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June-jitsu: A Summer Celebration of Everything Ninja and Samurai! Chakura Level 2!
Chakura Level 1! Months ago while Winter stormed supreme, I thought of how I could celebrate the beginning of Summer. In my humble opinion, the best month of…
Welcome to June-jitsu! A Summer Celebration of Everything Ninja and Samurai! Chakura Level 1!
Long ago, in the frigid month of February, I dreamed of the warmth of Summer! I envisioned vivid green leaves, and warm breezes, and sun dappled sidewalks with…
Anime Girls Got Game!
In anime’s history, even in anime’s recent past, video games either online or via console were mainly just for shonen protagonists. There just wasn’t a whole lot of…
Manga Review: Millennium Snow!
I was recently reading more of the lovely blog posts on my favorites list, and I found a wonderful post from Jessica at Shoujo Henshin! (click the button…
When Clamp Gets Creepy!
A few days ago I was reading through my favorites list of blog posts in WordPress reader, and I happened upon a rather unexpected post from Crow at…
RIP Hamster Mouse! A Moment of Silence
There will be no post today due to a moment of silence after the death of my adorable little hamster mouse (Momo). There were signs that Momo’s health…
Oops! I forgot what day it was!
I accidentally published my Monday post yesterday! Sorry! If you are looking for my the blog post I would normally publish today please Click on the Button below.…
Staying On a Balanced Diet of Anime!
Every year when the weather starts getting warm and sunny, and the produce stands offering dew drenched lettuces, purple carrots, and berries fresh from the fields are starting…
Magnificent Mom’s of Anime!
In North America, once every year, on a special Sunday in May, everyone spends the day trying to express to the Mom figures in their lives how much…
Anime That Fans are Being Super Quiet About!
A couple months ago the tiniest little whispers started stirring. There was a subtle hint on the wind that a very unexpected anime was coming soon. It was…
Anime Doesn’t Need a Reason to Dance!
Some anime series are so excited to start their story that the characters just can’t help but break out into a dance! Likewise, there are nearly as many…
Anime is Not Just in Tokyo: Part 4!
Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Tokyo might seem like the center of all things anime and Japanese, but far from the bustling mega city where over 35…
Anime is Not Just in Tokyo: Part3!
Welcome to Part 3 of my series on Japanese destinations outside of Tokyo, Japan and the amazing anime that happen there! Though there have been hundreds of anime…
Anime is Not Just in Tokyo: Part 2!
Part 1 Welcome to Part 2 of my series on Japanese destinations outside of Tokyo, Japan and the amazing anime that happen there! Though the bigger than life…
Anime is Not Just in Tokyo: Part 1!
Tokyo might seem like the most anime-est of locations, after all it’s the home of the cosplay and kawaii capital -Harajuku, the iconic city crushing monster that started…
Manga Hanabi Review: Skip Beat!
This is another post in my quest to try to add more manga into my mostly anime centric blog! One of the thing’s in my life that inspired…
Anime that Could Have Gotten the 4Kids Treatment, But Didn’t!
After being inspired by some very enthusiastic PreCure fans, I recently started watching the first season of the anime Pretty Cure. I have to admit that I really…
Anime that’s Going to the Big City!
There’s just something special and really heart warming about an anime with a plucky country bumpkin main character that ventures forth from their humble country beginnings to make…
Hoppy Easter!
Here’s some warm wishes for everyone to have a happy Easter, filled with chocolate bunnies, successful Easter egg hunts, and all the joys of Spring! And I also…
Welcome to my Manga Hanabi post?! Manga Review: Gate 7 by Clamp!
Though my blog is called Anime Hanabi, and it is indeed all about the wonderful world of anime, I realized recently that there is also a great big…
Anime Spring Break Get Away!
Spring is finally in full swing! The flowers are blooming in nearly every tree. Every street corner is bustling with the bouncing and dozing heads of daffodils and…
Anime That’s Almost like Going to Texas!
Just a heads up, my blog will be going on a short break until the end of the month. Don’t worry it isn’t anything bad, and I’m certainly…
Hanami in Anime!
Though it’s getting kind of a late start where I live, Spring is finally peeking out from it’s long Winter nap. Little buds on the trees have the…
Winter Season Anime 2023: What was Solid and What Was on Thin Ice?
Though the Winter chill is still lingering in the air and the Spring blooms have yet to even begin to peek out from their long seasonal nap, the…
How to Give Great Anime Recommendations!
Whether I’m at a family get together, a mandatory “Team Training” for my work, or just browsing manga at the local used bookstore, it’s almost guaranteed that someone…
Ani-Blogging and Spell Checkers Don’t get Along!
There is something about myself that for many years now I’ve been fighting, trying to fix, and eventually I just had to learn to accept. I’m terrible at…
Anime and the Coveted Raspberry Cookie
The last icy mud puddles of the season are slowly starting to thaw, and the dark days of Winter are finally coming to an end. And in North…
Anime to Hibernate the Winter Away!
My cat Cleo is a fluffy, chubby little grump. She looks a bit like the black doppelganger version of Nyanko Sensei from Natsume Yujincho and much like that…
Anime Bingo! A Fun Way to Learn Japanese
Lately I’ve been feeling like my Japanese language skills have been fading. I haven’t been studying nearly as much as I used to and it seems like, when…
The Warmth of Winter: Kotatsu!
Lately I have gotten into the healthy habit of going for a walk after work. Yay, making New Year’s resolutions into reality! Well today, I checked the weather…
How in the Anime World Did this Happen?! Anime-Hanabi got Hacked!
So . . . Yeah, my website got hacked. A little while ago I happened upon a blogger who posted about their troubles with setting up a new…
Anime Music Videos and the Fan that Started it All!
Most people that enjoy a specific media like music or movies or anime, just casually consume the entertainment, maybe they might keep up on a little of the…
Valentine’s day and White day in Anime!
Though most people in the Western World are familiar with Valentine’s Day, the Japanese celebration of White Day might not be as well known. As you might have…
Sorry, No Anime! Too Tired from Adulting!
I recently was bestowed a promotion at my job. (Yay, more money!) But it came with new expectations. (Boo, more work!) Yesterday was particularly tiring and I just…
When You Love an Anime Too Much to See It Again
I have a special bond with the anime/manga series Trigun. It all started at the very beginning of my anime journey years ago. If you’ve read my About…
Spotting the Rare Manga of Clamp Island!
I was recently reading a blog post on Drunken Anime Blog.com and Irina mentioned the lesser known manga by Clamp called Kobato. It had been so long since…
Buying Something Just Because it’s Kawaii!
Buying something just because it’s cute, but you have no real use or need for it. Buying something just because you like the packaging, even though you have…
If I could change One Little Thing about this Anime . . .
Recently, while watching the latest episodes of the fresh Winter Season of anime, I noticed that I just kept thinking, “This anime is really good, But, if I…
Anime to Hop into the Year of the Rabbit!
The 15 day long Lunar New Year had come around once again, and this time it’s the Year of the Rabbit! Each Lunar New Year is represented by…
Anime Color Wheel! When Opposites Match!
As I was bouncing around the anime blog-o-sphere recently, I happened upon an interesting post from Irina at Drunken Anime Blog about her blogging process. Part of her…
Learning Japanese 3 Ways with Anime!
I’ve posted before on my blog about different ways that watching anime might help you to learn Japanese. I’ve mentioned how learning exclamations can give you an instant…
Rainy Day Anime!
It’s Winter where I live, and that means rain, rain, and more rain! I wake up in the morning and it’s dark and sprinkling. I go run errands…
Anime Instant Reactions: Smile, Laugh, Clap, Cheer!
As I was furiously trying to watch all of the Winter anime season premiers in one binge watching dash (I’m a little behind because I’ve been distracted by…
I don’t Watch Idol Anime, Except . . .
If anyone had asked me last week if I watched Idol Anime, I would have definitely said, no. Though I don’t find anything offensive about the genre, the…
Best Anime of 2022!
At last a new year has come and 2022 is far, far behind us . . . by like a whole day! But I’m sure there are many…
Yay, Happy New Year!
Hopefully 2023 will be filled with lots of fun, laughter, and really great anime! Did everyone get to see some great fireworks last night at the stroke of…
A Sad Good Bye to 2022!
The year is finally coming to a close. It’s time to say good bye to all the wacky weirdness that this year brought, and ring in the new…
Holiday . . . fatigue . . . too. . . exhausted. . . to type! . . . Blarg! (I died)
I had one heck of a great Christmas yesterday, Santa brought me a great manga that I really wanted, I watched some surprisingly good anime, and I got…
T’was the Night Before Anime: A Christmas Post!
I was wracking my brain trying to think of the perfect Christmas post, and I just couldn’t think of anything that I hadn’t already posted about last year.…
A Very Anime Christmas Story!
Growing up, every Christmas Eve my family would watch the movie A Christmas Story together while eating holiday cookies. It was a very happy tradition that, unfortunately at…