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Animator Expo Impressions (Part 4)
For those of you who don’t know, Evangelion director Hideaki Anno’s Studio Khara, in conjunction with media company Dwango, has been running a cool little project called Animator Expo (there is an...
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Aniwords – How Will This Season’s Shows End?
Yeah, yeah, I know—this post was maybe a bit lazy. However, people seem to be having a good time with them AND I started a Monmusu best girl war in the comments, so I’m considering it a success. Check...
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Anime Weekly: Summer 2015, Week 6
I can’t really figure out how to say this well, so I’ll just go for blunt: this is probably going to be my last post on here for a while. The lead-off is that I’m leaving tomorrow on a 10-day business...
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My Hero Academia Volume 1 – Manga Review
Of course, right after I go on hiatus, I start having a bunch of things to post…ah, such is life. Except I wrote this review quite a while ago, so maybe it doesn’t count…? In any case, My Hero Academia...
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Anime Weekly: Summer 2015, Week 7
As per the request of a few commentors on last week’s post, here’s a threadstarter post for Summer 2015’s seventh week of the anime season! I’m still in the midst of my business trip (aka not even...
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Aniwords – I Couldn’t Decide What to Name My Anime, So I Wrote an Overly Long...
Hello, hello! I’m back on the writing grind, this time messing around with talking about anime titles I like and other related topics. Honestly, I really just wanted to tell that story about Heavy...
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Anime Weekly: Summer 2015, Week 8
Hiatus: Over. Yeah, that’s right—I’m back, and I’m going to make this all work, one way or another! Getting away from my normal routine for a solid 10 days and just doing something different than the...
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Hyouka, Episode 1
Hello, and welcome to Hyouka Saturdays! For the next twenty-one weeks, I’ll be watching and writing up an episode of Kyoto Animation’s well-loved 2012 show, Hyouka. I’ve heard many good things and been...
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Aniwords – A Foolproof Guide to Getting Hyped for Next Season’s Anime
You may recall a fairly silly post I wrote a few months back about how to write (and find a good) season preview. Well, with other anibloggers’ season previews starting to come out and more and more...
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Anime Weekly: Summer 2015, Week 9
Man, it sure is a good feeling when you get to the end of your anime week and not a single episode you watched let you down! Once again, it seems I’m experiencing the power of whittling down things to...
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Hyouka, Episode 2
Any worries that Hyouka‘s first episode was just a fluke of goodness have been dispelled (not that I was really much worried about that anyways). Episode 2 turned in an excellent new character with...
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Aniwords – Don’t Talk About Your Favorite Anime
This may very well be my most clickbait title yet, but I have no regrets because I’m honestly extraordinarily happy with how this post turns out and I want as many people as possible to read it. In a...
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Anime Weekly: Summer 2015, Week 10
As a counterpoint to last week’s gushing praise about watching only a handful of shows, and having them all be shows you like, this week’s anime seemed (especially early on) determined to remind me...
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Hyouka, Episode 3
I think…it would be pretty easy to despise Houtarou Oreki if you were so inclined. I myself may indeed be inching that way. As our warm-hearted friend Eru Chitanda notes, Oreki is not a nice guy. And...
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Aniwords – What’s the Best Anime of the Season?
Oh, I hear your voices already. “Bless, you’ve already sold out to straight-up lazy clickbait titles and topics?” “So you only really care about views after all—I thought you were different!” “Umm…you...
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Anime Weekly: Summer 2015, Week 11
Okay, so if last week being down was the requisite condition for this week, I am so very okay with that—because these week was an absolute stunner. Three episodes of genuinely amazing romance, one...
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Hyouka, Episode 4
For a show about a group of teenage friends living a curiosity filled life together, there sure is a lot of understated tension bubbling underneath the surface of their generally cheery lives (Oreki...
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The Precure Final Trials: Heartcatch Precure Does Monogatari
It’s one thing to catch the hearts of others; it’s another entirely to catch your own. By the time Tsubomi, Erika, Itsuki, and Yuri reach the 37th episode of Heartcatch Precure, they’ve successfully...
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Aniwords – I Went Through the GATE…
With the end of the season comes the chance to take a look back at the shows I’ve spent approximately a quarter of a year with (a scary thought when applied to some of these shows). I’ve been toying...
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Anime Weekly: Summer 2015, Week 11
The season is ending, the thrillingly nice weather of autumn is starting to hit the Midwest with consistency, I’ve moved back over to MAL, and it’s time to talk about this week’s anime. A couple of my...
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