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 of reboots and long after the fact sequels…
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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…
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…
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 of Deluscar – Day 4: My Blogging Chronicle – 7th year-10th year
Yeah I was burned out, and life just keeps getting worse — from family, health, relationships, career, I have issues from nearly all aspects of my life and…
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[12 Days of Anime] Day 4: The Year I Started FFXIV
Was there ever any doubt that I’d go lala? I know it’s not an anime, but I need to share my somewhat-related love for this game somewhere—so, here…
12 Days of Deluscar – Day 3: My Blogging Chronicle – 4th year to 6th year
In a way, I guess you can say I have finally reached the sophomore stage of my blogging life? The first few years was me exploring, experimenting and…
12 Days of Deluscar – Day 2: My Blogging Chronicle – 1st year to 3rd year
Earlier, I mentioned I initially opened a blog for my figures. In fact, if you check my oldest archives, you might notice I had way more figure posts…
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…
12 Days 2020, Day 2: Nagasarete Airanto – Rainy Day Friends
One recurring theme of this year’s dive into forgotten series of the 2000s has been series which,. while I could definitely see their strengths, didn’t quite click for…
12 Days of Anime – Day 1: This year had some good OPs.
So yeah, I was thinking of participating in the 12 Days of Anime this year, partly because I wanted to put something on this blog again, and partly…
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 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,…
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…
2020: a year of change
This has been a strange year. In January, my flatmates fled the country to return to their home, obviously sensing just how serious the new virus would become.…
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[12 Days of Anime] Day 12: Pandemic Blogging is Actually a Thing
I never would have thought that something as world-altering as a pandemic would halt my day-to-day life, kicking me back to a way of life I hadn’t experienced…
12 Days of Anime 2019 – the Year of Fluff
I’ve changed a lot over the years. I recently wrote about how maternal I was becoming. I suppose that growing more sentimental goes hand in hand with that!…
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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…
12 Days of Deluscar – Day 5: Stats
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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 Christmas – Day 5 – Worthy of a Greek Goddess
It wasn’t until fairly recently that I managed to read all of Hayate the Combat Butler, though I’ve actually been trying to catch up for quite a while…
25 Days Of Blogging Day 12: Cosplay: A Quick Rundown
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12 Days of Christmas Anime, Day 3: Rent-a-Girlfriend
Rent-a-Girlfriend is a trainwreck of an anime—but not in a bad way. In fact, it’s a lot of fun, even if it’s often full of cringe, most of…
12 Days of Anime 2020: Princess Mononoke
Yo! Sirius here! For the fourth day of the 12 Days of Anime 2020, I will be talking about a popular Ghibli film that I haven't watched, Princess Mononoke.
12 Days of Anime 2020: Only Yesterday
Yo! Sirius here. For the 2nd day of the 12 Days of Anime 2020, I will be sharing my thoughts about the Ghibli film, Only Yesterday.
12 Days of Anime 2020: Only Yesterday
Yo! Sirius here. For the 2nd day of the 12 Days of Anime 2020, I will be sharing my thoughts about the Ghibli film, Only Yesterday.
12 Days of Anime 2020: Spirited Away
For the fifth day of 12 Days of Anime 2020, I am going to share my thoughts on the most popular Ghibli film of all time, Spirited Away.
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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…
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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…
12 Days of Anime – Day 3: Garo Might Just be my Anime of the Year.
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[12 Days of Anime] Day 5: Romantic Killer is Undeniably Best Romcom of the Year
There have been a ton of shows over the past year with excellent romantic pairings and comedy, but almost of all of them are happy side dishes to…
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…
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[12 Days of Anime] Day 9: SHADOWS HOUSE
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[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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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…
12 Days of Anime 2020: Whisper of the Heart
Yo! Sirius here! For today's 12 Days of Anime entry, I will be sharing my thoughts on the Ghibli movie, Whisper of the Heart.
12 Days of Anime 2020: Kiki’s Delivery Service
Welcome to my first 12 Days of Anime for this year, 2020. For the first day, I decided to watch Ghibli's 1989 film, Kiki's Delivery Service.
12 Days of Anime 2020 cut short. Sorry!
Hi! Sirius here. I'm here to apologize to all, I wasn't able to finish the 12 Days of Anime 2020.
12 Days of Anime 2020: Kiki’s Delivery Service
Welcome to my first 12 Days of Anime for this year, 2020. For the first day, I decided to watch Ghibli's 1989 film, Kiki's Delivery Service.