Your Happening World (Too many anime tabs open)

Ever have too many tabs open with interesting links you “want to do something with” but never get around to? No, me neither.

• Maxy Bee vibe checks manga magazines
  What follows is a thread vaguely defining as many manga magazines as I can, for reasons. This is not scientific, just a “putting names to faces” thing.
• The Old Soul of Tsukikage Ran, or how to review an older, not very memorable series
  Thing is that Tsukikage Ran, while good, isn’t particularly good. In fact, it’s one of the most average shows I’ve seen in long while. There are definitely aspects of it I like, such as the series following two independent women of varying degrees of goofy, but looking at it as a whole, I have a few issues, and the biggest is that this is a show clearly made from an Old Japanese Man perspective.
• Yuri made me human, an interview with Iori Miyazawa, author of Otherside Picnic
  The author lowers her arm into the water tank, the octopus approaches her. The author’s monologue goes on top of it, but the octopus can taste her with her suction pads, and since female octopuses, like humans, possess estrogen, she says “It is possible that this octopus, in fact, knows I am a female”. She then adds, “her embrace is an experience unlike any contact with a human”, and so on — her immense feelings are flowing onto the pages.
• Yuri made me human part 2, featuring Gengen Kusano mentioned in part 1
  That’s right. Like when you read a sentence in a book and logically assume that “there must be a feeling of sadness here”, you see someone’s facial expression and logically interpret it as “there must be a feeling of sadness here”. In “Weak Yuri” taken to the utmost extreme, in “Radical Weak Yuri”, even the relationships between real people become imaginary. Basically, the extremes of both “Strong Yuri” and “Weak Yuri” places real beings and fictional beings on the same ontological level. The Ouroboros comes full circle.
• Red Hair in a Global World: Michael B. Pass looks at the Japanese fascination with Anne of Green Gables
  Today, Japan’s fascination with Anne and the Island is an unremarkable and long-accepted fact; rarely does a tourist season go by without at least one Canadian newspaper commenting on and seeking to explain the now ubiquitous phenomenon.
• 40 Seasons in 40 Weeks
  Veteran anime blogger Scamps did a forty post decade overview of the 2010s in 2019, which means I got this tab open for over two years now.

Also, some new (to me) blogs I’ve added to the blogroll:

• Full Frontal
  Full Frontal is a temple devoted to passion. Created by a team of devoted fans we want to share our love for animation, manga and other subcultures and reach people’s hearts. You will be able to find chronics, analysis, interviews, and translations striving to understand the big picture of otaku culture as a social phenomenon.
• Animétudes
  This blog came out of my need, as a fan, to talk about anime, and to understand it better. I hope that my writing can relay at least some of this understanding and love for the medium of animation that I love so much.