Summer 2019: What looks interesting

Hello there! Long time no see, or… read. Hope you’re enjoying your summer so far! For me it’s been okay I guess. The exams haven’t all gone perfectly well, meaning I’ll have to try again this fall in Season 2 of “suffering with university exams”. But at least one thing is certain – whatever happens, I won’t be repeating this year of university. To not go into too many details here, I now have a period where I can...

The Importance of Goals – Shirobako Review

I’m just gonna get straight to the point here – Shirobako is a masterpiece. I’m sure for anyone that follows me on Twitter, its not a surprise that I’m saying this. It’s an anime that tackles different topics like the anime industry, goals, motivations and interests in life, the hardships of the work environment. It has many different layers but manages to make all of it work so well. With my own goals being working on a real anime...

Top 5 Anime OVAs

Anime OVAs are often the more lighthearted and fanservice packed episodes. But they can also be great additions to the main story – they can provide interesting backstories, a better closure for the story or a more in-depth experience of the story. Here are my five favorite OVA episodes. I didn’t rank the picks because I realized its actually quite hard to do it xD Bungou Stray Dogs: Hitori Ayumu (MAL link) The Bungou Stray Dogs OVA gives us...

5 Anime I Randomly Started Watching

Usually you start a new anime because the story looks promising, you like the way it looks, you’ve seen the PV and it seems worth watching. Maybe you saw a lot of positive comments on the anime. Maybe someone called it a good match with another anime you love or someone whose opinion you find valuable recommended you the anime. My point is, there are many ways you can get interested in watching an anime. But even so, sometimes...

When anime inspires you to… cook (part 2)

That’s right – part 2. The first post from this mini “series” that I never actually thought of as a series but maybe really is a series was about cakes. Toradora cakes to be specific. Then in this post I shared with you some of the drawings I was making for school. Now we are talking about cooking once again and this time its not a dessert. It’s onigiri. Onigiri Onigiri, or rice balls are a simple Japanese food...