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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…