Gwern — Anime↗

The anime/manga Death Note is interesting on many levels.

The unexpected critical depths of a single throw-away scene In the 3 rd episode of Full Metal Panic! The Second Raid , there is a curious introductory scene I’ve always enjoyed .

Munch on this conspiracy theory: just as The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya is actually about how Kyon is god and not Haruhi (see The Melancholy of Kyon ), so the true story behind Aria has to do with...

How would we estimate the evidence of “Charley Parlapanides” ? The names of the writers could either be: present and wrong Very strong evidence it is fake: who puts their own name down wrong?

It is interesting to apply probability theory in various situations in which we can’t always reduce it to numbers very well, but still it shows automatically what kind of information would be...

Literary analysis of the light novel/anime series The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya : Haruhi is not God, Kyon is The light novel series The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya , featuring a character named...

1963 Yuki no Taiyou Sanae F Japanese American 1964 Cyborg 009 Joe Shimamura M American Japanese brown brown TVTropes says “half-Japanese (mother), half-American (father), and in the manga he was...

Creative works or vaporware that survive ‘ development hell ’ often disappoint those waiting for them, and often are among the worst things their creators ever make.

Space Battleship Yamato ( 1974 52ya ) Finishing Macross and going back still further to its influences, we arrive at one of the wellsprings of SF anime: Space Battleship Yamato .

Anime in the 1980s–1990s was famous for its diversity and edgy content like sex & violence, enabling the early careers of famous directors.

Western TV animation is often shockingly ugly and crude compared to other animation like French or Japanese. Why, when it’s not even cheaper? Degenerate echoes of what were once cutting-edge art.