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Aniwords – Konosuba’s Comedic Cosmic Unfairness
As you guys well know, I really like Konosuba a lot—and I think it’s fun to reflect on what exactly about the show works so well for me. One of the major themes that’s stuck out to me from the show...
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Aniwords – You Are the Digidestined
Generally speaking, I don’t recommend writing fandom-related pieces from outside the fandom, but today I threw out my own rule for the sake on indulging my fascination with the super interesting...
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Winter 2016 Anime Spring Shower
Whew, it’s been a while, huh? Apologies for the delay—weekend trip and video games have a bad habit of messing up my routines so thoroughly that I can’t get other things done even if I have the time....
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Aniwords – Finding the Forest in ERASED
ERASED may have fallen in my esteem as of late, but that doesn’t mean there aren’t still things about it that I like. In fact, the first part of the most recent episode is probably as much as I’ve...
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Anime Weekly: Winter 2016, Week 9
In which things, aside from one prominent outlier, stay mostly the same. Someday, I will learn to leave inferior sequel series alone and just rewatch good things. Today is not that day. But, lest you...
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Hanayamata – DVD Review
As I promised, here’s my full review of Hanayamata. Or… a close to a full review as you’re going to get, because I honestly didn’t have a ton to say about the series. I have most definitely seen shows...
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Aniwords – Why You Keep Watching the Same Show Over and Over
I’m always sort of amazed how just watching one show can trigger a series of thoughts that tie a bunch of disjointed ideas together in my head. Thus it was with Hanayamata, and now here we are with a...
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Anime Weekly: Winter 2016, Week 11
The end times approach. So, Konosuba ended this week, marking the beginning of the last hurrah for the surprisingly good Winter 2016 season and inviting all of us to look ahead to the upcoming bounties...
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Aniwords – Showa Genroku Rakugo Shinju and the Humanity of the Stage
I’ve been somewhat remiss about writing on my love of theatre, drama, musicals, and performance in general on here, so I’m pretty happy Rakugo Shinju gave me both the inspiration and the motivation to...
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Top Winter 2016 Anime: Final Ratings
The Winter 2016 season of anime was a weird one for me—one where the unexpected winners of the season were shows I had fully intended to ignore from the start and one where old standbys didn’t manage...
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Aniwords – Uncharacterization in The Lost Village
The Lost Village wasn’t my favorite premiere so far, but it was probably the most interesting first episode to anything that’s aired from the Spring 2016 season so far. My love affair (not literal)...
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First Impressions: Spring 2016 Anime (Part 1)
I knew it was coming, but I still feel like this spring season took me by surprise. Maybe it’s because this is the first season that I can remember since I started watching seasonal anime where I...
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First Impressions: Spring 2016 Anime (Part 2)
In a real season of anime that isn’t as stupidly stacked as this one this, a lot more the premieres I check out that usually flop so I can leave them behind without feeling bad. This season, some of...
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My Hero Academia Volume 3 – Manga Review
I’m continuing my coverage of the My Hero Academia manga over at The Fandom Post, which means I’m not officially Relevant thanks to the anime airing this season. The anime’s reportedly only scheduled...
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Aniwords – Sleepy Spotlight: On Tanaka-kun and Flying Witch
I’ve been waiting since Non Non Biyori for a show to inherit its specific kind of slice-of-life bent, but I didn’t expect we’d get two of them in the same season (on the same day, no less!). As you...
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No False Idol Shows Before Me: The Theology of Idols in AKB0048
The point upon which all of this hinges is: humans are not built to be idols. This post has been a long time coming. AKB0048 wasn’t my first idol anime, but it was the first one that connected with me...
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Aniwords – We Ain’t Swallowing No Buckets of Barium Here! Kiznaiver and the...
You guys wouldn’t know this since I haven’t done a weekly round-up post in a while, but Kizaniver‘s probably my third or fourth favorite show this season—besides being the first Studio Trigger show...
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Ducking Good: Princess Tutu Episodes 1-2
People told me I would like this, nobody told me I would like it this much. As part of my ongoing quest to diversify my blog offerings, I’ve chosen possibly the least appropriate show possible to do...
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Horizon in the Middle of Nowhere – Blu-ray Review
It’s always an interesting experience revisiting shows that I watched relatively early on in my anime-watching career, and Horizon in the Middle of Nowhere (somehow, probably because it was on Hulu at...
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Aniwords – Brando, Now We Got Bad Blood: Family Heritage in Early JoJo’s...
Ordinarily I wouldn’t recommend just watching the first two episodes of a show as a last ditch effort to try and come up with a post, but that’s what I did for Aniwords this week and I think it turned...
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