Taking a slight detour . . . several thousand miles to the west

When mum caught wind of my plan to spend a couple of weeks in Japan – for the third time in as many years – she said something along these lines: “Japan? Again? What a terrible waste of money! Why not go somewhere else for a change?”

Diego’s autumn anime viewing list, 2011 edition

It’s been a very, very long time since I last did an anime viewing list, and with good reason: not a lot of series worth writing about and not enough energy to write about those that were. Nevertheless, stretching one’s blogging legs after a long dry spell is usually a good thing, and with a [...]

Two months before the date and I’m already feeling poorer

I’ve wanted to add CLANNAD to my anime video collection almost from the day it first aired. Too bad the R1 release has, so far, been DVD-only.