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Colloquium: Mysterious Girlfriend X Episode 6
Come on, pretty baby, won’t you talk with me? bitmap: Hey all, it’s time for this week’s Mysterious Girlfriend X post! As for why my name’s in bold like that, well, this is a special post. As you can...
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Mysterious Girlfriend X Episodes 7-8
See how they smile, like pigs in a sty; see how they snide. Hey all, it’s me, the mysteriously-absent Mysterious Girlfriend X episodic blogger! But no, I do apologize: I’ve been busy with real-life...
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The Religion of Love in 2D: Roots of Modern Otaku Courtship
Note: The following post was originally published on 7 December, 2011 on the now-defunct Remember XVI. It is presented here edited to fit the visual formatting of Altair & Vega, but otherwise...
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Mysterious Girlfriend X Episodes 9-13 END
And in the end, the love you take… So, post’s a bit early this week… Self-deprecating jokes aside, I’m finishing up Mysterious Girlfriend X with this final post. I imagine that there’s still plenty of...
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The Curious Case of Schrödinger’s “IMOUTO”: Quantum Interpretations of...
It’s a poorly-kept secret amongst those who follow me on Twitter that my taste in anime is often questionable. That being said, it’s probably not too much of a surprise that one of my favorite shows...
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Schnitzel with Noodles
Like everybody else here at Altair & Vega, I’m amazing at playing favorites: that is to say, narrowing down a list is a nigh impossible task. Nonetheless, I’ve managed to hammer out a list; the...
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Secret Santa: Fireball & gdgd Fairies
The Secret Santa Project is run by the good folks over at Reverse Thieves, and this year, I was faced with the task of watching and reviewing at least one of the following: AKB0048, Fireball &...
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Freestyling about Free! – Lap 1
I have never loved swimming. What I remember most vividly from my time taking swimming lessons at the YMCA are not the different techniques I learned, but rather the music from Bust-A-Move (Puzzle...
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Cracking the Dandy Code
Space. The final frontier. If only we could read this blasted text, that is! January marks the new year: a time for beginnings, especially here at Altair & Vega. More importantly though, with a new...
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Words Bear Meaning: Multiplicity in Language in Yurikuma, Or Why I’m Not...
(Note: This post contains major plot spoilers for Yurikuma Arashi up to and including episode two.) Let’s talk about words. We’ll start off with the title for Yurikuma Arashi episode two: Let us skip...
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