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Game Journal – Eternal Sonata (Entry 09)

At last, we take on the boss of Fort Fermata!  Once it’s defeated (details below), it’s time to get onContinue Reading

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Game Journal – Eternal Sonata (Entry 08)

Synopsis:  Grinding. Endless…Grinding. Does this Fort ever end??! Fort Fermata I’m going to skip the other play sessions because it’sContinue Reading

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Game Journal – Eternal Sonata (Entry 07)

Synopsis: The hugeosity of Fort Fermata does not let up, and the entire week is spent on its continued exploration.Continue Reading

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The Con Artists’ Color Awards 2025

Happy New Year, everyone! 2025 saw us all watching less shows than usual but we still want to share ourContinue Reading

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Game Journal – Eternal Sonata (Entry 06)

Synopsis: The exploration of Fort Fermata begins!  What seemed to be a simple, straight path quickly turns into an enormous,Continue Reading

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Flower and Asura – Episode 12

Episode Synopsys: The club secures an interview with Mizuki’s brother, then convinces him to help free Mizuki from her grandmother’s house arrest.  The whole group confronts the grandmother,…

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Flower and Asura – Episode 11

Episode Synopsis: Mizuki receives an invitation to her brother’s wedding, but tells Hana that she and her family are estranged, and she won’t sacrifice her spot in the…

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Flower and Asura – Episode 10

Episode Synopsis: Hana struggles to take advice from her peers and seniors regarding both her diction and her mental readiness to compete. Episode Review: I said in my…

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Flower and Asura – Episode 09

Episode Synopsis: Kichijouji arranges for a joint training camp with several schools including Lilac from Kyoto. Lilac allegedly has several talented Broadcast Club members and the goal is…

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Flower and Asura – Episode 08

Episode Synopsys: The club goes to watch a Sainoji reading live.  Anne and Hana both feel intimidated, frustrated, and ultimately fired up to try harder to improve their…

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Flower and Asura – Episode 07

Episode Synopsis: Akiyama presents his script to the club and soon takes on one of the lead roles, despite his concerns over his acting talent. As the gang…

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Flower and Asura – Episode 06

Episode Synopsis: Foley enthusiast Toga (Shudai) refuses to compete in either Announcement or Recitation, much to the chagrin of Hakoyama (Setaro), who has been much more susceptible to…

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Flower and Asura – Episode 05

Episode Synopsis: Kichijouji lets the Broadcast Team know they need to choose a piece for competition by the end of the month. With the pressure on, Hana is…

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Flower and Asura – Episode 04

Episode Synopsis: Hana is taking her practice seriously, and this extends to reading through each of the recitation pieces on offer for this year’s competition.  In this episode,…

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Flower and Asura – Episode 03

Episode Synopsis: Mizuki introduces the gang to their snarky but sincere advisor, Kichijoji, who quickly breaks down everyone’s strengths and weaknesses and introduces them to some of the…

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Flower and Asura – Episode 02

Welcome back to 2022 Episode Synopsis: In an exercise blending introductions to both the mechanics of the broadcast club and and the people joining it, Hana is paired…

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Flower and Asura – Episode 01

Episode Synopsis: In middle school Hana Haneyama watched a broadcast of a reading of a poem called “Hana to Shura”. Completely enraptured by the reader’s performance and emotions…

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NegaPosi Angler – Episode 10

Episode Synopsis: Takaaki and Hiro spend a long night of fishing together, slowly opening back up to one another. Hiro says he’s gone back to the hospital, and…

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NegaPosi Angler – Episode 12

Episode Synopsis: Takaaki and Hiro spend a long night of fishing together, slowly opening back up to one another. Hiro says he’s gone back to the hospital, and…

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NegaPosi Angler – Episode 11

Episode Synopsis: Hiro fills in for Takaaki at the Everymart when the latter doesn’t return. While he fails to stave off workplace rumors about the nature of their…

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The Con Artists’ Color Awards 2024

Happy New Year, everyone! 2024 marked the 15 Year Anniversary of the Con Artists’ formation. Guys…what?! How did we even manage this?! Thank you for following along with…

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NegaPosi Angler – Episode 10

Episode Synopsis: Machida ends up in the hospital after a skateboarding accident, so Hiro & Co. head over to bring him some necessary items. Trauma kicks in bad…

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NegaPosi Angler – Episode 09

Episode Synopsis: With a typhoon on the way, everyone’s plans are cancelled so they hang out at the Everymart.  Later, the debt collectors join them by chance, and…

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NegaPosi Angler – Episode 08

Episode Synopsis: Divorcee Machida has a day of fishing with his son, Yuu. Hiro, Hana, and Tataaki tag along for moral support, but it’s clear that there’s a…

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NegaPosi Angler – Episode 07

Episode Synopsis: Hana drags Hiro out to fish for sardinella with her, Takaaki, Kozue, and the mysterious Fujishiro-san. Sardinella are small fry, though, which require yet another specialized…

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NegaPosi Angler – Episode 06

Episode Synopsis: Ice bails Tsunehiro (Hiro) out of a language barrier situation, revealing she can speak Mandarin and that she’s a model who moved to Japan to pursue…

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NegaPosi Angler – Episode 05

Episode Synopsys: Hiro receives his first paycheck, and is wavering between paying back some of his debt or spending it having fun.  His co-worker Kozue helps decide the…

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NegaPosi Angler – Episode 04

Episode Synopsis: Now living with Takaaki after settling his immediate debts, Hiro starts his actual work at the Everymart. He catches on to most of the work quickly,…

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NegaPosi Angler – Episode 03

Episode Synopsis: Tsunehiro (Hiro) bails on the group and crashes in a net café for the night, but crosses paths with a few of them the next day…

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NegaPosi Angler – Episode 02

Episode Synopsis: Hiro’s apartment is destroyed due to rezoning (aka he didn’t pay his rent and ignored the people who came to discuss his eviction). With nowhere to…

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NegiPosi Angler – Episode 01

Episode Synopsys: College student Sasaki is having a rough time.  Diagnosed with something that will kill him in two years if untreated, he spends his days mindlessly playing…

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Train to the End of the World – Episode 12

Episode Synopsis: The girls give chase as Pontaro tries to flee with Yoka. Aided by Kuroki’s zombies, they manage to board his getaway train and defeat him, but…

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Train to the End of the World – Episode 11

Episode Synopsis: The girls arrive in Ikebukuro, and Pochi immediately picks up on Yoka’s scent. When they find her, though, she doesn’t seem to recognize them, and their…

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Train to the End of the World – Episode 10

Episode Synopsis: The girls stop for a broken down cart on the tracks, which ends up being owned by Shizuru’s lost father and his friends! He tells them…

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Train to the End of the World – Episode 09

Episode Synopsys: Yoka is living in Ikebukuro, her reality-altering powers (and by extension the current state of the world) kept nervously under control by Pontaro and his henchman,…

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Train to the End of the World – Episode 06

Episode Synopsis: The Apogee continues through a few more brief but harrowing stops before arriving in a town that has been transformed into the setting of a popular…

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Train to the End of the World – Episode 08

Episode Synopsis: The Apogee continues through a few more brief but harrowing stops before arriving in a town that has been transformed into the setting of a popular…

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Train to the End of the World – Episode 07

Episode Synopsis: The remaining girls infiltrate the zombie horde to rescue Shizuru, but the queen is skeptical. When their ruse breaks down, they’ll need more than violence to…

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Train to the End of the World – Episode 06

Episode Synopsis: Our intrepid train now has a name; Apogee! The name is revealed by Shizuka to be a tribute to a word Yoka taught her. As the…

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Train to the End of the World – Episode 05

Episode Synopsys: Shizuru and Reimi escape from their Gulliver-like captivity with the help of another person working unwillingly for the town.  Together they knock out the guards and…

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Train to the End of the World – Episode 04

Episode Synopsis: The girls pull through several increasingly unsettling stations as the real scope of their journey starts to sink in. As they dodge bizarre and frightening phenomena,…

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Train to the End of the World – Episode 03

Episode Synopsis: The girls’ day-long journey from Agano has brought them to… East Agano. Here, as portended by the map from last episode’s weirdo, all of the residents…

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Train to the End of the World – Episode 02

Episode Synopsis: The girls discuss the logistics of their trip to Ikebukuro. Due to leaving in a hurry, and the unknown distance they must traverse, there’s food inventory…

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Train to the End of the World – Episode 01

Episode Synopsis: The world as we know it ends when high school girl Yota, at the urging of amazingly-named corporate leader Poison Pontaro, presses the button to start…

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Sousou no Frieren – Episode 28

Episode Synopsis: The last of the First Class Mage candidates learn which of them passed, and the successful ones begin to claim their desired spell from Serie. With…

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Sousou no Frieren – Episode 27

Episode Synopsis: Fern complains to Stark about an off-screen disagreement with Frieren about whether to attempt to salvage the remains of her staff, which was pretty thoroughly broken…

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Sousou no Frieren – Episode 26

Episode Synopsis: Fern and Frieren culminate their fight with Frieren’s clone in an explosive battle. While that is going on, the remaining contestants strategize about how to take…

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Sousou no Frieren – Episode 25

Episode Synopsis: The assembled mages discuss how to defeat Frieren’s doppleganger.  Frieren reminisces about the second time she met Serie, after Flamme’s death and at the start of…

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Sousou no Frieren – Episode 24

Episode Synopsis: Deep within the tomb where our heroes face their latest trial lies a fiend capable of creating perfect replicas of the mages within the dungeon. Different…

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Sousou no Frieren – Episode 23

Episode Synopsis: Sense introduces the second test – a dive to the bottom of a monumentous nearby tomb. Despite the lack of any explicitly rivalrous conditions – everyone…

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