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Space Operas and Auteur Spectacle
I wish more anime were directed like these two productions. I recently watched both the Mobile Suit Gundam Unicorn OVAs and the two Macross Frontier films. Both are excellent but, as fitting for these...
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Aniwords – Is There a Right Way to Watch Anime?
It’s pondering the deeper implications of simple questions time again! Frankly, I’m not sure I did the topic as much justice as I wanted, but you write and write again. Maybe someday I’ll finally land...
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Izetta: The Last Witch & the Hiroyuki Yoshino Effect
This one’s a little bit different from my normal stuff, as I take an in-depth look at the resume of anime screenwriter Hiroyuki Yoshino (of Macross Frontier, Code Geass, and Guilty Crown fame) in...
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First Impressions: Fall 2016 Anime (Part 1)
Ah, fall is in the air and new anime are coming to our screens. Nobody really knows what’s going to turn out well and what’s going to wind up being crap, but the fun of making those discoveries is at...
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Aniwords – A Moeblob is a Blob of Moe
You blog readers won’t know this, but this post actually caused a bit of a stir on Twitter among the Touken Ranbu fandom after it was published. My first real taste of controversy; curiously over a...
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First Impressions: Fall 2016 Anime (Part 2)
The season of fall premieres continues to plow forward. I’ll be glad when it’s over and I can settle in to my hoped-for schedule. I’m trying to take it easy, though! I no longer have the desire I once...
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Aniwords – The Colorful Leaves of the Fall 2016 Anime Season
I like pretty pictures and I like season. Mostly because this season is completely packed full of pretty pictures of various kinds. That’s something that’s really exciting for me, so I spent some time...
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First Impressions: Fall 2016 Anime (Part 3)
You thought I’d forgotten about recording my final first impressions of the season? Worry not; they are here now that I’ve hit my arbitrarily self-imposed quota of watching 15 premieres. No more. I’m...
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The Democratic Nobility of Hime Yarizakura
The mayor is a princess, the princess is the mayor. I’ve long been rather enamored with monarchy as a concept. Although I recognize the system’s historical tendency to be abused and the way it...
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Aniwords – The Importance of orange
It’s been quite a while since I first wrote about the orange manga about two-thirds of the way through its publication run on Crunchyroll. That was almost two years ago. Now, an improbable anime...
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The Best Anime of Summer 2016
The Summer 2016 season of anime is long over, but I’m still thinking about some of the shows I watched back then—and that’s a good sign. On the whole, I felt it was a pretty okay season, with a more...
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Aniwords – Bungo Stray Dogs & the Tragedy of a Good Man
Let me assure you all that I never expected anything as good as this arc out of Bungo Stray Dogs. After dropping the first season midway through and only coming back with readjusted (read: lower)...
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Kizumonogatari Part 2: Nekketsu – Progressions in Inhumanity
The war between humanity and monstrosity rages. With the engrossing totality of atmospheric emotionality somewhat diminished in Kizumonogatari‘s second installation, Nekketsu, a more traditional (but...
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Aniwords – Girlish Number and the Indelicate Art of Owning Yourself
Happily, I’ve never experienced a professional failure on the level that Chitose has, but that doesn’t mean I’m not familiar with the feelings she experiences. After all, tripping over your own feet...
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Aniwords – Selection. System. Memory. WIXOSS.
Where the original WIXOSS series made a great deal out of obscuring the true nature of the show’s setting, Lostorage has been all about revealing that information to us and letting us stew in it as the...
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A Sleepover in Space: Breaking Down Four Brilliant Shots in G-Reco 15
Everyone thinks Gundam Reconguista in G is a joke of a show. I thought G-reco was a joke of a show. We might all still be right, but for 14 seconds the joke was on us. This moment, a strange oasis of...
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Mobile Police Patlabor, Episode 1
We begin with an episode about the spaces between things, and about impatience. The episode opens on a flag rustling in the wind, and on a man waiting. There is a quiet beauty that comes with the act...
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Aniwords – The Evolution of RWBY (Part 1)
As you guys well know, I’m rather fond of doting on shows that are… less than perfectly crafted. This goes doubly true for those rare cases where a show starts out a bit wobbly on its feet and then...
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Fall 2016 Midseason Check-in
I don’t think it’s burnout, per se. But at the height of my seasonal anime-watching prowess I am not. The grand total number of shows this season I’m actively keeping up with? Six. So, what am I still...
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Aniwords – The Evolution of RWBY (Part 2)
We forge ahead with our series on RWBY this week, following up on last week’s piece about the show’s evolving writing by talking about how its visuals have grown up over the years. Honestly, I might...
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