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Re:Creators: The Death of All Authors

I am livid. Enraged. Angry beyond belief. You’re telling me I could have watched Re:Creators when it came out, and I just sat by and waited until 2023…

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Great Anime That Suck

This is another idea that has been sitting on the back burner for a long time. Anime has some major problems with consistency. Both anime and manga are…

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Do I Still Hate Death Note?

The first essay I ever published to the Otaku Exhibition was a little ditty called “Death Note: A Lesson in Disappointment.” In a sense, it was only fair…

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The Top Five Best Moments from Jujutsu Kaisen’s Shibuya Incident

As much as I don’t like listicles, I’ve been holding onto this one for a while. Several years, in fact, when I first got into Jujutsu Kaisen as…

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Undead Girl Murder Farce Review: Elementary, My Dear Not-son

Directed by Mamoru Hatakeyama Produced by Lapin Track Streaming on Crunchyroll Every once in a while, I am treated to an anime so bafflingly specific to my own…

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My Happy Marriage Review: Yet Another Cinderella Story

Directed by Takehiro Kubota Produced by Kinema Citrus Streaming on Netflix Cinderella is one of the oldest stories in the world, existing across thousands of iterations, each influenced…

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Liar Liar Review: No Game No Classroom of the Kakegurui

Directed by Naoki Matsuura, Satoru Oono Produced by Geek Toys Streaming on Crunchyroll What if I told you there was a school where your status was determined by…

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Zom 100: Bucket List of the Dead Review: A Zombie Flick to Die For

Directed by Kazuki Kawagoe Produced by Bug Films Streaming on Netflix, Crunchyroll In the name of transparency, I’ll make a confession. I was never that into zombie stuff.…

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The Girl I Like Forgot Her Glasses Review: I’m Going to be Sick

Directed by Susumu Kudou Produced by GoHands Streaming on Crunchyroll This show is awful. It might just be the worst anime I have ever seen. Sorry, if you…

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Rurouni Kenshin Review: Manga Made by a Monster

Directed by Hideyo Yamamoto Produced by Liden Films Streaming on Crunchyroll *The following will contain reference to sensitive subjects, and reader discretion is advised.* In November of 2017,…

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The Case Study of Vanitas, or Eroticism in Storytelling

I don’t like discussing online trends in these sort of essays. It feels like I’m attacking something nebulous, that I could be blowing a couple of Tweets out…

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Where Spy x Family Failed

Spy x Family was a phenomenon, a breakout show in a year stacked with breakout shows, and it’s not hard to see why. Among its peers in the…

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Oshi no Ko Has the Best Characters in Anime

If you couldn’t tell from the fact that I put both Kaguya-sama: Love is War and Oshi no Ko on my Manga 3×3, I am a big fan…

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Chainsaw Man’s Dark Secret

More than a year ago, I wrote that Chainsaw Man is the perfect shonen story. That was before the anime and the beginning of the series’ second part,…

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My Manga 3×3

I know, I know, I usually save these sorts of things for anniversaries, important stuff like that. I do have a reason for breaking from that format, though.…

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Dead Mount Death Play Review: We Got Berserk at Home

Produced by Geek Toys Directed by Manabu Ono Streaming on Crunchyroll This review might come out of left field because, frankly, it was. I went ahead and cleared…

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Loving Yamada at Lv 999 Review: Rise Up, Gamers

Produced by Madhouse Directed by Morio Asaka Streaming on Crunchyroll As a self-proclaimed rom com connoisseur, I have a duty to bring the best of the genre to…

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Mashle Review: One Punch Potter

Produced by A-1 Pictures Directed by Tomoya Tanaka Streaming on Crunchyroll Parody anime is in a weird state in 2023. One Punch Man is on another long break…

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Oshi no Ko Review: A Star is Born

Produced by Doga Kobo Directed by Daisuke Hiramaki Streaming on Hidive As a reviewer, I believe I have some small obligation to be impartial. It’s not possible to…

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Konosuba: An Explosion on This Wonderful World! Review: Justice for Best Girl

Produced by Drive Directed by Yuujirou Abe Streaming on Crunchyroll I will preface this review by declaring myself an unabashed Megumin simp, as I believe it’s important you…

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Hell’s Paradise Review: Two Tickets to Paradise

Produced by MAPPA Directed by Kaori Makita Streaming on Crunchyroll If I had a nickel for every dark fantasy manga adaptation produced by MAPPA in the last couple…

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Suzume Review: The Shinkai Formula At Its Best

Produced by CoMix Wave Films Directed by Makoto Shinkai Only In Theaters I don’t usually review anime films. These days, we’re fortunate enough to get wide theatrical releases,…

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The Irregular at Magic High School is a Disaster

Hm? What’s that? No one cares that an infamously bad anime from almost a decade ago is bad? We have plenty of other indulgent harem light novel adaptations…

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Where Wotakoi Failed

As a self-proclaimed rom com connoisseur, you can bet I love Wotakoi. Maybe the manga more so than the anime, though it’s a competent adaptation, and you know…

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The New Kaguya-sama: Love is War

Written and Illustrated by Ran Kuze Published by Weekly Shonen Magazine Licensed by Kodansha USA In 2022, we lost the best rom com in manga. I’ve written about…

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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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