TheNovelStrumpet Archive
So…I have another of Mo Xiang Tong Xiu’s works to be obsessed over. Billibilli, Haoliners Animation League, and Funimation have brought Tian Guan Ci Fu, or Heaven Official’s Blessing, to us in donghua format. If you don’t remember what else MXTX wrote, well then go to my
I know, it’s been a hot minute since I wrote the last anime blog, but I’m going to be honest here and confess that I have fallen so far down the MXTX rabbit hole (author of Mo Dao Zu Shi which I wrote about already) after finding
I mean a post on this show was inevitable, right? I thought about doing a post on this much later, but then thought why? Let me just state that I’m going to use the words sociopath and psychopath at times in this post, and it has nothing
Mo Dao Zu Shi – which you may find translated as Grandmaster of Demonic Cultivation (manhua/manga), The Founder of Diabolism (animated/donghua series), or The Untamed (live-action) – is a Chinese fantasy based off a novel of the same name and is set in a historically alternate world,
In the world of anime, there are quite a few that I think are widely recognized as “gateway” shows. Shows that someone who may not be a fan of anime would watch and then think – maybe I’ll give something else like this a try – and
Sometimes I like to scroll through show listings to just randomly pick something out and that’s exactly how these two shows came to my attention, Chihayafuru and March Comes in Like a Lion. While watching these was a luck of the draw, the stories and characters definitely
I love stories about love whether it’s in books, movies, tv shows, especially when the story blends both humor and heart. Kaguya-sama: Love is War does both perfectly and despite only having two seasons, one of which just ended a few weeks ago, it has already become
There is a lot of sports anime out there. For the most part, they all follow a pretty similar pattern especially if it’s a high school/university team sport – inexperienced player with raw potential, underdog team surprising everyone, upperclassman that have one more chance at a trophy/championship,
Ok, so as you may have noticed I’ve been really, really, really silent on the blogging front, especially when it comes to books. I can’t explain it, but after spending my entire life as a voracious reader something happened over the last couple of years and suddenly
So this past weekend was WonderCon 2014 in Anaheim, CA. I went down on Saturday with a couple of my friends, one of whom likes to cosplay Capt. Jack Harkness from Torchwood and Doctor Who. She gets a lot of people in Who-play asking her for pics
Tonight Fargo premiers on FX (10PM ET/PT) and I don’t know about you but I am looking forward to some of that “Minnesota Nice” with a dash of malice, a pinch of oppression and a sprinkle of dark humor all mixed in. Mmmmm, just like momma used to
