• Seasonal Sampling: Honey Lemon Soda

    Seasonal Sampling: Honey Lemon Soda

    It isn’t really fair to just watch three episodes of an anime then operate under the notions that you’ve seen enough to warrant any sort of comprehensive review yet here we are. I mostly want to just vent out my frustrations over Honey Lemon Soda’s anime adaptation because if some anime truly aren’t anything more…

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  • Solo Leveling Would’ve Hit So Much Harder If I Was in High School

    Solo Leveling Would’ve Hit So Much Harder If I Was in High School

    If you’ve read my previous blog post then you’re aware that I’m trying to catch up on the anime that I missed in 2024 which, as you may have guessed by the title of this blog post, includes Solo Leveling’s first season. To be quite honest, I had no interest in this show when it…

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  • New Year, New Ani”me”

    New Year, New Ani”me”

    It’s a strange thing to make your hobby or interest a “New Year’s Resolution” and, as weird as it is to do so, I think it’s as equally weird to have a New Year’s resolution. You should always try to improve yourself, right? The New Year doesn’t mean anything because you’re just as likely to…

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  • A Year Without an Anime Convention

    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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  • The Steins;Gate Rewatch: Episode 1 – 2

    The Steins;Gate Rewatch: Episode 1 – 2

    Tuturu~ Mattie desu~ Steins;Gate is one of the most important anime to me and, according to the users MyAnimeList.net, it’s probably one of the most important anime in general seeing as how it holds a whopping 2.5 million users with it on their list with a 9.09 score. By the statistics that you might see…

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  • I Love The Hunter Exam Arc in Hunter x Hunter So Much That It Burns Me Out

    I Love The Hunter Exam Arc in Hunter x Hunter So Much That It Burns Me Out

    I recently started Hunter x Hunter for technically the fourth time since I’ve been on this Earth. The first occurrence was shortly after it was airing due to having a friendly recommendation, the second instance was starting the old 90s series in an insufferable attempt to be different, the third time was starting the manga…

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  • Dragon Quest: The Adventure of Dai Is Shonen Anime By The Numbers Yet I’m Here For It

    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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  • Manga Thoughts! The First 50 Chapters of Toriko

    Manga Thoughts! The First 50 Chapters of Toriko

    BEFORE YOU READ: I am fully aware that Mitsutoshi Shimabukuro, the mangaka of Toriko, is an awful person. You can Google their crime if you’re unaware but just know that I do not support or plan to support Shimabukuro by purchasing any of his works or wish to grant esteem to Shimabukuro as a person.…

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  • Anime Review! Makeine: Too Many Losing Heroines!

    Anime Review! Makeine: Too Many Losing Heroines!

    What is it? A light novel adaptation by with story by Amamori Takibi and illustrations by Imigi Muru, Makeine: Too Many Losing Heroines is a spin on the romcom formula as it’s all about the losers in your typical romcom story. Be it the childhood friend or the sporty girl who cheers you on, Makeine…

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  • It’s Okay to Take a Break from Anime

    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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