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Floating Catacombs 2025 Roundup
Another year, another dozen-ish essays of weeby crit. My writing voice is growing stronger. I will not be stopped. Bullets have no effect.Here’s a roundup post, in case…
Carmilla Flow
12 Days of Anime 2025, Day 12We conclude, as always, with some yuri manga I read this year where they weren’t high schoolers.Asagiiro no SaudadeSaudade is a potent…
The Larian Secret Sauce
12 Days of Anime 2025, Day 10I’ve poked at this idea a few times before, but people really hate cuckoldry in their anime and manga. In the eyes…
Ramblings of the Killer
12 Days of Anime 2025, Day 9Who owns the cultural zeitgeist? Does it trickle down from the rich and famous, or does it rupture up from the young…
More Like Kowloon Washed City Amirite
12 Days of Anime 2025, Day 8Nostalgia is one hell of a drug, and Kowloon Generic Romance runs with this idea on the visual, thematic, and literal level.…
KOWLOON GENERIC ROMANCE, LOOK BACK, Real Girl, Legend of the Crystals: Final Fantasy
THIS WOULD LOOK NICE ON YOUR WALL
12 Days of Anime 2025, Day 7I watched through Twin Peaks for the first time this year and obviously found it to be Peak, perhaps the defining text…
How Long Must My Journey Go
12 Days of Anime 2025, Day 6It’s cool to have a new favorite band. Until this year, my answer all this time had been… Nightwish? They were the…
The Arima Kinen is Decadent and Depraved
12 Days of Anime 2025, Day 5Warnings for drug use, blending fact and fiction, and the invocation of gonzo.I got off the metro around nine, avoiding eye contact…
Interlude: Char’s Counterattack
12 Days of Anime 2025, Day 4This was supposed to a fun little aside included in my Gquuuux writeup, but I went mad with power working on it,…
HOW MANY U’S ARE IN QUUUUUUX AGAIN
12 Days of Anime 2025, Day 3A new year, a new Gundam to politely complain about. All is as it should be.The first thing that should to be…
Do you think Yuna effectively utilized girl power by funneling gil to her paramilitary looting squad on the Celsius?
12 Days of Anime 2025, Day 2Final Fantasy X-2 cold-opens with everyone’s favorite doomed priestess Yuna doing a magical girl transformation into a racy stage outfit and putting…
AH HA HA HA HA
12 Days of Anime 2025, Day 1There’s a scene about halfway through Final Fantasy X where the pope and cardinals of the game’s central religion reveal themselves all…
Floating Catacombs is Back
And managing. Per the rituals, I’ll be posting an essay on each of the twelve days leading up to Christmas.Themes this year include nostalgia and the denial of…
Floating Catacombs 2024 Roundup
Another year, another twelve days of weeb blogging, and I’m quite satisfied with this batch. You will be too, if you’re interested in yuri, moe, or Gundam. Here’s…
More Yuri About Adults To Accompany Your Seasonal Festivities
12 Days of Aniblogging 2024, Day 12Happy Christmas and Hanukkah!Per usual, I will close out this year’s blogging by going over some yuri I read this year starring…
The Normal Author’s Girlfriend’s List Of Bad Yuri Anime
12 Days of Aniblogging 2024, Day 11 So you’ve seen some good yuri anime: Revolutionary Girl Utena (and the movie, if you want), Bloom Into You, Puella Magi Madoka…
Turn A Gundam, Bloom Into You, Hanamonogatari, Liz and the Blue Bird, Loveless
Trying to Talk About Touhou Two
12 Days of Aniblogging 2024, Day 10 Hot off the heels of my touhoublogging last year, I continued playing through the games, and am proud to say that I…
Clear Card Crit
12 Days of Aniblogging 2024, Day 9I’ve been waiting to go hater mode on this manga for years, but they just kept pushing back when it would end…
Tech So Bad It Sounds Like The Reviewers Are Just Plain Depressed
12 Days of Aniblogging 2024, Day 8 I really do try to stay away from armchair cultural criticism, especially when it's this far removed from my weaboo wheelhouse, but…
Teekyuu and Hubris
12 Days of Aniblogging 2024, Day 7Chronic illness begets a certain amount of magical thinking. Having to deal with your own body attacking itself at random intervals leads…
Berserk, Dorohedoro, Land of the Lustrous, Mononoke, Teekyuu
Getting Scared Shitless by Boards of Canada
12 Days of Aniblogging 2024, Day 6I promised a more sketched-out music post this year, and while I got into a ton of artists in 2024, there was…
So Help Me God, Lucky Star Is Actually Good
12 Days of Aniblogging 2024, Day 5 As someone who was hard-filtered by the choco cornet during my first attempt a decade ago, some part of me still finds…
UFO 50 Abducted Me For 159.2 Hours
12 Days of Aniblogging 2024, Day 4 I love video games... UFO 50 may love video games more than me, though. It’s a preposterously ambitious compilation of fifty small-to-medium-scale…
Do Not Watch Stardust Memory
12 Days of Aniblogging 2024, Day 3The Universal Century Gundam OVAs are pretty well-regarded as a whole. War in the Pocket is an antiwar Christmas classic from the…
Mobile Suit Gundam 00, Mobile Suit Gundam 0083: Stardust Memory, Unico, Macross, Macross Plus
Anaheim Gals Being Anaheim Pals
12 Days of Aniblogging 2024, Day 2 Zeta Gundam has a real lurching, strange start by design. In the time between the One Year War and the Gryps Conflict,…
Zeta Gundam and Being Weird About Women
12 Days of Aniblogging 2024, Day 1 I watched the original Mobile Suit Gundam series last year and found it to be what the kids call “peak”. War and…
Floating Catacombs is Back
As fate ordains, I'll be posting one essay per day during the twelve days leading up to Christmas. Topics this year include moe, sequels, and ghosts of the past.
Floating Catacombs 2023 Roundup
Thanks for sticking with me as I descend ever further into my weeb niches. Here’s a roundup post, in case you missed anything or are new to this…
What Else Did You Expect But More Yuri About Adults
12 Days of Aniblogging 2023, Day 12 It is my sworn duty to document the yuri genre as it continues to graduate from high school. Here's the pickings from…
The Little Guys Who Live on My Desk
12 Days of Aniblogging 2023, Day 11 Normally I take the 24th off, but I had a nice low-effort idea this year. Now that you’re trapped inside my post,…
GENSHIKEN POWER LEVELS
12 Days of Aniblogging 2023, Day 10 For no particular reason, all the members of the Genshiken have had their abilities translated into specific parameters. It’s pretty obvious that…
Trying to Talk about Touhou
12 Days of Aniblogging 2023, Day 9 This is the year that something finally clicked. I went from getting a game over halfway through any given Touhou game to…
Go Nagai was insane for this one
12 Days of Aniblogging 2023, Day 8 I like to always have manga of dubious quality on tap for when I’m having trouble sleeping. Ideally, reading a few chapters…
annual music post?
12 Days of Aniblogging 2023, Day 6 Well, it could’ve been worse. I’m still suffering from pretty much every health problem I complained about last year. I can’t breathe right,…
Bro Your Taste….
12 Days of Aniblogging 2023, Day 5 Watching the Elitist Anime Superbowl play out earlier this year on Tumblr reawakened something in me. Seeing Evangelion lose to Mononoke like…
Compile Hagiography Through Reading The Hyperdimension Neptunia Wiki
12 Days of Aniblogging 2023, Day 4 When I’m really bored on the computer, one of the things I'll occasionally do is explore the Hyperdimension Neptunia wiki. Neptunia is…
Patlabor is On Lock
12 Days of Aniblogging 2023, Day 3 While Gundam is the most recognizable mecha anime I got into this year, most of my time was really spent working my…
Ghost in the Shell, Macross, Mobile Suit Gundam, Porco Rosso, Wizardry
It’s the Tar Taking Over That Came Unexpected
12 Days of Aniblogging 2023, Day 2 Back when it was a frustratingly rare Wii exclusive, I braved a storm to hunt down a used copy of Xenoblade Chronicles,…
Legend of the Crystals: Final Fantasy, Fire Emblem, exception
Bandai Taketh Away
12 Days of Aniblogging 2023, Day 1 Last year I wrote a post extolling the virtues of Birdie Wing, 2022’s breakthrough “how the fuck did this get made” mafia…
Mobile Suit Gundam: The Witch from Mercury, Symphogear, Earthian, Kakegurui, Macross
Floating Catacombs is Back
Greetings to followers old and new. As always, I'll be publishing a blog post on each of the twelve days leading up to Christmas. This year's theme is "I…
Floating Catacombs 2022 Roundup
It's been a difficult year, but I'm pretty happy with the essays I got out this time. I'm starting to poke at weirder, more complicated ideas, and broadening…
Yuri Soup for the Soul
12 Days of Aniblogging 2022, Day 12 Merry Christmas! I got pretty sick last night (doing better now) so let's keep this one brief. As per usual, I'm ending my…
A Year of Metal Gear: REVENGEANCE
12 Days of Aniblogging 2022, Day 10 By no means should Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance actually be good. It’s a hack-and-slash character action game that emerged without any involvement…
12 Days of Aniblogging 2022, Day 9 This is your usual anime blogger’s girlfriend speaking. We watched a lot of the same anime together this year, so in the…
STUDIO GHIBLI LIGHTNING ROUND
12 Days of Aniblogging 2022, Day 8 Work’s been way busier than expected and it’s cutting into my writing time. This is annoying because I still have an absolutely…
The Cat Returns, Whisper of the Heart, Grave of the Fireflies, Mononoke, My Neighbor Totoro
The Dogs of War
12 Days of Aniblogging 2022, Day 7 Something is in the air, as this year I ended up reading three separate works that involved doggirls and the military. Either…
annual music post.
12 Days of Aniblogging 2022, Day 6 I am sick. No, it’s not covid. My immune system and I have been doing a remarkably good job of dodging covid, all…
Macross Frontier and the Hilarity of Giving Your Protagonist a Recap Movie-Only Gender Dysphoria Arc
12 Days of Aniblogging 2022, Day 5 Thanks to the defusal of a 20-year legal nightmare that prevented the distribution of the franchise outside of Japan until last year,…
On Playing Caves of Qud For A Month Straight and Developing an RSI
12 Days of Aniblogging 2022, Day 4 With the recent successful commercial launch of Dwarf Fortress, I wanted to take a break from anime and recount my own experiences…