Greetings! It's the last week of 2021! This has recently become my favorite time of the year because it's the end of the year, where everything ends. It's a nostalgic period, where one gets to look back on everything over the past 365 days. Maybe you have some accomplishments you're proud of or maybe you're just glad you pulled through some hard times. If there's one thing that helped me and countless others get through the year, it's anime Anime as a whole is more popular than ever and 2021 was stacked with shows. We've had major reboots, long awaited sequels, and highly anticipated adaptations ass well as exciting original works. Unfortunately, manufacturing all those shows is very very hard. The anime industry as a whole is facing an overproduction crisis due to high demand but low wages and employment. Animators are being stretched thin to meet deadlines and there's no sign of things getting better. The production issues effect several of these s...
People that describe Keijo as "just a fanservice show" or anything similar to that, don't seem to understand the point of fanservice. It's been almost two years since the show aired and people still don't get it. With Keijo it's like someone hears a joke, doesn't get the setup or punchline, and then heckles the comedian and audience. Keijo is the titular water sport where girls stand on a small floating arena and compete against one another. The aim is to push the other contestant off of the arena into the water, but players are forbidden to use their limbs. They are only allowed to use their hips and chests to fight. However, they are freed to launch their attack to any body parts of their opponents, including their opponent's face and vital points. Now don't get me wrong, the characters in Keijo are very, very sexy but what makes the series not fanservice is in the the way the girls frame and discuss their body parts. The cast of Keijo ...
Space Battleship Yamato 2199 To be specific, this is my favorite anime I've watched so far this year, as I don't have a favorite anime of all time. Space Battleship Yamato 2199 is the 2012 remake of a science-fiction anime from the 70's knows as Space Battleship Yamato and released in the US as Star Blazers. November of last year Funimation announced out of practically nowhere they simuldubbing Yamato 2199. This was significant because Yamato 2199 was constantly used as an excuse to justify piracy. Voyager, the company who licensed the original series was basically sitting on the rights to this remake, only releasing 16 episodes across 4 DVDs and doing nothing else. Once the DVDs went out of print the only way the watch the anime was to go on illegal sites. So for Funimation and Crunchyroll to not only stream the anime, but also provide a home video release and license the sequel Yamato 2202 almost felt like a miracle. Now as for the show itself, Yamato 2199 is the ...
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