Took some days off to catch up on some reading (among other things), so of course, I was distracted right away by this… On the bright side, it’s kinda book/reading related… It’s about a manga writer, Kishibe Rohan, who goes to interesting places to look for inspiration for his next one-shot manga. In the anime,…
I don’t read YA or children’s books much, but I couldn’t bring myself to read a “serious” book after Min Jin Lee’s Pachinko, so I finally decided to read my copy of Diana Wynne Jones’ fantasy novel Howl’s Moving Castle. I admit that I bought a copy of this book only because of the anime…
The Hyaku-nin-isshu is a collection of 100 poems by 100 different individuals compiled by Fujiwara no Teika during the 11th century. The poems follow the tanka form of 5-7-5-7-7 syllables per line and are mostly about love or nature, written when only members of the nobility were allowed, or known, to write poetry. In fact, several…
Since around September 2012, I started getting into watching anime again. I used to watch a lot of anime when I was younger, and though my interest in it didn’t exactly wane, because of all the other things I wanted to do, I put anime on the back burner. For the benefit of those who…
I debated with myself long and hard as to whether or not I should blog about this. On the one hand, blogging about it would be admitting to the world that not only do I read manga, but that I read shoujo manga – exposing one of my guilty pleasures. On the other hand, I…
The Misanthropologist 