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This is my new blog after migrating from WordPress.com. I sometimes write about anime, manga and Sound Horizon as well as other things that interest me. My Twitter's here, I'm more active there. 

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Ranking of OPs & EDs 2022

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That's right, I'm back on my bullshit. Yet another year has passed, and like last year I'm here to brighten(?) your Christmas Eve with this list of my top 10 favourite anime openings and endings of 2022. Lots of good ones this year, so buckle up! Top 10 OPs   10. Shikimori's Not Just a Cutie  OP "Honey Jet Coaster"   While it had its shortcomings, some of which made it a surprisingly controversial series, from start to finish Shikimori  always looked fantastic, and the OP is no exception. Whether it's a series of photograph-like still images, fluid imaginary sequences with the camera spinning around, or just Shikimori herself looking at Izumi with her hair swaying in the wind (the window's open), the visuals are top-notch all the way through. The energetic song is also a lot of fun, and in particular I love the part where the emphasized syllables in the lyrics spell out "a-i-shi-te-i-ru" while the editing of the OP follows the rhythm. My pers...
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The Dead End of the Iberia Riddle

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The infamous  fourth riddle  of the Seisen no Iberia bonus track website, while seemingly like the others, is different in one important way: it has no answer. Whatever is put in the answer field, the visitor is redirected to the same error page. It's not even done through JavaScript, although such a function is defined in the main.js file - instead, the button after the answer field is not even a button, but a direct link to the error page. There is absolutely no way to proceed from the riddle to any other page than the error one. There's not even any hidden server-side code that could be triggered - it's a static HTML page that does not make any kind of request to the server except through the link to the error page. No <form>, no Ajax. To sum it up: it's a complete dead end.  So, what now?  If the expected route doesn't work, the only choice is to look somewhere else. But where? The earlier riddle pages and their branching alternate pages and error pages h...
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State of the Collection: 2023 Edition

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In my previous collection update a year ago, I expected I'd buy in 2023 "maybe not as much as in 2022 but we'll see". I definitely did buy less manga this year, but for Blu-rays we did see and what we saw was that I ended up pretty much doubling my Blu-ray collection. I can thank the monetary graduation gifts I received as well as my work try-out for giving me the necessary budget to spend, but on the down side the shelf space is really starting to become an issue. Let's see how my collection looks as 2023 comes to its close.   Manga & Light Novels   Even in a relatively quiet year on the manga front, my collection grew enough for the larger size volumes to now occupy almost all of my top-left shelf. New arrivals on the English side this year were Bocchi the Rock!  vol. 1, Children of the Whales  vol. 2, Soloist in a Cage  vol. 1, the first two volumes of Oshi no Ko  and The Promised Neverland  vol. 3. As I recall most of them were ordered onl...
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