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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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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
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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Anime Review! Uzumaki
Uzumaki just seemed, quite frankly, unadaptable. Other attempts to convert Junji Ito’s skin crawling pieces of manga horror into successful anime adaptations blew up in spectacular fashion. For example, Gyo’s anime adaptation is like watching the obligatory anime cutscene from a PS2 era game with its crappy shark usage. The only thing scary about the…
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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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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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