Posted on October 15, 2025
hiroshi kamiya and the tower of youth
recently I was chatting with a friend about old-school fansubs, and we laughingly recalled those heady days of youth where you’d have to wait months at a time for an episode, or how subbing groups might even disappear all together without finishing what they started.
an anecdote of mine rose up from the depths, which I recounted without a second thought: a voice actor in a show I loved had been injured before being able to finish recording his lines and had to be replaced by someone else for the final episode – and how out of devotion, I waited to finish the series until the fansub group was able to tackle the DVD version, with the original actor’s voice.
afterwards, I wondered – this would have been nearly 20 years ago at this point, but – was it even true? read on to find out…
Read MorePosted on October 6, 2025
setting the stage for chandler and nabokov
when a raymond chandler postscript short enough to almost go unnoticed had me dredging the archives, I realized I might have to reopen a case from my past – one that may be impossible to solve…
Posted on September 30, 2025
tomohisa yuge and the case of the stolen bedroom
as must be obvious by this point, I’m a big fan of kamen rider – and when you’ve seen 35+ seasons of a show, you’re bound to have some favorites. setting aside the showa seasons as their own category (since to me, they’re just incomparably good), I’m particularly fond of the seasons from the early to mid 2000s. there’s just something about them that clicks, y’know?
one season in particular that has permanently burrowed its way into the rotten apple of my brain is the 2002 season kamen rider ryuki, the twelfth installment of the franchise. now, I could go on and on about the protagonists or the plot – but I’m not here to sell you on ryuki. no, today I’m here to solve a mystery… one involving manga, magazines, and one very particular teen model… was this my toughest case yet? read on to find out!
Read MorePosted on September 23, 2025
of william morris, julio cortázar, and dragons
for the past year I’ve been reading Fiona MacCarthy‘s biography of William Morris (a low and slow reading, if you will) and now, through a gradual accumulation of coincidences, my head is full of dragons.
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