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[Anime News Network] “Home is the Battlefield for the Young 86”
Non-management: Scrawny as I was, then and even now, I used to fantacize a lot about playing soldier. With an escrima stick or two in hand, I’d imagine myself…
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Yuri Live Action Idol Factor has released three short trailers for their upcoming Thai Yuri live-action GAP The Series: The “cutie” trailer; the “tears” trailer, and; the &#…
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Yuri Anime Via YNN Correspondent Patricia B, you should take a moment to watch the Hoshikuzu Telepath trailer. This anime about friendship and going to space has an…
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[Anime News Network] “How Anime Helped Save Superman”
Non-management: I’ve been getting very busy with my new full-time job. It been demanding more of my time and focus than my previous one, which has unfortunately led me…
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Anime NYC 2023: Anime News Network 25th Anniversary Panel
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[Anime News Network] “The Horror and Romance of Rural Higurashi”
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[Anime News Network] “Welcome Back, Spice and Wolf”
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[Anime News Network] “The Enemy Within in the War of 86”
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Articles By Month
A simple, automatic archive of everything I’ve ever written on this site, month-by-month, going back to January of 2020.
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[Anime News Network] “The Ultimate Madoka Recap and Homura’s Lost Paradise”
Non-management: I know it’s been so long since the film came out (and just thinking about it gets me thinking “God damn, that was literally over a decade ago-OW…
Some Fall 2022 Shows I Like (Besides what I wrote about)
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I Wrote A Stupid and Now I try To Fix it
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Non-management: I work at a school in Japan, at the moment of this writing. I assist in teaching English, and one of my English teaching colleagues here loves…
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[Anime News Network] “Everything Changes in Folktales and Frieren”
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[Anime News Network] “A History of Takarazuka Revue Influences in Anime”
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[Anime News Network] “Roleplaying in Re: Zero, the Dark Souls of Isekai”
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[Anime News Network] “Urobuchi, History, and the Wuxia Hero of Thunderbolt Fantasy”
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[Anime News Network] “Starting Over: Regrets and Redemption in Reincarnation Isekai Anime”
Management: The idea for this article has been drifting in and out of my head for a while since last year, and it’s only now that I’ve had…
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[Anime News Network] “Log Horizon, Undertale, and the Tales Game Mechanics Can Tell
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[Anime News Network] “Through One Piece, the Golden Age of Piracy Lives On”
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[Anime News Network] “Vivy: a Robot Ode to Life Vividly Lived”
Non-management: I love me a good story about existentialism, and Vivy is one of the better written ones in anime. Most people don’t usually think about why they…
Crowd Sourcing Ideas: I Wrote a Light Novel. What can I do with it?
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