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Flight of the Storks

An interactive visualization tracking the epic 4,000km migration of three white storks from the Netherlands to West Africa.

Interactive 3D Solar System

Explore an accelerated Three.js model of the solar system.

We Built an AI Auto-Grader That Outperformed Humans. Here’s What It Means for the Future of College.

As a Graduate Teaching Assistant at Arizona State University, my baseline job description was standard: teach labs, hold office hours, and grade. But if you put a team of software and AI engineers in a room with hundreds of repetitive worksheets, quizzes, and pre-labs, they’re going to do what...

The Lightning Thief

I read an article that claimed that grown men shouldn’t be reading books like Percy Jackson. This ticked me off, so I decided I would go and read Percy Jackson. I read through the book now, and I have some thoughts. The book is indeed for children. It is not an adult’s book. The...

Vaping: The Silent Killer of Our Atmosphere

In the grand theater of environmental villains, vaping has emerged as the unsuspected yet relentless destroyer of our planet’s atmosphere. Move over, coal plants and gas guzzlers; there’s a new nemesis in town, and it’s packing flavored clouds and LED lights. Puffing on...

What cause more mental fatigue: Video, Audio or Written Text?

My friend recently made an interesting observation, watching movies can be draining. Well yeah perhaps. But to make this more clear, we’ve got to think of watching two movies or even three movies at a time. Then you can actually feel the drain. What’s the problem with this?...

The Impact of being Social on Mood

I remember reading Sam Walton’s autobiography and thinking, oh my god, what a show off. The book was packed with instances of this guy winning over and over again. It made the whole thing feel strangely boring. Stories are fun when there is trouble, when the main character struggles and then...

We need to talk about Aphantasia

There are groups of people who don’t really dream, ever. They can’t really visualize things in their mind. People say they lack a minds eye. Researchers think this is a spectrum, going from no capacity to visualize images and scenarios to having vivid imagination and recollection, to...

Landing Jobs and Girls, are the same?

I’ve compared the dating market to the job market often. Can’t score a girl, and can’t score a job. And if you’re using dating apps and online job portals, it’s mostly about getting the recruiters attention. I thought of women I’ve met with, and they’ve...

Enhancing Attention

Over the years, I’ve tried several things to improve my attention and focus, all to achieve higher productivity and output. Here I list down several of those simple experiments and the results that I’ve collected. Listening to Podcasts you don’t understand: You can...

Air Quality

I’ve been thinking of air recently. Specifically the air quality in my room. Every time I come back home, the house air in the house feels distinctly stale, like it’s lacking in circulation, and a little moist. I have a few flatmates and the HVAC system cuts off after getting to the...

Hackathons might be Dying

I’ve attended few hackathons, often through ASU, and they’ve painted a disappointing picture of what hackathons are or have become. Online, especially in memes, hackathons are often portrayed as high-energy events full of incredibly skilled, competitive developers building impressive prototypes...

Feed My Starving Children: How Good Design and Engineering makes Goodwill Scalable

I had an opportunity to volunteer at Feed My Starving Children (FMSC), and I came away amazed not just by their achievements, but by how well they’ve built everything around their mission. Most nonprofits struggle to balance compassion with coordination, but FMSC has somehow mastered both....

Why WordPress Still Dominates: Lessons from Building an E-commerce Site

I recently built an e-commerce site for a clothing business using WordPress, and the experience left me genuinely impressed by what this platform offers out of the box. As developers, we sometimes get caught up in the latest frameworks and technologies, but this project reminded me why WordPress...

Introversion isn’t real

Introversion and Extroversion Might Not Be What You Think We’ve all heard of introverts, extroverts, and now, ambiverts — people who fall somewhere in between. But what if these labels don’t fully capture what’s really going on? What if your “vertedness” has less to do with your...

People Love Numbers and Stats

Having good tracking and feedback leads to great progress. I’ve noticed that people work really hard on tasks when it is very evident exactly how something can be changed or improved or if there is at least an illusion of such evidence. In school, children are measured on a number of...

CEO’s Affair turns into Great Marketing?

Recently Astronomer ex-CEO Andy Byron was caught on camera having a mistress unknown to his wife. The internet went crazy about this, and we had thousands to maybe millions of people discussing how he was wrong to cheat of his wife etc. But really it doesn’t matter to anyone. Why do you...

Building a Fitness app myself, since AI couldn’t handle it

In my last article on coding with AI, I was very impressed by the output produced by AI code gen tools and the speed at which these tools allowed us to prototype. Here is that article for reference: https://www.explosion.fun/blog/post/rebuilding-my-website-with-ai/ This time I was much more...

Rebuilding my website – With AI!

I’ve been trying to replace myself with AI since chat-based AI tools first started coming out. When ChatGpt came onto the scene, I was so excited! Sam Altman and every LLM model company CEO told us that AI would replace all jobs and that our productivity would skyrocket. I loved it....

Wistoria: Wand and Sword

It’s not a bad show. It’s not an incredible show either. There is no Need for you to watch the show. The story is only very slightly different from most of the other series of this genre that you’ve already seen. It’s okay. Character development: I unfortunately cannot...

We Built an AI Auto-Grader That Outperformed Humans. Here’s What It Means for the Future of College.

As a Graduate Teaching Assistant at Arizona State University, my baseline job description was standard: teach labs, hold office hours, and grade. But if you put a team of software and AI engineers in a room with hundreds of repetitive worksheets, quizzes, and pre-labs, they’re going to do what...

Enhancing Attention

Over the years, I’ve tried several things to improve my attention and focus, all to achieve higher productivity and output. Here I list down several of those simple experiments and the results that I’ve collected. Listening to Podcasts you don’t understand: You can...

Hackathons might be Dying

I’ve attended few hackathons, often through ASU, and they’ve painted a disappointing picture of what hackathons are or have become. Online, especially in memes, hackathons are often portrayed as high-energy events full of incredibly skilled, competitive developers building impressive prototypes...

Feed My Starving Children: How Good Design and Engineering makes Goodwill Scalable

I had an opportunity to volunteer at Feed My Starving Children (FMSC), and I came away amazed not just by their achievements, but by how well they’ve built everything around their mission. Most nonprofits struggle to balance compassion with coordination, but FMSC has somehow mastered both....

We Built an AI Auto-Grader That Outperformed Humans. Here’s What It Means for the Future of College.

As a Graduate Teaching Assistant at Arizona State University, my baseline job description was standard: teach labs, hold office hours, and grade. But if you put a team of software and AI engineers in a room with hundreds of repetitive worksheets, quizzes, and pre-labs, they’re going to do what...

Hackathons might be Dying

I’ve attended few hackathons, often through ASU, and they’ve painted a disappointing picture of what hackathons are or have become. Online, especially in memes, hackathons are often portrayed as high-energy events full of incredibly skilled, competitive developers building impressive prototypes...

Introversion isn’t real

Introversion and Extroversion Might Not Be What You Think We’ve all heard of introverts, extroverts, and now, ambiverts — people who fall somewhere in between. But what if these labels don’t fully capture what’s really going on? What if your “vertedness” has less to do with your...

People Love Numbers and Stats

Having good tracking and feedback leads to great progress. I’ve noticed that people work really hard on tasks when it is very evident exactly how something can be changed or improved or if there is at least an illusion of such evidence. In school, children are measured on a number of...

CEO’s Affair turns into Great Marketing?

Recently Astronomer ex-CEO Andy Byron was caught on camera having a mistress unknown to his wife. The internet went crazy about this, and we had thousands to maybe millions of people discussing how he was wrong to cheat of his wife etc. But really it doesn’t matter to anyone. Why do you...

Introversion isn’t real

Introversion and Extroversion Might Not Be What You Think We’ve all heard of introverts, extroverts, and now, ambiverts — people who fall somewhere in between. But what if these labels don’t fully capture what’s really going on? What if your “vertedness” has less to do with your...

Introversion isn’t real

Introversion and Extroversion Might Not Be What You Think We’ve all heard of introverts, extroverts, and now, ambiverts — people who fall somewhere in between. But what if these labels don’t fully capture what’s really going on? What if your “vertedness” has less to do with your...

People Love Numbers and Stats

Having good tracking and feedback leads to great progress. I’ve noticed that people work really hard on tasks when it is very evident exactly how something can be changed or improved or if there is at least an illusion of such evidence. In school, children are measured on a number of...

CEO’s Affair turns into Great Marketing?

Recently Astronomer ex-CEO Andy Byron was caught on camera having a mistress unknown to his wife. The internet went crazy about this, and we had thousands to maybe millions of people discussing how he was wrong to cheat of his wife etc. But really it doesn’t matter to anyone. Why do you...

We Built an AI Auto-Grader That Outperformed Humans. Here’s What It Means for the Future of College.

As a Graduate Teaching Assistant at Arizona State University, my baseline job description was standard: teach labs, hold office hours, and grade. But if you put a team of software and AI engineers in a room with hundreds of repetitive worksheets, quizzes, and pre-labs, they’re going to do what...

Hackathons might be Dying

I’ve attended few hackathons, often through ASU, and they’ve painted a disappointing picture of what hackathons are or have become. Online, especially in memes, hackathons are often portrayed as high-energy events full of incredibly skilled, competitive developers building impressive prototypes...

Feed My Starving Children: How Good Design and Engineering makes Goodwill Scalable

I had an opportunity to volunteer at Feed My Starving Children (FMSC), and I came away amazed not just by their achievements, but by how well they’ve built everything around their mission. Most nonprofits struggle to balance compassion with coordination, but FMSC has somehow mastered both....

Why WordPress Still Dominates: Lessons from Building an E-commerce Site

I recently built an e-commerce site for a clothing business using WordPress, and the experience left me genuinely impressed by what this platform offers out of the box. As developers, we sometimes get caught up in the latest frameworks and technologies, but this project reminded me why WordPress...

Building a Fitness app myself, since AI couldn’t handle it

In my last article on coding with AI, I was very impressed by the output produced by AI code gen tools and the speed at which these tools allowed us to prototype. Here is that article for reference: https://www.explosion.fun/blog/post/rebuilding-my-website-with-ai/ This time I was much more...

Rebuilding my website – With AI!

I’ve been trying to replace myself with AI since chat-based AI tools first started coming out. When ChatGpt came onto the scene, I was so excited! Sam Altman and every LLM model company CEO told us that AI would replace all jobs and that our productivity would skyrocket. I loved it....

KamiKatsu: Working for God in a Godless World

UNDERRATED!! This series is so much better than it gets credit for. It is incredibly funny. Has loads of plot twists that make the story interesting. Has a brilliant main character. But the comedy is the best part. The main character is trying to build up a religion around Mitama and...

The Lightning Thief

I read an article that claimed that grown men shouldn’t be reading books like Percy Jackson. This ticked me off, so I decided I would go and read Percy Jackson. I read through the book now, and I have some thoughts. The book is indeed for children. It is not an adult’s book. The...

Wistoria: Wand and Sword

It’s not a bad show. It’s not an incredible show either. There is no Need for you to watch the show. The story is only very slightly different from most of the other series of this genre that you’ve already seen. It’s okay. Character development: I unfortunately cannot...

Odd Taxi

What an incredible show. I did not expect it to be anywhere nearly good as it turned out to be. Unfortunately, everything I have to say about the show will probably be considered spoilers so I can’t say anything. I had several questions at the beginning about the world building. Like I...

Claymore

The series was very good. The story was very good. The world building as well was quite unique and interesting.But the series does leave this feeling of something missing. Like it could be so much more.I can also see how incredibly difficult it was to animate a series of this nature back in the...

KamiKatsu: Working for God in a Godless World

UNDERRATED!! This series is so much better than it gets credit for. It is incredibly funny. Has loads of plot twists that make the story interesting. Has a brilliant main character. But the comedy is the best part. The main character is trying to build up a religion around Mitama and...

I Got a Cheat Skill in Another World and Became Unrivaled in The Real World, Too

What a trashy show. Why does shit like this even exist? Is it worth watching? No! What’s the story? Fat Japanese loser become a super cool guy after receiving grandpa’s inheritance. Longer Story explanation: A loser exist in anime world in Japan. He is a loser...

The Legend of Hei II

The Legend of Hei II, is easily the best animated movie I’ve seen all of this year, and it’s not even close. The animation is amazing. The soundtracks are awesome. The fight sequences are beyond anything I’ve seen in animation all year. I had high hopes for Nezha too, but...

Groundhog Day

I love this movie

Leela

It was a surprisingly good movie. It was quite meaningful. Though my parents who watched with me, did not like it at all. They lack taste I guess.

The Batman

Well, that was a fun movie. Even though it wasn’t the best batman.. it was still really fun seeing batman beat criminals up. So..

The Witch

Parasite

American Beauty

Grimgar: Ashes and Illusions

Good show. You could never really tell who would die next, which really made it a bit nicer.

Clevatess

I found this anime randomly on youtube, so I was very surprised when it turned out to be good. The animation is good.The story is pretty great.The main characters are not overpowered.Some of the motivational lines are actually motivating while still managing to remain realistic. I’ll...

Trigun Stampede

One of the best perhaps. All thanks to Studio Orange. They think CGI is the future of animation. Hard to refute, considering the stuff they’ve managed to put out.

Pluribus

The most miserable person on Earth must save the world from happiness. It is not very good. One aspect I’ve come to expect from most series coming out of Apple TV+ is that none of em really have much story to tell. They have a bit of story, it’s kinda interesting.. But they will...

Suzume

Slight spoiler: The girl and the guy do not exactly end up together. They are seen meeting each other again at the end of the series, nothing more. Of course they couldn’t have gotten together, since the girl is still in school and the dude is a graduate student. The author could have...

Pantheon

Good show! Animation was not great, but the story more than made up for that. This was produced by AMC+ by the way. AMC was the company short sellers keep telling you is dead, a meme stock, similar to GameStop. I was surprised to see that they had good shows like this.

That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime

Tensei Shittara Slime Datta Ken was really good as a Manga, it’s pretty good as an anime too. The later seasons involve a lot of politics, which is rather uncharacteristic for anime, but it does make the show more interesting. Though more characters fighting each other would have been...

Dr. Stone

I’ve only watched season 1 since it didn’t seen that interesting to me. Lots of people have told me the show uses cool science to make the anime interesting. But most science covered in S1 was nothing new, basic stuff you learn in school, didn’t really intrigue me.

Castlevania

Animation was kinda choppy for some reason

The Devil Is a Part-Timer!

Funny

Kaguya Sama: Love is War

Funny

Sword of the Stranger

Thrilling

Mushoku Tensei

Having multiple wives seem to be a thing in this series, not sure how I feel about that. Several events showcasing perversion also exist.. aahm.. I don’t know how I should judge that.. But the show is great!

Mashle: Magic and Muscle

Season 1 was funny. Though the joke became a little overused by season 2.

Dandadan

Uzumaki

Had high hopes for this since the trailer was so.. different, so unlike anything I’ve seen. After many delays, it finally came out, aand.. it was mid.

Jujutsu Kaisen

I remember judging this poorly because everyone kept hyping season 1 up, telling me great it was. The animation, the fight sequences. And I was weirdly determined to not like something merely for decent fights. Season 2 almost completely flipped that for me. It became a serious show, with real...

Cyberpunk: Edge runners

Redline

Unparalleled excitement and adrenaline! At least among animated movies I think. The entire movie is about the galaxies most dangerous race, Redline, and love, friendship, teamwork, betrayal and several other things. But primarily the race, Redline! I’m so happy this movie has a...

Black Lagoon

I have no idea what the story is here. A Japanese white color man gets kidnapped by goons, and the Japanese guy decides to just join the goons since it’s more freeing than continuing in his current role of boot-licking for his bosses. Beyond that, I couldn’t figure out any clear...

Bocchi The Rock!

The struggles of an introvert to socialize and make friends is brilliantly displayed here. It helps to see all these introvert problems animated and know that lots of people have had these. But it isn’t as interesting if you’ve overcome these limitations of yours long back. You...

Summer Time Rendering

A time travel anime where the enemy isn’t stupid

Heavenly Delusion

Made In Abyss

After I’d watched Made in Abyss, I went to the supermarket. I saw a small child there, holding a barbie doll in her hand and doing cute child things. I would have normally thought, Aw cute kid, and moved on. But instead an image of the child dismembered into small pieces flashed in my head....

Predator: Badlands

I went into this with no expectations what-so-ever, and was really surprised to find that this was a feel-good movie. A movie that emphasizes how important the journey and the friends we make along the way are. I really didn’t see that coming.. Good movie though, really fun. I did fall...

Chainsaw Man – The Movie: Reze Arc

Good movie. But I either unconsciously expected better or the experience was lessened by having known exactly was going to happened. This didn’t really need to be a movie. It was far better than the demon slayer movie though. It is fun though, really fun, also depressing, but more...

The Faraway Paladin

Watched to kill time. Best part of the series was how un-addicting it was. The MC is a adventurer priest of the god of light and he’s trying to get people to worship the god he worships again. That was new.

Delicious in Dungeon

One of the best world-building I’ve ever seen in anime. Every piece of the world in this dungeon is explained. It amazed me that that was even possible. There were several instances where I thought, oh they didn’t explain this bit, but that’s okay, since I can’t...

Solo Leveling

Solo Leveling was voted as the crunchyroll best anime of the year. Which is such a let down, considering all the great anime that came out alongside Solo Leveling. Here is trends graph of Attack on Titan vs Solo Leveling and Frieren. Attack on Titan is a show everyone knows of at this...

Clannad

I watched this since it was so highly rated, I figured the series would be absolutely amazing by the end perhaps. But I truly don’t know. I’m watching Clannad After-Story at this point, and the show is quite boring. The best part about the show to me is how un-addicting it is. It...

Fate/Zero

Has really really nice fight scenes, and the story is cool, sound tracks are cool, action sequences are awesome. Each noble phantasm and their summoners have different powers and limitations. And everyone is one mistake away from death. The limitations along with their varying ideologies make...

Land of the Lustrous

One of the best world building I’ve seen in anime. Studio orange who animated this kinda stood out with it’s choice to heavily rely on CGI. But it is largely agreed that it was a fantastic decision considering how well this anime turned out. The character development was so good in...

Re:Monster

I had high hopes for this anime, since I’d read the manga quite a bit and liked it a lot. It had all these cool terms and designations for different types of lords and beasts. Something I really liked about the story was how the main character would build things which would end up making...

The Water Magician

Decent animation. The story is rather peaceful at the start, and I was somehow reminded of Frieren. Later on, I found out that there really wasn’t all that much behind the anime in terms of story. It was simply, there’s this really strong water mage, because he’s the main...

Gachiakuta

I wasn’t sure I would like this, but decided to give it a shot anyway since the trailer received a lot of attention. The first episode was alright and I was somewhat impressed by how well the animation studio made use of the short run-time. After the first episode though, it quality of...

Demon Slayer: Kimetsu No Yaiba The Movie: Infinity Castle

This is not a real movie, it’s simply several episodes stitched together into something that has a movie-like runtime. I was so disappointed by how little the series managed to cover. The movie went into one sad backstory after the other. And ended up taking too much runtime. I wish I...

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F1

Rush is so much better. But this was good too. The movie felt like watching an actual F1 race, but I was only about as excited as an actual race could make me. I consider this a negative, as I couldn’t find much that validated the movie’s existence. While the film was...

The Queen’s Gambit

Violet Evergarden

Violet Evergarden is one of the most remarkable anime series in recent memory, distinguished not only by its visual elegance but also by its thematic depth. At its core, the series is a meditation on grief, healing, and the struggle to communicate emotions that often feel inexpressible. Nearly...

Superman 2025

This was a surprisingly fun Superman movie to watch. There were a few reused shots toward the end, especially in the scene where Superman and Lois Lane were lifted into the air, but that didn’t take away too much from the experience. What I liked most was how this Superman wasn’t presented...

Lokah Chapter 1: Chandra

A good movie. Quite well directed. The script used was simple but good. They did have to make several languages work together, which was done well. I wasn’t a fan of how it ended, since it’s acted as the launchpad for a whole series of movies, instead of being one great movie....

Mob Psycho 100

I wonder show I’ve been avoiding for silly reasons. I wish I’d watched it sooner. It’s well animated with a good and meaningful story you’d want to see. One of the highlights for me was the fight sequence near the end between Dimple, the once-evil-turned-good spirit, and...

The World God Only Knows

This manga, when I finished reading it, I hoped I could forget about, so that I could read it all over again. The anime version though didn’t strike me the same way. The main character calls himself the god of conquest. Conqueror of the hearts of women, in dating simulator games.....

Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning

Way too rushed and built around performing stunts. The script sucks. The story telling is bad. Some people die and you couldn’t care less. Tom Cruise keeps doing things that are straight up impossible. I know it’s called Mission Impossible, where the plot is Tom Cruise doing...

The Naked Gun (2025)

Unsatisfying. The best part of this movie was that it ended quickly.

Re:Zero – Starting Life in Another World

Good show

Vinland Saga

Exhilarating! At least season 1 was. Season two was kinda lame though, I waited on and on for the action to start and nothing happened. It had character development for sure, but it wasn’t developed at a reasonable pace. Basically nothing happens in Season 2 besides bunch of farming

The Northman

Spectacular!

I Was Reincarnated as the 7th Prince so I Can Take My Time Perfecting My Magical Ability

Trash. Didn’t finish it, don’t plan to. And what a stupid name as well!

Blue Eye Samurai

Masterpiece! This is one of the best pieces of entertainment I’ve seen in 2025. Though it was released in 2023 December. While this isn’t considered anime technically, within the list there are animated series produced in Japan, China, the West and many other areas. So this...

Demon Slayer

I am not the biggest fan on how this show is animated nor do I think it is the some of the best animation I’ve seen. But I guess they’ve done some cool animation sequences, and I know hundreds or maybe even thousands of videos have been made about the amazing animation seen in Demon...

Sakamoto Days

Recently I’ve been noticing how shows built on one or two quirks quickly become boring. The quirk or funny bit might be very engaging initially, but it quickly loses it’s charm, and immediately becomes rather boring. Sakamoto Days suffers from this issue. It’s very funny at...

Blame!

Netflix made a movie out of Blame! ! And it’s pretty good! While the movie couldn’t cover too much of the story, it still managed to get me and others interested in Blame!. The animation was pretty great. While there was heavy use of CGI, it still looked convincing, and the...

Orb: On the Movements of the Earth

It was too dark to figure out what’s going on. This was most scenes, ugh! They were all too dark. And in between there would a scene which would be too bright, and the screen would be at max brightness because every other scene was too dark and the bright scenes would burn my corneas...

Lord of Mysteries

Why the hell was this show so dark? I couldn’t see anything without cranking the display brightness up to the max! But when I do that the bright scenes would appear blindingly bright. Ugh! Every time a show does this, I loose interest after a few episodes. There will be scenes that are...

Dunkirk

I for some reason expected this to have a story as well. It seems much more like a super well directed documentary.

Ranma 1/2 (2024)

Super cute anime that is really fun you watch. But this anime is built around one little quirk, and once you get used to that quirk, it’s a less engaging. The quirk is that the father-son duo can turn into a panda-girl duo if splashed with cold water. This quirk is really funny and...

Narivetta

Well I wish I could rate this a little higher but these are the ratings. The pacing was a bit uneven. While the overall flow wasn’t bad, certain scenes got a little too much time, detracting from the central narrative. A significant chunk of the film is spent on the protagonist’s romantic life...

Makeine: Too Many Losing Heroines

Visually Stunning, But Lacking in Substance Makeine delivers shockingly high-quality animation for a series that hasn’t quite broken into mainstream popularity. Some shots are so incredibly beautiful, it’s hard to believe this much talent was dedicated to a show with such a simple premise....

Severance

Good show, very enjoyable. Not binge watch material, you might fall asleep if you try, and I mention that as a positive. It’s great to see a good show that doesn’t get you all riled up. You could watch an episode or two after work before bed, and successfully stop watching and...

Dredd

One of the coolest lesser known movies ever. I wish this movie scored more, but oh well.

Falimy

Funny. Very funny. Give it a watch.

Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse

Lazarus

An extremely well animated, well dubbed, well choreographed and well directed waste of my time. It didn’t matter how well every other piece was crafted, at the end of the day the story was mediocre and was told poorly told. Almost every episode felt like a filler episode, only slightly aiding...

Berserk

Cromartie High School

Dorohedoro

Unique! From the starting to the end Dorohedoro has been so unique in almost every way that you just want to keep watching and see what happens next. The world is so different, so violent and so mysterious, but so believable. The world building in Dorohedoro is fantastic. Caiman has a...

Chainsaw Man

The Lightning Thief

I read an article that claimed that grown men shouldn’t be reading books like Percy Jackson. This ticked me off, so I decided I would go and read Percy Jackson. I read through the book now, and I have some thoughts. The book is indeed for children. It is not an adult’s book. The...

We Built an AI Auto-Grader That Outperformed Humans. Here’s What It Means for the Future of College.

As a Graduate Teaching Assistant at Arizona State University, my baseline job description was standard: teach labs, hold office hours, and grade. But if you put a team of software and AI engineers in a room with hundreds of repetitive worksheets, quizzes, and pre-labs, they’re going to do what...

Landing Jobs and Girls, are the same?

I’ve compared the dating market to the job market often. Can’t score a girl, and can’t score a job. And if you’re using dating apps and online job portals, it’s mostly about getting the recruiters attention. I thought of women I’ve met with, and they’ve...

Enhancing Attention

Over the years, I’ve tried several things to improve my attention and focus, all to achieve higher productivity and output. Here I list down several of those simple experiments and the results that I’ve collected. Listening to Podcasts you don’t understand: You can...

Air Quality

I’ve been thinking of air recently. Specifically the air quality in my room. Every time I come back home, the house air in the house feels distinctly stale, like it’s lacking in circulation, and a little moist. I have a few flatmates and the HVAC system cuts off after getting to the...

What cause more mental fatigue: Video, Audio or Written Text?

My friend recently made an interesting observation, watching movies can be draining. Well yeah perhaps. But to make this more clear, we’ve got to think of watching two movies or even three movies at a time. Then you can actually feel the drain. What’s the problem with this?...

The Impact of being Social on Mood

I remember reading Sam Walton’s autobiography and thinking, oh my god, what a show off. The book was packed with instances of this guy winning over and over again. It made the whole thing feel strangely boring. Stories are fun when there is trouble, when the main character struggles and then...

We need to talk about Aphantasia

There are groups of people who don’t really dream, ever. They can’t really visualize things in their mind. People say they lack a minds eye. Researchers think this is a spectrum, going from no capacity to visualize images and scenarios to having vivid imagination and recollection, to...

Wistoria: Wand and Sword

It’s not a bad show. It’s not an incredible show either. There is no Need for you to watch the show. The story is only very slightly different from most of the other series of this genre that you’ve already seen. It’s okay. Character development: I unfortunately cannot...

Odd Taxi

What an incredible show. I did not expect it to be anywhere nearly good as it turned out to be. Unfortunately, everything I have to say about the show will probably be considered spoilers so I can’t say anything. I had several questions at the beginning about the world building. Like I...

Claymore

The series was very good. The story was very good. The world building as well was quite unique and interesting.But the series does leave this feeling of something missing. Like it could be so much more.I can also see how incredibly difficult it was to animate a series of this nature back in the...

KamiKatsu: Working for God in a Godless World

UNDERRATED!! This series is so much better than it gets credit for. It is incredibly funny. Has loads of plot twists that make the story interesting. Has a brilliant main character. But the comedy is the best part. The main character is trying to build up a religion around Mitama and...

I Got a Cheat Skill in Another World and Became Unrivaled in The Real World, Too

What a trashy show. Why does shit like this even exist? Is it worth watching? No! What’s the story? Fat Japanese loser become a super cool guy after receiving grandpa’s inheritance. Longer Story explanation: A loser exist in anime world in Japan. He is a loser...

Grimgar: Ashes and Illusions

Good show. You could never really tell who would die next, which really made it a bit nicer.

Clevatess

I found this anime randomly on youtube, so I was very surprised when it turned out to be good. The animation is good.The story is pretty great.The main characters are not overpowered.Some of the motivational lines are actually motivating while still managing to remain realistic. I’ll...

Trigun Stampede

One of the best perhaps. All thanks to Studio Orange. They think CGI is the future of animation. Hard to refute, considering the stuff they’ve managed to put out.

Pantheon

Good show! Animation was not great, but the story more than made up for that. This was produced by AMC+ by the way. AMC was the company short sellers keep telling you is dead, a meme stock, similar to GameStop. I was surprised to see that they had good shows like this.

That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime

Tensei Shittara Slime Datta Ken was really good as a Manga, it’s pretty good as an anime too. The later seasons involve a lot of politics, which is rather uncharacteristic for anime, but it does make the show more interesting. Though more characters fighting each other would have been...

Dr. Stone

I’ve only watched season 1 since it didn’t seen that interesting to me. Lots of people have told me the show uses cool science to make the anime interesting. But most science covered in S1 was nothing new, basic stuff you learn in school, didn’t really intrigue me.

Castlevania

Animation was kinda choppy for some reason

The Devil Is a Part-Timer!

Funny

Kaguya Sama: Love is War

Funny

Mushoku Tensei

Having multiple wives seem to be a thing in this series, not sure how I feel about that. Several events showcasing perversion also exist.. aahm.. I don’t know how I should judge that.. But the show is great!

Mashle: Magic and Muscle

Season 1 was funny. Though the joke became a little overused by season 2.

Dandadan

Uzumaki

Had high hopes for this since the trailer was so.. different, so unlike anything I’ve seen. After many delays, it finally came out, aand.. it was mid.

Jujutsu Kaisen

I remember judging this poorly because everyone kept hyping season 1 up, telling me great it was. The animation, the fight sequences. And I was weirdly determined to not like something merely for decent fights. Season 2 almost completely flipped that for me. It became a serious show, with real...

Cyberpunk: Edge runners

Black Lagoon

I have no idea what the story is here. A Japanese white color man gets kidnapped by goons, and the Japanese guy decides to just join the goons since it’s more freeing than continuing in his current role of boot-licking for his bosses. Beyond that, I couldn’t figure out any clear...

Bocchi The Rock!

The struggles of an introvert to socialize and make friends is brilliantly displayed here. It helps to see all these introvert problems animated and know that lots of people have had these. But it isn’t as interesting if you’ve overcome these limitations of yours long back. You...

Summer Time Rendering

A time travel anime where the enemy isn’t stupid

Heavenly Delusion

Made In Abyss

After I’d watched Made in Abyss, I went to the supermarket. I saw a small child there, holding a barbie doll in her hand and doing cute child things. I would have normally thought, Aw cute kid, and moved on. But instead an image of the child dismembered into small pieces flashed in my head....

The Faraway Paladin

Watched to kill time. Best part of the series was how un-addicting it was. The MC is a adventurer priest of the god of light and he’s trying to get people to worship the god he worships again. That was new.

Delicious in Dungeon

One of the best world-building I’ve ever seen in anime. Every piece of the world in this dungeon is explained. It amazed me that that was even possible. There were several instances where I thought, oh they didn’t explain this bit, but that’s okay, since I can’t...

Solo Leveling

Solo Leveling was voted as the crunchyroll best anime of the year. Which is such a let down, considering all the great anime that came out alongside Solo Leveling. Here is trends graph of Attack on Titan vs Solo Leveling and Frieren. Attack on Titan is a show everyone knows of at this...

Clannad

I watched this since it was so highly rated, I figured the series would be absolutely amazing by the end perhaps. But I truly don’t know. I’m watching Clannad After-Story at this point, and the show is quite boring. The best part about the show to me is how un-addicting it is. It...

Fate/Zero

Has really really nice fight scenes, and the story is cool, sound tracks are cool, action sequences are awesome. Each noble phantasm and their summoners have different powers and limitations. And everyone is one mistake away from death. The limitations along with their varying ideologies make...

Land of the Lustrous

One of the best world building I’ve seen in anime. Studio orange who animated this kinda stood out with it’s choice to heavily rely on CGI. But it is largely agreed that it was a fantastic decision considering how well this anime turned out. The character development was so good in...

Re:Monster

I had high hopes for this anime, since I’d read the manga quite a bit and liked it a lot. It had all these cool terms and designations for different types of lords and beasts. Something I really liked about the story was how the main character would build things which would end up making...

The Water Magician

Decent animation. The story is rather peaceful at the start, and I was somehow reminded of Frieren. Later on, I found out that there really wasn’t all that much behind the anime in terms of story. It was simply, there’s this really strong water mage, because he’s the main...

Gachiakuta

I wasn’t sure I would like this, but decided to give it a shot anyway since the trailer received a lot of attention. The first episode was alright and I was somewhat impressed by how well the animation studio made use of the short run-time. After the first episode though, it quality of...

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Violet Evergarden

Violet Evergarden is one of the most remarkable anime series in recent memory, distinguished not only by its visual elegance but also by its thematic depth. At its core, the series is a meditation on grief, healing, and the struggle to communicate emotions that often feel inexpressible. Nearly...

Mob Psycho 100

I wonder show I’ve been avoiding for silly reasons. I wish I’d watched it sooner. It’s well animated with a good and meaningful story you’d want to see. One of the highlights for me was the fight sequence near the end between Dimple, the once-evil-turned-good spirit, and...

Re:Zero – Starting Life in Another World

Good show

Vinland Saga

Exhilarating! At least season 1 was. Season two was kinda lame though, I waited on and on for the action to start and nothing happened. It had character development for sure, but it wasn’t developed at a reasonable pace. Basically nothing happens in Season 2 besides bunch of farming

I Was Reincarnated as the 7th Prince so I Can Take My Time Perfecting My Magical Ability

Trash. Didn’t finish it, don’t plan to. And what a stupid name as well!

Blue Eye Samurai

Masterpiece! This is one of the best pieces of entertainment I’ve seen in 2025. Though it was released in 2023 December. While this isn’t considered anime technically, within the list there are animated series produced in Japan, China, the West and many other areas. So this...

Demon Slayer

I am not the biggest fan on how this show is animated nor do I think it is the some of the best animation I’ve seen. But I guess they’ve done some cool animation sequences, and I know hundreds or maybe even thousands of videos have been made about the amazing animation seen in Demon...

Sakamoto Days

Recently I’ve been noticing how shows built on one or two quirks quickly become boring. The quirk or funny bit might be very engaging initially, but it quickly loses it’s charm, and immediately becomes rather boring. Sakamoto Days suffers from this issue. It’s very funny at...

Orb: On the Movements of the Earth

It was too dark to figure out what’s going on. This was most scenes, ugh! They were all too dark. And in between there would a scene which would be too bright, and the screen would be at max brightness because every other scene was too dark and the bright scenes would burn my corneas...

Lord of Mysteries

Why the hell was this show so dark? I couldn’t see anything without cranking the display brightness up to the max! But when I do that the bright scenes would appear blindingly bright. Ugh! Every time a show does this, I loose interest after a few episodes. There will be scenes that are...

Ranma 1/2 (2024)

Super cute anime that is really fun you watch. But this anime is built around one little quirk, and once you get used to that quirk, it’s a less engaging. The quirk is that the father-son duo can turn into a panda-girl duo if splashed with cold water. This quirk is really funny and...

Makeine: Too Many Losing Heroines

Visually Stunning, But Lacking in Substance Makeine delivers shockingly high-quality animation for a series that hasn’t quite broken into mainstream popularity. Some shots are so incredibly beautiful, it’s hard to believe this much talent was dedicated to a show with such a simple premise....

Lazarus

An extremely well animated, well dubbed, well choreographed and well directed waste of my time. It didn’t matter how well every other piece was crafted, at the end of the day the story was mediocre and was told poorly told. Almost every episode felt like a filler episode, only slightly aiding...

Cromartie High School

Dorohedoro

Unique! From the starting to the end Dorohedoro has been so unique in almost every way that you just want to keep watching and see what happens next. The world is so different, so violent and so mysterious, but so believable. The world building in Dorohedoro is fantastic. Caiman has a...

Chainsaw Man

The Legend of Hei II

The Legend of Hei II, is easily the best animated movie I’ve seen all of this year, and it’s not even close. The animation is amazing. The soundtracks are awesome. The fight sequences are beyond anything I’ve seen in animation all year. I had high hopes for Nezha too, but...

Groundhog Day

I love this movie

Leela

It was a surprisingly good movie. It was quite meaningful. Though my parents who watched with me, did not like it at all. They lack taste I guess.

The Batman

Well, that was a fun movie. Even though it wasn’t the best batman.. it was still really fun seeing batman beat criminals up. So..

The Witch

Parasite

American Beauty

Suzume

Slight spoiler: The girl and the guy do not exactly end up together. They are seen meeting each other again at the end of the series, nothing more. Of course they couldn’t have gotten together, since the girl is still in school and the dude is a graduate student. The author could have...

Sword of the Stranger

Thrilling

Redline

Unparalleled excitement and adrenaline! At least among animated movies I think. The entire movie is about the galaxies most dangerous race, Redline, and love, friendship, teamwork, betrayal and several other things. But primarily the race, Redline! I’m so happy this movie has a...

Predator: Badlands

I went into this with no expectations what-so-ever, and was really surprised to find that this was a feel-good movie. A movie that emphasizes how important the journey and the friends we make along the way are. I really didn’t see that coming.. Good movie though, really fun. I did fall...

Chainsaw Man – The Movie: Reze Arc

Good movie. But I either unconsciously expected better or the experience was lessened by having known exactly was going to happened. This didn’t really need to be a movie. It was far better than the demon slayer movie though. It is fun though, really fun, also depressing, but more...

Demon Slayer: Kimetsu No Yaiba The Movie: Infinity Castle

This is not a real movie, it’s simply several episodes stitched together into something that has a movie-like runtime. I was so disappointed by how little the series managed to cover. The movie went into one sad backstory after the other. And ended up taking too much runtime. I wish I...

F1

Rush is so much better. But this was good too. The movie felt like watching an actual F1 race, but I was only about as excited as an actual race could make me. I consider this a negative, as I couldn’t find much that validated the movie’s existence. While the film was...

Superman 2025

This was a surprisingly fun Superman movie to watch. There were a few reused shots toward the end, especially in the scene where Superman and Lois Lane were lifted into the air, but that didn’t take away too much from the experience. What I liked most was how this Superman wasn’t presented...

Lokah Chapter 1: Chandra

A good movie. Quite well directed. The script used was simple but good. They did have to make several languages work together, which was done well. I wasn’t a fan of how it ended, since it’s acted as the launchpad for a whole series of movies, instead of being one great movie....

Mission: Impossible – The Final Reckoning

Way too rushed and built around performing stunts. The script sucks. The story telling is bad. Some people die and you couldn’t care less. Tom Cruise keeps doing things that are straight up impossible. I know it’s called Mission Impossible, where the plot is Tom Cruise doing...

The Naked Gun (2025)

Unsatisfying. The best part of this movie was that it ended quickly.

The Northman

Spectacular!

Blame!

Netflix made a movie out of Blame! ! And it’s pretty good! While the movie couldn’t cover too much of the story, it still managed to get me and others interested in Blame!. The animation was pretty great. While there was heavy use of CGI, it still looked convincing, and the...

Dunkirk

I for some reason expected this to have a story as well. It seems much more like a super well directed documentary.

Narivetta

Well I wish I could rate this a little higher but these are the ratings. The pacing was a bit uneven. While the overall flow wasn’t bad, certain scenes got a little too much time, detracting from the central narrative. A significant chunk of the film is spent on the protagonist’s romantic life...

Dredd

One of the coolest lesser known movies ever. I wish this movie scored more, but oh well.

Falimy

Funny. Very funny. Give it a watch.

Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse

Pluribus

The most miserable person on Earth must save the world from happiness. It is not very good. One aspect I’ve come to expect from most series coming out of Apple TV+ is that none of em really have much story to tell. They have a bit of story, it’s kinda interesting.. But they will...

The Queen’s Gambit

Severance

Good show, very enjoyable. Not binge watch material, you might fall asleep if you try, and I mention that as a positive. It’s great to see a good show that doesn’t get you all riled up. You could watch an episode or two after work before bed, and successfully stop watching and...

The World God Only Knows

This manga, when I finished reading it, I hoped I could forget about, so that I could read it all over again. The anime version though didn’t strike me the same way. The main character calls himself the god of conquest. Conqueror of the hearts of women, in dating simulator games.....

Berserk

Flight of the Storks

An interactive visualization tracking the epic 4,000km migration of three white storks from the Netherlands to West Africa.

Interactive 3D Solar System

Explore an accelerated Three.js model of the solar system.