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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…
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…
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
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…
BIRDIE FUCKING WING
12 Days of Aniblogging 2022, Day 3 One thing you should know about me is that I fundamentally oppose golf. It’s an $85 billion industry built around land use…
On Reading Yuri with a Death Wish
12 Days of Aniblogging 2022, Day 1 This essay will discuss suicide. Existentialism is the study of why you shouldn’t kill yourself. This is a noble pursuit, because I’m never…
Floating Catacombs is Back
Hanging in there. As is tradition, I am going to try my best to put out one blog post per day in the 12 days leading up to…
Floating Catacombs 2021 Roundup
Merry Christmas! Another year of blogging has come and gone, and I successfully wrote my way through the entire Metal Gear Solid series on top of finishing CLAMP's…
Some Manga I Read About Gay Women To Cap Off This Wretched Year
12 Days of Aniblogging 2021, Day 12 Merry Christmas! These past 12 days have been a whirlwind, but I’m so glad I was able to get all of my blog…
Why Is CLAMP Like This, Part IV
12 Days of Aniblogging 2021, Day 10 Yet again I am here to review each CLAMP manga in chronological order. We've finally reached the 2010s, and yet again I…
Why Is CLAMP Like This, Part III
12 Days of Aniblogging 2021, Day 9 Last year I pledged myself to blogging through CLAMP’s entire published corpus, and this year I finally succeeded. CLAMP’s 2000s were mostly…
Cardcaptor Sakura, Chobits, CLAMP School Detectives, Himawari, Kobato
Q Hayashida’s Maken X Manga
12 Days of Aniblogging 2021, Day 8 I finally got around to the anime adaptation of Dorohedoro this year, and was not disappointed. It has one of the best…
A Year of Metal Gear - Part III
12 Days of Aniblogging 2021, Day 6 This is a blog series in which I reflect on every main-series Metal Gear Solid game in release order. Here are links…
A Year of Metal Gear - Part 2
12 Days of Aniblogging 2021, Day 5 This is a blog series in which I reflect on every main-series Metal Gear Solid game in release order. Click here for…
A Year Of Metal Gear – Part 1
12 Days Of Aniblogging 2021, Day 4 Yes, the Metal Gear franchise is anime. That should be obvious. All the way back in January I persuaded my girlfriend to play…
Studio Trigger’s Best Anime
12 Days of Aniblogging 2021, Day 2 Studio Trigger is a weird place. Proudly carrying the torch of Gainax, they focus on original projects with a flair for over-the-top…
Explanations below the cut!Official Nichijou Power Rankings12...
Explanations below the cut! Official Nichijou Power Rankings 12 Days of Aniblogging 2021, Day 1 Always a decade late to the party, I finally watched Nichijou for the first time this…
Floating Catacombs 2020 Roundup
Merry Christmas! I’m really happy with how my creative endeavors this December turned out. Thank you to everyone who stumbled upon my blog this year, it’s always nice to…
Dear Brother, Gatchaman, Gatchaman Crowds, The Tatami Galaxy
Even More Lesbian Manga About Adults Before My Holiday Creative Energies Wither Away
12 Days of Aniblogging 2020, Day 12 It’s easily been Floating Catacombs’ most successful year, with far more posts that I’m proud of than previous times. With that, I’d…
Normally I Take A Break From Blogging On The 24th, But I Just Learned This Cool Castlevania Fact So Now You Get to Hear It Too
12 Days of Aniblogging 2020, Day 11 Soma Cruz is named after Penelope Cruz. Okay, carry on with your Christmas Eve.
Analyzing That One Adolesence Of Utena Scene Where Juri Makes A Pass At Miki
12 Days of Aniblogging, Day 10 First things first: Adolescence of Utena is great! I’m not sure if people still have extremely divisive opinions on it or if we’ve…
Scraping the Bottom of the Yuri Barrel
12 Days of Aniblogging 2020, Day 9 There’s only so much yuri manga out there, and not everything can be Bloom Into You. There’s plenty of garbage, and most…
Microsoft’s Anime Forays12 Days of Aniblogging 2020, Day 8Microsoft dedicates part of their...
12 Days of Aniblogging 2020, Day 8 Microsoft dedicates part of their developer network to instructional and promotional videos, to give developers in their ecosystem a better grasp on…
Why Is CLAMP Like This, Part II
12 Days of Aniblogging 2020, Day 7 We’re back! Like yesterday’s post, I’ll be providing my thoughts on each Clamp series I read this year, for better or for…
Why Is CLAMP Like This
12 Days of Aniblogging 2020, Day 6 You ever watch, read, play, or listen to something that’s so good that you’re scared of looking at the artist’s other works?…
Hand Shakers, Magic Knight Rayearth, RG Veda, Tokyo Babylon, X/1999
Listening to a Different Apocalypse12 Days of Aniblogging 2020, Day 5based on a true storyFor the...
12 Days of Aniblogging 2020, Day 5 based on a true story For the past two years I’ve reserved my fifth post for music blogging. Unfortunately, this year there was…
Dear Brother... and Homosociality
12 Days of Aniblogging 2020, Day 4 I’ve been watching through Oniisama e…, known in English as Dear Brother, at a delightfully glacial pace. Never more than one episode…
The Tatami Galaxy Before and After College
Obviously 2020 was one fuck of a year for everyone except for a handful of billionaires. Everyone’s coping mechanisms vary, but returning to old media is a classic.…
I Played the Utena Saturn Game
12 Days of Aniblogging 2020, Day 2 I shied away from it in 2019, but this year I sank my teeth right back into Revolutionary Girl Utena. It’s simply…
Evaluting Gatchaman Crowds Through Rui’s Outfits
12 Days of Aniblogging 2020, Day 1 Oh, I’m fashionably late to this one. Gatchaman Crowds is a 2013 superhero anime that serves as a soft reboot of the…
Floating Catacombs is Back
The show must go on. I’ll be doing the 12 Days of Anime challenge again, one blog post for each day leading up to Christmas. I don’t have an…
Floating Catacombs 2019 Roundup
Merry Christmas!It’s been another successful 12 Days of Anime Blogging under this URL, and I’m a lot more proud of my blogging this time around. Although I didn’t…
I Write About Fate
12 Days of Aniblogging 2019, Day 10One of the coolest things about Fate/stay night is that it’s divided neatly into three separate, linear routes. First the Fate arc, followed…
You Fucked Up with the Glasses Symbolism!
12 Days of Aniblogging 2019, Day 9While we’re on the topic of tropes, glasses. While in other stories glasses represent positive traits such as vision, intelligence, and dignity, in coming-of-age…
My Girlfriend Writes About Sarazanmai
12 Days of Aniblogging 2019, Day 8so the show about three anal-vore-suit wearing middle schoolers orgasmically extracting fetishists’ secrets from their butts doesn’t go far enough.yeah I said…
The Magic and Wise Asexual
12 Days of Aniblogging 2019, Day 7Media tropes about LGBT+ identities are just as old as the identities themselves. The unfaithful bisexual, the effeminate gay, the fetishistic trans woman, the…
Momus Can Be Anime Too
12 Days of Aniblogging 2019, Day 6Last year I set aside one of my posts for music instead of anime, writing about how Kero Kero Bonito’s album helped me cope…
Becoming a Woman: Fukaboku, Kanoboku, and Identity Through Artstyle
12 Days of Aniblogging, Day 5This year, I read two mangas with trans identity and gender nonconformity as their primary themes. The first, Fukakai na Boku no Subete wo,…