Anime – aniMuze

February 23, 2019

CDs from Japan

It doesn’t happen often but the CDs delivered by DHL had cracked cases. They arrived in a paper pouch packaged. The ones delivered in the thin cardboard box were okay.

Unopened packages from Amazon Japan — Unopened Amazon packages

Yuko Imai Best Album: Sweetest Voice — Sweetest Voice

January 27, 2018

Took Funimation 2 months to fix bugs

I reported this problem back in February and Funimation just added subtitles back to their Japanese dialogues. I’ll finish the anime I started and then drop Funimation for good.

February 18, 2017

Funimation’s new site has bugs

First, the logon page won’t let you logon with Facebook. Clicking the Facebook button just sends you back to the logon page. Second, there’s no subtitles for A Certain Magical Index. I’ve been watching the series subtitled with the original Japanese audio up until now.

It’s sad Funimation won’t let you bring up these problems on their forum. They want to hide the fact their site is broken. No one at Funimation has responded to my email.

January 9, 2017

Gunbuster redraw

December 7, 2016December 7, 2016

Christmas Noriko

Commissioned by aniMuze.com

October 30, 2016

Cecilia D’Anastasio

So I read a blog by Cecilia D’Anastasio who claims anime is misogynist, racist and needs to conform to Western standards. First, Miss D’Anastasio can fuck off. Anime is not hers to change. No one is forcing her to watch it. Have you not seen all the examples of racism in American animation? After watching 15,000 episodes I can honestly say anime remains fairly respectful of women and minorities. Anime is not afraid of tackling social issues such as exploitation and human trafficking. Numerous anime deal with a strong female protagonist–Those are my favorite!

Don’t change anime. Don’t make it Western because I’ll hate it. Don’t do us any favors.

サマリー: Cecilia D’Anastasio はアニメと日本の文化を嫌っている。彼女はキリスト教徒の信仰とモラルをアニメに反映させて欲しいと思っている。

October 30, 2016February 11, 2017

Choices before anime existed

I’m 50 years old. Animation was bland 40 years ago. Not much to choose from and no internet. If I was lucky, our antenna would catch channel 20 and show something unusual called Kimba the White Lion (ジャングル大帝). In college I discovered something amazing called anime. I wasn’t used to seeing animation beautifully drawn with captivating, emotionally charged storylines.