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Anime Review #127: Beautiful Bones – Sakurako’s Investigation
Beautiful Bones holds a significant place in my mind despite not being one of the series that I would consider my favourite, let alone worth my time. It…
Convention Tales #30: Anime Fiesta Gakuensai 2024
What do you get when you merge a Japanese-style school festival, a line of anime-decorated cars, and pack 1,000+ people including cosplayers, vendors and photographers into a suburban…
St. Pius V Corner: The Courage To Preserve Our Faith
For the Church, since it contains all nations in its embrace, since it is going to endure until the consummation of the ages, and since it utterly excludes…
The Traditional Catholic Weeb Speaks: Shows I Will Never Blog About
Look here: I’m more than happy to share my thoughts on an anime that I’ve seen. Whether they are masterpieces whose praises need to be continually sung on…
Convention Tales #29: Short Stories From Anime North #5, Post-Con Depression Edition
No, don’t worry – I’m not having any crisis considering the title. I’m all good – though it’s been a while since I’ve been in a big event…
Anime Review #126: Trigun
When people talk about the term “space cowboy”, the show that comes into mind for many people is the misadventures of bounty hunter Spike Spiegel and his disciples…
Anime Review #125: Detective Conan – The Eleventh Striker
I write this as being my first foray into the Detective Conan series. You might have heard of him – and I certainly did growing up as a…
St. Pius V Corner: The Last Confession On Earth (Before Eternal Life)
The just man awaits death, prepares himself for it by vigilance, above all by a reverent fear, recalling his past sins and considering the expiations that are to…
Convention Tales #28: Anime North 2024
Another year, another Anime North in the books. Five days have passed since the end of the greatest yearly convention I’ve ever seen, but the feeling of awe…
Anime Review #124: Spy x Family
IT’S HERE IT’S HERE IT’S HERE THE TIME HAS FINALLY COME ONCE AGAIN No, the excitement is not aimed at this post (though I’m glad to have one…
St. Pius V Corner: Violet Evergarden – By Penance Pacified
Penance is a needful thing to the sinner, who desires to recover health of his soul. And, in doing penance, there are three things to be considered: serious…
The Traditional Catholic Weeb Speaks: K-ON, Revisited
My first full-fledged exposure to K-On! was in the summer of 2021, when I would remember myself watching it on my phone while the backdrop of Euro Cup…
Anime Review #123: Frieren – Beyond Journey’s End
Look! It’s a delightfully powerful 1000-year-old elf mage with superb dank meme aesthetics! You know, the character considered by many as one of the most iconic protagonists of…
Anime Review #122: Bocchi The Rock
Ah, Bocchi The Rock. I have a lot of people on Twitter who really like KyoAni’s slice-of-life music product K-On!. And I mean, REALLY LIKE IT. Whether it…
St. Pius V Corner: Shoya Ishida’s Repentance
Be ashamed when you sin, don’t be ashamed when you repent. Sin is the wound; repentance is the medicine. Just as there are for the body wounds and…
The Traditional Catholic Weeb Speaks: The Melancholy Of Haruhi Suzumiya, Revisited
So… with Lent being over and my anime fast done, my brain sent me a challenge. It was to rewatch a show that I had previously reviewed that…
Anime Review #121: Violet Evergarden – Eternity And The Auto Memory Doll
Violet Evergarden, one of the most well-known anime of the late last decade, provided viewers with two theatrical movies: the first, which I will look through today, is…
St. Pius V Corner: Where, Grave, Thy Victory
The perennial dispenser of light is the Christian Easter, ever since that fortunate dawn, prophesied and awaited for long centuries, which saw the night of the Passion transformed…
Convention Tales #27: Another Day At Comicon
To be honest, at the start of the year I had no plans to go to Comicon. I thought I’d had just about seen everything I needed last…
Anime Review #120: Ya Boy Kongming!
It was the 16th of July 2022. As I was trawling through Anime North (yes, here we go again with those stories, you’re probably thinking!), I walked past…
The Traditional Catholic Weeb Speaks: Puella Magi Madoka Magica Revisited
It’s been 6 years since I first watched the breathtaking magical girl deconstruction show Puella Magi Madoka Magica. In the years since, this show has gained acclaim and…
Anime Review #119: Cardcaptor Sakura – The Sealed Card
Folks, we have finally reached this point: today’s review, focused on Cardcaptor Sakura: The Sealed Card will possibly mark the last time I discuss something from the original…
Anime Review #118: Cardcaptor Sakura – Trouble In Hong Kong
Cardcaptor Sakura is one of the most wonderful anime I’ve ever had the pleasure of watching. When I first stumbled upon the character in 2018, I was only…
Anime Review #117: The Girl Who Leapt Through Time
In August, I caught a nasty cold and as a result I had to spend a few days cooped up at home. To pass the time, some of…
Convention Tales #26: Anime North Idol 2023
Last week, I went to my first convention of 2024, and the first one I attended in five months! Set at the same venue as Fan Expo Canada,…
St. Pius V Corner: Sanctified In Truth… With Anime?
The function of all art lies in fact in breaking through the narrow and tortuous enclosure of the finite, in which man is immerged while living here below,…
Anime Review #116: Suzume
Ah yes, Makoto Shinkai: the man, the gift that keeps on giving the anime world something to fawn over every now and then. 3 years after his last…
The Traditional Catholic Weeb’s Corner: Live-Action Anime Adaptations
GUESS WHAT TIME IT IS???? IT’S TIME FOR ANOTHER SHORT, RANDOM MONDAY POST!!!! In August of 2023, Matt Owens and Steven Maeda, who previously worked as a writer…
St. Pius V Corner: Romanticizing Evil
These considerations take on greater seriousness from the fact that the cinema speaks not to individuals but to multitudes, and that it does so in circumstances of time…
Convention Tales #25: By Far The Weirdest Cosplays I’ve Ever Seen!
I’ve gone to a lot of conventions in my life, and I’ve seen my fair share of cosplays that I’d classify as “weird”, or “out of the ordinary”…
Anime Review #115: Lycoris Recoil
Wishing you all a Happy New Year. God bless you all abundantly, my readers, and may He, during this year, send you opportunities to be better and happier…
The Traditional Catholic Weeb Speaks: Me, Myself, And Manga, Part Deux
It’s the cusp of the New Year, and I might as well finish up 2023 with a year-end overview of the manga that I’ve read so far, as…
Anime Review #114: Steins;Gate – Load Region Of Deja Vu
When I finished all of Steins;Gate’s 24 episodes back in 2018, I thought that would be the end of this saga for me. I’ve already seen Okabe and…
The Traditional Catholic Weeb Speaks: Problems With Frieren?
SURPRISE SURPRISE, IT’S A MONDAY POST!!!! Don’t worry, this is going to be shorter than the last few, mainly because I’m not going to expound on anything complex…
St. Pius V Corner: Ordinary Lives, Extraordinary Values
The Saints understood clearly what our attitudes to creatures should be. Created things should be a reflection of eternal beauty which entices us to love God, the Source…
Anime Review #113: Maquia – When The Promised Flower Blooms
This is a movie that I frankly didn’t expect to see on my radar. Like other anime movies I’ve reviewed it features its own world, fantasy elements and…
Anime Review #112: Pingu In The City
When you think about anime, CGI-powered flicks are probably not what you have in mind. You’re probably imagining a cast of two-dimensional, colourful characters engaging in either some…
St. Pius V Corner: A Healing Of Poor Souls And Self
The practice of recommending to God the souls in Purgatory, that He may mitigate the great pains which they suffer, and that He may soon bring them to…
The Traditional Catholic Weeb Speaks: My Life As An Anime
If you go to any YouTube comment section of a song video, you might come across a comment where someone’s like “Hey, I can really relate to this…
Anime Review #111: Plastic Memories
I… don’t even know how to begin this opening paragraph. Usually I try to explain how I came to know about this series, be it through a friend,…
Anime Review #110: Kaiji
Last August, I went to Fan Expo as a ticketed attendee for the first time in 4 years, cosplaying Kaiji Ito, the lead protagonist of his eponymous franchise.…
Convention Tales #24 – Short Stories From Anime North #4, Photoshoot Edition
This evening, the same folks behind Anime North are organizing a cosplay outing up north in Toronto: the Anime North Halloween Event. Size aside, the lack of worthy…
Anime Review #109: Puraore – Pride Of Orange
Being a Canadian, I grew up liking ice hockey at a young age, and my first memories of the sport was watching the 2004 Toronto Maple Leafs do…
St. Pius V Corner: A Rosary At Bay Keeps Evil Away
The Holy Rosary, besides, not only serves admirably to overcome the enemies of God and Religion, but is also a stimulus and spur to the practice of evangelic…
The Traditional Catholic Weeb’s Corner: Genres, Part 3
This post was long-overdue, but can’t be helped with the timing. Not to mention also, unlike Western media where shows tend to go in the direction of one…
Anime Review #108 – Gosick
Before I begin this review, I would like to start off by explaining how I came around to knowing about Gosick. I have a Discord account, and periodically,…
St. Pius V Corner: Hodaka’s Prayer
There is no danger if our prayer is without words or reflection because the good success of prayer depends neither on words nor on study. It depends upon…
Anime Review #107: Violet Evergarden – The Movie
Violet Evergarden last saw its titular character make great strides in developing an emotional sense for her clients as an Auto Memory Doll, and become a person that…
The Traditional Catholic Weeb Speaks: 5 Years In Retrospect
Note: Even though my blog anniversary was this past 10 September, due to other commitments taking place during the weekend, I was unable to compose a post in…
Anime Review #106: Hanasaku Iroha – Home Sweet Home
Ever since I stumbled upon Hanasaku Iroha five years ago, and found the perfect opportunity this year to watch it, it remains one of the golden pieces of…