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Anime Power Rankings Presents: The Top Shows of 2012
January 2nd, 2013Rank Anime (First place votes) Studio Season 1 Chihayafuru (11) Madhouse Fall (2011)/Winter 2 Hyouka (3) Kyoto Animation Spring/Summer 3 Fate/Zero (7) ufotable Spring 4 Jinrui wa Suitai Shimashita (2) AIC Summer 5 Danshi Koukousei no Nichijou (2) Sunrise Winter 6 Tsuritama (2) A-1 Pictures Spring 7 Aquarion Evol (6) Satelight Winter/Spring 8 Nisemonogatari (1) [...]
Anime Industry to Cease After Most Recent Episode of Girls und Panzer
December 4th, 2012KYOTO — After the eighth episode of Girls und Panzer aired late Monday, anime studios around Japan have collective announced the end of the anime industry and ceased operation. “I would like to thank the fans throughout the years for their continued support,” Shinbou Akiyuki said as he addressed a crowd of reporters at SHAFT headquarters. “But after the last episode of Girls und Panzer, we all know that there is nothing more to accomplish in anime.”
Surreal Humor and the Absurdity of Love: Nihilistic Expressionism in Yuru Yuri
October 17th, 2012One of my favorite shows in the last few seasons is Yuru Yuri. I enjoyed it not only because it’s a funny and enjoyable comedy with a cast of cute girls, but because the show is surprisingly robust and works on many levels. While it appears to be another show about cute girls doing cute things, the [...]
Schrödinger’s Imouto: A Brief Discussion Concerning the Quantum Mechanical Interpretation of “Kono Naka Hitori Imouto ga Iru!”
September 26th, 2012In the 1920′s, Albert Einstein established the wave-particle duality after observing that the wave model of light itself cannot account for the photoelectric effect. This discovery took the physics world by storm. Erwin Schrödinger was an Austrian physicist who was watching the anime Kono Naka Hitori, Imouto ga Iru! (One of these Girls is Your Little [...]
8 Accomplished Anime Staffers and the Work They’d Rather Forget
June 12th, 2012Behind the scenes of every anime, there are hundreds of people at work. Artists, musicians, writers, voice actors, animators… all these people make the magic of anime happen. As talented professionals, these individuals take pride in their craft — everyone likes to be proud of their accomplishments. However, not everyone can say they would brag [...]
Anime Power Rankings Presents: The Top Shows of 2011
December 31st, 2011Rank Anime (First place votes) Studio Season 1 Mahou Shoujo Madoka Magica (10) SHAFT Winter 2 Steins;Gate (4) White Fox Spring/Summer 3 Mawaru Penguindrum (4) Brains Base Summer/Fall 4 Fate/zero (1) ufotable Fall 5 Usagi Drop (1) Production I.G. Summer 6 Hourou Musuko (1) AIC Winter 7 Ano Hi Mita Hana no Namae o Boku-tachi [...]
Autumn 2014 Season Preview
August 24th, 2011Greetings, comrades! Today, while I was making some microwave popcorn while watching anime, I discovered the most peculiar behavior with my microwave. Instead of delicious popcorn, the bag I put in turned into green goo. Of course, I was really upset. That was my last popcorn ration this month. Since President Palin ordered the invasion [...]
Life and All Its Slices
June 29th, 2011Whenever I hear the words “slice of life”, I get hungry from some pie. When I first started watching anime, I was quickly exposed to the term. Throngs of slice of life titles are released each year, from School Rumble to Lucky Star, and people love them. So let’s break this curious phrase down, starting [...]
Beyond Mere Magic: Why Puella Magi Madoka Magica is Not “Deep”
May 22nd, 2011Now that the crest of hype and excitement has passed, we can look with objectiveness back on Puella Magi Madoka Magica. Without a doubt, Puella Magi made a huge splash last season, and it was at any level the most talked about show. These phenomenal shows occur once every few seasons and completely polarize the [...]
One Really Cool Scene I’d Like to Talk About from Puella Magi
April 13th, 2011Warning: Spoilars While I’m waiting for new episodes of Puella Magi Madoka Magica, I went back to revisit some of the past episodes. When I rewatched episode 9, a particular scene struck me: the scene early in the episode when Kyuubey talks with Madoka in her room about the true nature of the puella magi [...]
The 24 Worst Anime Wallpapers Ever
January 12th, 2011Who in this world doesn’t love having their favorite anime characters plastered all over their desktops? Thankfully, anime wallpapers are one of the most abundant resources on the internet. You want Noumi Kudryavka plastered all over your desktop? You got choices to make, buddy. The problem arises when you realize that the wallpaper scene is [...]
‘Twas the Night Before Christmas
December 24th, 2010Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the net, Not a blogger was stirring, not even diet. The thighhighs were hung from the short skirts with care, In hopes zettai ryouiki would soon be seen there. The bloggers were sleeping, all comments were read, While visions of bishoujo danced in thier heads. And Yui [...]
Impressing Tenshi-chan: How to Make Mapo Tofu
May 22nd, 2010What does Angel Beats starlet Tenshi, the waifu of every anime-watcher on the internet by now, love? If you cannot answer that question, you have not watched anime in the last 3 months and this is the first website you have seen since then. Mapo tofu is a dish from the Sichuan region of China [...]
“The Death of Anime in America”? Good Riddance, I Say
May 13th, 2010The American TV production and anime dubbing studio 4Kids Entertainment (NYSE: KDE) announced this week that the New York Stock Exchange, the world’s largest stock market by market capitalization, has begun preparations to remove the company from the index. The New York Stock exchange requires all companies that are listed to maintain $15 million in [...]
Five Ridiculous Premises in Anime that are More Real than You Think
March 12th, 2010When Jules Verne wrote From the Earth to the Moon in 1865, people thought the idea was batshit nuts. A little more than 100 years later, NASA sent what was essentially a tin can with the processing power of a TI-83 full of humans to the moon and proved all those old dead French people [...]
Don’t Trust Your Textbooks: A Biography of Kinoshita Hideyoshi
March 4th, 2010History class as brought to you by Desu ex Machina.
Let’s Talk About… Magical Girl Transformations
February 26th, 2010If there’s one genre everyone knows about in anime, it’s magical girls. From Sailor Moon to Pretty Cure, magical girls are a genre that have come a long way (since 1966 actually). Everyone’s probably seen at least one or two of these shows, especially if you got Cartoon Network when you were a kid. Mahou [...]
The Genetics of Ahoges
February 5th, 2010You can’t claim you have watched any anime unless you have seen the ahoge (アホ毛) in action. The ahoge, of course, is the conspicuous lock of hair that protrudes from a character’s head. It can be from the bangs area or the top of the head. It’s usually depicted as a single hair but sometimes [...]
Who the Hell is Gustav Klimt and What does He Have to do with Anime?
January 27th, 2010Sora no Woto is a fun and interesting show that everyone is talking about this season. I particularly like the opening theme and the neat visuals that accompany. Sora no Woto is directed by painfully underrated director Kanbe Mamoru, who was also the director of Elfen Lied as well as episodes of Baccano!, Cardcaptor Sakura, [...]
How the Internet Defined an Industry: Web 2.0 and the Anime Fanbase Explosion
January 11th, 2010Compared to the end of the 20th century, nature of the anime industry, as well as its following, has been night and day. As the telecommunications infrastructure becomes more and more sophisticated, anime will become increasingly available to the masses. The animation industry and its fans face both new opportunities and new problems that must [...]
7 Character Songs that Do Not Need to Exist
December 4th, 2009If nothing else, animation studios know one thing: fans of a franchise will buy anything you throw at them. So when a studio strikes gold, silver, or moderately shiny rocks, many are quick to offer a heaping plethora of anime-related merchandise to the masses. This can include soundtracks, figurines, drama CDs, artbooks, and of course, [...]
Profiles in Moe: Furude Rika
September 7th, 2009Hello, everyone. Thank you for tuning into ESPN Classic for the world premier of kevo’s new groundbreaking series Profiles in Moe. Here we will look back through the years at the careers of the greatest legends and biggest stars of Saimoe fame. Today, in 2009, the ninth iteration of the prestigious Anime Saimoe Tournament of [...]
6 Most Hilariously Awesome Engrish Anime Songs
August 22nd, 2009I will have a sequel up sometime in the future I promise.
Five Things I Will Miss About Endless Eight
August 12th, 2009As of the end of the ninth episode, it seems that the arc of The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya 2, known as “Endless Eight” has finally come to an end. Now, knowing Kyoto Animation at this point, no assumption is safe but I will assume that the staff of Kyoto Animation …breathe air, drink water, [...]
Five Reasons There Should be a Golf Anime
August 1st, 2009The ever popular anime which I fag about twice a week on this blog called Saki is not only action packed and wildly entertaining, it is also enlightening and recently opened up my mind. At first the premise seemed utterly ridiculous: Gonzo CG mahjong? Crazy over the top fight scenes? Girls and mahjong? It didn’t [...]
A Mathematical Analysis and Alternative of the Zettai Ryouiki Ratio
June 29th, 2009The first post I ever wrote on Desu ex Machina that was moderately read. Still statistically my most read post, enjoy my mathematical dissertation on the geometric properties of the zettai ryouiki.