The Big O…Just another Mecha anime. Perhaps the best Mecha anime I have ever watched! Premiering on Toonami in 2001, at first, I was turned off by it, because it looked too much like Batman: The Animated Series of the early 90′s. I finally gave in and watched Big O after its move over to [...]

“Anime at Large” is a series I made of anime that I have watched or really need to watch, but I have a hard time (re)locating them. I post about individual series whenever I can’t see to find it or it came up on my mind. There are more anime that I need to start/finish [...]

Another anime I need to watch is Excel Saga. Arguably the best anime next to FLCL, with its irrelevant and obscene scenarios. I got into Excel Saga at Anime Central in 2004 after seeing so many Nabeshin cosplayers, and since Nabeshin (Shinichi Watanabe—not to be confused with Shinichiro Watanabe of Cowboy Bebop) himself was the [...]

Interstella 5555 is the anime, directed by Leiji Matsumoto, based on the music videos of Daft Punk’s “One More Time”, “Aerodynamic”, “Digital Love, and “Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger” (which was later used in Kanye West’s “Stronger”). It’s the same music videos–including pretty much the whole album as “One More Time”, “Discovery”, into a feature length [...]

Great Teacher Onizuka is one of my favorite anime that I have been neglecting to watch–and collect–for a few years. GTO is a story of a bad boy biker turned high school teacher, which spawned in various formats. There is the manga, (currently available at your nearest bookstore), then the live action J-Drama, and finally [...]