21st Century Digital Boy's Feed Releases for June 2010

bathos n.- 1. An abrupt, unintended transition in style from the exalted to the commonplace, producing a ludicrous effect. 2. Insincere or grossly sentimental pathos I’d say both definitions are fairly appropriate for Angel Beats – which isn’t a bad...

About a month ago, my good buddy (well, he was) Ghostlightning and I were discussing the Aniblog Tourney. GL told me about his plan, wherein a separate tournament would be held from the main event, and it would involve some of the people still in the...

For weeks now, the Aniblog Tourney has raged on. It’s been a great ride, rife with truly intense matches, and many of my brethren have fallen. However, I still stand, and intend to go the distance. The trouble is, I haven’t had a real match yet – all...

(Note: I couldn’t decide how to title posts for shows that I finished which aren’t part of “Finish or Fail” series, and I didn’t want to call them “Reviews”, so I’m instituting the “Completed” title for them. Also, there will be spoilers, but they do...

It’s been a while since I did one of these. When I started this blog I did them rather seriously, and then I gradually made them sillier until I stopped altogether. This was mostly because I didn’t like most of the season previews I read, but the sen...

A lot of my friends are stoners, and nine times out of ten they smoke with a group because it’s more fun than doing it alone. We can all relate – while there may be anime fans out there who’re content with enjoying it alone, you and I are clearly not...

“…the point I want to make is that there’s a significant difference between being manly, an awesome masculine badass who we can respect and admire; and being macho, a muscular, insecure tosspot with no social skills.” - Ben “Yahtzee” Croshaw This pos...

It’s common practice for an anime to feature a male lead whom the audience can easily relate to, and therefor usually holds to society’s moral compass. It’s also common practice for that male lead to have one or more female love interests, and not un...