About Me and Contact

I have been watching anime for some 20 years, since the original Toonami, although it is only in the last ten that I have really become familiar with it.  There is something to the better parts of the medium that are truly unique, a type of unusual expressiveness that I have come to appreciate.  For me this element reached its height in the era running from approximately 1997 to 2008, where it seems a confluence of style, theme, and financial freedom united to produce an unusually rich set of works.  Appropriately, most of my favorites are from that time span (years indicating a particular season):

1. Gunslinger Girl (2003)
2. The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya (2006, broadcast order)
3. Pale Cocoon
4. 5 centimeters per second
5. Angel's Egg
6. Haibane Renmei
7. Ghost in the Shell (1995)
8. Mushishi (2005)
9. Shinsekai Yori
10. Hourou Musuko

My goal is to have eventually written a major piece for each of these anime (and any others I discover along the way).  As I am a scientist by training, my style and approach are essentially self-taught from the need to express myself on the things that have affected me the most.  My philosophy is that criticism ought to be a little piece of art itself or else it will entirely miss the point, and I abhor posturing in all forms.  If it isn't sincere, it isn't worth reading.

Should one wish to contact me, I am available through either my Reddit or MAL accounts, which I check with some regularity.  I am an eager conversationalist and do not mind disagreement as long as it is in good faith.

Thank you.