About

My name is Alexandra (usually just Alex). The title of this blog came from Moyashimon, or to be precise from the picture you see on the left. For reasons I can’t quite fathom now, I decided that this girl wearing tattered clothes with several deadly viruses hopping all about her as she hitchhiked her way to Japan was somehow representative of my own stumbling journey through these cartoons and comics from the East. No, I don’t exactly know what that means either but like so many things it sounded good at the time.

My tastes are pretty varied. I’ll try just about anything from any demographic or genre and I enjoy the hilariously bad almost as much a the genuinely good. It’s hard for me to pick my favorite titles but if I was stranded on a deserted island with a solar powered TV and DVD player… well first I’d try to use it to call for help or build a flying robot… but after that I’d want these anime with me:

Cowboy Bebop, Gurren Lagann, Space Pirate Captain Harlock, Dennou Coil, Kaiji, Gunbuster, Diebuster, Macross: Do You Remember Love?, Moyashimon, Haibane Renmei, Aria, Ghibli movies, Satoshi Kon movies and Revolutionary Girl Utena.

If my DVD player just happened to come with a waterproof bookshelf hopefully it would contain: Yokohama Kaidashi Kikou, 20th Century Boys, One Piece, Aria, Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind, Black Jack and most importantly of all a manga wilderness survival guide.