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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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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 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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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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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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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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