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Hidden Gems: Beelzebub
Given that Beelzebub is about 13 years old I’m guessing a lot of newer fans have never heard of it nor seen it. Even if you’ve been around…
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The Best Trick in Storytelling: Doing the Thing
I have come to a revelation. The single best writing trick is spoiling your own plot and just doing your story as advertized. Forget 10,000 IQ plot twists…
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Unpopular Opinion: My Hero Academia
I just can’t watch this show anymore. It peaked a long time ago and it has never really recovered. And now as of season 7, episode 4 (which…
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The Paragon of Western Writing Problems: Hazbin Hotel
I didn’t really want to post this here, as this meant to just be for anime, with some related outliers like Blue Eye Samurai. But I need to…
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Unpopular Opinion: Kingdom – The Fire Burned Out
Man it sucks to be writing this. TLDR is that Kingdom, an anime I have stood by for more than a decade is something I don’t even want…
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Understanding Femininity: How to Balance it in Character Writing
Despite the title this is not a post which will unravel the mysteries of women. I am a man, I do not understand women. But I do understand…
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Not so Surly Summary: Winter 2024 Cometh
I hope all my readers across the globe had a wonderful Christmas and are looking forward to the new year. If you don’t celebrate Christmas for whatever reason…
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Unpopular Opinion: Blue Eye Samurai
This is not an anime, and boy does that shine through in places, but this is the closest we’ve had to an Arcane situation since Arcane. And on…
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Unpopular Opinion: Pluto
Pluto is an extremely well produced waste of 8 hours. Do not be deceived by the high quality visuals, grounded character designs and theatrically concealed mystery plot. These…
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Shingeki no Kyojin: A Truly Titanic Endeavor
“Attack on Titan is a modern classic” is something various people from various mediums with infinitely more reach than me have already said. And they’re right. If anything…
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Seasonal Summaries: Fall 2023
Truly there is nothing you need more in your life than the sludge an obscure blogger can reliably turn out every couple months when he has no inspiration…
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Seasonal Summaries: Summer 2023 Roundup
Man this is a weird season of anime. Despite the fact we’re hitting the 12 week mark and getting ready to start a new season, the bulk of…
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Unpopular Opinion: Blue Lock
There are 3 kinds of sports anime. Man/fanservice sports, sports for boys and sports for men. The first category is self-explanatory and the second is the most common…
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Understanding Evil: Geto Suguru
There will be spoilers, you’ve been warned. Jujutsu Kaisen Season 2, Episode 5 is one the best episodes of anime I’ve ever seen. And in retrospect that’s kind…
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Unpopular Opinion: Kyokou Suiri
If you’ve never heard of or seen Kyokou Suiri and want a spoiler free review, this will not help you very much. It is a supernatural detective-type show…
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Unpopular Opinion – Baki: Son of Ogre 2
As far as the Netflix seasons of Baki go, this one is my second favorite behind Baki 2’s Raitai tournament arc. It combines the ludicrous premise of 2018’s…
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Seasonal Summaries Summer 2023
Truly there is no content you need more than the first impressions of the shows a no-name anime blogger is watching this season. I’ll start with sequels because…
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Seasonal Summaries: Spring 2023
Spring 2023 was a season with some incredibly high highs and very low lows. And with Summer 2023 looking a lot slower outside a few heavy hitters, what…
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Abandon the Modern Mindset: Know Only Immersion
Immersion is something touted a lot in the critical landscape. Shows, games, books, etc. which successfully draw you into their world are immersive and this is rightly taken…
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Unpopular Opinion: Tengoku Daimakyou
Tengoku Daimakyou is a difficult show to review and recommend. There are hardly any shows like it that I can recall but I’ll do my best to start…
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Unpopular Opinion: Gundam Witch from Mercury Season 2
Honestly I still don’t know how to feel about this. In case you missed my prior reviews, the TLDR is that the prologue, season 1 and the first…
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Gundam – Witch from Mercury 2: Emotional Damage
This is not a full review of Witch from Mercury 2, I’m still eagerly awaiting the episodes to come. Instead I wanted to explore the events of season…
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Stars Visions 2: Force Lightning Boogaloo
This was a sequel I was not expecting. Somehow even more experimental than the last collection of animated Star Wars shorts, Star Wars Visions 2 incorporates animation studios…
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RWBY Volume 9 – A Bolt from the Blue
Talk about a comeback. From the shambling disaster that was Volume 8, a point in RWBY so low I was considering dropping the show after all these years,…
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A False Harbinger: Oshi no Ko
I recommend you give this a try, even if the subject matter doesn’t initially seem up your alley. Despite the many quality contenders out there this season, I…
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To Rage or Not to Rage? – RWBY Volume 9
This is not a review of RWBY Volume 9. I want to save that for when the Volume is finished because I almost wrote about Volume 8 early…
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Living Long Enough to Become the Hero – Danmachi:
Usually the Batman quote I’m inverting holds true, shows that start at as awesome (heroes if you will) go on so long and power creep so hard or…
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Unpopular Opinion: Mobile Suit Gundam The Witch From Mercury
Mobile Suit Gundam The Witch from Mercury is something truly special. If you’re here for a spoiler free recommendation the answer is yes, go watch it, and make…
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Unpopular Opinion: Summertime Render
There are few things as disappointing as a show which comes so close to perfection, only to fumble at the 11th hour. Which sadly is how I felt…
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Unpopular Opinion: Utawarerumono Franchise Revisited
Fuck me this was painful. Let it be known that I adore the original Utawarerumono. I’d go so far as to say it’s in my top 3 anime…
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Understanding Extremity – Made in Abyss: Retsujitsu no Ougonkyou
Creators and audiences of all kinds have long understood the power of situational contrast. A victory against long odds inspires more than an expected victory. An unexpected loss…
Made in Abyss, Made in Abyss: The Golden City of the Scorching Sun
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Hidden Gems: Shokei Shoujo no Virgin Road
Are you tired of isekai yet? It’s a genre so chock full of formulaic garbage that even its noteworthy successes are somewhat stained by merely being in the…
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Unpopular Opinion: Cyberpunk Edgerunners
If you want you know whether you should watch this with as few spoilers as possible, the answer is almost assuredly yes. This was a good show that…
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Hidden Gems: Akudama Drive
If you want to know whether or not you should watch this show without any spoilers then the answer is a resounding yes. It has excellent visuals, a…
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Raging Rant – RWBY Ice Queendom: Glorified Weiss Fanfic
I was always a little concerned by the title Ice Queendom, but I wasn’t prepared for just how shit this is. The worst part is that a new…
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Unpopular Opinion: RWBY Ice Queendom
There will be spoilers, you’ve been warned. This one is weird, but maybe a good weird. Episode 1 of Ice Queendom covers the entirety of RWBY season 1…
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First Impressions – Kingdom 4
As I am duty-bound to do with each new season of Kingdom, I want to give my thoughts now that we’re five episodes deep into Kingdom 4 –…
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Unpopular Opinion: 86
Let it be known that I’m not a mecha fan. Particularly not when it comes to Gundam style humanoid mechs, nothing wrong with the mecha designs just not…
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Unpopular Opinion – Arcane
2021 has been a phenomenal year for anime overall. Lots of big sequels to popular IPs, some surprise hits from new titles and handful of very popular manga…
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Unpopular Opinion: Star Wars Visions
In yet another classic case of being late to the party, here’s my review of the nine shorts from Star Wars Visions. I kinda forgot they existed while…
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Unpopular Opinion: Kingdom 3rd Season
I hate to say it, but this was a letdown. If you’ve read my first impressions of the show then you’ll pretty much known where I’m going with…
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Understanding Chronology: Featuring Baccano, Spider Isekai and Peach Boy Riverside
Chronology is such a basic facet of storytelling that it’s basically an implicit agreement between author and audience that you don’t play with it in such a way…
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Unpopular Opinion: Baki 2020
With Baki Son of Ogre now on the horizon, now’s as good a time as any to re-examine the existing seasons of Baki, in particular Baki 2020 as…
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Unpopular Opinion: Shuumatsu no Valkyrie – A Failed Adaptation
Just to head off anyone who disagreed based on the title but for some reason chose to read this anyway, I don’t mean that Record of Ragnarok (henceforth…
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Unpopular Opinion RWBY Volume 8: An Unmitigated Disaster
There are a lot of problems with Volume 8, but before I break into them one by one I think I need to address the influence of team…
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Unpopular Opinion: Jujutsu Kaisen
Holy fucking shit did this show go out with a bang. I’ll be the first to admit that this show always had potential, but for a long way…
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Unpopular Opinion: Slime Isekai vs Spider Isekai
VS Fuck it, no point easing into this one. I like Spider Isekai (Kumo desu ga nani ka?) more than Slime Isekai (That Time I was Reincarnated as…
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Understanding Trope Subversion: Redo of Healer vs The Wrong Way to Use Healing Magic
VS To say most anime rely on a consistent set of tropes is a massive understatement. A lot of the time anime can feel like nothing but a…
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Understanding Re:Zero Season 2 Part 2: Dead on Arrival
This will spoil the first few episodes of Re:Zero season 2 part 2 but honestly unless you truly love Re:Zero you aren’t missing much. I know it’s considered…
Seasonal Summaries: Fall 2020
This is honestly a great season of anime, one of the best recent memory, which is great since it looks like we might get more lockdowns coming soon.…