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Anime Review #139: Rascal Does Not Dream Of Bunny Girl Senpai
Some people know this series by its popular title, Bunny Girl Senpai. But the official title of this popular anime is actually quite wordy, in true modern-day anime…


Convention Tales #35: Anime North Idol 2024
Note: This post was penned on 28 May 2024, 2 days after the end of the year’s Anime North. I chose to write this post as soon as…


St. Pius V Corner: Fate, Free Will And Anime – Part #1
Thus man under the influence of efficacious grace remains free, although he never resists it; for it causes in him and with him even that he act freely;…


Anime Review #138: Nadia – Secret Of Blue Water
Do you remember Gainax? On 7 June 2024, while Traditionalist Catholics like myself celebrated the Feast of the Sacred Heart of Jesus and snagged a plenary indulgence on…


Convention Tales #34: Anime Fiesta Winter Festival 2025
Anime Fiesta’s summer edition in July 2024 became one of the surprising hit events that I attended. With the dense hallways, diverse range of character cosplay appearances, and…


Anime Review #138: Detective Conan – Countdown To Heaven
As the first Anime Review of 2025, I have for you another film supposedly an expy of Bruce Willis’ 1989 Christmas action flick, Die Hard, except this time,…
The Traditional Catholic Weeb Speaks: 5 Centimeters Per Second, Revisited
Another year, another round of blogs! Hope everyone’s 2025 goes well and much better than last year’s. If you’ve got a goal in mind to set for this…
Anime Review #137: Toradora
Christmas greetings to all! Christ is born, let us glorify Him! And now, time to write about something that I haven’t done in a loooong while: a romance…


St. Pius V Corner: Consistent Ethical Conundrum
The concept (of consistent life ethic) is a challenging one. It requires us to broaden, substantively and creatively, our ways of thinking, attitudes, and pastoral response. Many are…


Convention Tales #33: Short Stories From Anime North #6, Games Edition
It was during the Saturday of Anime North 2023 (27 May, more liturgically known as the Vigil of Pentecost) and I was roaming around the convention, exploring all…


Anime Review #136: Penguin Highway
When you think about movies with penguins, you tend to focus on the typical ones most people will bring up. Happy Feet, The Penguins Of Madagascar, Pingu, Batman,…


The Traditional Catholic Weeb Speaks: Dude, Where’s My Next Season
There seems to be an ongoing trend in anime nowadays which has caught the ire of many people; and quite frankly, I’m one of them. When I was…


Anime Review #134: Steins;Gate 0
To this day, Steins;Gate remains one of the best, and mystifying sci-fi anime that I have had the pleasure of watching. I’ve compared it to Back To The…


Anime Review #134: Sword Art Online – Ordinal Scale
If you’re at all familiar with the timeline of Sword Art Online, here it is. On 6 November 2022 – two years and two days ago – the…


Convention Tales #32: Anime North Halloween Event 2024
It’s been two weeks since Anime North’s annual Halloween event, which they have been hosting for about 20 years, ended. For those of you who don’t know, this…


St. Pius V Corner: Frieren And The Faithful Departed
We maintain, then, that we may pray for the faithful departed, and that the prayers and good works of the living greatly relieve them and are profitable to…


Anime Review #133: Samurai Champloo
My best friend is a man of many technical abilities and quite knowledgeable about various outside subjects. When I first met him, he was a young, recently-graduated man…


The Traditional Catholic Weeb Speaks: Recap Movies
IT’S TIME FOR ANOTHER RANDOM MONDAY POOOOOOOOSSSSSSSSSTTTTTTTTTT Recently, the anime Bocchi The Rock released its first major theatrical production. It was divided into two parts, which relea…


St. Pius V Corner: The Digi-fied Pursuit Of Perfection
When a man’s intellect is constantly with God, his desire grows beyond all measure into an intense longing for God and his incisiveness is completely transformed into divi…


The Traditional Catholic Weeb Speaks: Dude, Where’s My Subtitles?
Have I got a joke for you! One day, a guy went to Japan on a vacation and as soon as he stepped off the plane, he asked…


Anime Review #132: Detective Conan – The Time-Bombed Skyscraper
Back in June, I reviewed the very first Detective Conan movie that I ever watched, subtitled The Eleventh Striker, which was the soccer-themed movie that saw our young…


St. Pius V Corner: A False Scientific-Religious Dichotomy
Should a priest reject relativity because it contains no authoritative exposition on the doctrine of the Trinity? Once you realize that the Bible does not purport to be…


The Traditional Catholic Weeb Speaks: Implicitly Catholic Anime
Occasionally, I will get people asking me questions about what anime I recommend them to watch. It can be either a show to start off with in general,…


Anime Review #131: Tamako Love Story
Last time, I reviewed Tamako Market, which covered the shenanigans of a young mochi-making girl and a fat retarded talking bird who simps for her classmates, dances as…


The Traditional Catholic Weeb Speaks: Six Years In Retrospect
September 10, 2018 marks the very first time I wrote a post on my blog, and thus today marks six years since then. Thus, it’s time for another…


Anime Review #130: Tamako Market
As was the case with Assassination Classroom (which I reviewed last week), Tamako Market was among the series that I watched to pass my time a year ago,…


Convention Tales #31: Fan Expo Canada 2024
After last year’s rendition of Fan Expo, I was hesitant about attending the 2024 edition. With the packed, sweltering heat of the lower level marketplace, exceedingly crowded Artist…


The Traditional Catholic Weeb Speaks: Dude, This Show Sucks
This last week has been very taxing to manage. Shuffling between meetings with 3 different persons scattered across Toronto, keeping up with my 4-day upper/lower gym schedule, numerous…


St. Pius V Corner: Maquia’s Admirable Heart
St. Augustine speaking to our Blessed Lady says, “You are worthy to be called the mould of God.” Mary is a mould capable of forming people into the…


Anime Review #129: Assassination Classroom
It’s been one year since I started watching this series; wow, how time flies. A year ago, I went on a massive anime binge to relieve the August…
Assassination Classroom, Diary of Our Days at the Breakwater, The Girl Who Leapt Through Time


Anime Review #127: Girls Und Panzer
It’s about cute anime girls driving giant tanks and running glorious battles with them. There, make up what you will of it. Thanks for tuning in to my…


The Traditional Catholic Weeb Speaks: Musical Numbers
GUESS WHO’S BACK? BACK AGAIN? MONDAY POSTS, TELL A FRIEND!!!!! Anime North Idol. I’ve said it many times, but it’s one of the highlights of my convention experience…


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…