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New Year, Same Me: 2023 Film Run-down

January is not over yet, so end of year round-ups are still acceptable to pos – what, it’s February?! Hey, don’t look at me like that!!

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New Year, Same Me: 2023 Video Game Run-down

A lofty 2023 goal of mine was to play more games, which I happily managed to realize. You won’t find any notable annual hitters which have been subjected…

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New Year, Same Me: 2023 Manga Run-down

Regrettably, my manga consumption in 2023 fell short of initial expectations (and if you think this is bad, wait until you see how few anime series I consumed,).…

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Sentimental Journey and Reminiscing Through Music

It’s the new anime season, so you all know what that means. Time to watch a 1998 galge adaptation, courtesy of Sunrise!

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My Favourite Idolmaster Songs: [2] Secret Mirage

It’s fine like this, this is how it should beAnd yet, and yet – how I wish to touch youIf only we could remain pristine, retain our purity…

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Kitsch Existentialism: Final Fantasy IX and Resolving Past Misconceptions

A voice from the past, joining yours and mine.Adding up the layers of harmony.And so it goes, on and on.

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When History’s My Cage: South of the Circle’s Faded Memories

“I know what happened, I was there. Perhaps you were miles away again. Are you even here now?”

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“My Only Feeling Heart”: To Heart and The Anatomy of First Love

Can you BELIEVE a bishoujo adaptation with postcard memories exists?!

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At Decade’s End: A Blog’s Future Trailing Off into Ellipses

I think I’m just tired. But then again, we all are. It happens again, as it has happened countless times this year. When the cacophonous droning overwhelms, pushing…

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Kyoto Animation: A Chronology of Emotion

I don’t know what to feel. July 18th, 2019 A restless night where sleep is an all too distant prospect, I eye the time with faint disdain, luminous…

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A Dream Is A Wish Your Heart Makes: Go! Princess Precure and The Subjectivity of a Princess

Have faith in your dreams and someday Your rainbow will come smiling through No matter how your heart is grieving If you keep on believing The dream that…

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Hugtto! Precure and A Future Worth Fighting For

You can do anything! You can be anything! Take that shining future of yours, and embrace it with all your might! As a pig-tailed youth all smattering of…

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Dispelling the Heat Haze: Ashita no Nadja and A Prince’s Shadow

Once upon a time there was a chivalrous knight, of lithe limb and dazzling smile, virtue incarnate. Cutting a remarkably gallant figure, Francis Harcourt emerges from the well-thumbed…

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Brand New Theatre Days: The Idolmaster, Million Live, and Passing the Baton

Shimmering meetings, sparkling worlds. Our brand new theatre life. Those harbouring a penchant for otaku-fuelled ideations of the late noughties will possess an uncannily intimate familiarity with myriad…

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Closing the Underworld’s Gateway: Hunter x Hunter and Avoiding a Developmental Death

*tears up* they’re good boys, brent. Within the most desolate gloom, even the faintest flicker of hope can light the way. During Hunter x Hunter such a glow…

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The Key to Your Heart: Restructuring the Maeda Ideal Through Clannad and Air’s Theatrical Adaptations

Do I have any agency yet, uguu~. Maeda Jun would be considered one of fandom’s more notorious figureheads, revered yet slated on all corners of the internet. If…

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“In the Beginning, Woman Was Truly the Sun”: Haikara-san ga Tooru and Emerging Feminism in the Taishou Era

In the beginning, woman was truly the sun. An authentic person. Now she is the moon, a wan and sickly moon, dependent on another, reflecting another’s brilliance. The…

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A Monstrous Force: Darling in the FranXX’s Suppression of Female Sexuality

“What an ugly sight. Did she devour her stamen again?” Throughout history female sexuality has been portrayed as this monstrous force with a startling narrative insistence, embodying sexual…

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Weathering the Adolescent Storm: A Place Further Than the Universe and Liberation

The girls are alright! And mulling over existential conceits. You know, usual four-girls-in-a-club stuff. Even defined by gangly limbs and uncertainty, stumbling into middle adolescence is something of…

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