the show more "grounded," but then one of the very first things Sakura learns to do is fly. Oh, and before some smartaleck brings it up I KNOW THEY'RE NOT ACTUALLY TAROT CARDS.
2021-04-08 01:46:54 +0000 UTC View Post
I wonder that about a LOT of the entertainment industry, honestly.
...but not the cartooning industry. It makes all the sense in the world that WE'D rather deal with drawing of people instead of the real thing.
2021-04-06 17:07:54 +0000 UTC View Post
...and this is just the tip of the iceberg. Look, I love CCS, but we gotta acknowledge that the ladies at CLAMP had some veeeeeeeeery misguided notions about what constitutes a healthy, non-toxic relationship. Just wait 'til we get to any of THOSE episodes...
2021-04-01 21:01:05 +0000 UTC View Post
Oh… Oh dear… I do believe this may be the worst thing I’ve ever done as a human being. It randomly came up in conversation recently that Blip didn’t have a character soundtrack, and you know how my brain works. If you hit me with an observation like that, I’m gonna take it as a challenge. And oh my, did I ever rise ...
2021-04-01 06:17:32 +0000 UTC View Post
Well, that's ONE "weekly anime comic" to actually come out a week after the previous one! Let's see if I can keep this up!
Also, just for the record, I'm actually PERFECTLY aware that Card Captor Sakura is full of eyebrow-raising moments that a lot of people try not to talk about anymore. Trust me, we'...
2021-03-25 13:20:05 +0000 UTC View Post
See? SEE? I TOLD you I was finally going to start posting the comics from the next MadLibs that went out to the $5+ patrons! And now we're finally getting doing it! ...gradually.
In case you missed all my explanations over the previous months, I'd set up some limitations on myself to make sure TH...
2021-03-23 02:06:24 +0000 UTC View Post
.aaaaand right off the bat I’ve made things challenging for myself here. Obviously, the whole concept of these blogs hinges on the songs they’re about being playable with a single click, and at one point, “Pinch” by The Oranges totally was. The band’s official YouTube channel had a post of the full studio recording ...
2021-03-19 09:58:20 +0000 UTC View Post
AAAAAAAND WE'RE OFF! Let's see how long I can keep the actually "weekly" this time around! Cross your fingers, folks!
...but seriously, "Catch You Catch Me" by Megumi Hinata is pure happiness distilled into soundwaves. ...
2021-03-18 10:16:02 +0000 UTC View Post
YAY! We're back! Sorry again for the delay, folks! If you missed the other bits of news, I really needed to focus entirely on website stuff for a bit, and am only just now at the point where I can start balancing things out to a regular workflow again. On that note, Far Out There comics are going to be...
2021-03-15 06:00:36 +0000 UTC View Post
See? Didn’t I tell you there was more of me blabbing on about music in your future? There is no escape from my fantasies of being a music journalist! Don’t worry, I’m still finding ways to tie these flights of fancy into Conventional Wisdom’s general “anime & stuff” theme, even if I’ll ALSO be somewhat indul...
2021-03-07 05:41:34 +0000 UTC View Post
And with this, we reach the end! The last installment in this blog series! This is far from the last Japanese album I’ve added to my collection, even if we are limiting the discussion exclusively to physical purchases (which admittedly have gotten much rarer over the years). We are, however, reaching the point where I’m s...
2021-03-01 19:38:12 +0000 UTC View Post
Okay, I think I’ve fallen into another one of those slumps where I’m even worse at communication than usual, so let’s have one big blast of info to try and keep everyone up to date. Earlier this month, I finally finished re-posting all of Far Out There’s old comics, and I’d HOPED to be able to dive straight into res...
2021-02-28 02:49:16 +0000 UTC View Post
AAAAAAAND THAT'S IT! I'm calling it! We have a winner! ...and we also have a lesson for the future: next time we hold a vote, I need to remember to give an official cut-off date right away. I wound up having to wing it this time, but I think at this point anybody who was actually going to bother voting...
2021-02-16 12:04:09 +0000 UTC View Post
I was trying to come up with some new blog ideas that WEREN’T music related, and hit upon a totally unique and original topic that’s entirely fresh and hasn’t in any way been beaten to death on The Internet already: Didn’t The Sci-Fi Channel used to be great?
Don’t worry, I’m not gonna go on a rant about wha...
2021-02-16 08:01:25 +0000 UTC View Post
If you’re following me close enough to actually pay money on Patreon and read this, you already know what’s been up with my comics over the past year plus. My old host SmackJeeves drastically changed format at the end of 2019, prompting me to finally get my own hosting and begin the arduous process of re-posting around tw...
2021-02-12 08:15:32 +0000 UTC View Post
That's right! It's finally time! After all that teasing and promising, I'm FINALLY bringing back Weekly Anime Comic, now with a HEAPING HELPING OF DEMOCRACY! Vote for which show you'd most like to see me draw silly ...
2021-02-02 02:07:40 +0000 UTC View Post
On several occasions so far, I’ve alluded to a certain milestone I was waiting to reach: the first Japanese CD I bought without any connection to an anime. I’ve disqualified several albums that really SHOULD have earned that title on the grounds of some loose anime connection, at least with my intentions. I bought that L...
2021-01-15 19:45:41 +0000 UTC View Post
You can't blame any of these characters for not recognizing Jenna right away. That did happen a soul-crushing five years ago. Good thing there's a...
2021-01-14 18:23:41 +0000 UTC View Post
Okay, so I was caught COMPLETELY off guard by this (so off guard that it’s really screwed with my comic re-posting process) but SmackJeeves, my old hosting site for around a decade, finally shut down on January 1st. While I’m sure it’s mostly MY fault that I didn’t hear about this before it happened, that really is pa...
2021-01-02 10:13:17 +0000 UTC View Post
See? SEE? I TOLD you the Weekly Anime Comics were coming back! And they are! …eventually. In, like a month or so. I really need to focus on finishing the new website stuff over the course of this month, not to mention finally getting some of those Far Out There MadLib comics posted, or working out the finer details of just ...
2021-01-02 08:10:15 +0000 UTC View Post
See? I TOLD you I was gonna do this again! If you missed the previous “Most Played” installment… that’s totally understandable, because I crapped out a TON of Christmas blogs this year. Heck, that first one went out when it...
2020-12-25 08:31:49 +0000 UTC View Post
It’s no secret that I love me some nostalgic introspection. The only thing better than reminiscing over The Way Things Used To Be™ is to accompany it with a sigh of lament over how Kids These Days will never understand what it was like back in OUR day. And that goes TRIPLE for a topic as nostalgia-fueled and memory laden ...
2020-12-19 22:59:28 +0000 UTC View Post
Holy CRAP it's been a long time since we saw any of these people, isn't it? You just might want to peruse the backlog of old comics to refresh your memory on who any of these faces are. Awful hand that THAT'S a thing now, isn't it?
<... 2020-12-19 21:21:48 +0000 UTC View Post
Okay, let’s take a break from all the lengthy lists of Christmas songs and focus on the true reason for the season, the heart and soul of the holidays: THE ACQUISITION OF MATERIAL POSSESSIONS! WOOHOOO!!! But seriously, we were all selfish little brats as kids, and deep down we sort of still are. Ravenously shredding your wa...
2020-12-12 03:07:35 +0000 UTC View Post
"I suddenly feels so... easy to animate!"
Yeah, that's right, an opportunity to make a Die Hard reference just landed right in my lap, and I made a conscious decision to go with a Strong Bad quote instead! That's just how I roll! 2020-12-05 21:05:55 +0000 UTC View Post
Yes, I’m doing this AGAIN. As I’ve said several times over the years, I may be an unrepentant Christmas junkie, but I CAN somewhat sympathize with people who just get sick of the whole thing. In particular, I really feel for people who hate on Christmas music specifically for how repetitive it is, because that drives me u...
2020-12-05 20:07:47 +0000 UTC View Post
When I tried to come up with a set of new blogs to try and attract some different eyes over the holidays, the most obvious idea was “My Top 10 Favorite Christmas (whatever)”. Of course, I automatically don’t like doing the obvious thing. But what's more, any time I have to rank anything I wind up thinking waaaaay too ha...
2020-11-28 20:00:20 +0000 UTC View Post
I'm pretty sure I've already make this joke, but this is still how I feel most times I look out the window.
So, on both the blogs I just posted, I added a note at the bottom that regular stuff was going to be on hold while I cranked out MANY MANY Christmas things during December. However, Jenna & the Fanclub f...
2020-11-26 02:08:44 +0000 UTC View Post
Okay, several blogs back, I joked about remembering The Goode Olde Days when L’arc-en-Ciel were the biggest thing ever, but that is NOTHING compared to the excitement of when Puffy was gonna take over the world. The level of mainstream, normal people recognition that Ami Onuki and Yumi Yoshimura attained in the mid-00s was ...
2020-11-26 02:02:35 +0000 UTC View Post
