Threat Or Menace does not have a new article this week, and for that, I apologize. It’s been a rather hectic week, between urgent repairs on my car and seeing to some potential medical issues for my son (don’t worry, he’s fine, but we had to have something checked to make sure), that left me(…)
I think I can sum up my feelings about the new anime Valvrave The Liberator in one sentence: “You’re trying too hard”. Produced by Sunrise, the studio responsible for mega-franchises such as Mobile Suit Gundam, this new show strikes me as something put together by a committee whose main goal is to try and create(…)
Today’s anime selection is an interesting take on the venerable genre of Giant Robots, Suisei no Gargantia, which translates as Gargantia of the Verdurous Planet. Far into the future, Humanity has spread out into the stars, but has also become locked in an eternal war against the Hideauze, a race of incredibly alien creatures that(…)
As I've said before, I'm a big fan of Epic Rap Battles Of History, and their latest offering, the season 2 finale, most definitely did not disappoint. I find myself pondering going back and doing a review of everything they've done so far — just a paragraph or two per installment. Now, I'll freely(…)
Picture if you will, a classic Swords & Sorcery world, where divinely empowered holy knights do battle with demonic sorcerers, where wars rage across continents, leaving intrigue and devastation in their wake. Imagine the final battle of this war, where the powerful Demon Lord’s plans have been foiled, his armies destroyed on the field of(…)
One of the earliest articles I ever wrote for Threat Or Menace was about five cartoon shows that weren't aimed at my demographic, but that I thoroughly enjoyed anyway, and the number one show on that list was Disney's FILLMORE!, a police procedural parody set in a middle school, with Safety Patrol kids taking the(…)
I missed the boat originally on this show. Sword Art Online premiered nearly a year ago, July 2012, a time when my faith in new anime had fallen to its lowest point. But after my interest in new anime took a recent upswing this year, I did a little bit of searching on Crunchyroll to(…)
When you sit down to write about the influence of a man who doesn’t even exist, it is perhaps inevitable that you start thinking (and talking) in symbols. And that’s particularly appropriate for a discussion of Superman, because Superman is a symbol, an icon not just in the modern sense but in the classic one,(…)
If you asked me a year ago if I still considered myself an anime fan, the answer would have been, “meh, kinda, but there’s nothing coming out these days that I like.” That’s not true anymore. The reason I didn’t like so much anime of late is because I felt the medium was getting overrun(…)
In September of 1992, I was a new freshman at Earlham College, a small Midwestern Liberal Arts college on the Ohio/Indiana border. In the aftermath of a music department social event (I was in the Concert Choir), I overheard someone say two magic words that would end up changing my life forever. Those words? “Character(…)
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