Welcome back to “Dropped”! This is a series of posts where I talk about a bunch of titles that at one point or another started and then stopped i.e. dropped. If you want to check out my…
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Fullmetal Alchemist, InuYasha, Kakuriyo -Bed & Breakfast for Spirits-, Aggressive Retsuko, Aggretsuko
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Dropped – A look at what could have been – Manga Part I
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Dropped – A look at what could have been – Anime Part II
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Dropped – A look at what could have been – Manga Part IV
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Dropped – A look at what could have been – Manga Part II
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Dropped – What Could Have Been (Anime Vers.)
Again inspired by Phoenix’s series of posts. My manga version is here.
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Dropped – What Could Have Been (Manga Vers.)
Inspired by Phoenix’s Dropped post series.
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Code Geass is one of the biggest hits of the 2000’s anime scene. It exploded in Japan. It also became a big hit in N.A. by airing on…
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At the risk of other blogs out there announcing their events before me, like a certain Lita Kino last year, I will hereby do it here with a…
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Where Have I Been?
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This Bureau guy doesn’t seem so bad after all. In the words of Gagumber, they (Merooro and Memenpu) are both “nerds”. Which for once worked against Gagumber because…
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Where the Fuck have I been?
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The Gap of Four Months, or: What I Have Been Doing
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