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Envisioning a Bright Future for All Otaku
Just this week, the Vatican brought out a brand-new mascot to represent the Church’s upcoming year. Named “Luce” (“light” in Italian), the cute character caught a ton …
The Search For A Future
A future that involves manually drawing everything I require isn’t realistic. That’s why, in my last post I said “I’ll be taking time to come up with a manner…
My Hero Academia – 76/77 [Infinite 100%/Bright Future]
So far, I’ve complained more about this arc of MHA than any other in the past. I wasn’t sold on the departure from the school setting, and I’ve…
Otaku-Chans And The Future Of Anime Made For TikTok
On March 15, 2023, history was made as Otaku-chans, the first anime created specifically for TikTok, launched its first episode. The series focuses on the
Otaku-Chans And The Future Of Anime Made For TikTok
On March 15, 2023, history was made as Otaku-chans, the first anime created specifically for TikTok, launched its first episode. The series focuses on the
Review: My Hero Academia s4 ep83: Togata’s Daughter and Children with a Bright Future —
Welcome to another collaboration review of My Hero Academia season 4 from Irina from I Drink and Watch Anime and me! It’s my turn to host this week.…
Review: My Hero Academia s4 ep83: Togata’s Daughter and Children with a Bright Future
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'You Are Having a Festival for the Future'
Annecy, 'The Lovers' and animation newsbits.
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…
Episode 127 – Shine Bright Like A Diamond
Though we may not directly say it during the recording, this may be our last episode for the year 2017. It has been a fun ride and we…
Bright: Samurai Soul
To call Bright: Samurai Soul 'better than the original Bright' would be the most backhanded of compliments to pay any movie, but that is honestly the most apt…
Bright: Samurai Soul
Bright: Samurai Soul (2021) Woodblock prints and math rock! Here’s another anime where I have no knowledge of the source material, allowing me to head in to the…
Shinesman: Still Bright
Special Duty Combat Unit Shinesman is the rare anime seemingly remembered for its dub. That’s not to disparage the original Japanese versio...
Hellsing, Special Duty Combat Unit Shinesman, Virtua Fighter, Ghost Stories, Hells
you are all interested in the future
Japanese animation, anime, cartoons, and Japanese comics from 1960-1990
you are all interested in the future
Japanese animation, anime, cartoons, manga, 1960-1990, Tezuka, Miyazaki, Ishinomori, Matsumoto, Yamato, Gatchaman, Star Blazers, Captain Harlock
A Manga Gift Guide for All Seasons
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100 followers + Plans for Future
100 is quite the number huh? I want to say thank you to everyone that follows and reads the blog. Although Jun and I didn’t start this blog…
Bright Lights, Big Dreams: Acky Bright Talks With Anime Herald
Editor: Samantha Ferreira Anime Herald: You started as a graffiti artist. Did you ever imagine you’d become a professional artist with art books and more?
A Bright Sunshiny Day! The Sunshine Blogger Award
I don’t know why I haven’t answered the many times I’ve been tagged before… some silly reason or another. But I felt like writing, and two bloggers have…
Super Bowl LIV for Otaku
Welcome to the wonderful world of football! While otaku and football don’t seem to align (we all have seen the jocks vs. geeks mentality that society tries to…
Digital Church Services for Otaku
During this time of pandemic, all organizations and groups have had to change the way they do things. The church has been no different. For many, that means…
Social Distancing Deals for Otaku
COVID-19 has forced a lot of people to spend as much time at home as possible. In response, many companies have been trying to incentivize following social distancing…
KonoSuba: God’s blessing on this wonderful world! (Episode 23) – God’s Blessings on This Bright Future!
Kazuma feels like it should be his time. He’s defeated several of the Demon Lord’s generals and he saved the Crimson Demon’s village. So, why hasn’t he got…
Beast Tamer (Episode 13) – A Home for All
For saving Horizon from the demon and the corrupt lord, Rein was given a double promotion by the adventurers’ guild and a huge reward. They recommended he buy…
A Read-Only Future
A friend and I made a video for our final project! It’s about digital copyright enforcement and augmented reality interfaces. On an unrelated note, I am extremely upset…
A Harbinger of the Future? My Life as a Villainess: All Routes Lead to Doom
If there’s any recent series that I think is capable of uniting disparate parts of the anime fandom, it’s My Life as a Villainess: All Routes Lead to…
Life is hard for an Otaku: Concerts (IN A PANDEMIC)
Hey everyone! Thought we’d post something that is relevant nowadays in a world that is trying to live in the middle of a pandemic. Concerts! Honestly, live music…
Christmas Gifs for All
It’s Christmas!!!! Merry Merry Christmas and Happy holidays! I hope you’re keeping warm and comfy. I hope you got almost everything you wanted, gotta leave a little something…
For All the Morgs
Denji shows some kindness, Doom goes one hundred percent, and a bet is decided. 3:51 - My Hero Academia 376 13:46 - Undead Unluck 141 23:11 - Chainsaw Man 115 33:48 -…
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A Raven for All Seasons and The Elusive Samurai
The Chicago White Sox have fired their fail-manager Pedro Grifol, who was hired by their previous fail-regime,...
Pick of the Week: A Pick for All Seasons
ASH: The releases this week seem to have a bit more variety to them than some weeks bring, but maybe that's just because I'm paying closer attention. And…
Otaku Collection Haul for April 2022
This month’s haul introduces Discotek Media Blu-rays to the collection, as well as another venture into town to help build up the book and video games collection.
Otaku Collection Haul for February 2021
What started off with a small variety of items concludes with a surprise video game haul.
Otaku Collection Haul for April 2023
This month’s haul puts more emphasis on the Asian Cinema scene whilst also getting a few older anime and video games, including some PlayStation 3 games!
Pride For My Queer Otaku Family
When Pride Month 2020 began, I was absolutely, positively sure that we would not be celebrating. I believed, from the very depths of my heart, that this…
Otaku Collection Haul for July 2022
This month’s haul includes a bunch of items picked up in town plus sale deals, pre-orders finally appearing and a couple more items that were out of stock…
Otaku Collection Haul for June 2021
The Birthday haul is here, as well as a a catch up on a whole bunch of books and video games.
Otaku Collection Haul for August 2023
For this month’s batch we have an expensive month thanks to a batch of Nintendo Switch releases, but we also received more pre-orders making their appearance. Plus, we…
Otaku Collection Haul for March 2024
The second batch of Discotek releases for this year finally arrives, a few pre-orders from Anime Limited make their appearances, we catch up on a couple of Asian…
Otaku Collection Haul for June 2024
The Birthday haul has arrived and another Discotek Media haul makes an appearance. In addition I finally start catching up with the Nintendo Switch collection which included a…
Otaku Collection Haul for November 2022
This month’s haul offers a massive Discotek Media haul from Rightstuf, more Anime Limited releases and a couple of video game accessories while at the same time having…
Otaku Collection Haul for July 2021
For this month’s haul, the anime finally catches up after months of delays but we also get more video games from the Asian English region as well as…
Otaku Collection Haul for January 2024
We start off the year with the delayed Anime Limited pre-orders and also a new Discotek Media haul. There’s more Asian & World Cinema titles plus a new…
Otaku Collection Haul for March 2022
This haul is huge. No doubt about that. Tons of anime, games and films joining the collection. This includes highly anticipated anime releases all the way to a…
Otaku Collection Haul for January 2022
We start off 2022 with the Nintendo Switch OLED, Chainsaw Man, Hunter x Hunter and many more titles now joining the collection from Anime, Manga, Games and Asian…
Otaku Collection Haul for August 2022
This month’s haul includes a bunch of hauls that consist of multiple items, including the return of both Discotek Media and Sentai Filmworks, and finally the inclusion of…
Otaku Collection Haul for June 2022
This month’s haul includes multiple batches of manga, but we also have the Birthday haul and a batch of pre-orders finally getting released.
Otaku Collection Haul for September 2022
This month’s haul was affected by more delays on the newer releases, but we do have another Discotek batch plus some more video games and manga to keep…
Demystifying online dating sites for Otaku
I’m going to start by saying it was a cute concept but they are utter trash. Most advertise a free service but in order to reply or send…
Otaku Collection Haul for August 2021
For this month’s haul, the anime titles that were supposed to occupy most of this month’s haul got pushed back into September so what I have left remaining…