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Gintama’s Comedy Is Intertwined With Its Drama – Reflections on Episodes 86 and 87
I’ve typed up a couple of blog posts in the past few weeks but have all left them to rot in my drafts because either A) they felt way too negative (anime fans are making me disappointed) or B) they became nothing posts (mid month anime update where I’ve watched NOTHING). With that status update…
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How Five Years of Anime Podcasting Changed My Perspective (Hopefully for the Better)
It’s not a grand accomplishment by any means but this January marked five years of me doing consistent anime podcasting content. I can’t honestly say that it’s all good or even okay quality wise (the first episodes I recorded were in a closet with a 40 dollar mic I bought off Amazon that had a…
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I’ll Just Never Return to Some Anime
As part of my podcast’s Mamoru Hosoda celebration month, I recently got around to rewatching the film The Girl Who Leapt Through Time. It was, when I watched it, an immaculate film that perfectly captured the capricious carefree days of being a teenager as you divert your expectations from tomorrow and just revel in having…
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A Year Without an Anime Convention
Firstly, for all three of you regular readers who I dearly appreciate, I’m sorry for my absence. I assure you that it will happen again but probably not due to the same circumstances that this brief respite occurred from. Christmas happened and I just could not manifest any energy to sit at my computer and…
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Dragon Quest: The Adventure of Dai Is Shonen Anime By The Numbers Yet I’m Here For It
I’m not a big battle shonen anime fan. It’s not for a lack of trying as I try one after the other to manifest some sort of hook into me. it’s never really been a genre that resonated with me in a meaningful way because there are just a plethora of tropes that just cause…
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It’s Okay to Take a Break from Anime
As you may or may not know, I’ve hosted some form of anime podcast for the last five years of my life. Be it the one I started with my friend Audrey, Otaku Melancholy, or the one that I ended up becoming a host recently, the Anime Brothers Podcast, I’ve had anime be a regular…
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Here’s A Redundant Question: What Even is a Weeb?
Get ready for some overindulgent rambling in this blog post, boys and girls and everything else, because that’s what I’m on about today. For those of you who may not know (like all two of you who didn’t come from my incessant plugging on said show), I host a podcast called the Anime Brothers where…
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A Personal Retrospective on Dragon Ball Games
If you are an anime fan and somehow not been made aware, the latest and quite possibly greatest Dragon Ball game, Dragon Ball Sparking Zero, has been made available to public or at least finally to those damnable cheapskates (like yours truly) who purchased the regular edition. I’ve never been a professed Dragon Ball fan…
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Otaku USA Made Me a Better Weeb When Being a Weeb Was Hard
This is going to be a massive shocker to some of you who have had the displeasure of meeting me in real life but I’m not very socially graceful. Now just imagine that even with as awful as it might be now, it could be worse. That was me when I was younger and obsessed…
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The Climb: One Piece, Gintama, and the Trek of Other Long Anime
I don’t really like to just sit down and engage with long media in general unless it is absolutely captivating me. I’d like to say it’s because I’m holding on to some sort of higher ground that “I prefer stories that say what they need to say and then move on” but it’s probably more…
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