One fun little goal I have while in Japan is to visit as many of the Pokémon Centers as possible. There are nine alone in the greater Tokyo area which is the greatest number of Pokémon Centers in any region of Japan. Current progress: The merchandise across most of the stores is similar but there…
Category: Anime
JET Reflection 6: My School
Now, obviously, I’m not going to name the school that I am teaching at but I will describe it for you because it is like I’m working in an anime. You know the things that high schools in anime have? Well, the school I’m teaching at has it all!
JET Reflection 5: Zoids Expo
We arrived in Japan the week of the Pokémon World Tournament and I was disappointed when I didn’t get any entry tickets in the lottery. Looking back, it was probably for the best as those days were pretty full on with moving into our apartment, finding basic furnishings, being present for the appointments for the…
86 Eighty Six and the divisiveness of a loli
86 Eighty Six is an anime that was frequently mentioned in Top x Anime lists of 2021. It took mecha anime back to tropes not seen as much in modern anime, and while this can be off-putting for some who prefer the newer mecha anime, I thoroughly enjoyed it. . . until season 2. And…
Zoids New Century Zero appreciation post
I have really been getting into Sports Anime this year. And by ‘sports anime’ I really am only referring to Haikyuu, Ping-pong and Hajime no Ippo at the moment. Forgive me if my tastes haven’t branched out very far yet as I have found that I prefer my fantasy anime in a fantasy world and…
Anime Recommendation
A tradition that my partner and I share with millions of other people around the world is that we like to have a TV show that we can watch while eating dinner. Sometimes that show is an Anime, sometimes it is live action and sometimes it is animated but not an Anime, but the shows…
Eclectic Hobbies 