Your Blog in May

Hi everyone! It’s time for our monthly ‘state of the blog’ post. I’m going to keep it brief. The short version is this: while I greatly enjoy writing for Against Moe, I don’t particularly have the time to drive social media or monetization. Shortly after this announcement, I will close our Twitter and Patreon pages. …

Dragon Ball 10-16

It’s been a while since I last blogged about Dragon Ball, in part due to scheduling issues. Since last time I’ve only seen seven more episodes. Now I’m here to repeat the same tired warnings: don’t watch this show, it’s sexist, it’s dumb, yada yada. Since Last Time Dragon Balls Well, as I’d feared, they …

First Glance: Death Note

Death Note in its first episode carries many of the trappings of greatness. From opening theme to ending theme it is packed with mood and philosophical questions, delivered at a decent pace. The storytelling is good, with a lot of scene-setting done tastefully or even sometimes subtly. This may not sound like exuberant praise (“just …

Dragon Ball 1-4

Preamble: Due to a variety of circumstances, I find myself shackled to a promise to watch and blog the entirety of Dragon Ball. I am watching one episode every weekday morning. In the interests of not flooding this otherwise austere blog with 153 posts about a terrible 80s “kids” anime, I will be blogging Dragon …

First Glance: Moyashimon

Microbes are typically measured in micrometers, but in Moyashimon—a show about students at an agricultural university—they seem to span about five centimeters. Curiously, nothing else in this series is four magnitudes larger than its real world size, and the main character Tadayasu is the only one who can see them. Maybe his Mystic Eyes of …