Final Thoughts for Winter 2016
FINALLY, AFTER TEN THOUSAND YEARS, I'M FREE TO POST THE LAST OF THE WINTER REVIEWSHoly shit this season sucked so bad it took us five weeks after to finally get to finish our reviews. Spring better not...
View ArticleFire Emblem Fates: Birthright & Conquest (3DS)
Fire Emblem Awakening was ultimately about parental fears of failing your children and the world you were handing off to them, and Fates is adding to that dialogue by being about children and their...
View ArticleSeasonal Reviews: Spring 2016 Pt.1
You thought it would be Jonathan writing the introduction for this post, but it was me, Danni!As you may have noticed by our delays, the seasonal staff have all been pretty busy lately. Jonathan in...
View ArticleSailor Moon Drops (Android)
If you've ever messed around on a smart phone, chances are that you've seen some types of games pop up constantly. Perhaps the most common of these genres is the match three puzzle game, a product of...
View ArticleRainy Day Reading 023: Lesbian Bonnie & Clyde/Double K
Things get a bit different this episode as Jonathan suggests we read two alternate continuity comics based on Kill la Kill and Gurren Lagann. And yes, one came from a porn site (but it's totally not...
View ArticleOpinion: Digital Manga Publishing Need To Learn From Their Own Past
With the change in seasons comes yet another Kickstarter campaign from Digital Manga Publishing. This time it's for classic 80s seinen romance Kimagure Orange Road, the fourteenth campaign in what...
View ArticleRainy Day Reading 024: Stealth Symphony
Walt, Megan, and David join together to discuss another Shonen Jump manga ...from the writer of Durarara!?!? Is it closer to a bizarre auteur work like Medaka Box, or a cliched disaster like Hungry...
View ArticleNo, No, Nymphet! Why Kodomo no Jikan Is a Bad Plan for DMP
I swear I didn't intend to write another piece on Digital Manga Publishing so soon, but I didn't expect them to do something so mindbendingly, jaw-droppingly stupid in such a short amount of time that...
View ArticleThe Fox Kids/Fox Box/4Kids TV Experience
Confession time: I didn’t grow up with the Toonami block. It’s not like I wasn’t aware it existed, however. Whenever I went with my brothers and parents to visit my grandparents in Florida during...
View ArticleHeavy Storms 014: Summer Wars
Zach, Steph, and seasonal guest writer Megan get together to talk Summer Wars. You may remember when we covered the Digimon Movie, which was a prototype for this movie. Zach said "Cum on me" in that...
View ArticleRoom 801/Curio Corner: This Boy Can Fight Aliens
The auteur is a surprisingly rare individual in the anime industry-whilst some shorts, such as Daicon have been produced by small groups of individuals, a short produced by a single individual is a...
View ArticleRainy Day Reading 025: Rui-Rui
Walt, Danni, and Will gather up this week to talk about a yuri manga. I wasn't there because I was playing videogames about serial killers and bullets that shoot smaller bullets out of guns. Witty...
View ArticleThe FUNimation Alchemist Debacle Take II: Copyright Sucks!
Copyright law is touchy, isn’t it? So Aniplex of America, aka the North American distributors of Aniplex-licensed anime, made a shocking and controversial decision recently. Essentially, the Fullmetal...
View ArticleThe Boy and the Beast
It took a while for The Boy and the Beast to come to Canada. Initially slated for theatres via GKids in March, the license fell through and the premiere went into limbo. It was then picked up by...
View ArticleWhen They Cry ~ Kai
From the gold rush of the early 2000s until the rise of legal streaming anime as a viable distribution hub, it was difficult to disseminate what was a hit or merely popular in anime. Sounds like the...
View ArticlePaper Mario (N64)
The year is 1996. Squaresoft, creators of the beloved Final Fantasy series, have announced they’re jumping ship and moving from Nintendo to Sony due to the limitations of the former’s newest console....
View ArticleMEHnga, Amirite? Understanding the Pitfalls of the Medium
A while back, I purchased VIZ Media’s Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind for a Rainy Day Reading. It took a while, I even went downtown to see if it was at the only Indigo branch that stocked it, but I...
View ArticleSeasonal Reviews: Summer 2016 Pt.1
Okay, so you all deserve an update.Danni ended up being very busy with school and family matters, while Stephanie was dealing with work and project overload. I couldn't really step back in either,...
View ArticleIS Satoshi Kon Superior to Hayao Miyazaki?
Every now and then I traverse the internet to curb my boredom. After all, even with a busy schedule and a steady job, I have way too free time on my hands. Perusing for content keeps me occupied, but...
View Article5 Points About the Anime Fandom That I Can't Stand
For as much as I attempt non-condescension in my contributions to Infinite Rainy Day, sometimes I have no choice. The anime fandom simply has a lot of arrogance that needs addressing. Therefore, today...
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