The thoughts, reviews and analysis of Comedy, Romance, Drama and Slice of Life Anime of a College Student
Now that the sky cleared up, will Ao and Mira be able to find an asteroid this time around?
[Read more…] about Koisuru Asteroid – Episode 12 (END) – The Dream Lives On
After ChuChu became upset at everyone since RAISE A SUILEN dropped to second place. Masuki walked off as a result. When Paero try to comfort ChuChu, she lashed out of her. Now, Paero seems to have given up on the band.
[Read more…] about Bang Dream Third Season – Episode 10 – Turmoil and Bringing Back RAISE A SUILEN
While things have been chaotic this month with the whole coronavirus scare. As expected, things haven’t been going well with my blog. In fact, losing motivation again. I will share my concerns along with my preliminary picks for the spring season.
[Read more…] about Spring 2020 Anime Season Preview and Addressing the Blogging Motivation Issues
As expected, it seems that the Novel Coronavirus has started to affect everyone’s lives. For an anime fan, it definitely had an impact. Not only anime productions are getting delayed, but also events and even anime conventions. Even the Tokyo Olympics that is happening later this year is in jeopardy and will most likely see a delay.
Not only that, various anime productions faced delays as a result. Some are very noticeable with Koisuru Asteroid, Toaru Kagaku no Railgun T, A3, and others. It doesn’t end there. Some spring anime, most notably Re Zero Second Season along with a bunch of films pushed back until the summer. Moreover, Amazon is prioritizing shipping of certain goods to deal with the virus. This causes things like anime DVD/Blu-rays, merchandise, video games, etc to face shipping delays. With that, we are living with a new reality and life as we know it is changed forever.
You might be wondering, what is the Novel Coronavirus (aka Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2/SARS-CoV-2/nCov-19/Covid-19) and what affect it is happening on the anime industry. Most of you should have heard about this virus on the news and social media. As expected, it’s having a huge effect on people’s everyday lives. I will share some of my thoughts on how this situation is affecting me personally.
[Read more…] about The SARS-CoV-2 Outbreak – The Impacts on the Anime Industry and Everyone’s Lives
Iroha and her friends finally arrives at the Memory Museum for a lecture. Iroha sees one of Ui’s friends, Satomi Touka. Does she still remember Ui?
[Read more…] about Magia Record – Episode 12 – The Cold Truth of Magical Girls
At last, Ao manages to make it to Okinawa. You might be wondering how did she got there?
[Read more…] about Koisuru Asteroid – Episode 11 – First Day of the Star Challenge
Now that Poppin Party’s promotional video explodes in popularity, they are doing their hardest to make up last ground. However, things turn south for RAISE A SUILEN.
[Read more…] about Bang Dream Third Season – Episode 9 – The Rebirth of Poppin’ Party
It’s obvious that the Novel Coronavirus has caused a lot of public events to become cancelled along with schools. Aside from people who have a job, but can’t telework, most will be at home. In other words, some or most of you would binge watch on anime while being stuck at home.
This of course brings the topic of anime streaming. In recent years, anime has become more accessible legally through legal streaming services like Crunchyroll, Funimation, and others. Not only that, you don’t have to spend $50-250 to buy the whole series on DVD or Blu-ray to watch it. Of course, we started to see Crunchyroll losing the lion share of the anime streaming as competition heated up.
If you recall, Amazon tried to jump in the fray with Anime Strike and Netflix doing its own thing. While competition is good as it doesn’t cause a service to become complacent. During that time, Crunchyroll became a bit lazy by not updating their video player and with poor video quality.
Once competition took hold, they eventually added an HTML5 player. It’s not without consequence. They lost a good amount of their catalog once Funnimation pulled out of the deal.
As expected, exclusive simulcasting is becoming an issue as people have to subscribe to the multiple services to watch the content they enjoy. Otherwise, he or she will miss out unless they subscribe. As they say, each subscription adds up in the end. This phenomenon is called subscription fatigue. While some bloggers have covered this concern, it’s time to go more in depth in it.
[Read more…] about Pitfalls of Anime Streaming, Competition and Subscription Fatigue – Is It Becoming Too Fragmented?
Now that Sana is part of the team, Iroha finds out from her that she knows about Nemu. However, Iroha doesn’t seem to know where she is.
[Read more…] about Magia Record – Episode 11 – Finding Nemu and Mifuyu’s Surprise Visit
A new school year has started. Ino tries to stop Mira and Ao from trying to recruit members without approval. It seems that they don’t need to do that since two members are planning to join anyway.
[Read more…] about Koisuru Asteroid – Episode 10 – A New School Year, New Beginnings