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Anime Review #131: Tamako Love Story

Last time, I reviewed Tamako Market, which covered the shenanigans of a young mochi-making girl and a fat retarded talking bird who simps for her classmates, dances as…

The Traditional Catholic Weeb

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Anime Review #130: Tamako Market

As was the case with Assassination Classroom (which I reviewed last week), Tamako Market was among the series that I watched to pass my time a year ago,…

The Traditional Catholic Weeb

Garden of Remembrance

Yamada Naoki is a modern anime auteur. She started at Kyoto Animation, where she became one of the youngest directors in its history, helmin...

Collectr's Blog

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My Anime & Manga Collection - A Feature-Length Tour (2024 Update) | Andre's Shelf

It’s time I put my money where my mouth (channel name) is. Here’s an update on what the actual “Andre’s Shelf” looks like now! Follow me on Twitter (X):…

Andre's Shelf

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Anime Like Astro Note

Takumi is a gifted, but newly unemployed chef. On his search for more long-term work, he takes a job cooking breakfast at a boarding house even though he…

Recommend Me Anime

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Tamako Market is Hard to Write About

Kyoto Animation is a studio that I don’t enjoy as much as other people do because it is always a 50/50 sort of scenario.  Will the next show…

Mechanical Anime Reviews

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New Tamako Market, AX becomes Line-con?, and the Uncut Gems of Winter | Today's Anime News

New year, new video, new things to talk about! 00:00 - INTRO 00:31 - New Tamako Market 02:12 - Suzume Becomes a Top All-Time Film in Japan 03:22 - Anime Expo drops…

Glass Reflection

Naoko Yamada & Friends

By Andrew Osmond. Naoko Yamada is the best-known female director in anime. Most of her directing credits are for TV series made at Kyoto Animation, where she spent…

All the Anime

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My Joyous Anime Choices For Chrissy December~!

Not the usual pizazz title from me but my blog brain had a long break, so gotta give me a break for it to get back into gear. 

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Why Kyoani’s Yamada Naoko is the greatest director of our time: Part 1 — The Tamako Series

I’ve talked throughout this blog about Yamada Naoko — Kyoani’s poster director. Throughout the years of watching anime or media in general, I’ve come to grow immensely attached to this…

Convoluted Situation

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What to Watch This Valentine’s Day

Happy Valentine’s Day! If you’re looking for something to watch today, I’d suggest Tamako Market’s second episode, “The Love-in-Bloom Valentine’s.” Below i…

Empath Meets Anime

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Tamako Market: A review

Tamako Market is a fairly cute slice-of-life that lacks the direction to deliver its themes compellingly

Rogue Shogunate

Tamako and Kobayashi at the Thanksgiving Table

Recently, I’ve been on a Kyoto Animation spree. It probably started after I realized that continuous rewatches of Chuunibyou were probably not good for my productivity or my…

Beneath the Tangles

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Tamako Love Story

With gorgeous enhanced visuals and artistic detail, Tamako Love Story dives a bit deeper into the human relationships presented in the series with a slightly more serious tone.

At a Glance Anime

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Tamako Market

There’s an optimism and a powerful love in Tamako Market that shows things not entirely as they are, but how we want them to be. For such a…

At a Glance Anime

More Anime to Watch During the Quarantine

A few months back I wrote a blog with 10 anime to watch while quarantined. Unfortunately, it seems like we are going to be quarantined for a long…

A Certain Dazed Producer

BOKKSU’s Snack Bites Documentary: A Must-Watch of Japanese Sweets-Making!

Welcome, all, again.  This will be an exceedingly short post, encouraging you to check out the Japanese sweets-making documentary Snack Bites released by BOKKSU, a subscription company that ships…

Another Anime Review

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The Decade in Review: The Japanese Industry

I said I wouldn’t be updating this blog for a while, but I remembered that I was working on a two-post "decade in review" which I had star...

The Melancholic Middle Aged Anime Fan

Tamako Love Story Review

This is review number four hundred forty five and A HALF, because I don’t give full numbers to movies. They lost that right after they stopped being made…

The Pantless Anime Blogger

Thank You, Kyoto Animation

It is absolutely heartbreaking that the worst tragedy in postwar Japanese history had to happen to one of the best studios in the anime industry. I just cannot…

Actar's Otaku Life

#76 - Tamako Market & Tamako Love Story

Naoko Yamada (A Silent Voice, Liz & the Blue Bird) is one of the youngest and most critically acclaimed anime directors in the business today. Austin, Tori, and…

Third Impact Anime Podcast

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r#138 – tamako market

Like many anime fans, I am no stranger to Kyoto Animation’s lovable works throughout the years. From the fun everyday shenanigans showed in anime like K-On and Kobayashi-san…

#moe404, the not so great anime BLOG

OtakuGeneration (Show #483) A Letter to Momo

  Shownotes :: (show 483) :: (website) :: (podcast feed) :: (direct download) :: (direct iTunes link) With A Letter to Momo, recorded live September 7th, 2014. This week…

otakugeneration's Podcast

OtakuGeneration (Show #482) AnimeMaru.com

  Shownotes :: (show 482) :: (website) :: (podcast feed) :: (direct download) :: (direct iTunes link) With AnimeMaru.com, recorded live August 31st, 2014. This week talked Kevin Huang…

otakugeneration's Podcast

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Tamako Market and Ignoring the Feelings of Others

Turmoil finds its way into Bunny Mountain Market when Choi tells Tamako that she is the bride for the prince that Dera has been searching for all this…

Through the Frozen Glass