Hello, and welcome back to another week with the Owl in the Rafters! Let me start with a brief intro and recap for those of you who are popping your heads in for the first time: My usual shtick is supposed to be giving overviews of the careers of various artists, authors, and directors in anime. So, normally, I try to get around as much as I can, albeit within the limitations of what I know and have ...

Welcome to another week with the Owl in the Rafters. Normally this is where your host, Tyto, would introduce a name, showcase the artist/author/director's major works in the Anime/Manga industry, and more or less trick you into reading an abridged biography on the artist, but this week we are going to take a look at things a little differently.

Welcome back to The Owl in the Rafters, for another week of anime reviews! I'm taking a week away from my normal schtick to revisit one particular work of one of my favorite authors, Naoki Urasawa. Some of you may recall that in August of 2010, I did a review on the collective works of famous manga author and artist, Naoki Urasawa. In that review, I very briefly covered a manga series, and anime adaptation, titled Master ...

BG: As I’m sure most of you know, the new Pokemon games, Black and White, were released this last weekend over here in the U.S. to great fanfare.  Due to Pokemon’s high popularity here on the site I figured it would be remiss of me to not do some sort of review for this latest release of the franchise, however there were two issues I needed to work out first.

Welcome back to another week in The Rafters! Normally I try to give you the bird's eye view on the overarching careers of various artists, authors, and directors, but this week I'm taking things easy and highlighting just a small portion of one artist's long list of works.

Welcome to a very special Valentine's Day edition of The Owl in the Rafters! This week I'm going over the career of an anime director and one-man animation team who took the industry by surprise nearly a decade ago now. This man is none other than Makoto Shinkai, the anime prodigy lauded with the title "The New Miyzaki" by several reviewers. This name may not ring too many bells with Western Audiences, but his debut short film, ...

Welcome to the Owl in the Rafters! In my past two updates I went over the careers of two very talented but sadly under appreciated artists: the first being Komi Naoshi, author and artist of the little known and short lived serial title Double Arts that ran in the weekly Shounen Jump for just 6 months, and the second being Yuusuke Murata, the artist of Eyeshield 21 a sadly overlooked sports title with more general appeal than the subject ...

Tyto, here! Welcoming you all to another installation of The Owl in the Rafters. Last time I covered the little known but much loved underdog artist/author, Komi Naoshi, and his lineup of heart warming one-shots, and one very special, but sadly short-lived serial title. I praised Naoshi as an up and coming artist to keep an eye for in the future of JUMP magazine, and this week I've got another buzz name to keep your eyes open ...

A nice warm “Welcome Back!” –or maybe just a first time “Welcome!” for some of you- to another installment of The Owl in The Rafters, where I, Tyto, (that’s “Tai” like how you make a knot, and “Toh” as in the ten wiggly things on the ends of your feet), your lovable, (or detestable), ramble-o-matic wind bag of an anime/manga reviewer, gives you the bird’s eye view on the careers of various artists, authors, and directors.

Hope you all weren't scared away by my filler update. Assuming you're back and ready for more this week, we're finally getting back to the story.