The Otaku Exhibition

Tag: music

  • Bocchi the Rock! and Living with Anxiety

    Bocchi the Rock was a stand-out show in a stand-out season. Picture, for a moment, having to make a moe comedy and music anime in the same season as Chainsaw Man, Blue Lock, My Hero Academia, Mob Psycho 100, and the final arc of Bleach. Daunting. Bocchi might have succeeded purely on the grounds that…

  • Sound! Euphonium is GARBAGE

    I’ve said it before, I’ll say it again; the word overrated is lazy. It is indicative of a person who is unwilling to analyze a story critically, but still wants to take a cheap potshot at it. Demon Slayer is beautifully animated but the story is derivative, so it’s overrated. Attack on Titan’s ending didn’t…

  • Bocchi the Rock! Review: K-On Can’t Communicate

    Directed by Keiichirou Saitou Produced by Cloverworks Streaming on Crunchyroll I was in a bit of a pickle. I got ahead of myself and slated six reviews for the autumn season, and didn’t actually have six anime to watch. Alright, I said to myself, I’ll just watch the first episode of everything until something sticks…

  • Given Plays a Flat Tune

    This started as a completely different essay. I wanted to write about how good and compelling music anime can be; my problem was that I didn’t have enough music anime to write about. I’ve already gone on about Your Lie in April and Those Snow White Notes, and I’m saving K-On for a rainy day…

  • Takt Op. Destiny Review: Fate stay/night the Musical

    Studio: MAPPA x Madhouse Director: Yuki Ito Streaming on: Crunchyroll Believe it or not, I have a favorite child when it comes to seasonal anime. Usually once a season, a certain kind of anime comes out. It’s an original project propelled by a strong creative vision, and it shows me something I have actually never…