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Interest Check (A Survey)
I’ll keep this short: I’m not a graphic designer by any stretch, but I’ve never seen anime-themed printables, so…it’s worth a shot, y’know? (Form will probably close on…
Fairy Ranmaru Episode 11 Blog Post [Translation]
[Meta context: This is the eleventh of 12 blog posts published to the Fairy Ranmaru website during the anime’s airing. An earlier version of this translation was originally published to the…
Fairy Ranmaru Episode 10 Blog Post [Translation]
[Meta context: This is the tenth of 12 blog posts published to the Fairy Ranmaru website during the anime’s airing where the first post corresponds to the 1st episode, the…
Fairy Ranmaru Episode 9 Blog Post [Translation]
[Meta context: This is the ninth of 12 blog posts published to the Fairy Ranmaru website during the anime’s airing. You can find other posts here. An earlier version of this translation…
Why is Japan So Averse to Depicting Body Hair?
Inspired by a discussion on a certain HypMic Discord channel. Now, I’m not Japanese myself so I may be generalising a bit here (although as noted later in…
Language Learning 2025 – Update Post 5
I feel like I owe this to you guys, since I’ve been blogging about this for a while… The Legal Advance Note: There are referral links in this…
Fairy Ranmaru Episode 8 Blog Post [Translation]
[Meta context: This is the eighth of 12 blog posts published to the Fairy Ranmaru website during the anime’s airing. You can find other posts here. An earlier version of this translation…
Blog Reflections
In part a reply to Scott and…I guess you could call it a 9th anniversary blog post, even though this blog’s anniversary is in November. If you’d like…
Fairy Ranmaru Episode 7 Blog Post [Translation]
[Meta context: This is the seventh of 12 blog posts published to the Fairy Ranmaru website during the anime’s airing. You can find other posts here. An earlier version of this translation…
Fairy Ranmaru Episode 6 Blog Post [Translation]
[Meta context: This is the sixth of 12 blog posts published to the Fairy Ranmaru website during the anime’s airing. You can find other posts here. An earlier version of this translation…
What To Look Out For in Binan Koukou Chikyuu Boueibu Haikara!
Haikara, as I abbreviate it, is coming out on July 7th 2025. You know what that means? That means me working overtime to put out timely translations, that’s…
Language Learning 2025 – Update Post 1
Previous post here.
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Fairy Ranmaru Episode 4 Blog Post [Translation]
[Meta context: This is the fourth of 12 blog posts published to the Fairy Ranmaru website during the anime’s airing. You can find other posts here. An earlier version of this…
Acro Trip Comparison – Ep. 12
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Language Learning Goals for 2025
…yup, it’s me. I’m still here and still trying for the JLPT. Now I know 2023 was my best year yet (but it was still a few notches…
Acro Trip Comparison – Ep. 11
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Acro Trip Comparison – Ep. 10
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Acro Trip Comparison – Ep. 9
This episode adapts trip 19, Early Morning Desperado, trip 24, Well-cooked Laundry (Kongari Raundori-), trip 25, Byoumei Shirubupure (Disease Name S’il Vous Plait), trip 29, Sorrowful I Miss…
Acro Trip Comparison – Ep. 8
None of the first volume’s chapters have names, so you can’t start deducing what chapters are going to be adapted through chapter titles until the anime adapts a…
I Predicted the Future…6 Years Ago…
A sort of mid-point follow-up to this post.
Acro Trip Comparison – Ep. 7
This episode adapts the vol. 2 and vol. 3 bonus chapters Mashirou and Berry Blossom, the chapter from which this episode gets its name, Mashima-kun and Baryuu-san, Try…
1st Episode Impressions – The Red Ranger Becomes an Adventurer in Another World
Took this on because, despite me mildly wanting to check it out (…that reminds me I forgot to write up a pre-season hype list for winter 2025 entirely,…
Fate/Strange Fake: Whispers of Dawn/1st Episode Impressions
I know, Whispers of Dawn is a special from 2023 preceding the Fate/Strange Fake series which is set to air later this year. However, when I looked over…
Winter 2025 1st Ep. Impressions – Zenshu
*sighs* Looks like I’m getting back on the treadmill again… For winter 2025, I was hoping to keep it on the downlow, since I’ve still got *checks* 639…
Fairy Ranmaru Episode 3 Blog Post [Translation]
[Meta context: This is the third of 12 blog posts published to the Fairy Ranmaru website during the anime’s airing. I ended up stalling on this for over 2 years,…
Acro Trip Comparison – Ep. 2
If you don’t know what’s going on, it’s this. Spoilers for the anime and manga below.
Acro Trip Comparison – Ep. 1
If you don’t know what’s going on, it’s this. Spoilers below.
(Quickly) Announcing the Acro Trip Comparison Project!
Since – as you may know if you were here earlier in fall 2024 – I’ve been staring at the Acro Trip manga samples a bunch and basically…
More Trivia Tidbits in Acro Trip (As of Ep. 6)
See the first post here. You’ll need that one to understand some of this one. (Also, there will be spoilers. You have been warned.)
Maou 2099 3rd Episode Impressions – Digressions on Romance
Since I’ve been teasing it and it’s integral to understanding why I’ve come to like Maou 2099 so much, here you are – The Familiar of Forty’s 1st…
Trivia Tidbits in Acro Trip
What even is an “Acro Trip”, you ask?
Maou 2099 2nd Episode Impressions – Defining Isekai/”We Have Hataraku Maou-sama At Home”
Contains minor spoilers for Maou 2099 light novel volume 2.
Fall 2024 1st Impressions – Maou 2099
…yes, I have really bad self-control. (Also, reminder you can see my hype list here.)
Fall 2024 1st Impressions – Dandadan
After a while of being away, I’m back. The siren call of anime was never really gone anyway, between Kaiju No 8 and Oshi no Ko.
Musings on Magical Boys (Of Different Stripes)
So…if you haven’t heard, Boueibu is coming back in 2024 and will drop a film in winter 2025. I owe a lot to Boueibu and I’m celebrating, sure,…
Kaiju Number 8’s Take on Women in Male Spaces
Meta note: This is an article I wrote for an anime website. I didn’t sign a proper contract on it, so I figured I’d release it this way…
It’s Catching Up Time! (Spoiler-free Takes on Kaiju No 8, Call of the Night and Oshi no Ko)
I’ve been struggling to write a post since the last one, especially since I’ve been start-stopping the occasional anime around the Amazing Race (currently watching season 1 for…
The First Anime That Made Me Cry
Inspired by this Anime News Network editorial.
How to Keep the Amazing Race…Well, Amazing
The Amazing Race Australia season 7 (henceforth TAR Aus. 7) did something annoying, but they put a fresh spin on it.
Why Are Anime and Manga So Obsessed With “Blue Spring”?
It’s partially a language thing, partially something else…
Why, As Anime and Manga Fans, We Should Learn to Rely on Others (+ Announcement)
…yes, even if you’re a Japanese translator of the highest degree.
(Irregular) Manga Reads
Where I shoot the breeze on what I’ve read recently, much like this post. Note I read a lot of Bookwalker digital manga from my backlog while I…
Positive My Life (Translation)
This is a song from Hypnosis Mic’s latest EP release, The Block Party – Hoods. I noticed I usually make a mess of longer translations, so I wanted…
Don’t Hate the Localisation Process
Regarding the Ancient Magus’ Bride translation.
How Accurate is Internet Buzz as a Overall Gauge of Interest?
Based on the talkback from this Anime News Network post.