Welcome to the first installment of Pilgrimage Shorts. Join me as I retread the most memorable anime pilgrimages from my last trip to Japan. I already wrote about my Granbelm pilgrimage, but for th…
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The ninth volume of Makoto Fukami and Seigo Tokiya’s Magical Girl Spec Ops Asuka manga marks the start of the Russian arc, kicking off with an infiltration mission.…
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The Babel Brigade’s schemes rapidly head towards fruition in the thirteenth volume of Magical Girl Spec-Ops Asuka. A fearsome foe from the Magical Five’s past is resurrected, but…
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The ultimate foe stands before the Magical Five in the fourteenth, and final, volume of Makoto Fukami’s Magical Girl Spec-Ops Asuka manga. So naturally, the fate of the…
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All of New York City becomes a battleground in the twelfth volume of Magical Girl Spec-Ops Asuka as the Babel Brigade moves ever closer to achieving its objective.…
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In this episode, Xan reviews a military magical girl series that deals with tons of PTSD. Does it hit the mark though? Well grab your transformation Focus, sit…
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Ran (RAN) / ASUKA
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Onegai! Pilgrimage to Lake Kizaki
Every anime fan who has been one longer than one boring summer will remember that very fateful moment when they have taken their red pill that set them…
Granbelm Pilgrimage to Lake Biwa
Granbelm is not the greatest show ever made, nor is it as picturesque as a Shinkai flick, but it was interesting enough for us to reserve time for…
Fractale: Anime Pilgrimage in Ireland
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“Suzume no Tojimari” Pilgrimage: Kyushu Arc
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“Suzume no Tojimari” Pilgrimage: Shikoku Arc
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Hana no Asuka Gumi (1987)
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Top 20 Terrible Anime OPs
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Anime Pilgrimage to Mount Takao (Yama no Susume)
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My original character analysis of Asuka Langley Soryu is the most read post in the history of this blog. This doesn’t especially surprise me. For one thing, it’s…
A Pilgrimage to Nagoya’s Rabbit Shrine and Penguin Café
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