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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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My July Anime Recap: Mecha Horses in Jungle Waters
It’s the end of the month so I’m reviewing and discussing all the anime I watched in the second part of July! The first blog post was fun to type plus it didn’t go on FOREVER so I definitely think I’ll keep to this kind of format for my own enjoyment and possibly yours if…
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“I’ll Watch It Later” Anime That I Wish I’d Watched Sooner
Every now and then I just get a hankering to just knock out an anime that’s been lingering on my PTW list for a while. It isn’t me being on the hunt for a specific genre or anything; I just want to watch something I’ve been meaning to. The thing is, some of those anime…
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My Mid-July Anime Recap: The Last of the Spring Seasonals (and a Movie)
After reflecting and rereading my June Anime Recap, I have come up with a solution for the sake of a more readable blog post: split it into two! That way I can enjoy more time typing up what has made me happy about the anime I’ve seen each month and I’m also not exhausting you…
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Horse Girls are Taking Over My Life
Despite the fact that I am functionally literate and not attracted to my cousins, I spent the better part of my adolescence growing up in the backwoods of the Alabama countryside with a VERY small farm that my family owned. I mean, this thing was pitifully small and extremely ramshackle but we did, for reasons…
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My June Anime Recap: Moving Blues and Anime
I’m back! Again! I just moved! It wasn’t a grand move as I really just moved across town but packing as a professed weeb/otaku/whateveryoucallus is such a Herculean effort as that meant all the figures, blu-rays, books, and assorted chotskies also had to be packed and that was exhausting. Plus all my non-anime and anime…
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My May Anime Recap: May-saaki Yuasa and The Rest of the Ani-May
Hi there! It’s been a minute since I’ve screamed into the void of this blog and there’s been reasons for that! I’ve been extraordinarily stressed between work, family strife, and the general unflinching despair instilled upon me by the world! Regardless, let’s discuss the anime I completed this month and revel in the portmanteau joy…
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Seasonal Samplings – To Be Hero X
First and foremost, I’ve never been partial to the notion that 3D animation or the strict and exclusive usage of it (like Beastars or Hoseki no Kuni) lessens an anime or strips it of its status as anime. Animation and their techniques evolve over time. It’s like certain parties who proclaim that artists who use…
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Seasonal Samplings – Yaiba: Samurai Legend
Long before Gosho Aoyama pumped out chapters of Case Closed/Detective Conan like my heart pumps caffeinated blood, Aoyama-sensei dabbled in a few other manga. One of said manga was a twenty four volume series known as Yaiba which got an anime adaptation in ’93 courtesy of Pastel. I don’t know about its Japanese success as…
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My April Anime Recap: The Dangers in My Watchlist
I’m going to be frank with you. If we’re being technical (and by god are we technical) then I only finished two anime this entire month but I started a whole bunch just to not finish them. That said, I finished two anime on May 1st so they’re getting added to April for the sake…
