Anime Review #122: Bocchi The Rock

Ah, Bocchi The Rock. I have a lot of people on Twitter who really like KyoAni's slice-of-life music product K-On!. And I mean, REALLY LIKE IT. Whether it was the quirky characters or the goofiness they endure that draws them to it, the influence is inescapable; I can't go a single day without seeing at …

St. Pius V Corner: Shoya Ishida’s Repentance

Be ashamed when you sin, don't be ashamed when you repent. Sin is the wound; repentance is the medicine. Just as there are for the body wounds and medicine, so for the soul are sins and repentance. However, sin has the shame and repentance possesses the courage. I beg of you, pay careful attention to …

The Traditional Catholic Weeb Speaks: The Melancholy Of Haruhi Suzumiya, Revisited

So... with Lent being over and my anime fast done, my brain sent me a challenge. It was to rewatch a show that I had previously reviewed that I haven't seen in a while, and it landed on a flick whose movies I've talked about recently, but long neglected its parent series. It's The Melancholy …

Anime Review #121: Violet Evergarden – Eternity And The Auto Memory Doll

Violet Evergarden, one of the most well-known anime of the late last decade, provided viewers with two theatrical movies: the first, which I will look through today, is titled Eternity And The Auto-Memory Doll, which all things considered is quite an eye-catching name for a movie. That's saying a bit, considering I've looked at titles …

St. Pius V Corner: Where, Grave, Thy Victory

The perennial dispenser of light is the Christian Easter, ever since that fortunate dawn, prophesied and awaited for long centuries, which saw the night of the Passion transformed into a resplendent day of joy, when Christ, having destroyed the bonds of death, leaped, as victorious King, from the tomb to new and glorious life, freeing …