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5 Anime to Watch if You Like Dungeons & Dragons

Author’s Note: This post was written before Wizards of the Coast decided to get scummy and try to copyright Pathfinder out of existence. This is here to suggest…

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Bocchi the Rock! and Living with Anxiety

Bocchi the Rock was a stand-out show in a stand-out season. Picture, for a moment, having to make a moe comedy and music anime in the same season…

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Giant Beasts of Ars Review: Dark Horse Anime of the Season

Directed by Akira Oguro Produced by Asahi Production Streaming on Hidive In my previous reviews, I may have granted too great a share of my attention for the…

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Buddy Daddies Review: The Netflix Adaptation of Spy x Family

Directed by Yoshiyuki Asai Produced by PA Works Streaming on Crunchyroll It is the nature of corporate media to notice trends and attempt to capitalize on them. After…

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Ayakashi Triangle Review: Anime Was a Mistake

Directed by Noriaki Akitaya Produced by Connect Streaming on Crunchyroll I have defended ecchi anime about as often as I’ve criticized it. For every Food Wars and My…

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Kubo Won’t Let Me Be Invisible Review: Mob Justice

Directed by Kazuomi Koga Produced by Pine Jam Streaming on Hidive It feels good to be vindicated. There’s a sense of euphoria that you experience when the anime…

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The Angel Next Door Spoils Me Rotten Review: Diet Horimiya

Directed by Lihua Wang Produced by Project No. 9 Streaming on Crunchyroll Welcome to this special Valentine’s Day review. While we may die alone, it is at least…

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Trigun Stampede Review: Three Guns, Three Dimensions

Directed by Kenji Mutou Produced by Orange Streaming on Crunchyroll I feel like the only guy in the world who hasn’t seen Trigun. That’s the thing about anime;…

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Tomo-chan is a Girl Review: The Most Frustrating Anime This Season

Directed by Hitoshi Nanba Produced by Lay-Duce Streaming on Crunchyroll It is surprisingly difficult to find anime to review this season. Of the top ten anime airing this…

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NieR:Automata Ver1.1a: Anime of the YoRHa Material

Directed by Ryouji Masuyama Produced by A1 Pictures Streaming on Crunchyroll Anime adaptations of video games have not gotten nearly as bad a rep as their live action…

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Sound! Euphonium is GARBAGE

I’ve said it before, I’ll say it again; the word overrated is lazy. It is indicative of a person who is unwilling to analyze a story critically, but…

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How I Became a Visual Novel Guy – Collar x Malice

When I last left you on my quest to become a visual novel guy, I gave up on Aokana before even completing one route. Turns out, taking an…

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Mushoku Tensei: Lolis Aren’t “Just Drawings”

To date, my essay decrying Mushoku Tensei as the worst anime ever is my highest-performing post. It has garnered more support and criticism than every other post on…

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Anime of the Year – 2022

Is there a not-cliche way to open a retrospective? I don’t think so, but I’m going to try to avoid using such tired shibboleths as “another year of…

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The Live-Action My Hero Academia Movie Will Be AWFUL

There’s been chatter about a live-action adaptation of My Hero Academia for years, though that’s just been noise until news broke that Netflix would be joining production, alongside…

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I Was Wrong About Cowboy Bebop

This is the rare moment where I had a bad anime take, and managed to avoid publicizing it. In fact, up until this point, I’d forgive my readers…

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Link Click is the Perfect Anime

Anyone who has read my essay on Solo Leveling should have seen this coming, but it was up in the air as to whether or not I’d be…

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Bocchi the Rock! Review: K-On Can’t Communicate

Directed by Keiichirou Saitou Produced by Cloverworks Streaming on Crunchyroll I was in a bit of a pickle. I got ahead of myself and slated six reviews for…

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More Than a Married Couple, but Not Lovers Review: Rent-a-Girlfriend – Revengeance

There is an art to creating a title that might escape the average viewer. It’s not easy to devise a short handful of words that both tells the…

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Reincarnated as a Sword Review: Double-Edged Garbage

Directed by Shinji Ishihara Produced by C2C Streaming on HIDIVE The isekai genre has existed in some form or another for decades, though the current model was cemented…

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The Eminence in Shadow Review: The Punisher but Anime

Directed by Kazuya Nakanishi Produced by Nexus Streaming on HIDIVE Author’s Note: This is a first episode review, and I’ve been informed that the first episode of The…

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Blue Lock Review: The Anti-Anime

Directed by Tatsuaki Watanabe Produced by 8bit Streaming on Crunchyroll I have already written a glowing essay where I praise just about everything in Blue Lock and then…

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Chainsaw Man Review: Duh, It’s Perfect

Directed by Tatsuya Yoshihara & Ryuu Nakayama Produced by MAPPA Streaming on Crunchyroll I struggled for a hot minute on how to handle this review. Chainsaw Man was…

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My Anime OP/ED 3×3, Celebrating Two Years of the Otaku Exhibition

I have spent a lot of time thinking about what to do for the blog’s second anniversary. If I thought one year was a fluke, two puts that…

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Solo Leveling is the Best (Not) Isekai

Occasionally, I run into a topic I’ve already covered and think, “man, I wish I could rewrite that.” Every writer or artist is doomed to look back on…

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Mob Psycho 100 Proves Zack Snyder Wrong

This is one of those posts where I really have no idea where it’s going to go, but I already promised I was going to write it, so…

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I’m Obsessed with Blue Lock

Every season, I pick up a couple of volumes of manga, in an effort to learn a bit more about the anime I’m going to review. It’s how…

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How I Became a Visual Novel Guy – Aokana

Otaku is a word derived from the phenomenon of someone so consumed by their singular interest that they don’t leave the house. I guess I’m going to have…

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What’s the Deal with Queerbait in Anime?

Have you ever had an idea that just sounds like you’re about to kick a hornets’ nest, and you just decide to do it anyway? Yeah, me neither.…

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Soul Hackers 2 Review: I’m Not Gonna Say It

Developed by Atlus Directed by Eiji Ishida & Mitsuru Hirata Reviewed on Playstation 5 I will clear the air first by telling you I am not going to…

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The Battle for Best Girl: Persona 5 Royal

It is in our nature as weebs to argue about things that have absolutely no meaning whatsoever. We’re still hung up on whether or not Saitama could beat…

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What Makes the Best Harem Anime?

Harem anime don’t enjoy a lofty reputation, or get the same respect as their monogamous peers. That’s a shame, but the stigma isn’t entirely undeserved. You could easily…

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In Defense of Rent-A-Girlfriend

What does it mean to hate-watch an anime? There’s complex psychology behind a willingness to consume media you don’t like, don’t think is good, and wouldn’t recommend to…

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Engage Kiss Review: Shu’s Company, Three’s a Crowd

Directed by Tomoya Tanaka Produced by A-1 Pictures Streaming on Crunchyroll I tried to play it coy on my last review, though considering there’s only a few anime…

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Call of the Night Review: Still a Better Love Story than Twilight

Directed by Tomoyuki Itamura Produced by Lidenfilms Streaming on Hidive Yeah, yeah, I know, Twilight jokes in 2022 aren’t the height of relevance, but you might understand how…

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Lycoris Recoil Review: The Police State Will be Run by Anime Girls

Directed by Shingo Adachi Produced by A-1 Pictures Streaming on Crunchyroll Tone is vital to storytelling. What feeling is the writer attempting to evoke in their audience? Do…

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RWBY: Ice Queendom Review: This is Supposed to be an Improvement?

Directed by Kenjirou Okada & Toshimasa Suzuki Produced by Shaft Streaming on Crunchyroll If you were on the internet in 2013 and ’14, it was impossible to not…

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The Ancient Magus Bride Should Consider a Divorce

I have once again fallen victim to an anime being hyped up, only for it to turn out a giant snooze fest. Ah, a tale as old as…

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Tsurezure Children is Everything I’ve Been Looking For

If you’ve been writing publicly for a good chunk of time, you tend to take it for granted that your readers are familiar with the running themes of…

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I Hate Tomodachi Game

Somewhere in the Akashic records of my Google Drive, there is an outline for a post on Kakegurui, the bizarre yuri-baiting gambling anime. It never saw the light…

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Shikimori’s Not Just a Cutie is Peak Fiction, You Cowards

If you’ve been paying attention to the seasonal anime beat for any length of time, you know about the heel turn in quality. An anime might tap into…

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Why Haven’t You Watched Tokyo 24th Ward?

Winter 2022 was stuffed to bursting with more banger anime than any person could reasonably watch. The obvious heavy hitters got their time to shine: Attack on Titan…

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What’s Up with Attack on Titan’s Weird Fascist Cult?

I’m about to discuss the ending of Attack on Titan, spoiling everything that the Final Season Part Three (no, for real guys, it’s the final final part) will…

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What’s Up with Attack on Titan’s Weird Fascist Cult?

I’m about to discuss the ending of Attack on Titan, spoiling everything that the Final Season Part Three (no, for real guys, it’s the final final part) will…

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Demon Slayer is Mid Except for the Animation

You’ve heard it before. I lamented that you can’t go five minutes on the dumb bird app without someone saying Demon Slayer would be forgettable if not for…

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The New WORST Anime Ever Made

I quite famously wrote an essay decrying Mushoku Tensei as the worst anime ever made, because I’m a clickbaiting hack and you really ought to know better by…

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Why is Manga Better Than Anime?

I started writing this essay a few months back, under the title Why I Love Manga, as something of a love letter to the medium. I’d have kept…

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Evangelion 3.0 + 1.0: You Can (Not) Romance

I’m going to be spoiling most of the Rebuild films, End of Eva, and NGE here, so just be warned for that. I haven’t talked about Evangelion since…

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Horimiya is STILL the Best Rom Com

It’s been quite some time since I last talked about Horimiya, in a way. Last year around this time, I lauded the anime adaptation’s ability to trim the…

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The Seasonal Anime Round-Up: Spring 2022

You might be wondering what the heck is going on. I mean, I’ve reviewed anime like clockwork ever since I started writing this blog in October of 2020.…

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