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Calling it a Day
As this garbage year draws to a close it feels appropriate to actually ‘end’ this blog. Regular readers (all 3 of you) have probably noticed that posts fell…
My Top 14 Anime of 2017
2016 didn’t really end when it became 2017 and this hellscape of a world continues to get increasingly stupid and hostile, but hey! At least the anime was…
Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid, New Game!, Showa Genroku Rakugo Shinju, The Eccentric Family, March Comes in Like a Lion
12 Days of Anime #1: Sayonara, Mitty
In horror we find empathy. Would we be terrified if we weren’t sharing in the protagonist’s plight? Why are we afraid if we’re not imagining ourselves in their…
12 Days of Anime #2: Silent Fireworks
I had the good fortune getting to watch A Silent Voice in the cinema this year. It was quite the little event – it was one of the…
12 Days of Anime #3: I Quit Cardfight!! Vanguard and This is Why
I quit playing Cardfight!! Vanguard this year. I suggested I would last year, but it took me until November to call it an end. It wasn’t the easiest…
12 Days of Anime #4: Land of the Loathing
Land of the Lustrous has gone from strength to strength over its run. From the utterly captivating premise and aesthetics to the highly distinct and entertaining personalities in…
12 Days of Anime #5: After the Sunset Comes the Moon
Anime has a reputation for lacking meaningful closure; between adaptations of ongoing manga, blatant sequel hooks and a cultural preference for ambiguity over concrete finality, a lot of…
12 Days of Anime #6: Three Friends for the Price of One!
To call Kemono Friends the ‘dark horse’ series of 2017 is to undersell it to the point of wilful misrepresentation; it’s one of the most absurd, bizarre, and…
12 Days of Anime #7: The Deepest Cut
Undoubtedly the weirdest anime related thing to ever happen to me occurred this year. It’s not even a case of ‘small world’, just a bizarre series of coincidences;…
12 Days of Anime #8: Gelato Treat
God DAMN I’ve been loving Kirakira☆Precure À La Mode. It’s been so much fun, with endless energy, fantastic characters, compelling villains and a lot of tremendously heartfelt episodes.…