Katsucon is an annual anime convention hosted in National Harbor, Maryland (just outside of Washington, DC). This year, I had the pleasure to attend Katsucon 2018 and model in their fashion show. It was my first year in attendance and having heard about the convention for many years now, I had high expectations. I’m happy…
I’m still working my way through a ridiculously long backlog and I’ve fallen sick amidst doing tons of conventions and art over the past couple of months. Thankfully, there’s no better pick-me-up than Cromartie High School. Gorillas, a robot student, and Freddie Mercury in a school full of chipped-shoulder delinquents. Simply put, it’s about their…
Welcome to another edition of Jade Woodruff’s “Life on Anime” where this time we’ll be taking on Your Lie in April (Kimi no Uso) — Your Lie in April is a 22-episode slice-of-life drama series based on the manga series written and illustrated by Naoshi Arakawa. A-1 pictures adapted the anime in October 2014. It’s currently available…
Denki-Gai no Honya-san is a 12 episode slice-of-life anime series based on four panel shorts that aired in the fall season of 2014 and is available on Crunchyroll. Here’s the premise: The setting for Denki-Gai is Umanohone Bookstore. It has it all for a manga fan: from rare issues to popular doujinshi and light novels…
Welcome to issue #8 of Jade Woodruff’s “Life on Anime” column here at Nerd Nation that’s dedicated to reviewing all of the great (and at times, not-so-great) anime titles out there — of which there are many, as most of you reading this already know! — from the perspective of a life-long anime fan. For this installment, we will be tackling Rail Wars – a 12-episode anime…
Seasons Greetings Nerds! Ye Olde Grinch is back with another unprovoked attack on the little Whos down in Whoville that make this world crap-tacular! I decided to switch gears for the December edition of The Negative Space and do something of the non-screen variety; as I am also a huge music nerd and avid metalhead. There is…
Greetings and welcome to issue #6 of Jade Woodruff’s “Life on Anime” – this time around we have a very special feature for you! – An exciting fall 2014 anime season is here! Aside from watching the continuations of Sailor Moon and a few others, here’s my watch list and predictions for the 2014 Fall Anime Season.
