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AniMarch Madness 2024: Round 1, Day 1

Round one is on!! AniMarch Madness 2024 begins today with eight round one matches (plus one exclusive to Patreon), two from each of our four regions: Emerging and…

Beneath the Tangles

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Anime’s Action Packed Battle Boredom!

Warning: The following post may seem a bit ranty to some readers. If you are a lover of shonen anime, tournament arcs, or battle anime reader discretion is…

Anime Hanabi

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What I Watched This Week – 6/25-7/8

The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya – There are multiple ways to watch this series, and I went with the chronological order because that was how Crunchyroll had the…

The Romantic Goldfish

Review: THE MELANCHOLY OF SUZUMIYA HARUHI-CHAN

 With yet another summer blockbuster season underway that's stuffed to the gills with sequels, it's high time this blog does the same by loo...

The Manga Test Drive

Review: THE MELANCHOLY OF SUZUMIYA HARUHI-CHAN

 With yet another summer blockbuster season underway that's stuffed to the gills with sequels, it's high time this blog does the same by loo...

The Manga Test Drive

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Top 10 Airing Anime I Watched During the Spring Season

The Spring seasons have been some of the best anime seasons as of recently. Usually, when I think of the Spring season, I think of the season where…

Advanced495's Anime Blog

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My Anime Memes

I was trying out my new digital art app, and I ended up making some little memes with the anime pics I already had. I’m not feeling great…

Anime Hanabi

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God is a Girl – Three Cases of an Unusual Anime Trope

Perhaps you’ve heard the popular Ariana Grande song “God is a Woman.” But several years before that song hit the charts, there was a very different song called…

Anime Rants

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14 Anime With Non-Linear Storytelling To Piece Together

An anime with non-linear storytelling is pretty self-explanatory. It is an anime where the story is given to you with the events out of order – not in…

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The Antagonist: Haruhi Suzumiya

You don’t think of Haruhi as being an antagonist. You don’t even think of The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya as having a meta-plot that calls for either a…

Confessions of an Overage otaku

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AniMarch Madness 2023: Round 1, Day 3

Sixteen matches down, 16 to go! We’re on day three of the first round of AniMarch Madness, where you vote to decide which anime will win in our…

Beneath the Tangles

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Zelda Wynn Valdes: The Mother of Bunny Girls

The iconic bunny girl suit: one of anime’s prominent items of fan service. Since its debut in a particular historic student animated film in 1983, countless characters have…

Yuki The Snowman

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AniMarch Madness 2023: Play-in Matches

Welcome, March! And hello, AniMarch Madness! The craziness begins today with our six play-in matches (plus one exclusive to Patreon) to determine the final entrants into the field…

Beneath the Tangles

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Character Analysis: Ryuji Takusa

It seems bizarre that one of the anime I write about a lot is Toradora. I mean, compared to Neon Genesis Evangelion or Cowboy Bebop or The Melancholy…

Confessions of an Overage otaku

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Bunny Girls Interrupted

The Playboy bunny girl costume is an unavoidable fixture of sexist pop culture—and a persistent one in video games. Showing women in rabbit ...

Kid Fenris

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Haruhi Suzumiya, 1/7 Scale (Kadokawa) [Figure Review]

A scale figure for Haruhi Suzumiya?! What year is this? Unboxing / Assembly / Review Figure Review Haruihi Suzumiya Kadokawa info Otaku Sinh’s collection I bought it here!…

OTAKU SINH

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Fanart Friday, Too: Glasses Off, Yuki Nagato!

Yuki Nagato’s character has grown on me over the years, but she’s been a favorite for Haruhi Suzumiya fans right from the beginning. I love how the series…

Beneath the Tangles

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The Text x Context of Haruhi Suzumiya, Part II

Welcome back to Text x Context, the new BtT feature that examines multiple light novels at the same time! Previously on Text x Context, we began a discussion…

Beneath the Tangles

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Fall 2025 Anime Season: What Will I Be Watching?

FIRST ANNIVERSARY OF SEASONAL IMPRESSIONS PARTY!!! PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/keksiweksi TWITTER: https://twitter.com/keksiweksi ~MUSIC~ Cardcaptor Sakura OST - Shopping Chainsaw Man Opening K-On! OST - 03 急げや急げ Now and Then, Here and There OST - The Bottom The Melancholy…

Keksi

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The Text x Context of Haruhi Suzumiya, Part I

Welcome to Text x Context, a new Beneath the Tangles feature that explores light novels on a multi-volume scale! With the old Light Novel Club, each post dealt…

Beneath the Tangles

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Anime Series Like Call of the Night

After rejecting a confession from a girl at school because he doesn't understand love, Kou stops going to school and starts wandering the night with

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Raising Wages in the Anime Industry – A Collaboration with Aya Hirano

Raising Wages in the Anime Industry – A Collaboration with Aya Hirano ► https://gogetfunding.com/the-new-anime-making-system-project-phase-2/ ---------------------------------------------------------------- The second phase in our plan to put more money in the hands of financially struggling…

Animator Dormitory Channel

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Blue Sky (Feat. Aya Hirano) - The Base of Our Second Music Video!

Raising Wages in the Anime Industry – A Collaboration with Aya Hirano ► https://gogetfunding.com/the-new-anime-making-system-project-phase-2/ ---------------------------------------------------------------- The second phase in our plan to put more money in the hands of financially struggling…

Animator Dormitory Channel

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Back to You - Our First Music Video

The New Anime Making System Project Phase 2 ► https://gogetfunding.com/the-new-anime-making-system-project-phase-2/ -------------------------------- Hello! We’re Animator Supporters, a non-profit organization that seeks to improve the lives of financially struggling Japanese animators through the…

Animator Dormitory Channel

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Haruhi’s Five Ways, Way V: The Finality of Haruhi Suzumiya

After all our philosophical adventures, let me finally introduce you to the curious case of Haruhi Suzumiya, an intelligent girl who, nevertheless, acts completely nuts. Haruhi has both…

Beneath the Tangles

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Haruhi’s Five Ways, Way IV: The Participation of Yuki Nagato

Premise one, premise two, conclusion. Measures, data, ciphers. For quite some time, that’s all we get from Yuki Nagato of the one-member Literature Club, whose clubroom is invaded…

Beneath the Tangles

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Character (Re)analysis: Haruhi Suzumiya

It’s been a while since I wrote about The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya, but what astonishes me about it is that every time you think about it, you…

Confessions of an Overage otaku

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Haruhi’s Five Ways, Way III: The Necessity of Kyon

What do Itsuki Koizumi, Mikuru Asahina, St. Justin Martyr and St. Thomas Aquinas all have in common? Well, not much! Yet, there’s the fact that they have all…

Beneath the Tangles

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Anime that’s just buggy!

Summer is here and for many of us that means so are the bugs! Whether it’s mosquitoes buzzing around your head, crickets chirping into the wee hours of…

Anime Hanabi

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Haruhi’s Five Ways, Way II: The Causation of Mikuru Asahina

Stop me if you have heard this one before. There’s this shy, beautiful girl in another class at school. She used to be in a different club, but…

Beneath the Tangles

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Haruhi’s Five Ways, Way II: The Causation of Mikuru Asahina

Stop me if you have heard this one before. There’s this shy, beautiful girl in another class at school. She used to be in a different club, but…

Beneath the Tangles

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5 Reasons To Skip: Lucky Star

With strong vision and dedication, Lucky Star could have turned out very interesting. Instead it's content with wallowing in old glory.

Reasons to Anime

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Hoppy Easter!

May your bunny dreams and anime wishes come true this Spring Season! Looking for some anime that are bunny-tastic? Check out: Bunny Drop This anime is about a…

Anime Hanabi

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Haruhi’s Five Ways: The Motion of Itsuki Koizumi

It’s not necessary to wax philosophical about Haruhi Suzumiya’s SOS Brigade to enjoy the clever, absurdist humor of the franchise. Yet, as the Brigade searches out the mysteries of …

Beneath the Tangles

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The Desperate Sequelhook

The ending to an anime is paramount, yet so many series gamble away their one chance to leave a lasting impression on a futile sequelhook.

Reasons to Anime

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The Endless Eight Ruined My Life

These episodes... Are the exact same thing. PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/keksiweksi TWITTER: https://twitter.com/keksiweksi ~Music~ Touhou Bossa Nova - Don't let me down The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya Opening Idolm@ster Town BGM The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya OST…

Keksi

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Anime all over again . . . and again . . . and again . . .

Wouldn’t we all like a second chance at something? Everybody loves the do-over, the second take, the make-up test, right? Some people fantasize about a second chance at…

Anime Hanabi

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15 Anime Series With Major Genre Shifts

With the vast majority of anime, what they establish as the genre in the first few episodes will be the genre throughout the series. If you are watching…

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Haruhi’s Five Ways: On Philosophers and Giants

It seems it’s not necessary to philosophize about the SOS Brigade to enjoy the clever, absurd comedy of the Haruhi franchise. On the other hand, it may be…

Beneath the Tangles

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A Day in the life of an Otaku!

Otaku rule indeed! Just moments after clicking on the publish button for my latest post (Anime for your Coffee Break) I found that I had just published my…

Anime Hanabi

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Anime Review #72: The Disappearance Of Haruhi Suzumiya

Bear with me all, but I’m going to be reviewing a movie today – but not in consecutive posts like what I did last year. Fifty-one Anime Reviews…

The Traditional Catholic Weeb

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Music that makes the Anime that makes the Music!

Yup, it would! Sometimes an anime is made perfect by their opening or closing song. There’s just something about the melody, the rhythm, the lyrics that the anime…

Anime Hanabi

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30 Best Mystery Anime Series With Intrigue to Unravel

The term “mystery” tends to evoke images of hard-boiled detectives tracking down criminals, but mystery is a blanket term. A lot of situations can be mysterious, and that…

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This Thanksgiving, We’re (Least) Thankful For…

This Thanksgiving, We're (Least) Thankful For... via @KhakiBlueSocks @stardf29 @laura_a_grace @JeskaiAngel

Beneath the Tangles

“You Need to Subscribe, Silly!” A Throwback Thursday Look at NewType USA

In life, we have loads of inadvertent “Time Capsules”; items that capture what life was like in any given moment in time. It could be something as ordinary…

Beneath the Tangles

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Anime Review 197 Lucky Star

This review contains some spoilers. One of the most drastic medium changes that I witnessed as an anime fan in the west was the reputational shift of older…

TakamakiJoker Anime Reviews

2nd Anniversary Special: Top 10 Anime Openings (Action and Non-Action lists)

Well, it’s that time of year again – time for a Top 10 list! This is one that’s probably going to be deeply contentious: there are so many…

Harper Anime Reviews

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The Recipe for Modern Anime

Anime has changed a lot in the last 60 years, with each decade being defined by the introduction of new technology. Today, anime isn't just defined by the…

The Canipa Effect

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15 Anime Series Where the Main Character is Wildly Underpowered

I’ve met my fair share of anime fans that like to jerk it to an overpowered main character, and there’s nothing wrong with that. Anime is fantasy, and…

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Anime Review 196 The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya

This Review will cover Season 1 and 2 of The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya as well the featured film The Disappearance Of Haruhi Suzumiya. The Melancholy of Haruhi…

TakamakiJoker Anime Reviews