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2024 Travelogue, 2025 Outlook
With a new IDOLM@STER game grabbing my interest, it’s not too surprising the blog is in this hiatus-like state. Still I have ideas, and they must exit the…
Saga of Tanya the Evil Episode 8 – Tanya Clarifies Her Outlook
Saga of Tanya the Evil Episode 8: Can Tanya navigate the ethical quagmire of how to treat hostile civilians? Is the decision out of her hands?
A Cynic’s Outlook on Christmas, Plus a Late 1st Year of OWLS (12th Day of Anime 2019)
OWLS is fun, exactly as I thought it would be, but it was also pretty clear when I bent prompts to things I wanted to write about… Here’s…
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Amalock (2024) review [OAFF 2024]
A narrative that fluidly combines comedy and tragedy to deliver an experience of smiles and tears.
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Belonging (2024) review [Japannual 2024]
Higashi delivers a touching exploration of love after death.
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Snowdrop (2024) review [OAFF 2024]
A complex character portrait that touchingly illustrates how easy it is to misrecognize the logic of the subject-supposed-to-be-in-need.
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Suton (2024) review [OAFF 2024]
Rikako Watanabe’s narrative succeeds to echo the unvocalized ‘pandemic’ truth of many.
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Blue Imagine (2024) review [OAFF 2024]
A powerful reminder of the sexual transgressions that structurally plague the Japanese film industry
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Wash Away (2024) review [OAFF 2024]
A pleasant narrative that offers a fresh but familiar exploration of the subject’s fundamental desire for recognition/love and the problematic yet medicative function of consumption.
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Sumiko 22 (2024) review [OAFF 2024]
A subtle but playful narrative about a subject who slowly tries to crawl out the hole of emptiness and diminished self-worth.
2024 plans.
(I didn’t even bother with a witty title for this post. Written hastily in less than 30 minutes…) Hi. So it’s almost 2024. And this blog has been…
Farewell, 2024…
This post is brought you by Ave Mujica where this girls’ band from BanG Dream! will make its debut next year. This is a direct sequel to BanG…
Otakon 2024
I only bought two Lupin TV specials this year
2024 Retrospective
Ringing in the new year by taking one last look at the old one. Here's to 2025! 5:42 - 2024 Recommendations 5:48 - The 100 Girlfriends Who Really, Really, Really,…
Chainsaw Man, The Elusive Samurai, Black Clover, Green Green, My Hero Academia
2024 Goals Status Update (2024-12-31)
Just one more blog post before the end of the year, as I haven’t made one in a while. This time, I’m not going to do much to…
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Penalty Loop (2024) review [Nippon Connection 2024]
The way Araki resolves the narrative’s thematical questions concerning vengeance and the working-through of trauma will divide spectators
2024 Goals Status Update (2024-05-15)
I haven’t made a blog post in a long time. Here are some status updates on my goals.
2024 Goals Status Update (2024-02-29)
Today marks the 8-year anniversary of this blog! I started blogging about anime on February 29, 2016, on a leap day. In this article, I’m going to talk…
2024 Goals Status Update (2024-04-25)
I just finished reading Atomic Habits. By the way, here’s a status update on my goals.
2024 Goals Status Update (2024-02-21)
At this point, changes are coming to my lifestyle, so it’s appropriate to make an update on my goals.
2024 Goals Status Update (2024-08-01)
August has begun, and it’s time for a goals status update.
2024 Goals Status Update (2024-04-01)
It’s the start of a new month, and I already feel pumped on this new chapter of my life. If everything goes well, my future will become brighter.
2024 Goals Status Update (2024-11-30)
One week has passed, and I decided to update my goals one more time for this month. I had a long chat with ChatGPT for life mentoring. One…
2024 Goals Status Update (2024-07-01)
We’re already halfway through 2024, and I want to give a status update on my goals.
2024 Goals Status Update (2024-01-21)
January is almost over. I want to recap all the goals I set as well as talking about how I’m doing right now.
2024 Goals Status Update (2024-09-19)
It’s been over a month a while since I made a blog post. Here’s an update on my goals. This time, I’m shuffling the goals order.
2024 Goals Status Update (2024-06-05)
Just thought I’d give some updates on my goals. Sorry if I’m posting many of these goals status updates in a row. This is slowly no longer becoming…
2024 Goals Status Update (2024-10-04)
It is October 4, and now would be a good time to provide a status update for my goals. I’m also looking forward to 2025, assuming things stay…
2024 Goals Status Update (2024-11-23)
It’s time for a status update, and this time, I shuffle the goals around. 4. Watch Better Anime I finally completed the 2024 MAL Challenge! I will not…
2024 Goals Status Update (2024-05-26)
It’s starting to feel like summer, and I want to make yet another blog post since my life is changing and adapting.
Anirevo 2024 Summer: Wrap (Animethon 2024 Edition)
I actually attended day 1 of Animethon and days 2-3 of Anirevo 2024. Part of this has to do with the stacked guest list for Animethon this year.…
2024 Goals Status Update (2024-01-31)
We’ve reached the end of the month, and I just want to give a status update on all the things that has happened. Also, you can find my…
2024 Goals Status Update (2024-10-20)
I wasn’t planning to make this a Goals Status Update post, but given how the year is almost over and how far I’ve come, I feel it’s appropriate…
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Sin And Evil (2024) review [Japannual 2024]
Saito shows that the Other always bears some responsibility for the subjective outcomes of dysfunctional familial dynamics and the criminal excesses that plague its mendacious image of peaceful…
2024 Goals Status Update (2024-07-14)
I have decided that it’s time for another goals status update with some stuff that’s going on recently. And it looks like I’m feeling optimistic about this.
2024 Goals Status Update (2024-02-08)
Not much has happened, but I’ll give a long status update about some changes and my future.
2024 Goals Status Update (2024-11-05)
Now would be a perfect time to go over my goals.
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Desert of Namibia (2024) review [Japannual 2024]
Yoko Yamanaka delivers a cinematic masterpiece of subjectivity.
2024 Goals Status Update (2024-08-14)
I feel like now is the time to do a goals status update. Enough time has passed.
JOJO magazine 2024 WINTER Releases in December 2024
4th issue of JOJO magazine releases on December 18, 2024. They are holding a survey for opinions about the Hitman Team from Part 5.
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Memories of this Scent (2024) review [OAFF 2024]
An endearing and fragrance rich tale of subjective change.
Summer 2024 Anime Week 9: Anime NYC 2024!
August 31st, 2024 Last weekend, I had the chance to attend Anime NYC! The convention was a lot of fun and so I wanted to share some of…
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Mash Ville (매쉬빌, Hwang Wook, 2024) [Fantasia 2024]
Life in a small rural backwater is forever changed when strange cultists suddenly arrive in Hwang Wook’s quirky drama.
Otakon 2024: Wrap
Otakon this year came and went in my whirlwind August. It is the first stop for this eventer choo-choo…uh, did you know Otakon has a train theme last…
Review: YOLO (2024)
YOLO 热辣滚烫 China, 2024, colour, 2.35:1, 128 mins. Director: Jia Ling 贾玲. Rating: 7/10. Mainland comedienne Jia Ling’s second feature as writer-director-star hits the bell again, if not…
CP Day 2024
Boy, this day rolls around quicker every year. On December 24th, on what would have been his birthday, we celebrate the life of our much-missed fansubbing chum, ConsiderPhlebas,…
Ranma ½ (2024) – 03
I'm rather startled by how much I'm enjoying Ranma ½.
Yamatour 2024 Travelogue
By Tim Eldred 18 hours, compressed into two photos. If only real life could be like that sometimes. Day 1: July 16/17 When it was announced that REBEL…
Music Taste (2024)
Well I was telling myself that the next post that I made would either be about Solanin or Alice in Hell and surprise! It’s about neither. Instead, I…
Ranma ½ (2024) – 09
More than any series this season - and maybe many seasons - Ranma ½ is really dependent on its cast for success.