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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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Could Dandadan Be the FLCL For “Anime Tourists”?
Let me quote a few statistics to you. According to PBS News, manga sales in the US have quadrupled from 2019 to 2022 reaching a record high with 28.4 million volumes sold making manga one of the highest fiction categories as far as book sales go. In an article by The Hollywood Reporter, consultancy Parrot…
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ANIME REVIEW! Gun x Sword
What is it? As according to Wikipedia, Gun Sword (the x is apparently silent and nonexistent, huh) is the child of director Goro Taniguchi of Code Geass renown and writer Hideyuki Kurata, writer of perennial classic Oreimo. As noted in the aforementioned Wikipedia, Gun Sword seemingly takes a lot of elements from other franchises including…
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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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ANIME REVIEW! Love Live School Idol Project – Season One
What is it? Love Live School Idol Project is a multimedia project combined between several companies in Japan including publisher ASCII Media Works, music label Lantis, and the animation studio Sunrise beloved and widely known for their Gundam franchise. Love Live School Idol Project in particular is the very first entry in the anime series…
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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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