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Summertime Render Review (Spoiler Free)

We’ve come to the “Mystery” entry in my anime genre review collection. And I’ll be upfront here. Summertime Render is a wild and exciting ride!

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Blood-C Review (Spoiler Free)

Next up we’ve got Blood-C filling the “horror” genre spot in my genre review collection. Now this is a genre that I don’t normally seek out, like when…

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Princess Connect! Re:Dive Review (Spoiler Free)

And now we’ve got one of the more interesting genres to look at, with Princess Connect! Re:Dive being my choice for the “gourmet” genre. I can’t say I…

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Spice and Wolf Review (Spoiler Free)

We’ve made it to the “fantasy” entry in my genre review collection, and I’ve chosen Spice and Wolf! I have actually seen this one before, maybe 5 or…

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Island Review (Spoiler Free)

We’re at the “drama” instalment of my genre review collection, and for this one I went with Island, which I believe was recommended to me for a different…

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Nichijou Review (Spoiler Free)

Here we have my next review, covering the “comedy” genre of my genre review collection. It’s what I’d understand to be an absolute classic when it comes to…

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Serial Experiments Lain Review (Spoiler Free)

I know, I know… Serial Experiments Lain is from the 90’s, but I just can’t help it when it comes to the desire to not spoil anything. After…

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Boogiepop Phantom Review (Spoiler Free)

And we’re back again with another review, this time it’s the original Boogiepop Phantom, which is also the next entry in my genre review collection: avant garde. I…

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Samurai Champloo Review (Spoiler Free)

It’s time for the next instalment of my anime genre review collection, with Samurai Champloo representing the “Adventure” genre. I wanted to choose something that was longer than…

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Chainsaw Man Review (Spoiler Free)

This is the first review from my anime genre review collection, and will be representing the “Action” genre. After looking at the options available to me, I decided…

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A retrospective on my first anime review.

It’s been a little over 5 years since I published my first anime review – An Anime Supported By A Single Column. And you know, something I’ve noticed…

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Writing Prompt: What’s your favourite JRPG?

Another day, another prompt. This time around, it’s quite simple, except for the part about having to choose my favourite of something, which is always difficult for me.

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Writing Prompt Rapid Fire (4)

It’s time for another rapid fire edition of writing prompt, where I choose to be lazy and answer questions without much elaboration!

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Writing Prompt: When rating anime, does a 10/10 mean that it’s perfect?

Well, it looks like this is a great prompt for a distinguished and accomplished reviewer such as myself!

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Writing Prompt: What was something unexpected about living in Japan?

At face value this seems similar to the “caught off guard” prompt I recently did, but I think the spirit of this one is that it’s about living…

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Writing Prompt: Do you want to be isekai’d?

I’ve just finished rewatching an isekai anime, Re:Zero, so it feels like a good time to tackle this question. We often see characters getting spirited away to fantasy…

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Writing Prompt: Do you watch anime with friends and/or family?

This is going to be a quick one, and a part of me is more interested in your answers than actually writing my own. So you could say…

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Writing Prompt: Is anime better than Hollywood?

Now here’s an interesting one. I could see this being a difficult question for some, but not for me!

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Writing Prompt: What makes an anime age well?

We’ve already talked about what could make an anime age poorly, so let’s flip that around and talk about what makes an anime age well!

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Writing Prompt: Do you watch one anime at a time, or have many ongoing series at once?

Here’s a pretty simple one, but seeing as I’ve been slacking with writing posts in advance lately, it’ll do perfectly for a short one.

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Writing Prompt: Should Evangelion get a remake?

I’m going to assume this is referring to the original series, and not something newer as I know there’s a bunch of Evangelion content out there. I’ve personally…

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Writing Prompt: Does it bother you when a character’s voice actor changes?

Every once in a while you get that situation where the voice actor / actress of a character changes, but I’ll admit it’s not all that common. I…

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Writing Prompt: Which anime was most relatable to you?

I’ll admit, as an avid fantasy anime watcher this question puts me at a bit of a disadvantage. But surely there’s something I found relatable…

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Writing Prompt Rapid Fire (3)

It’s time to power through a bunch of questions that I don’t think would merit an entire post to themselves! Round 3!

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Writing Prompt: What’s something that caught you off-guard about Japan?

Time to dig up some memories, and things like this can be fleeting at times. This prompt has been sitting here as a draft for a while now,…

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Writing Prompt: Would you still watch shonen anime if the characters didn’t shout out attack names?

This one is pretty funny and kind of spot on when it comes to shonen series. How would they feel if the characters didn’t use the horrible strategy…

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Writing Prompt: What’s an anime that you never watched because it’s too hyped up?

Now this here is an easy one for me, there’s one anime that immediately came to mind when I came across this prompt! You may not like it…

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Writing Prompt: Do you think that many fans have an incorrect image of Japan thanks to anime?

Now here is an interesting one, and I have a little bit of experience in this area. Which means that this is today’s prompt!

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Farming Life in Another World Review (Spoiler Free)

There can be no denying that isekai has moved beyond the typical “video game fantasy” and “dragon quest fantasy” types. Is it that those have been exhausted? It…

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Writing Prompt: How good is your ability to enjoy an anime directed at a different audience?

Some of these questions are pretty meta, I typically don’t think about this when deciding what anime to watch next! But that’s precisely what makes it an interesting…

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Writing Prompts: What makes an anime age poorly?

Here’s another prompt that has two sides to the coin, and to start with we’ll look at the possibly easier one to answer? Or maybe not, both prompts…

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Writing Prompt: What’s your preferred length for an anime?

The answer here? It depends on the anime. Seems simple enough. But of course, that’s not very satisfying, so I’ll try my best to come up with an…

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Writing Prompt: Why is anime so behind with multi-ethnic representation?

Decided I’d take on a question that’s a bit of a hot topic these days, although I feel like it really shouldn’t be. This is all just my…

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Writing Prompt: Thoughts on haircuts as character development?

I’ll be honest, I never really had any thoughts on this topic. But that won’t stop me from coming up with some in order to come up with…

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Ningen Fushin: Adventurers Who Don’t Believe in Humanity Will Save the World Review (Spoiler Free)

I’ve been pretty good lately with reviewing the fantasy anime I’ve been watching, so I figure I may as well keep that going. Once I’ve gotten through Winter…

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Writing Prompt: Are there any voice actors that you always associate with a single character?

Hard to condense this question down, but the gist is asking about if there are any voice actors who, no matter who they are voicing, you always think…

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Writing Prompt: Will AI kill anime?

Lot of drama these days involving AI, it’s certainly upheaving many different industries in different ways. So it’s natural that fans of anime would worry about this same…

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Handyman Saitou in Another World Review (Spoiler Free)

Let’s get another review in here, this time looking at another fantasy anime from the recent Winter 2023 season: Handyman Saitou in Another World!

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Writing Prompt: What’s an anime that you enjoyed but wouldn’t recommend to someone?

This definitely seems like the easier variation to tackle, when compared to its counterpart. I can think of a few answers already, so let’s get to them.

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Writing Prompt: How did you learn Japanese?

This was actually one that I just came up with myself, but I figured I’d frame this as a prompt anyways since it fits. I know that many…

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The Iceblade Sorcerer Shall Rule the World Review (Spoiler Free)

Let’s get some of these fantasy titles from the recently wrapped up season covered here, because even though I don’t always write a review for anime I’ve watched……

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Writing Prompt Rapid Fire (2)

Let’s power through another one of these, because just like before, I’ve got some questions that I can’t see myself writing a full post for. That, and because…

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Writing Prompt: Has anyone ever changed your opinion about an anime?

If there’s one thing I’ve learned on the Internet, it’s that trying to change someone’s opinion on something is often a fruitless endeavor, and a waste of time.…

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Writing Prompt: Is there any anime that you’d recommend despite not liking it yourself?

This one took a bit of thinking. After all, why would I recommend an anime that I didn’t like? But then, I think that when I put my…

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Writing Prompt: What anime took a concept or idea too far?

There certainly are a lot of ecchi anime that would probably qualify as answers for this question, as well as isekai considering many series are moving into “reincarnated…

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Writing Prompt: Is there anything in anime that makes you uncomfortable?

Anime is not a monolith, and it’s not just for kids like some people may think. As we know, there are so many different genres, topics, themes, ideas…

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Writing Prompt: What’s a complete anime series that was too short?

Perhaps we’ll tackle the opposite version of this question also, but to start I thought that we’d go with this one. I’m not sure which one comes up…

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Writing Prompt: What is your biggest anime fear?

We’re back with another anime question that’s somewhat vague. But that just gives me the opportunity to answer it from multiple angles!

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Writing Prompt: What’s the worst anime scene you’ve ever seen?

When I initially wrote this question down I thought it’d be difficult, because it’s a pretty specific thing to have to remember. But after a few minutes it…

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Writing Prompt: What outfit would you like to see more of in anime?

I think the “less of” variant was the easier of the two. Just give me a minute as I scroll through all my archived images looking for ideas…

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