Mikhail Koulikov

YES! Bang Dream Ave Mujica *ALSO* deserves love in the form of an essay in a peer-reviewed edited collection! In "Religion and AI Romance in Popular Media", scheduled for next February: Love and Reflexive Idolatry in Gekidol and Ave Mujica Thank you, @bloomsburybooksus.bsky.social!

New Index/Railgun/Accelerator series knows how to bring all the boys to the series. Also, thank you for 2005-or-so cosplay idea flashback.

How to trigger - in one mp3. youtu.be/v_n3R0VDQQ0?...

Watched the new live-action 5cm per Second movie. Had to ask myself if I still have my flash drive with ALL the anime mp3's that I downloaded all through college and...uh...the rest of the 2000 years. I do. And you super need / want any of these - just ask!

Look what / who gets their Celebrity New York Times Moment!! www.nytimes.com/2026/10/19/a...

It is gonna be the end of the fucking world. W/sad anime girls. youtu.be/RL0kTGdR_4M?...

Do I need this in my life? Well, whatever. I now have. Thank you, @bracerguild.bsky.social #towaherschel #trailsofcoldsteel #sennokiseki

Useful context in a job posting. "The Lab’s campus is only a 45-minute flight (or ~3 hour drive) from Seattle or Portland, and is serviced by the convenient PSC airport, connected to 8 major hubs." Oh, yeah, at least Secret clearance required.

Starting to think about Christmas shopping? Anime and Manga Studies Projects has your back with our comprehensive, curated and up-to-date listing of English-language books on Japanese animation and Japanese comics - now w/over than 200 unique titles! www.animemangastudies.com/database/sea...

Posted elsewhere, but worth posting here too. Favorite screencap of Fall 2026 anime season. By Far. So Real!

Possibly *everything* you ever need to know about the @animenewsnetwork.com forums, in one screenshot. (...if you *don't know*, I have been using the CorneredAngel handle since like AOL)

Why not self-promote if relevant again! "both Japanese and American companies involved in the industry have moved beyond ignorance or indifference to the sheer amount of unauthorized, perhaps outright illegal, distribution of anime that goes on daily." Wrote this in 2010. doi.org/10.3983/twc....

Kind of a thought experiment? Or a dating app question? One thing or experience you would want to get as a birthday present.

If you're looking for scholarship on uses of anime symbols in recent protests, can point you to this excellent paper, though from 2019! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Other people can keep their romantasy ARC's. I'm happy w/the ARC's that I get lol!

Using ChatGPT to help me with my writing is not something I am interested in. But just *having the option* is making me really think about how to improve my style, both writing and speaking. I need to be much better about shorter sentences. And *a lot* better abt not overusing certain words.

20th anniversary, all that, a Crunchyroll-wrapped train in the NYC subway - you do realize, in an only *slightly* alternative future, HotOrNot would be...everywhere that Facebook is now. If you have no idea... mashable.com/feature/hoto...

lol / well, there goes that possible future career direction... "Dear Mikhail Koulikov, Thank you for your interest in Louis Vuitton as an employer. After careful consideration, we have decided not to proceed with your application for the position of Intellectual Property Assistant, Seasonal"

Eventually, pretty much every anime gets its turn. Which one gets its turn *today*, you wonder... --- www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1...

*Also* so much of the fun of series like Index/Railgun/ITEM/etc. to me is seeing how a Japanese creator comes up with different superpowers for several different charas. Especially for those who don't really have superpowers. Like Uihara. Who just has super good memory and is really diligent.

So, Fall '26 anime watch list. Really should not be surprising. ...except one? (...but *which one*?!?) (...and yes, I can't be bothered to watch not!Crunchy. And there is nothing super important this season that's only out in fansub)...

Just the tenants' lounge at a nondescript downtown Manhattan office building. ...thatvI have an intense personal connection to.

I AM HAPPY. bracerguild.com/products/pre...

My two states. (I *really* did not change much, right?)

How much can you find out/tell about a person by the Macross song that is their One. Because for me, will always be. youtube.com/watch?v=9zj2...

Since we're on an a bit of a nostalgia kick. I always found this chart, from a 2010 essay, to be absolutely fascinating even then. And it's become more and more fascinating since. U.S. manga publishers, by volume released, 2005-2008 How many of these are you even *aware of*.

Lines that can? go on a t-shirt? “Those people out there just assume you’re going to do a good job, so just do a good job.” Line I make an effort to - not forget?

Omg omg omg ::begins stalking:: ...even if Towa does look like a potato 🥔

Interested in reviewing the new monograph Text and Image: Making Meaning in Manga and Comics (U. of Minnesota Press)? Let me know! Would consider both formal academic reviews, and more casual write-ups like you would see in a newspaper or on ANN. www.upress.umn.edu/978151791958...

Russian SVO memes are a A Thing. That one day, people will get PhD dissertations out of.

*More than 10 years ago now*... ...SOMEBODY thought they were oh so damn clever. Because they were.

You may have already seen this - but - doesn't hurt to repost / pass along even further!

Where are the reviews, the hype, the mentions! Why am I just finding out *today* - from the publisher! "In Next Time on Dragon Ball, Vincent Haddad investigates how the franchise has maintained huge global demand despite its formulaic plotlines." www.upress.umn.edu/978151791956...

The New York Times' Maya Phillips on NYCC "Over the course of Comic Con’s 20-year run, anime has had one of the most prominent arcs from niche into the mainstream." www.nytimes.com/2026/10/13/a...

Keep going. The anime OP from when anime considered being Serious. Not edgy or provocative, serious in a different way. I cannot think of another opening like this one. youtube.com/watch?v=4Wfv...

Will *need* to keep me company and provide moral support when it's just One of Those Days. If Yang can do it, I can do it!

A new #openaccess paper on a question you probably thought about, but never considered asking. In the 1970's, why did animation succeed in Japan, and did not succeed in South Korea. doi.org/10.1080/1756...

While I'm *again* on a Railgun kick - this OP has what is really my favorite aesthetic in anime openings - intentionally making the animation mimic film or photography. youtu.be/P_tHf1Xj6Ms?...

And, one episode in, the new Index/Railgun-universe series is so much fun *because* these girls (who are not the girls you are thinking of) were so much fun in Railgun S

You know, it's a bit awkward that all four reviewers that @animenewsnetwork.com has doing the first episode reaction for the new series in the Index/Railgun universe - don't actually have any real familiarity with the universe other than that "it's a thing".

I'm sure I'm like the no. 100,000 person to ask this, but - how do you explain the idea of White Pages - to someone who is in HS now? ...and the idea that it was totally normal to look up *anyone*'s address and phone number. And kind of suspicious if your address/phone number were not listed.

Is this just *too* academic to get any kind of notice or publicity? "The project aims to create a research database on Japanese visual media, including, but not limited to anime, manga, computer games and visual novels." jvmg.iuk.hdm-stuttgart.de

One distinc trend I'm seeing this year is more scholarship in anime and manga studies from India - in sources from major and well-known European/US (global?) publishers. Example: www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edi...

Five-minute instrumentals I can listen to non-stop for like half an hour at least. open.spotify.com/track/3lJAep...

Gotta say, something like a comparative reading of workplace comedies in Japanese animation - is a presentation or even a full paper that damn near writes itself. You got Shirobako, you got Aggrettsuko, and now you got Smoking Behind the Supermarket! Easy publication?

Can I corrupt ChatGPT? This is now how it responds. "This is where Teilhard becomes especially interesting in the context you have been asking about concerning European social movements and intellectual history."

You want to put *what* *where*?!? "To investigate the content and characteristics of the communication of science-related ideas in anime, this work examined six productions of worldwide popularity." #openaccess www.icaseonline.net/journal/inde...

My chara Fall 2026 season costume options.