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Sai Disappearance | How to Portray Grief in a Shonen Manga | Weekly Shonen Jump Greatest Hits

Hikaru No Go tells a stellar coming-of-age story about a young boy inhabited by an ancient spirit, who teaches him the joys of the board game Go. It…

Kero Riripaddo

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Ranking Every Anime I Watched in 2023

Rendering this pushed my computer to its limit I don't know how Quentin Reviews does it but here it is! Anime: 0:23 - Demon Slayer (season 1 only) 1:02 - Cardcaptor…

MercuryFalcon

Hikaru no Go and Skip and Loafer

This entire MLB offseason is just a constant feeling of low grade dread that Shohei Ohtani will...

Taiiku Podcast

Hikaru no Go and Skip and Loafer

This entire MLB offseason is just a constant feeling of low grade dread that Shohei Ohtani will...

Taiiku Podcast

Inochi no Chikyuu: Dioxin no Natsu

Here's another project that has been stuck in limbo for a very long time: the 2001 movie Inochi no Chikyuu: Dioxin no Natsu ( Life on Earth...

Collectr's Blog

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#89 Cyborg Grandpa-G (Ft. Cartoonist and Grasshopper Community Manager Maddie aka othatsraspberry)

Manga by Obata, Takeshi (Deathnote, Hikaru No Go, Platinum End)   I see why Obata has stuck to just doing art…   We and our guest Cartoonist and…

Shonen Flop

Sanada 10 Special

Once upon a time, in the ancient days of the mid-oughts, there was a TV series with the rather long title of Shinshaku Sengoku Eiyuu Densets...

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Recipe: LOVE RECIPE

The only thing worse than a bad BL romance is a bad BL romance that ruins an otherwise good concept for a manga. LOVE RECIPE, by Kirico Higa...

The Manga Test Drive

Recipe: LOVE RECIPE

The only thing worse than a bad BL romance is a bad BL romance that ruins an otherwise good concept for a manga. LOVE RECIPE, by Kirico Higa...

The Manga Test Drive

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Hikari no Ou – 06

I haven't gotten another ep like the premiere to really engage me completely, but I can look at one like this as incremental progress. Read more

Lost in Anime

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13 Best Sports Anime Rivalries That Push Characters To Grow

For a good chunk of sports anime, the appeal isn't in the sport it presents. You can only present soccer, basketball, or baseball in so many different ways

Recommend Me Anime

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Spy X Family – 12 [The Role of a Mother and Wife]

Welcome everyone, to a super late SpyxFamily episode! Apologies for that. I didn’t get back from a wedding until Monday, and then had to get the Seasonal Preview…

Star Crossed Anime

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Hikaru no Go Anime Review – 90/100

Slam Dunk. Haikyuu. Cross Game. Aside from being fantastic series in their own right, and being about sports, they all share one thing in common: Their success helped…

Star Crossed Anime

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Area 88 OVA: Aces Low

Area 88 is a manga that ran from ’79 to ’86. So, this is even older than I am. In 1985 it got a three episode OVA from…

Anime Reviews

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090 - Death Note vol. 3

The dudes talk about the Death Note’s impact as a “non-battle” manga and their feelings to what can be best described as the “Dragonball problem” James and Will…

We Appreciate Manga

Arisa Good Luck

Here's a true bluebird: the 1999 one-shot OVA Arisa Good Luck . Last month, Tennouji, translator and proprietor of SakuraCircle, contacted m...

Collectr's Blog

Haruka Naru Toki no Naka de 2

Haruka Naru Toki no Naka de ( In a Distant Time ) is an otome game franchise developed by Ruby Party. It spans at least a dozen…

Collectr's Blog

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The best Go player in the world

I’ve recently covered Hikaru no Go series, so I feel it’s only fitting to introduce you the best Go player in our current era.

SP

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Hikaru no Go [1999]

This is so far the only series that has successfully focused on the Go game.

SP

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The AMERICAN Shonen Jump | 20th Anniversary Retrospective

Shonen Jump Magazine — if you were a North American manga fan in the 2000s, you probably owned at least a few issues. And since this year is…

Andre's Shelf

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Pick of the week: Killer Viz-ion

MICHELLE: It’s the once-a-year release of Kaze Hikaru and there’s also the debut of the fun-looking Happy Kanoko’s Killer Life, but if it’s my last chance ever, I…

Manga Bookshelf

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MAPS: Densetsu no Samayoeru Seijin-tachi

Here's a wonderful example of the "wide-screen baroque" school of anime science fiction, the 1987 movie MAPS: Densetsu no Samayoeru Seijin-t...

Collectr's Blog

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Nagasaki 1945: Angelus no Kane (The Angelus Bell)

The atomic bombing of Nagasaki on August 9, 1945, is less well known that the bombing of Hiroshima three days earlier, for several reasons. ...

Collectr's Blog

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Waza no Tabibito

Here's a modern OVA that slipped under the radar, 2011's Waza no Tabibito ( Skills Journey ). Waza is virtually a one-man production - cr...

Collectr's Blog

Hikaru no Go – Learning Go For The Future

So this is New Years Week. Yes it is. It’s something that I’m using to my blog’s advantage. I’m using a very loose sort of thematic element to…

Mechanical Anime Reviews

2001: 21st-Century Digital Toys

Alexandra Roedder is finishing her Ph.D. in musicology at the University of California, Los Angeles, writing about Joe Hisaishi's Ghibli so...

The Golden Ani-Versary of Anime (1963-2013)

OtakuGeneration (Show #129) Vinyl Toys

  NOTE: This was also cross posted in the otakugeneration LJ community. Shownotes :: (show 129) :: (website) :: (podcast feed) :: (direct download) :: (direct iTunes link) With Vinyl Toys,…

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OtakuGeneration (Show #47) with Club Chaos

  NOTE: This was also cross posted in the otakugenerationLJ community. Shownotes :: (show 047) :: (website) :: (podcast feed) :: (direct download) :: (direct iTunes link) With the…

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OtakuGeneration (Show #43) with Jefferson

  NOTE: This was also cross posted in the otakugeneration LJ community. Shownotes :: (show 043) :: (website) :: (podcast feed) :: (direct download) :: (direct iTunes link) With…

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OtakuGeneration (Show #7) with Jeff Heller

  NOTE: This was also cross posted in the otakugeneration LJ community. Shownotes :: (show 007) :: (website) :: (podcast feed) :: (direct download) :: (direct iTunes link) With our guest…

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