On this blog, I review animation, movies, comics, and other cultural mediums, attempting to counter stererotypes of archivists and archives, while reminding people what archives (and archivists) are all about.
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Back in April, I examined archivy themes in the first volume of the Words Bubble Up Like Soda Pop manga, including picture discs, poems, a missing vinyl record, social media, and a record store. Prior to that, I also noted similar themes in the light novel of the same name, and in the 2021 film […]
Back in March, I noted that the first edition of Spy x Family manga’s fourth volume I bought, had a misprint which missed part of mission 21, and all of mission 22. As I noted in that post, this is a quality issue with the manga’s publisher, Viz Media, according to fans. I ended up […]
In the opening chapter of the comic gen:LOCK, based on the mature animated mecha series of the same name, protagonist Julian Chase calls his tape recorder that his dad gave him, where he could tape over songs over and over again, until the dream of the original song was left. He notes that after his […]
One of the key parts of Ava DuVernay’s 2023 biographical drama film, entitled Origin, based on life of Isabel Wilkerson, and her journey to write her 2020 book Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents, features an archives. During the film, Wilkerson travels to Germany, India, and the U.S. to research caste systems in history of […]
I’ve written various posts about Words Bubble Up Like Soda Pop, whether the 2021 film, the 2023 light novel adaptation, but not the manga adaptation, which came in three volumes, published by Yen Press. The first and second volumes came out in 2023, while the third volume came out in 2024. This post will note […]
I’ve written about Spy x Family before on this blog, many times. In fact, to date, it has been mentioned in eight posts, including those about: Spy x Family: Family Portrait (a light novel), and volumes 1-3 of the manga, and others noting the anime adaptation in connection to discussions on classified records (also see […]
I didn’t expect that a series about two characters (Masugu Tateishi and Yui Mitsuya) secretly in love, both of whom work at a chocolate company, would have an archives! But, I was wrong. In the fourth episode of I Have a Crush at Work, Tateishi is tasked with going to the archives building, with the […]
In the past, I’ve noted the value of fine print, as emphasized by the record-obsessed/dedicated elf, Alfur, in Hilda, and a scene in Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, a 1971 film adaptation of Roald Dahl’s book Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, which is all “about the fine print…which…comes up at another key scene in […]
While I could write about Batman breaking locks in Batman: Caped Crusader, the newspaper database in Superman: The Animated Series (a character paging through file folders or Brainac’s memory-storing orbs in other episodes), or brief scene in the student council records room in Bloom Into You Vol. 5, [1] I’d like to talk about the archivy […]
Hello all! In this first post for 2025, I’d like to focus on what is coming ahead this year. I am still committed to having no hiatus on this blog, as I noted before. In 2024, I published posts about over 25 Western animations, 20 anime, 26 films, almost 20 comics / graphic novels / […]
