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My earliest memory of renting anime is from 2003. When it only costs a few dollars to watch a show, you’re not as picky as when you’re buying something at full price. Sometimes you’ll get lucky. That’s how I first saw Akira and Berserk. But more often than not you would end up with something like Ninja Resurrection or Sin: The Movie. It’s a dangerous game of Anime Rental Roulette.

The second half of 2015 brought on many positive changes. But I didn’t make it out of the darkness unscathed. Years of jumping financial hurdles, clinical depression, and more than one existential crisis left a blackness under my eyes that persists to this day. Things weren’t perfect, but they were the best they had ever been.

I’ve always looked back fondly on 2012. It was a peak year for my creativity. More people were listening and interacting with my podcast...

A popular topic that comes up in anime discussion is whether a show can garner mainstream success outside of the nation of Japan. In...

When Production I.G. revealed that they had acquired the rights to FLCL in 2015 with the intention to produce more episodes, I didn't care....