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Aniwords – The Spirit of Joy Lives in Love Live! Sunshine
It’s Love Live! It’s back, it’s here, I’m happy, Hanamaru best girl after one episode (disclaimer: best girl decision not final). And so, because I’m not quite over the girls of μ’s yet, I wrote up a...
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First Impressions: Summer 2016 Anime (Part 2)
We’re into the second third of the season’s premieres and I think I’m starting to see my weekly schedule slowly putting itself together out there in the distance. Nothing’s set in stone yet, but I’m...
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Aniwords – Sea Tones: A Study of Setting in Amanchu!
This season is full of good things to write about! So, we’ll kick things off with Amanchu! Going from Princess Tutu, the only other Junichi Sato I’ve seen aside from a single episode of Aria, to...
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Nisekoi Is Over
Nisekoi is over and the promises made (not to Onodera) were largely kept. I think at various points I have said elsewhere, maybe not here, that Chitoge Kirisaki from Nisekoi represents for me the...
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Why I Dropped Re:ZERO
I was reflecting on my drive home about anime that have made me legitimately angry. I think I cut out of Re:ZERO before I got to that point. I don’t usually write posts about shows I dropped because...
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Aniwords – The Small Worlds of the Anime of P.A. Works
I didn’t mean to write two posts in a row about the role of setting in certain anime—it just kind of turned out that way. In the spotlight is a somewhat broader selection of shows than I’m normally...
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Summer 2016 Anime Launchpad
The way this blog has been lately, you’d almost think I wasn’t even watching any anime this season (that would be false). Here’s a secret: I’m still not caught up on all the shows I want to be watching...
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Aniwords – Mob Psycho 100, Apostle of Animation
Tongue-in-cheek title aside (I seem to wind up with a lot of those for these columns, not sure why), this probably ranks up there with the more ambitious posts in terms of attempted idea communication...
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Assorted Reflections on Eureka 7
Much like Eureka 7 itself, my thoughts on the show are scattered, wide-ranging, and affectionate—so in lieu of anything resembling a traditional review or reflection, I present you with a series of...
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Aniwords – What We Want When We Watch Sports Anime
Guys, let me tell you, I’ve got absolutely no clue what makes me pop off for almost two thousand words like I did in this column. I was just planning for it to be regular length and by the time I’d...
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Aniwords – The Art of Good Anime Crushes
Once Konobi got over its creepy jokes as Usami’s expense in the first episode, it worked its way into being one of my favorite shows this season. All in all, it’s not an exceptional anime by any means,...
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The Tension Between: Emotionalism and Criticism
Ostensibly for anime critics; theoretically for everyone. Let’s start with a quote: Point me a scribe writes ’emotionless crit;’ All I shall see is a liar or halfwit. —William Shakespeare Criticism...
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I’ve Updated My Top Anime List!
After more than two years, I’ve finally updated (and expanded!) my top anime list! Instead of 20 shows, I’ve now got 25 on the list, with all new pictures, blurbs, and even some reordering! What a...
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Aniwords – Making Moe Real
New Game! has kind of sneakily become one of my favorite shows this season, but it’s not just because of the great character designs or the pretty colors. Instead, I think there are some elements to...
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Aniwords – What Does It Mean to Have a “Favorite Anime”?
Someone let the highly sentimental version of me out of the box this week, and the result is this piece. Ultimately, it just comes down to another rendition of me trying to plead for people to be nice...
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Aniwords – 91 Days and the Cinematography of Murder
Hello, hello! Let’s talk about murder! Or, more specifically, how murder looks (in 91 Days). I’ve been wanting to write something about 91 Days‘ visuals for a while now, but despite some attempts at...
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Love Live! Sunshine, Macross, and the Resonance of Franchise Lore
The sad truth: not all idol shows can be Macross. On the other hand, this is in defense of Love Live! and Love Live! Sunshine. Love Live! Sunshine has taken some flack this season for its penchant for...
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Aniwords – Finding Gold in an Everyday Art Club!
I’m back to Konobi this week, which I realized yesterday is probably rivaling 91 Days for the most consistent show of the season. But while 91 Days has been plagued with production problems (oh Studio...
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Help Choose Mage in a Barrel’s Next Episodic Project!
Hello, friends! It’s taken a while, but I’ve finally recovered enough from the (what felt like to me) Herculean effort that was my Hyouka episodic posts and I’m ready to pick up something new. I’ve got...
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Aniwords – Power, Kindness, & Adulthood in Mob Psycho 100
We’re back at it again with Mob Psycho 100, a show I never really thought I was going to get a chance to talk about on a theme level because it was just so disjointed. But here we are, as it turns out,...
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