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Meeting Prime Minister Abe
This has felt like a very uneven month to me. I was in the U.S. from July 2-29, so a bit less than a clean month. I was…
Yokai Monsters
By Tom Wilmot. Yokai have been a point of fascination for consumers film fans for many years. The word Yokai in very general terms means “strange thing”, and…
Mochizuki no Karasu: Abe Chisato
Imagine my delight when I popped into my favourite Tokyo bookstore to kill time before meeting a friend for dinner only to find a display of the latest…
Tsuioku no Karasu: Abe Chisato
I have had this book sitting on my shelf for months now just so I could enjoy the anticipation of eventually reading it. My fingers would hover over…
Monsters of Time
Time isn’t the enemy it once was in video games. Modern titles might rank and penalize players based on how long it takes to clear a stage, ...
Karasu Hyakka—Shirayuri no Sho: Abe Chisato
If you’ve been following along these last few years, you’ll know that I am utterly and completely smitten with Abe Chisato’s Yatagarasu fantasy series, and I was sure…
Shinya Shokudou / Midnight Dinfooder by Abe Yaro
A friend of mine recently reminded me of the Netflix live-action show Midnight Diner: Tokyo Stories that I watched years ago.When we were chatting I expressed surprise that…
Former Japanese Prime Minister Abe Shinzo assassinated
I happened to be watching NHK Japan last night when the shocking news broke that Japan’s former prime minister was shot. He was taken to a local…
Common Faults and Monsters
Like most films by Hirokazu Kore-eda, Monster begins quietly, tracking the shoes of a child as they silently navigate a grassy embankment. The movement is furtive, hesitant; the…
Little Nights, Little Love (2019) review
“A very enjoyable and heart-warming romance narrative.”
Little Hope
Four college students and their professor are involved in a bus crash on a field trip, dumping them outside the small town of Little Hope in...
Little Fingies
Anya reunites with Yor, Asa breaks a rule, and Akane starts to deliver her version of Fetching Tea! 1:26 - My Hero Academia 379 13:20 - Undead Unluck 144-145 25:42 -…
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Plastic Little
Let's face it: the world does not need another version of the 1994 OVA Plastic Little . kuraze spent years wrestling decent video from the D...
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Little Busters!
Note: This is a review of all Little Busters anime content: Little Busters!, Little Busters!: Refrain, Little Busters!: EX, and Kud Wafter. This anime is an adaptation of…
Little Busters!: EX, Kud Wafter, Little Busters!, Little Busters! Refrain
Abe-kun’s Got Me Now! Volume 5 Review
TheOASG reviews Abe-kun's Got Me Now! Volume 5, & while Akari and Abe get together, a love triangle forms between Abe, Ryomei, and...karate!
Luigi Mangione: The Parallels to Abe Shinzo’s Assassin
Was Luigi Mangione inspired by Japan's most recent folk hero assassin? (Or was it the public healthcare system?)
Episode 20: The Akutagawa Prize and Kobo Abe
Machi Yamida Abe’s illustration from The Woman in the Dunes Check out Episode 20 of the Read Literature podcast. The Akutagawa Prize is probably Japan’s most celebrated literary…
Abe-kun’s Got Me Now! Volume 8 Review
But despite its downsides, this was one of the most enjoyable volumes of Abe-kun's Got Me Now! due to Akabe and Abe's relationship.
Episode 252 - Digimon: Digital Monsters
This week, Remington is still moving (what is he, a tortoise?), so Shaun has decided to give him another softball, but with a nostalgic twist. So come and…
Sunday Select: 7 Anime Monsters
Read about 7 kinds of monsters in anime
Hella Chill Monsters GN 1
You'd be hard-pressed to find a book more dedicated to embodying its title than Hella Chill Monsters.
Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters
The Ultimate Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters Shill Attempt In Terms Of Attack And Defense
Little Busters! & Little Busters!: Refrain Review (Spoiler Free)
So a while back I decided to take a look at Little Busters!. It was something that I’ve come across time and time again when looking around for…
Mounting Contention Over State Funeral for Slain Abe Shinzo
The Japanese public remains polarized over plans for a rare state funeral in honor of recently assassinated former prime minister Abe Shinzo.
Majority in Japan Oppose Expensive State Funeral for Abe
On the eve of the event, polls show that most Japanese residents don't like Abe's pricey funeral - and that's hurting the current PM.
Abe-kun’s Got Me Now Manga Volume One Review
I’ve kind of moved away from reading high school romance manga the last couple years. Mostly because I felt like I couldn’t handle the drama and the kinds…
The Little House
The Little House Japanese Title: 小さいおうち (Chiisai ouchi) Author: Kyoko Nakajima (中島 京子) Translator: Ginny Tapley Takemori Publication Year: 2010 (Japan); 2019 (United Kingdom) Publisher: Darf Publis…
A little update
Here’s a tiny update of what I’ve been up to. Spoiler alert—it’s not much.
Little Things: Archon
I wonder why Archon: The Light and the Dark wasn’t a bigger deal. It was a success on home computers in the mid-1980s, of course, but it…
Little Witch Academia
Studio Trigger have now put their delightfully-animated confection on YouTube with English subtitles. There really aren’t many reasons not to watch it, unless you’re allergic to little …
Little Witch Nobeta
Little Witch Nobeta has a palpable sense of it being crafted out of genuine love for style and genre. That makes it easy to like, even as some…
Little “Black” Book
So, what have we here? Really? Another isekai? Really? How many is that just this month? Really? And it’s the first of the month as well! And since…
Plastic Little Review
There are a lot of silly OVAs from the late 80s to early 90s. While not every one of them is of the type of high quality you’d…
Moyashimon – Little Lives
Moyashimon is one of the mot unique premises I have come across combined with classic anime slice of life.
172: The Sickos Rank the Monsters
It's our spookiest episode yet as the Sickos rank the Halloween monsters in a bone-chilling tournament! This one's pretty dumb (non-derogatory)
Monsters Club (モンスターズクラブ, Toshiaki Toyoda, 2011)
A traumatised young man still painfully in love with an imperfect world is plagued by trickster ghosts and shapeshifting monsters in Toyoda’s melancholy character study
Episode 79: 01: Piloting Spaghetti Monsters
In this episode of Boku No Stop! we discuss episodes 1-2 of Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion. Content Warnings: all-around violence, suicide, racism, ethnic cleansing (those last two…
Review: Mon Mon Mon Monsters (2017)
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10 Unseen Monsters in Monster Hunter
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RYUMAAAAAAAAA! - Monsters One shot anime REACTION
RYUMAAAAAAAAA! - Monsters One shot anime REACTION Become a member! - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC4xIqX93EXRtB4z58AbCarg/join Discord - https://discord.gg/enRG5QR Twitch - https://www.twitch.tv/thekingofrecons Facebook Page - https://www.facebook.com/OuterHeavenRecon/ Twitter - https://twitter.com/YoshidaShoyou Click here to Subscribe - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC4xIqX93EXRtB4z58AbCarg One Piece Manga Chapter…
Mouryou no Yurikago (Cradle of Monsters)
This manga is about a group of high school students trying to escape from a capsizing cruise ship overrun by zombies. Overall I’d say that it’s not terrible,…
Hella Chill Monsters Volume 1 Review
Bonzo Scalobania wants to be Limbo City’s version of Sherlock Holmes, Nancy Drew, Conan Edogawa, Hajime Kindachi, etc. The problem? Well, in a place full of undead monsters…
Home Sweet Home – Monsters and humanity
Hey guys what is up welcome back to my blog I’m so thankful that you guys took the time out of your day to read my blog post.…
Goblin down monsters: Re:Monster First Impression
Eating other monsters to get stronger, only this time from the pov of a goblin, interesting! 2024 Spring anime is on the way!
Even Monsters are Scarier in Japan
Ok, I really need to get this out of the way first. I’m a bad blogger… That title is clickbait! Japan has a very rich tradition of supernatural…
Atelier Thighza #01 — Somewhat Hovering Monsters
How dangerous. Double length premiere, and I don't feel like splitting it into two posts. Impressions: Saturdays are quite awful this season, and this is somehow already…
Review: Digimon Digital Monsters (Blu-Ray)
It’s Saturday Morning. Some people are looking for their five hours of summer over on Disney’s “One Saturday Morning”, others are trying to catch ‘em all over on…
Abe-kun’s Got Me Now! Volumes 6 and 7 Review
Abe-kun's Got Me Now! knows its strengths and definitely rewards its audience even as the story is otherwise pretty standard.
Abe-kun’s Got Me Now! Volumes 1 and 2 Review
Abe-kun's Got Me Now! first two volumes does a few things with Akari & karate champion Abe that will entertain certain shoujo fans.