Hazel
I don’t remember how I stumbled across anime video essayist Hazel, but I’ll never forget watching her video about Tenchi Muyo, a series I’d been aware of but hadn’t ventured into watching, which has quickly become my comfort anime. Much like with Clemps, what entrances me about Hazel’s videos—which range from retrospectives about older anime like FLCL to unasked but extremely welcome videos ranking Denny’s-style restaurants in anime—is her knack of informing me about older or forgotten anime and video game media. In fact, her most recent video, which explored the bizarre filmography of “weird and kinda scary” tokusatsu girls, had me looking up designs I could use for a future tattoo.
