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12 Days 2020, Day 6: Short Awards 2020
As is now something of a tradition for my 12 days posts, day 6 is our 5th annual Short awards. Every year I use this day to highlight…
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12 Days 2020, Day 3: Milky Rose
I continue to be a sucker for mascot Cures apparently. Continuing my long long trip through the 12 years worth of Precure that aired before I got into…
12 Days 2020, Day 12: A Year of Comebacks
In a year where I actively chose to experience the anime of yesteryear the anime industry seemed determined to meet me halfway. This year had an awful lot…
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12 Days 2020, Day 7: Saint October World
Sometimes you run into a series that by most metrics it’s hard to call Good, but which ends up being enjoyable anyway. Saint October is very firmly in…
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Rainy Day Anime!
It’s Winter where I live, and that means rain, rain, and more rain! I wake up in the morning and it’s dark and sprinkling. I go run errands…
12 Days 2020, Day 1: A New Old Decade.
Well it’s that time of year again, when I decide that, after a full year of producing almost no writing, it’s a good idea to try and produce…
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12 Days 2020, Day 8: Penguin Musume, the MAD
Penguin Musume♥Heart is one the most aggressively 2000s anime I watched this year. Essentially a protracted love letter to the anime and otaku culture trends of the era,…
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12 Days 2020, Day 5: A Tired, Terrible Princess
After spending the first third of this post series trapped in the 2000s it’s time to take a break and acknowledge that I did in fact watch some…
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12 Days 2020, Day 10: Popotan’s Left Behind Children
Popotan is a series with a handful of interesting ideas which it never commits to quite enough to be genuinely good. Occasionally it comes close though, with one…
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12 Days of Christmas Anime, Day 2: Kodocha
Greetings everyone! Your Prodigious Cajun Samurai Josh here with my first contribution to the 12 Days of Christmas festivities! This is my first time participating in one of…
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[12 Days 2018] Day 12: Best of Anime, Part 2!
Another year of anime and blogging in the books! Thank you all for reading the 12 Days of Anime posts until now. To end off, we take a…
Kunoichi Tsubaki #10 — Rainy Days
At least someone threw a punch. Impressions: Well, the second half featured the pink one, and like always, that means that somebody is going to be throwing…
12 Days 2020, Day 4: Micro-Ninjas? Himawari’s Nonsense Escalation
You say that as if it’s not all that unusual Himawari! is a series with a lot of weird escalation going on. Another entry on the list of…
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[12 Days of Anime] Day 2: The Heike Story
Let me preface these next two posts by saying that it was ridiculously difficult to order them—both The Heike Story and ODDTAXI took my breath away with their…
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[12 Days of Anime] Day 5: MEGALOBOX 2: NOMAD
There’s life in you, yet There aren’t many examples that spring to mind when considering sequels that not only live up to the expectations set by their predecessors,…
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Fanart Friday: Rainy Day Digimon
Rain. Digimon Adventure 02. Davis and Veemon. Nostalgia. ★ 【K太】 「 Rainy Day 」 ☆
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12 Days of Christmas Anime, Day 2: Deaimon’s Small Christmas
Most often, Christmas anime episodes are either a light-hearted, slice-of-life-style celebration of established friendships and romantic relationships, or they’re the culmination of some kind of dr…
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12 Days of HOTBLOOD 2013, Day 2: The Perfect Being
This is it! We’ve reached the epic final showdown – the final battle with the final Pillar Man for the Red Stone and the fate of the world.
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12 Days of Christmas Anime, Day 2: Echidna Figure Giveaway!
From the very beginning, gift-giving has been a feature of Christmas (see Matthew 2:1-12). In that spirit, and with our ministry’s focus on anime, we have a gift…
12 Days of Christmas Anime, Day 12: Toradora
My most memorable Christmas was the one midway through my 5th grade year. My dad has been absent the year previous as a soldier at war in the…
12 Anime Moments in 12 Days (Day 8) – August: Now in 2-D!
Decisions, Decisions… So I ended up not getting the present I had planned for kame because the stores I thought would have it didn’t. Looks like I’ll have…
Fanart Friday: Miku’s Rainy Days, Post-Apocalypse
Intro ★ 【balabling】 「 rainy 」 ☆ illustration by balabling (reprinted w/permission):
12 Days of Deluscar – Day 7: Tips on blogging – Part 2
This is the second part of my “tips on blogging” posts. While on the first part, we dealt with the more rudimentary aspects of blogging, this part we…
[12 Days 2018] Day 5: HYYYYPE (courtesy of Thunderbolt Fantasy 2)
Management: 12 Days of anime continues with the highlights of Autumn: our glorious Chuuni Wuxia Puppets With the end of Planet With, the fog lifted to reveal a stacked…
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[12 Days of Anime] Day 10: Laid-Back Camp Season 2
You can do it, Nadeshiko! What a surprise, Marina including Laid-Back Camp’s second season in her yearly holiday list! If you’ve known me at all over the past…
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12 Days of Deluscar – Day 12: My Recommended Pages
I made a lot of pages, for some reason, some of them hidden within sub-pages of sub-pages people may not know they even exist. For this post, I’m…
12 Days of Anime 2022 – Day 12: Heroine Tarumono!
Merry Christmas everyone. This is day 12 of this years 12 Days of Anime which means that this will be the final post. The anime I have selected…
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[12 Days of Anime] Day 1: ODDTAXI
Was there ever any doubt? One episode into ODDTAXI and I knew that what we had here was a masterpiece in the making, an anime we’d be talking…
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12 Days of Deluscar – Day 11: Trivia
Here’s a fun post — I’m going to put here a list of trivia you may not know about my blog.
12 Days of Deluscar – Day 5: Stats
I don’t think I ever once posted any stats or numbers for my blog, so I figured it’s as good a time as any now.
12 Days 2020, Day 11: Magia Record and the Shadow of the Predecessor
Magia Record’s first season ends with a visually impressive fight between two characters from a different story. This unfortunately feels emblematic of the show as a whole, it…
12 Days of Something VI: Making Friends With Similar Interests
Last week, I spent a bunch of time basically lying in bed for entire days because strep throat and sinus infection. So to kill some time I would…
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12 Days 2019, Day 12: Heybot and the Sunday Prison
You didn’t really think we’d be getting through this year’s posts without this show coming up did you? Today we’re going to talk about endings, fittingly enough. As…
[12 Days of Anime] Day 2: BIRDIE WING’s Bullet to the Brain
While there were a number of entertaining series starting off the year in the winter, very few at the time jumped off the screen in a manner unique…
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12 Days of Anime – Day 2: My Own Anime, Some Silly Musings.
Some while ago, I don’t even know when exactly, there was a question going around between my anitwitter peers on ask.fm that inquired what their anime series would…
12 Days of Anime: 2018 Food Edition – Day 2 – Ikura-don FOREVER
For the second day of the 12 Days of Anime, let’s talk ikura! Ikura is cured salmon roe that is often featured in sushi. These deliciously salty and…
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[12 Days of Anime] Day 8: Mergers and Acquisitions for Days
2022 was a pretty huge year for anime communities, starting with Sony-owned Crunchyroll and Funimation merge in March and the follow-up purchase of Right Stuf in August. While…
12 Days 2020, Day 9: The Nice Power Fantasy of Kuma Kuma Kuma Bear
Isekai stories as a genre are pretty much inherently rooted in power fantasies. It’s a genre built around wish fulfillment, the idea of being able to escape the…
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5 Rainy Day Play Ideas for Kids
“The sun did not shine. It was too wet to play. So we sat in the house all that cold, cold wet day.”
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[12 Days of Anime] Day 9: SHADOWS HOUSE
Of the myriad of shows I watched this past year, only a few stand out as particularly unique–one of them is SHADOWS HOUSE. Everything from Emilico’s narrative to…
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12 Days 2019, Day 9: Michiru and Kaoru
My many rambling trip through the early Precure entries continued this year (I really need to start getting through more than one per year or I won’t be…
12 Days of Christmas Anime, Day 9: Nichijou
“…the angel of the Lord appeared to him in a dream and said, “Joseph, son of David, do not be afraid to take Mary your wife into your…
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12 Days of Anime 2022 – Day 00: Introduction
I’ve decided that I’m going to do the 12 days of anime thing again this year so this post is to announce that as well as explain what…
[12 Days of Anime] Day 10: Lycoris Recoil
While there have been a number of fantastic shows over this past year, summer’s anime-original show, Lycoris Recoil, still outshines almost all of them with the force of…
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12 Days 2019, Day 8: Symphogear’s Swan Song
Have you ever seen a series just doing a victory lap? Symphogear’s finale felt like that in a lot of ways. With the existential threat of Shem-ha being…
12 Days of Anime 2022 – Day 01: Hakozume
The first anime I’ve chosen to showcase in this series of posts is Hakozume, a cop anime. Now I’m sure everyone has seen shows about cops before. If…
12 Days 2019, Day 1: Tactical Bread Delivery
Here we go again. For the fourth year in a row I’m taking part in the 12 Days of Anime. As always I’m keeping the theming kind of…
12 Days of Anime 2023 – Day 00: Introduction
It is almost Christmas which means it is the time of year to do 12 Days of Anime posts again.
12 Days of Anime 2022 – Day 08: Kaginado
Kaginado is an anime which parodies all of the major KEY works (Kanon, Air, Clannad, Little Busters!, Rewrite, Planetarian, Angel Beats). For anyone familiar with the works, seeing…
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