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Free! wasn’t an otome bullsh@t.
I wasn’t going to watch this show. I mean this was primarily catering to otome (young girls). Yes, young otaku girls, or if not otaku, then anime fan girls. I mean, from the PV, it’s already showing...
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WataMote 4: You Can (Not) Be Touched
Summary After surfing the web for too long one night, Tomoko, knowing deep down that she won’t be getting skinship with a real boy anytime soon, tries other means to get into sexual situations: first...
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Review: The Garden of Words
Makoto Shinkai admits to not knowing why he is drawn to stories about koi–”lonely sadness” or longing. “if you want to psychoanalyze me, there might be various reasons, but even I don’t know what they...
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Attack on Titan: “Why We Fight” For the Otaku Age?
There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them, the same became mighty men which were of old,...
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WataMote 5: Personae
Summary In her never ending quest to become more popular, Tomoko attempts three different personality changes: first, inspired by an anime, she tries to become a Yuki Nagato-like “expressionless...
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WataMote 6: Delusions of Grandeur
EVA REFERENCES FTW Summary Tomoko suddenly looks…cuter? So she thinks, after a round of otome games seems to make her lose the bags under her eyes. Her newfound confidence, fueled by the belief that...
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Silver Spoon, reminds me of Mutsugorou-san
Oh yes, Silver Spoon. Hachiken, a disinterested city boy, goes to a remote agricultural high school in Hokkaidou. Yes, this show reminds me of that Fuji-TV show, Mutsugorou’s animal kingdom. I used to...
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WataMote 7: Voices
Summary Summer vacation has started, and isolated Tomoko–true to herself–does not bother going out of her room, choosing to while away the hours in front of a computer, a book, listening to more...
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Attack On Maid, moe-Xplosion, Maid-phillya!
Fate/kakeid liner PRISMA ILLYA, ep 7, Illya turns into a sexual predator. That was really unexpected. I was very astonished. She got cold so she calls in sick, stays home and just stays in bed. But...
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Illya, cutism, kawaii, rezu-rezu-janou. Already fin?
Ahhh, Illya series already ended? So sad…saudade, as if my love affair has just ended…short-lived koi…I didn’t really enjoy the plot though, the story was rather boring, so the only reason I was...
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Nagi No Asukara, first epi…beautifully saudade…
Nagi No Asukara, just watched episode 1 and oh my god…really beautiful! And the feeling, koi, or saudade or sehnsucht or mono no aware is there! Totally, yeah, female childhood friend, and a fear that...
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Nagi No Asukara 5, renounce love, Seitei Souther!
Just watched Nagi No Asukara 5 on Crunchyroll, this is really, aahhhh, saudade…so lonely and sad…I totally know this feeling, like I wrote before. And a girl can’t date anybody outside the clan, which...
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White Album 2, SPEED serenade “White Love”
Ohhh, this anime is so bad, because they depict exactly what I wanted to do in high school. Yes, that’s why it hit the nail in my heart. As high school graduation memory, I also wanted to travel to...
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Madoka movie part 2, David Bowie-sque labyrinth, 17 forever
Sunday night, The Day of Infamy, aka, Pearl Harbor (Dec 7th in American time), Gautama Buddha’s pari-nirvana day, and also the day John Lennon was killed. Yes, December 8th is very historical day....
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My Mental Choices are Completely Interfering with My Critic Skills
Choose! Article is a tearful piece of boredom. Article is a hysterical waste of laughter Sometimes life is stranger than fiction. I woke up this morning around 10:00 AM, realizing that I’m three...
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White Album 2: final episode
Most shocking scene that we otaku went, “gyaahhhhh!!!” After all, White Album 2 the animation just ended. So, the anime only covered “introductory chapter” of the game. That’s just high school part....
View ArticleKill la Kill : A World Laid Bare (and ready for change)
Doctrines have been questioned, true faces revealed, and all bets are off.. You know the more this viewer wishes to resist the caffiene-injected, nonsensical, and often audacious nature of Kill la...
View ArticleThrough Older Lenses: Ghibli Night At The Egyptian
Imagine the saucers I had for eyes upon the discovery that Hollywood’s fabled Egyptian Theatre was hosting a multi-week tribute to the films of Studio Ghibli, and that two longtime favorites were...
View ArticleKill la Kill: A Final Stretch (Beyond Gainax)
Twists at breakneck speeds, revelations abound, and allegiances reversed. There seems to be no stopping the heartpounding freight train that is Kill La Kill’s final stretch of episodes. Common cause...
View ArticleKill la Kill FINAL : A Farewell To Uniformity
Well there’s a feeling I haven’t experienced in an age. Looking back at the first piece I slapped together regarding Studio Trigger’s initial leap into the television series gauntlet, I’m pretty...
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