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LiA Bespoke Project – Tying the Knot in Japan
As is so often the case, Japan's relationship with the spiritual is quite unique.
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LiA Bespoke Project: Honoriffic!
It's fair to say that honorifics play an outsized role in the Japanese language. Read more
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LiA Bespoke Project: Yakyuu For You Extra Innings – Ballpark Food
And no ghost runner either.
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LiA Bespoke Project – The Tournament Arc
When you've watches hundreds and hundreds of series like I have, how are you supposed to recall all of them on demand?
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LiA Bespoke Project – Hanko? You’re Welcome!
If you want quirky, Japan is the culture for you. Read more
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LiA Bespoke Project: Yakyuu For You
It may be American’s national pastime, but baseball is more popular in Japan these days than it is in the U.S..
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LiA Bespoke Project : The Career of Toriyama Akira
Even if I never felt a personal connection to Toriyama Akira's fiction, I found myself strongly impacted by his passing.
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LiA Bespoke Project – New Year’s in Japan
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LiA Bespoke Project – Anime Pals From Around the World
Anime may be a Japanese medium, but its settings know no borders.
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LiA Bespoke Project: Guardian Enzo’s Top 10 Manga
The people have spoken. Read more
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LiA Bespoke Project: Guardian Enzo’s Top 10 Manga
It goes without saying that this list was incredibly difficult to put together. Read more
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LiA Bespoke Project: Tournament Arcs Overtime – Best Battles
As a companion piece to the main tournament arcs article, Nicc asked me to include some of my favorite battles from anime.
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LiA Bespoke Project: The Tournament Arc Double-Overtime – The Olympics
You gotta love sports.
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LiA Bespoke Project: Best of the 2000’s in Anime – Project Engage!
Let's get noughty. Read more
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LiA Bespoke Project : The Top 10 Sports Anime – Honorable Mention
LiA Bespoke is back. Once again the benefactor is the incredibly generous LiA MVP Nicc. And the commission this time is a straightforward one.
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LiA Bespoke Project: Best of the 2000’s in Anime
This project would be really interesting to take on. Read more
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LiA Bespoke Project: Guardian Enzo’s Top 10 Manga List
The people have spoken. Read more
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LiA Bespoke Project – A Crow by Any Other Name
They’re annoying - loud, garbage-strewing, pet-threatening - but we remain fascinated by such fiercely intelligent creatures living in our midst.
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LiA Bespoke Project: Guardian Enzo’s Top 10 Manga – #10
In many ways, this is the perfect sports manga. Read more
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LiA Bespoke Project – Anime’s Top 5(ish) Product Placements
The recent overload of Suntory self-promotion in Bartender prompted a discussion of product placement in anime.
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LiA Bespoke Project: Natsumatsuri – the Summer Festival in Anime and Life
Natsumatsuri which have been part of the fabric of Japanese life for centuries and anime virtually since it started. Read more
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LiA Bespoke Project: The 2000-2009 Anime Top 10 – Honorable Mention
Any Top 10 list is, by nature, highly personal. Read more
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LiA Bespoke Project – Live-action Anime on Stage and Screen
Anime and manga has another side, little known in the West. Live-action animanga is a huge and lucrative industry in Japan.
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LiA Bespoke Project : A BokuYaba Senryuu For Dark Flame Master
With 136 brilliant BokuYaba chapters in the books, how am I supposed to limit myself to 17 syllables and no spoilers?
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LiA Bespoke Project : The Top 5 College Anime (for Dark Flame Master)
This is another one of those requests that sounds easy but it actually maddeningly difficult.
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A new chapter for LiA begins... Read more
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LiA Bespoke Project : That Niche (You Know the One I Mean) – Top 10
You've heard met talk about a certain "niche" on the schedule, and it's easier to give examples of it than to define it.
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LiA Bespoke Project: Hello, Goodbye – Anime’s Best First and Final Episodes – #5
The hardest thing about this topic is trying to remember - in this case, all the first and last episodes I’ve really loved.
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LiA Bespoke Project: Hello, Goodbye – Anime’s Best First and Final Episodes (Wrap-up)
As always, whenever one compiles a "best of" (or personal favorites) list, what's not on it draws as much attention as what is.
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Spy×Family 09 (Marital Adventures #SPY_FAMILY)
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Lia - Farewell Song
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Lia - Farewell Song
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Underskin extra
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Back to the Future (LiA Edition)
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Death Knot (Tali mati, Cornelio Sunny, 2021)
Siblings enter a dark world of supernatural dread when unwisely returning for their estranged mother’s funeral in Cornelio Sunny’s eerie folk horror
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Tonikaku Cawaii Chapter 165 (Marital Fluff and Cameos)
AstroNerdBoy reviews Tonikaku Cawaii Chapter 165. Nasa ponders the naked apron & ropes his wife in. Aya decides to join the discussion.
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Does Japan Only Punish Female Celebrities for Affairs?
After news of her affair broke, actress Hirosue Ryoko became jobless overnight. Is it indicative of a sexist double standard in Japan?
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Demon Gaze Extra
Demon Gaze is a dungeon crawler that was originally released on the Vita in 2013. A remaster dubbed Demon Gaze Extra was then released for the PS4 and…
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New From LiA: Commissions (The Official Launch!)
Ready or not, here we go. Read more
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[PPD] Playing Project DIVA simulator: Project -Project DXXX-
Hatsune Miku: Project DIVA was a rhythm game produced by SEGA for Sony’s PSP. This involves pressing the correct combination of buttons as they appear onscreen, whilst Miku…
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Nibiiro Musica V5 Extra
Author: Tokoro KemekoChapter: extraRead: cubari | batoto | download The pending extra for Noel and Donald is here. Hope you enjoyed their story.
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Thoroughbred wa Yuruganai Extra
[Release] Thoroughbred wa Yuruganai Author: Sakura RicoChapter: ExtraRead: cubari | batoto | download We reach the end for this manga. Thanks for following along. Lastly, here’s the …
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Fate/Extra: Last Encore: The beautiful nightmare.
You can go to many Fate fans and ask them what their favorite one of the franchise is. Many can talk about the original Fate/Stay Night from 2006,…
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Project Skip the Books
Finally, time for this blog to be used for something that isn’t just the monthly reading log! Last year I gave myself a new project because I realised…