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Honey and Clover – What Yuta’s Journey Meant to Me

I recently decided to rewatch an old favourite of mine: Honey and Clover. I first watched the show back in 2011, a whopping nine years ago, and, mainly…

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Ty’s Hidden Gems Series – Astra Lost in Space

Astra Lost in Space’s premise is simple enough: set in the distant future where space travel is a normal, everyday occurrence, a group of high schoolers, while on…

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Is It Dumb to Get Emotional Over Anime?

Last year I picked up a new pastime: Dungeons and Dragons. While, even now, some of the game’s finer mechanics elude me, I’m super invested in the story…

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Ty Cleans out Her Hard Drive – the Best of 2019’s Screenshots

Regrettably, I don’t have any superpowers. In fact, the closest thing I have is the ability to produce an anime screenshot to suit any occasion. My phone (which,…

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The Real Neat Blog Award 2: Electric Boogaloo

Yeah, boyyy, that’s what I’m talking about! This is actually the third time that I’ve been nominated for the Real Neat Blog Award, so, hey, maybe I should…

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Ty’s Year in Review (2019)

2019 was another awesome year for the anime fandom. Sure, it saw its fair share of controversies – while everybody else was getting all worked up over Fire…

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Character Spotlight: Haruka Inokuma

Chihayafuru is an amazing anime with (soon-to-be) three two-cour-long seasons under its belt. It ought to come as no surprise, then, that it has a huge and varied…

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My Top 30 Anime List Is Live!

It’s been a long time coming (I’ve been working on this for almost an entire year now), but, as of today, my new and improved Top 30 Anime…

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12 Days of Anime 2019 – Chihaya Is Back!

It doesn’t happen nearly as much as I’d like (probably because of my fondness for kooky, off-the-wall anime), but every so often it seems the anime gods hear…

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12 Days of Anime 2019 – the Year of Fluff

I’ve changed a lot over the years. I recently wrote about how maternal I was becoming. I suppose that growing more sentimental goes hand in hand with that!…

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12 Days of Anime 2019 – Ty Gets Motherly

Many of you already know this, but for the benefit of the few of you who don’t, I’ve been an anime fan for a long time. An entire…

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12 Days of Anime 2019 – Ty Gets a Pet

2019 has been full of exciting developments, many of which I mentioned during another 12 Days of Anime post. Among these exciting developments is the adoption of my…

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12 Days of Anime 2019 – I Become the Newest Member of the JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure Fandom

I first began my very own bizarre adventure with the JoJo franchise back in 2015 (only 29 years after its manga first debuted, so, you know, not that…

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12 Days of Anime 2019 – My Collection Gets Room to Grow

2019 has, overall, been a fantastic year for me. I bought my first car, an adorable little Mini Cooper, adopted my first pet, a 17 pound chonker of…

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12 Days of Anime 2019 – Dungeons and Dragons, Sorrel, and Kuranosuke

This year, in my ongoing quest to make friends and get out more, I joined a Dungeons and Dragons circle. Up until then I’d not played a single…

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12 Days of Anime 2019 – Fruits Basket (2019) Helps Me to Heal

The stories that anime tell may be fictional, but that in no way, shape, or form lessens the impact that they can have on our lives. I will…

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12 Days of Anime 2019 – the Basement

Long before I sat down to write these 12 Days of Anime posts, I knew that I’d be writing about Attack on Titan Season 3’s basement reveal. How…

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12 Days of Anime 2019 – My Triumphant Return to Episodic Blogging

One of the highlights of 2019, in terms of Watashi Wa Bucho!!, was getting to blog Fruits Basket (2019) episodically. It was the first time that I had…

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12 Days of Anime 2019 – I Finally Finish Sword Art Online

My journey with Sword Art Online has been a long and arduous one. I first started watching the show six years ago, in 2013. Like many, I was…

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12 Days of Anime 2019 – The Promised Neverland’s Big Reveal

Christmas is almost upon us, and that can mean only one thing… No, not mince pies, presents, or ugly sweaters (though those are all good things). That’s right,…

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The Second Annual WordPress Anime Awards Have Arrived!

Originally posted on KAWAIIPAPERPANDAS: Hello and welcome to the second annual WordPress Anime Awards! An awards ceremony created by fans for fans! Eleven of us have come together to…

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So I’ve Changed My Mind About Dr. Stone’s Senku

A couple of months ago I wrote a blog post called “Dr. Stone’s Unconvincing Hero”. Like its title would suggest, it was about Dr. Stone’s hero, Senku, and…

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Say “I Love You”. – a Wholly Frustrating Experience

Though I do try to keep my posts pretty positive here on Watashi Wa Bucho!! (there’s already enough negativity in the world without me adding to it), every…

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I Want More Anime like O Maidens in Your Savage Season!

2019 has seen no shortage of amazing anime. There’s been an abundance of big-money sequels, like Mob Psycho Season 2, Attack on Titan Season 3, and My Hero…

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Character Spotlight: Touko Nanami

Bloom Into You is an anime about two young, high school girls, Yuu and Touko, who find themselves kind of, sort of dating. This ill-defined relationship spurs them…

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Fire Force, a Frankenstein’s Monster of a Series

One of the anime that I’m enjoying the most right now is last season’s Fire Force. Fire Force is set in an alternate Japan where the phenomenon of…

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A Little Heads-Up

Hiya, guys, it’s me, Ty. Today’s blog post won’t be very long or very interesting. That being said, it is necessary that I put it out there. I…

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Fruits Basket (2019) Episode 25 – Ta Ta for Now!

As expected, this week’s episode of Fruits Basket (2019) was considerably less eventful than last week’s. That being said, I still absolutely adored it! It touched upon two…

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Fruits Basket (2019) Episode 24 – the Cat’s Outta the Bag…

It’s finally here! The (for all intents and purposes) finale of Fruits Basket’s first season! During this amazing episode, one of Kyo’s deepest and darkest secrets (you’d better…

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Dr Stone’s Unconvincing Hero

Dr. Stone is one of this summer’s most popular anime, with good reason. The show’s premise, two young men, Senku and Taiju, setting out to restore civilisation using…

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Fruits Basket (2019) Episode 23 – Kyo, Man of Mystery

Hello, everybody! Let me apologise in advance for the brevity of today’s blog post. It’s the day after my 14-hour journey from the US to the UK and…

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Fruits Basket (2019) Episode 22 – in Which Ty Wants to Murder a Small Child

Though we don’t get Hana-chan’s full backstory until muuuch later on in the manga (several volumes ahead of the material that’s currently being adapted), I, for one, am…

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