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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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 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…
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 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 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 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 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…
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,…
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 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.
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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 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…
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!…
25 Days Of Blogging Day 12: Cosplay: A Quick Rundown
WHAT IS COSPLAY? Cosplay, using the combination of the words “costume” and “play”, is the performance art in which people (or cosplayers) wear costumes and fashion items modeled…
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 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…
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 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.
When I have a problem with an anime, most of the time it’s tied to my personal investment in it. I can forgive a ton of glaring flaws…
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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 12: The Way of the Househusband
This man is an inspiration Shock! Disbelief! What is this? Marina is back for the 12 Days of Anime??? Yes–and what better place to start than with a…
Shoegaze And A Hangover (12 Days of Anime 2016 Day 4)
So following up my post two days ago about the nadir of my life and my post yesterday about getting back into writing about anime and gaining a…
[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…
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[12 Days of Anime] Day 11: Blue Period
Back to the classroom It’s been 17 years, SEVENTEEN YEARS, since I graduated high school and prepared the way to music school, a time of excitement and fear…
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…
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 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…
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…
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…
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 of Anime 2023 – Day 00: Introduction
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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…
VasA’s 12 Days of Anime 2016 Wrap-Up (Day 12 (sort of))
I know I’m a few days late on the draw, but I’d like to do a very short post wrapping up my 12 days of anime for 2016.…
12 Days Of Christmas Anime, Day 6: Carole & Tuesday, A Melody Of Hope
One of my favorite traditions this time of the year is Christmas music. I have my own Spotify playlist that I’ve updated over the years, adding more songs…
12 Days of Stuff #5: 2014, the Year of Interesting Adaptations
Most anime is made as an adaptation of something. Usually this means that the anime is made as an advertisement, because TV anime is free and manga/books/games aren’t.…
12 Days of Christmas Anime, Day 10: Is the Order a Rabbit?
Christmas is swiftly falling upon the wood-framed town in which Cocoa and her friends live. That means Christmas trees, Christmas decorations, and Christmas shopping—and Cocoa’s ecstatic. Sin…
12 Days of Christmas Anime, Day 5: A Very Merry Christmas Kaiju!
Evolving into a better, perhaps more spiritual person can make you unrecognizable. This might be a hardship initially, but transformation can carry much beauty—life and the people around…
12 Days of Anime 2020: The Secret World of Arrietty
I will be talking about an underrated Ghibli film, The Secret World of Arrietty. I am a bit familiar with this movie
12 Days of Christmas Anime, Day 7: Space Brothers
Greetings everyone! Your Prodigious Cajun Samurai Josh here with my second contribution to the 12 Days of Christmas festivities! Originally, I had volunteered to do the mini-episode from…