anime|otaku

It has been quite some time since I have finished an anime series, but I (at last) finished Gundam 00 about a week ago. I absolutely loved it, despite the fact that many people think it’s too emotional or bathetic. I love heroic bloodshed movies, and this series just seemed to be exactly like it. […]

History is a nightmare from which I’m trying to awake.
-James Joyce, Ulysses

I really think that the time I’ve spent reading Tristram Shandy was a colossal waste. Laughing only three times from more than 700 pages is not a good batting average. I don’t blame anyone for it, especially because I could have dropped and […]

I still dislike Ergo Proxy. The appearance of Disney characters was just too much for me, and it didn’t help that the allusions of the series did not really improve one’s understanding of the show. The series also had inconsistent animation. There were times, however, when the series stepped up to bat and retained some […]

Andrew wrote a well-thought and concise editorial here. He observes the spread of microblogging among more prominent members of the anime blog-sphere, and argues that these probably have come into existence because these prominent writers are often recognized with their styles and have been known to write such and such as conventions. This allows them […]

The lack of updates can be attributed to a very taxing (yet supererogatory) paper on Maxine Hong Kingston’s novel Tripmaster Monkey. I am grateful to all the people who have helped me. Special mention must be made regarding Daniel, who, despite with his exams of Shakespeare allotted some time to help me organize my paper; […]

You guys may have noticed that I’m way ahead of schedule. It’s true, I am. But I’d rather fulfill it faster than not fulfill it at all. Maybe I’ll get some bonus points, I don’t know. As long as my mind can think of different topics to write about, however, why should I stop? (This […]

I’m very sure that no one delights in disease or sickness unless one’s a crackpot, which I assume no one reading this blog is. (My mind’s stoned right now, I think. I feel very high.)
Having said this, I realized that it is a boon when your mind and body are in a pyrexic, intense, and […]

I thought that I had already resolved this issue with my writing in the past, but a close friend of mine had asked me why I wrote about literature so much. I also believe I have alienated some people with regard to my writing style, use of rhetoric, or some idiosyncrasy of mine, so I […]

Every time there is a new season, bloggers come out with their first impressions of shows that have caught their attention. I often shy away from these kinds of posts because no two individual tastes are alike. Even the most similar individuals have some peculiarity and idiosyncrasy to them. I would rather test the waters […]

I have a streak of impulsivity with regard to book or novel purchases, because most of the time novels that one wants are in short number. This is most evident especially in second-hand bookstores: more often than not, the novels that one has failed to purchase because of a lack of money or other reasons […]