Andrew - NoS Anime @nosanime.bsky.social · 09/10/2026When I've talked to folks from other countries about this, what's struck me is that while a lot of Americans are repulsed by sexual stuff and consider it poisonous to children, a lot of people overseas aren't repulsed by the violence and gore on American programming as much as they are perplexed. 010
Andrew - NoS Anime @nosanime.bsky.social · 09/10/2026I wish the volumes of this series weren't humongously expensive or I'd probably buy them for myself. Luckily, having a professor as a friend gives me access to very generous ILL allotments. Once I'm done with all my upcoming traveling, I'll probably see about getting Books 5 & 20 to read as well. 000
Andrew - NoS Anime @nosanime.bsky.social · 09/10/2026I just finished my first book of Japanese poetry I've ever read: "Man’yōshū (Book 15)" by Vovin. It's certainly not the most literary poetic translation and a lot of the linguistics went over my head, but I like the style of translation and the commentary was fascinating. 100
Reposted by Andrew - NoS AnimeAnime News Network @animenewsnetwork.com · 08/10/2026Aniplex USA and Fathom will screen the Puella Magi Madoka Magica the Movie -Walpurgisnacht: Rising- film in N. America on January 16-19. Aniplex will also release the previous film trilogy streaming and on UHD BD.animenewsnetwork.comMadoka Magica -Walpurgisnacht: Rising- Anime Film Screens in N. America on January 16-19Madoka Magica recap films, Rebellion also get new single UHD BD release on October 15 18564
Andrew - NoS Anime @nosanime.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Look, if you think just adding more cool stuff to an already cool book is enough to convince me to buy it again...you'd be right. 010
Andrew - NoS Anime @nosanime.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Any time I'm listening to an academic lecture and the speaker starts talking about AI, I get hesitant. Sometimes it's benign/makes sense, but often they'll say something like "I have strong opinions about AI, but I used generative AI in the good way unlike everyone else." and so I stop listening. 020
Andrew - NoS Anime @nosanime.bsky.social · 29/09/2026If at some point of being a anime fan, you didn't do something deserving of getting you shoved in a locker, you're not doing it right. Intense embarrassment resulting from remembering something you did back in the day as a fan being a pain in the ass is key to the anime fan experience. 020
Andrew - NoS Anime @nosanime.bsky.social · 29/09/2026My thoughts on this are: If I am in Japan and I expect a Japanese person to know the English title, "My Hero Academia", I am being unnecessarily obtuse to them. If I am in an English-speaking country and I expect someone to know what "Boku no" translates to, I am doing the same thing. 150
Andrew - NoS Anime @nosanime.bsky.social · 29/09/2026"Why should this English website use the English name of something?". Um..."English" is already in that question twice and does pretty well to answer itself. And I don't mean to blow anyone's mind, but you can put the English or romanji in parentheses beside the other if you want to have both. 11114
Andrew - NoS Anime @nosanime.bsky.social · 29/09/2026It was an amazing day for bugs from this tiny inch worm, to butterflies and moths, to these more predatory fellows. 010
Andrew - NoS Anime @nosanime.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Pine flatwoods in North Florida are chock full of wildflowers this time of year. The drought has led to stuff coming out later than usual, so things weren't at their peak when I was out this weekend, but it was gorgeous. Tons of flowers, bugs, and birds (not a good enough camera for the latter). 110
Andrew - NoS Anime @nosanime.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Don't wait! Don't delay! Don't fuck with us or we'll rip your nuts off! 010
Reposted by Andrew - NoS AnimeAnime News Network @animenewsnetwork.com · 25/09/2026Today! Join us live on September 25 at 5pm PT to watch all the latest anime trailers with @G0ffThew.animenewsnetwork.comThe Fall 2026 Anime Trailer Watch Party Premieres Tonight!The Fall Anime Trailer Watch Party returns with the trailers for your most anticipated anime series. Watch all the trailers for the upcoming season with special guest Geoff Thew and ANN friends Lynzee Loveridge, Jacki Jing, and James Beckett. 02514
Reposted by Andrew - NoS AnimeAnimEigo @animeigo.com · 23/09/2026The MediaOCD store now has gift cards! If you don't know what to get someone, get them the gift of choosing the Blu-rays they want! With a selection of unique card designs that will speak to their soul. Or confuse them a bit. Either one is good. mediaocd.com/product/gift... 411857
Andrew - NoS Anime @nosanime.bsky.social · 23/09/2026This reminded me that I'd forgotten to order this. Got this and "Look Back" on the way now. 000
Andrew - NoS Anime @nosanime.bsky.social · 22/09/2026I had always suspected that a lot of the fishnet was supposed to be mail. It makes me feel mildly more vindicated in my thinking. 020
Andrew - NoS Anime @nosanime.bsky.social · 21/09/2026A work acquaintance saw photos of my living room chock full of paintings, ceramics, and other art and said something to the effect of "It seems you just want to be surrounded by stuff you like."; they meant this as a chastisement. They'd hate to see my bedroom filled with anime bullshit all over. 120
Andrew - NoS Anime @nosanime.bsky.social · 21/09/2026I'm looking forward to this when I'll be in Japan on the shinkansen, but whoever thought it was prudent to only make the stores for the merch in Osaka and Nagoya is unfathomably dumb. 140
Andrew - NoS Anime @nosanime.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Asking someone for clarification about something they said only for them to tell me to refer to their Substack is always woeful. Now I have to do a delicate dance around explaining that I don't want to use that and if they could please just answer if willing. 010
Andrew - NoS Anime @nosanime.bsky.social · 18/09/2026I will never fault someone for that. They ain't fine dining, but they're delicious. My arrival day schedule for Japan always includes conbini supper and katsu sandwiches are a must. 010
Andrew - NoS Anime @nosanime.bsky.social · 18/09/2026Do you have a go-to chicken/other katsu sandwich in Tokyo? I'm asking for my hips. They need katsu sandwiches on them. 110
Andrew - NoS Anime @nosanime.bsky.social · 18/09/2026It's the robot's reaction to seeing the Gundam Mk-V coming at it. 010
Andrew - NoS Anime @nosanime.bsky.social · 15/09/2026It needs to be a prestige production where they hire award winning costume designers so that when the director approaches them and tells them "I need you to put these dudes in the best low-end strip mall stuff you got.", they'll either die a little inside or see it as their greatest challenge yet. 0231
Andrew - NoS Anime @nosanime.bsky.social · 13/09/2026I had been hoping to see a bunch of my college buddies, visit the campus, and hang out with my old professors in addition to the con, but here's hoping I can get back next year or sometime else soon. 130
Andrew - NoS Anime @nosanime.bsky.social · 13/09/2026I'm unfortunately not going to attend AWA this year. The change to November made it viable again, but my impromptu trip to Japan just beforehand combined with holidays and the planning I'll need to do for my trip to Italy early the following year means I can't finagle it. I'll try again next year. 130
Andrew - NoS Anime @nosanime.bsky.social · 13/09/2026I had never seen Kondo's version, but it's very him. It's not often you get to see him making the equivalent of "weird little guys". 030
Andrew - NoS Anime @nosanime.bsky.social · 12/09/2026The scene is also quite diverse from region to region. There's more of a dedicated panel culture in the eastern U.S. compared to the west. I am taking this from folks more experienced with the West Coast scene, mind you. My only experience there is Sakura-Con which is a mess with its panels. 011
Andrew - NoS Anime @nosanime.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Naturally this is going to be while I'll be overseas on vacation. 000
Andrew - NoS Anime @nosanime.bsky.social · 07/09/2026The core metaphoric motif of the film - silkworm farming - brings out some positive themes of the film, but also solidifies how so much of the "progress" made by our main character is only incremental steps within an inherently limiting framework of women's rights in early 20th century Japan. 020
Reposted by Andrew - NoS AnimeKashana @kashana.blacksky.app · 07/09/2026Possibly the most American news of all timelocal12.comPrison inmates donate more than $4,000 to pay children's school lunch debtResidents at the prison contributed $3,810 of their own money, while Kansas Department of Corrections employees added another $457. 279173784947
Reposted by Andrew - NoS AnimeCrimson Mayhem @crimsonmayhem.bsky.social · 06/09/2026Introducing the BEEP BEEP Choir from Coyote vs ACME!! 211088361
Andrew - NoS Anime @nosanime.bsky.social · 04/09/2026A Japanese guy I met studying in England mentioned this too. At first, he found he suddenly cared about "proper" use of honorifics when speaking Japanese with non-Japanese people in England. Then he apparently went home, mentioned this, and his friends made fun of him for being a prude. 070
Andrew - NoS Anime @nosanime.bsky.social · 04/09/2026I'm wishing you well. Losing a loving family member is always rough. 000
Andrew - NoS Anime @nosanime.bsky.social · 01/09/2026This had been my plan, but the next showing of that wasn't for almost 3 hours. 010
Andrew - NoS Anime @nosanime.bsky.social · 01/09/2026I had to choose between maybe having a version of "The Last Blossom" that I could enjoy or having the one with wonky subtitles without any idea as to whether my theater got the fix I've heard of. If they weren't fixed, I couldn't get a refund, so I'll see the movie another time, I suppose. 010
Andrew - NoS Anime @nosanime.bsky.social · 01/09/2026My theater said there would be no way of knowing if they had gotten a fixed version of the film because the person who deals with that was gone for the day. If I waited until the movie started, I couldn't get a refund, so I just took it and went home. 031
Andrew - NoS Anime @nosanime.bsky.social · 30/08/2026Shame it couldn't also get you the rule of the Middle Kingdom as well. 010
Andrew - NoS Anime @nosanime.bsky.social · 30/08/2026A strength of the ending is that those remaining in power, while not beholden to the symbol that is the Bael, distinctly understand its potency as a political tool. This is why they repair and again make it a totem of order and peace brought about by and manifested through Gjallarhorn. Good stuff. 030
Andrew - NoS Anime @nosanime.bsky.social · 27/08/2026My equivalent cursed isekai panel idea would be to spend an hour carefully breaking down the abysmal state of city and military fortifications in isekai shows. I would compare their crappy stuff with actual early through late medieval fortifications. Absolutely no one but me would give a shit. 131
Reposted by Andrew - NoS AnimeAnime News Network @animenewsnetwork.com · 27/08/2026May Autobots roll out one last time for the voice actor of Transformers' Optimus Prime, Peter Cullen, RIPanimenewsnetwork.comTransformers' Optimus Prime Voice Actor Peter Cullen Dies at 85Cullen also voiced Eeyore, Monterey Jack, Mario, Toonami announcer, IGPX narrator 1134095
Andrew - NoS Anime @nosanime.bsky.social · 27/08/2026Whether it's from working or sleeping, it feels like every time I don't stay up to date on social media this week, someone else that was just a net positive to the world leaves us. Maybe the universe could look to taking some of those who are a net negative for the remainder of the week. 000
Reposted by Andrew - NoS Animekate bush’s husband @airbagged.bsky.social · 27/08/2026Peter Cullen was the sole voice that was responsible for generating hype for anime coming to the west. RIP Legend 5551251880
Reposted by Andrew - NoS Animeapple 🍎 @applestab.bsky.social · 25/08/2026#neongenesisevangelion #nge #asukalangleysoryu 21794486
Reposted by Andrew - NoS AnimeAnimation Obsessive @ani-obsessive.bsky.social · 24/08/2026Early TV ads were a lifeline for Japanese animators. This stuff allowed for amazing creativity, even when other avenues didn't. Japan had world-class animated ads from the '50s onward. We're looking into a few of them today: animationobsessive.substack.com/p/japans-oth... 182028604