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The Night is Short, Walk on Girl: Wishes Don’t Fulfil Themselves

Spoilers for The Night is Short, Walk on Girl. Those who have been watching anime for a while likely know about the legend of the red string of…

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Hakumei to Mikochi, Violet Evergarden, and Historical Context in Anime

The Industrial Revolution irreversibly altered the world. The mark it made upon society can still very much be seen today, and it serves as the baseline for many…

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Is it Fair to Compare Works by the Same Studio?

The critical evaluation of anime (and media in general) is driven by comparison. This is only natural since we base all our opinions off of previous experiences. If…

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The ‘A-1 Protagonist’

Spoilers for the first episode of Darling in the Franxx below. The first episode of Darling in the Franxx, a collaboration project between the studios Trigger and A-1…

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The Employment of False Visuals in the Monogatari Series

The other day I concisely twittered with Tim from Thoughts That Move about the Monogatari Series, an anime that I have been bewitched by ever since first laying…

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An Interesting Take on Character Development

Spoilers for the anime Land of the Lustrous (Houseki no Kuni) below. A few days ago I watched Land of the Lustrous to see what all the fuzz…

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The Importance of Ambience in Anime

Over the past few days I’ve been finishing the anime Silver Spoon by A-1 Pictures. It was alright but in my opinion not exceptional. I just couldn’t quite…

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Prison School is Oddly Relatable, Obscene and Hilarious

Prison School is an ecchi comedy anime that I finished only yesterday. Already though, have I come to the conclusion that it is one of the funniest anime…

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Oblige

Oblige is an indie game I had the pleasure of playing about a month ago. I found out about it in a stray PC Gamer tweet. The pixel…

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