Maoyu is a manga that takes an incredibly generic and generally shallow premise, a struggle between a hero and a demon lord, and uses it to tell an incredibly unique and insanely deep story with it…
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I Refuse to Be Your Enemy!, Vol. 4
By Kanata Satsuki and Mitsuya Fuji. Released in Japan as “Watashi wa Teki ni Narimasen!” by PASH! Books. Released in North America digitally by J-Novel Club. Translated by…
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By Kanata Satsuki and Mitsuya Fuji. Released in Japan as “Watashi wa Teki ni Narimasen!” by PASH! Books. Released in North America digitally by J-Novel Club. Translated by…
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By Kanata Satsuki and Mitsuya Fuji. Released in Japan as “Watashi wa Teki ni Narimasen!” by PASH! Books. Released in North America digitally by J-Novel Club. Translated by…
I Refuse to Be Your Enemy!, Vol. 1
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Maoyuu Maou Yuusha ep 01 & 02 : You will be mine, hero! My pleasure!
Summary It was RPG-like setting. The humans were battling against demons. A hero, together with a white haired old fart, a mage chick, and errr… who’s the other…
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Unfortunately for I Refuse to Be Your Enemy, this is one lady isekai'd into another world LN that doesn't start completely strong before the game starts.
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I Couldn't Become a Hero, So I Reluctantly Decided to Get a Job Episode 9: Fino gets her first paycheck. Can you guess what she spends it on?
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I Couldn't Become a Hero, So I Reluctantly Decided to Get a Job Episode 10: Fino tries to come to terms with her future. Raul tries to help.
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I Couldn't Become a Hero, So I Reluctantly Decided to Get a Job Episode 12: Paul, Airi, and Lamdimia Do Aximemor chase Fino to the volcano.
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A release from J-Novel Club’s shoujo imprint which regrettably misses the mark. I commented a few reviews back that I’ve ended up in the past year or so…
Yuusha to Maou no Love Comedy (Love Comedy: Hero & the Princess of Darkness)
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Yo no Naka no Kemono
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I’m going to level with you, friends—Tokyo is hot. Real hot. Hotter than I remember. Hotter than my J-friends remember. Hotter than the host of my favourite radio…
Na Nare Hana Nare – Episode 5 – Cheering to Save Stout Records
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Shinobi no mono: Resurrection (1963)
A satisfying conclusion resolves the thematical exploration of destructive capitalistic pleasure in a satisfactorily yet maybe somewhat naive way.
Na-Nare Hana-Nare Episode 2: The Fairy and The Ninja
After a most excellent premiere it was time to see how they would keep up the momentum.
Film Festival Week: Dragonball Z Kono Yo de Ichiban Tsuyoi Yatsu
We’re finally getting around to this for the year. The week where we watch anime films. To start off, let’s delve back into the Dragonball franchise with the…
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I Couldn't Become a Hero So I Reluctantly Decided to Get a Job Episode 1: Raul trained to be a hero. Now he works a cash register.
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I Couldn't Become a Hero, So I Reluctantly Decided to Get a Job Episode 6: Raul and Fino continue their Amada undercover operation!
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Na Nare Hana Nare – Episode 3 – Suzuha and Shion’s Nervousness and Kanata’s Cheer Challenges
Episode impressions of Na Nare Hana Nare Episode 3 as you might wonder why Suzuha and Shion act strangely to each other after Suzuha falls from the tree…
497th G-View: Na-Nare Hana-Nare
This next G-View is of a show I would like to refer to as the spiritual successor to the criminally underrated Anima Yell! anime adaptation. So much so I kept…
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With Mari’s sudden disappearance, which she mentioned to Megumi, Kanata gets worried. Eventually, Izawa had to come clean with what happened with Mari. Mari disappeared for the last…
I read the “Sora no Ao wo Shiru Hito yo” novelization
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What’s Mine Is Mine MY WORDS!
Take what’s yours. Huh I don’t think so Prepare for a no hold bars post about a blog situation that I will tell you is not OKAY.
Na Nare Hana Nare – Episode 4 – Anna’s Frustrations and Her Love for Music
Episode impressions of Na Nare Hana Nare Episode 4 as Kanata and her friends have done their first cheer video, we finally find out what Anna is hiding.
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Episode impressions of Na Nare Hana Nare Episode 1 as Kanata dreamed about participating in a cheerleading tournament until something stuck as she woke up. What is the…
Na-Nare Hana-Nare Episode 3: The Fairy, The Ninja and the Pompoms
We resumed this mini-arc and got some interesting reveals.
Na-Nare Hana-Nare Episode 6: Onsen Chairs
Not quite what I crave but it’s the closest thing.
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After being blessed by Suzuha and Shion’s story it’s time to check out a spicy half-Latina’s.
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When Miku runs out of options to keep her and her mother afloat while weighed down with her father's massive debt, she turns to a distant rich relative…
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Woah?! What’s this? An old retro anime ninja series that I have never heard of? Obviously. Must be one of those old and obscure OVA titles that came…
Na Nare Hana Nare – Episode 9 – Frustrations with Kanata and Being Honest with Oneself
Episode impressions of Na Nare Hana Nare Episode 9 as from last time, Anna noticed the angry comments on PoMPoMs's video. They found out that Kanata was doing…
Na Nare Hana Nare – Episode 10 – End of Summer Cheers and Kanata’s Way Forward
Episode impressions of Na Nare Hana Nare Episode 10 as Kanata has made up with Megumi after she got upset with her, they have found a path forward…
Na-Nare Hana-Nare Episode 5: Dance of Rejuvenation
When we last left our heroines Anna had lost her Latino Heat. Our heroines were determined to help get it back for her.
Na-Nare Hana-Nare Episode 10: Old Stomping Grounds
After a very eventful two-parter our heroines take care of some loose ends and our main girl goes back to her roots in a sense. Reminder that on…
Shinobi no Mono: Band of Assassins (1962)
Yamamoto expertly utilizes the game of disguises, traps, gadgets, concealed passages, hidden stairs, and trapdoors, to offer an allegorical tale of the post-war subject’s conundrum
Shinobi no Mono 2: Revenge (1963) review
Satsuo Yamamoto reveals the frailty and replaceability of the capitalistic father in an engaging way.