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Do You Love Your Family and their Anime Antics?
We all talk about getting non-anime fans into anime, but what about the opposite…?
Wrapping Up Winter 2021
Spoilers below, as always.
Healin' Good Pretty Cure, Horimiya, Kemono Jihen, Pretty Cure, Bungo Stray Dogs
The Quest for an Anime About Hacking Continues (AKA Summer 2022 First Impressions: Yurei Deco)
Details can be found in this post.
Aria’s Original Sin
…It’s funny how karma comes to bite you in the butt sometimes, yeah? (Also, minor spoilers ahead for the Hypnosis Mic drama track Mixed Up.)
Summer 2022 First Impressions: Tokyo Mew Mew New
I had my reservations about this series, but since it’s a reboot and not a sequel (…so far…), it should be safe…right…?
Summer 2022 First Impressions: Phantom of the Idol
This anime kicks off the summer 2022 season, so check over there for some more notes on this series.
Anime and Manga Budget Buys – eBay Style
Now that I’ve wandered eBay and started trying to offload books and unwanted anime discs there, I have some eBay-specific updates to this ol’ OWLS post.
What Makes Ya Boy Kongming Tick?
I didn’t think I’d like Paripi Koumei for this long, to be honest…
The Weirdness of Merchandise
Inspired by Irina’s post on anime perfumes.
The Eximius Blog Award
I don’t think I’ve seen this award before Terrance Crow tagged me…
Manga March (5): Toritan
Last manga for this month! How did I do?
Manga March (4): 7th Garden
I’ve been wanting to talk about this title for a while, but I never find the right opportunity for it…
What Platinum End Says About My Past and Present
(TW for discussion of death, suicide, suicide ideation and trauma.)
Manga March 2022 (3): Showa Genroku Rakugo Shinjuu
…I swear my approach to each manga changes as I continue to write posts in this series, haha…
Burn that Backlog!
Inspired by this Mashable article.
Manga March 2022 (2): To Your Eternity
Note I have discussed the manga in some capacity here already.
Manga March 2022 (1) (+ A Thing You May Not Have Spotted): The Wizard and His Fairy
After thinking a bit about the idea I floated in this update post, I decided to make it part of my old tag, Manga March. (Remember that?)
The Threshold of Relatability
Inspired by this post by Karandi.
Social Anxiety Through Comedy (A Tsuritama Rewatch Project Post)
Tsuritama doesn’t feature social anxiety as front and centre as other anime do, but the strange faces Yuki makes are window dressing for a bigger issue.
Why Don’t People Like Anime Feminists?
Inspired by this Artifice post and…well, Anime Feminist itself.
Happy Singles’ Awareness Day (…not)!
“Everyone is in love.” I kinda feel like I was being denied with this statement.
Are People’s Tastes in Media Crap?
Inspired by a years-old post which still holds relevance to this very day. (It also contains a mild spoiler for Hypnosis Mic not addressed by Rhyme Anima.)
Showa Genroku Rakugo Shinju, Descending Stories: Showa Genroku Rakugo Shinju
Tales of Luminaria: Press Play, Fast Forward
The title refers to the opening line of this song.
12 More Manga I Want Adapted into Anime (and the Odds of That Happening)
With the announcement of anime Spirit Circle, it’s time to get back on that wishlist bandwagon!
Write What You Want (Or, the Not-Very-Stringent Guide to Winning Followers)
You ever heard of the Butterfly Effect?
The One With the Podcasts
In which discovering a podcast (on Wikipedia, no less!) helped a blogger put their own identity issues to rest. (…yes, the title is a Friends reference, although I…
Hyping Up Winter 2022
Noting how much I’ve got backlogged, I’m probably going to sit this one out entirely.
Sabikui Bisco, Saiyuki, Saiyuki Reload, Sasaki and Miyano, LINK CLICK
The Write Process (2)
The first post is here, although this was also inspired by this Side of Fiction post.
Looking Back and Moving Forward (Update Post)
4 years can really change a person…
Dropped – What Could Have Been (Anime Vers.)
Again inspired by Phoenix’s series of posts. My manga version is here.
Hakone-chan, Hakumei and Mikochi, Heybot!, Reborn!, The Demon Girl Next Door
Dropped – What Could Have Been (Manga Vers.)
Inspired by Phoenix’s Dropped post series.
Inu X Boku Secret Service, JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, Dr. Ramune -Mysterious Disease Specialist-, Phoenix
Sending Off Summer 2020
As always, spoilers below.
Show-ha Shoten Has Struck Comedy Gold
They say comedy is subjective…
(Late…?) Fall 2021 First Impressions: For the Artsy Ones
You might’ve thought I was gone from seasonal anime for good, after I chose not to catch up to the summer season. Well, you can’t keep a good(?)…
Those Anime Left Behind
Seeing listicles like this is starting to piss me off…
Some Manga, The Mugen Train and Other Musings
It’s been a hot minute since I was blogging here, huh?
Yotsuiro Biyori, Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba, Demon Slayer -Kimetsu no Yaiba- The Movie: Mugen Train
Hyping Up Fall 2021
Welp, after a season’s hiatus, I have a list! Note I’m still chipping away at my spreadsheet of over 100 episodes so my hype is low for everything…
Platinum End, The Night Beyond the Tricornered Window, Tesla Note, VISUAL PRISON, Requiem of the Rose King
The World Ends With You(r Relationships)
For this post, I wanted to take a different tack to the other post, because that was so clearly done on a time limit, to the point the…
Do We Need the Terms Shonen/Shoujo/Seinen/Josei Anymore?
This is a reply to this Anime News Network article.
Komi Can’t Communicate is Hugely Relatable
My dad once told me everyone is a bit introverted…I don’t believe him, but the reason this manga is relatable is because everyone gets a little tongue-tied once…
Just a Small Update
Lately, I’ve been watching a lot but don’t really have a lot to say on stuff, aside from what I’ve said already, some stuff I already have written…
Is the Cute Girls Doing Cute Things Genre Oversaturated?
Is any genre “oversaturated”?
It’s Getting Hot in Here… (Tag Post)
Taking on Shoujo’s open invitation, but I’m also going to leave this open for anyone else to take up.
Yotsuiro Biyori, Bungo Stray Dogs, Bungo Stray Dogs WAN!, Fate/Zero
On the Gendering of Merchandise
I went on a long ramble in the tags of a magicalgirlsandcerulean post, so I might as well elaborate on my thoughts here…
100 Worst Anime Openings! – K and Friends Rate “Bad” Anime OPs
Reblogged on WordPress.com
Should Translator Visibility Matter?
There’s this concept called “the visibility of the translator” in translation studies. Certainly, people like us anime and manga fans, who consume translations, would be more awar…