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The Taisho Café Orchestra
Back in early 2015 during the second half of my first exchange year in Tokyo, I was walking with a friend around Aoyama and Omotesando in Shibuya. It’s…
Taisho Secrets
By Tom Wilmot. The unprecedented success of Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba continues to perplex spectators, with the franchise’s film entry, Mugen Train, shattering records to become Japan’s highest-grossing film of…
Taisho Baseball Girls
We’re back and with new guest! I’m joined by returning champion Ink (@AnimatedInk) from Ani-Gamers, the Fandom...
Taisho Baseball Girls
We’re back and with new guest! I’m joined by returning champion Ink (@AnimatedInk) from Ani-Gamers, the Fandom Post, and Otaku USA and Kate (@narutakiRT) of the Reverse Thieves…
Winter 2024 Anime Week 6: The Mid-Season Report
February 10th, 2024 We are in Week 6! Time really flies and now we find ourselves at the midpoint of the season. So today, I wanted to take…
Guest Review: Taisho Alice: Epilogue
Okay, that was a looooooooooot faster than I thought. It’s only one route, but seeing how much of a slog it took me to get through the previous…
Anime Taisho: My favorite Time!
Taisho anime is a treat! While everyone else might be singing about their favorite time of the year, I’m too busy being enamored by my favorite time in…
Gushing About Taisho x Alice
Taisho x Alice is the favorite otome game of both writers of this blog, Danda and Djinny, as of yet. This post will serve as an introduction to…
Episode 10: Taisho Magazines and Akutagawa’s Vision of Hell
“Woman Holding a Black Cat” by Yumeji Takehisa, circa 1919 (via Wikimedia Commons) Check out Episode 10 of the Read Japanese Literature podcast. The father of the Japanese…
An Open Taisho Secret: Demon Slayer and Fashion History in Taisho Era Japan
Management: This essay is meant to be less of a review and more of analysis of the show being examined. It contains plot spoilers for the Demon Slayer…
Weekly Round-Up, 18-24 December 2024: The Year in Otome Games, Crunchyroll Industry Report, and a Taisho FMV Game
AniFem Round-Up No One is Born to Be a Slave: How The Twelve Kingdoms questions social systems The Twelve Kingdoms novels have finally been (re)licensed in English–so it’s…
Taisho Otome Fairy Tale – Episode 1
Inside Taisho Otome Fairy Tale there are two rom-com wolves.
First Look: Taisho Otome Fairy Tale
Alternative title(s): Taishou Otome Otogibanashi Manga Adaptation by SynergySP Streaming on Funimation Premise Exiled to a rural villa when he’s ‘crippled’ in an accident that also kills his…
Guest Review: Taisho Alice: Tokyo Drift
As I mentioned before, I grabbed all the rest of the Taisho Alice games when they got released before the Steam Summer sale. Buuuuuuuuuuuuut then we got sidetracked…
Guest Review: 2 Taisho 2 Alice
Soooooooooo, it’s summertime, and you know what that means: Steam sales! The rest of the Taisho Alice games all got released in pretty rapid fashion so I picked…
14th Manga Taisho Award Nominations (2021)
I’m still trying very hard to keep up the ‘at least one blog post’ a month habit but I FORGOT TO POST LAST MONTH. Dammit. It’s such a…
First Impression: Taisho Otome Fairy Tale
In this story taking place in the Taisho period (the 1910s-1920s), Tamahiko is the second son of the well-off Shima family, but when a car accident makes him…
Taisho Baseball Girls – Simple and Clean
I wish more series took place in the Taisho era of Japan. You know, that one era between the Meiji era where Japan left its samurai roots for…
15th Manga Taisho Award Nominations (2022)
As expected, I am —yet again— late to checking out this year’s Manga Taisho nominees. Hahahah dammit, forgot all about it until a month after announcements as usual…
Report: The 10th Anniversary of the UCL-Japan Youth Challenge!...
Report: The 10th Anniversary of the UCL-Japan Youth Challenge! ...
Event Report: Behind-the-Scenes of My Neighbour Totoro
Could we get an American run of the play? Depends if the organizers can find a large enough venue.
Disaster Report: RECORD OF LODOSS WAR: CHRONICLES OF THE HEROIC KNIGHT
The 1980s are considered by many to be the glory days of the anime OVA, but the 1990s was no slouch for the format either. While the number...
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Guest Review: Taisho x Alice Episode 1: The Phantom Menace
That’s right, it’s time once again for me to sell some more Steam cards to Russian money launderers and play some more PC otome games! I had bought…
Anime Series Like Taisho Maiden Fairy Tale
After losing his mother and the loss of his dominant hand in a car crash, Tamahiko Shima was exiled by his strict father to an estate in the…
Taisho Baseball Girls, The Duke of Death and His Maid, Zakuro, Ai Yori Aoshi, Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid
Taisho Otome Fairy Tale Episodes 1-12
It lacks the character depth needed to sell its main couple, but there's still some shine here for those parched for shojo anime.
Autumn 2021 First Impressions – Taisho Otome Fairytale
Streaming: Funimation Episodes: 12 Source: Manga Episode Summary: Tamahiko is the second son of a wealthy family, but when a car accident kills his mother and injures his…
4 Reasons To Watch: Taisho Baseball Girls
They’re in a league of their own.
Status Report
Status Report Hey gang. It is kinda frustrating for me to not be able to do what I’d like to do at times. When I quit playing Marvel…
Pick of the Week: Hana-chan and the Picks of the Week
SEAN: There are a lot of debuts, any one of which I should be picking here. That said, the title I’m likely most interested in is the third…
Pick of the Week: Skipping This Week
SEAN: My eyes this week are on Skip and Loafer, a Seven Seas title about a “country bumpkin” moving to the city that has me just with its…
●VIDEO REPORT● ELEMENTS OF FUTURE installation video
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Is Taisho x Alice Heads & Tails Worth Playing?
Like a coin, TAISHO x ALICE has two sides: the real world and the Looking-Glass World. Without darkness, there can be no light… It’s time to take a…
Card Captor Sakura ~Clear Card arc~ #12 second week sales report
© CLAMP・Shigatsu Tsuitachi CO.,LTD. / 講談社 The twelfth volume of Card Captor Sakura ~Clear Card arc~ dropped to the 16th position in Oricon’s weekly ranking, with an estimate…
Card Captor Sakura ~Clear Card arc~ #15 second week sales report
© CLAMP・Shigatsu Tsuitachi CO.,LTD. / 講談社 The fifteenth volume of Card Captor Sakura ~Clear Card arc~ dropped to the 30th position in Oricon’s weekly ranking, with an estimate…
Card Captor Sakura ~Clear Card arc~ #11 first week sales report
© CLAMP・Shigatsu Tsuitachi CO.,LTD. / 講談社 The eleventh volume of Card Captor Sakura ~Clear Card arc~ debuted at the 7th position in Oricon’s weekly ranking, with an estimate…
Card Captor Sakura ~Clear Card arc~ #14 second week sales report
© CLAMP・Shigatsu Tsuitachi CO.,LTD. / 講談社 The fourteenth volume of Card Captor Sakura ~Clear Card arc~ dropped to the 12th position in Oricon’s weekly ranking, with an estimate…
Card Captor Sakura ~Clear Card arc~ #11 third week sales report
© CLAMP・Shigatsu Tsuitachi CO.,LTD. / 講談社 The eleventh volume of Card Captor Sakura ~Clear Card arc~ dropped to the 49th position in Oricon’s weekly ranking, with an estimate…
Card Captor Sakura ~Clear Card arc~ #11 second week sales report
© CLAMP・Shigatsu Tsuitachi CO.,LTD. / 講談社 The eleventh volume of Card Captor Sakura ~Clear Card arc~ dropped to the 18th position in Oricon’s weekly ranking, with an estimate…
XXXHOLiC live-action movie: Blu-ray & DVD first week sales report
(C)2022 映画「ホリック」製作委員会 (C)CLAMP・ShigatsuTsuitachi CO.,LTD.／講談社 The XXXHOLiC live-action movie directed by Mika Ninagawa had its Blu-ray and DVD released on October 5th with two versions: regular and…
Card Captor Sakura ~Clear Card arc~ #13 first week sales report
© CLAMP・Shigatsu Tsuitachi CO.,LTD. / 講談社 The thirteenth volume of Card Captor Sakura ~Clear Card arc~ debuted at the 4th position in Oricon’s weekly ranking, with an estimate…
Card Captor Sakura ~Clear Card arc~ #15 first week sales report
© CLAMP・Shigatsu Tsuitachi CO.,LTD. / 講談社 The fifteenth volume of Card Captor Sakura ~Clear Card arc~ debuted at the 4th position in Oricon’s weekly ranking, with an estimate…
Card Captor Sakura ~Clear Card arc~ #14 first week sales report
© CLAMP・Shigatsu Tsuitachi CO.,LTD. / 講談社 The fourteenth volume of Card Captor Sakura ~Clear Card arc~ debuted at the 5th position in Oricon’s weekly ranking, with an estimate…
Card Captor Sakura ~Clear Card arc~ #13 second week sales report
© CLAMP・Shigatsu Tsuitachi CO.,LTD. / 講談社 The thirteenth volume of Card Captor Sakura ~Clear Card arc~ dropped to the 14th position in Oricon’s weekly ranking, with an estimate…
Card Captor Sakura ~Clear Card arc~ #16 first week sales report
© CLAMP・Shigatsu Tsuitachi CO.,LTD. / 講談社 The sixteenth and final volume of Card Captor Sakura ~Clear Card arc~ debuted at the 9th position in Oricon’s weekly ranking, with…
Card Captor Sakura ~Clear Card arc~ #12 first week sales report
© CLAMP・Shigatsu Tsuitachi CO.,LTD. / 講談社 The twelfth volume of Card Captor Sakura ~Clear Card arc~ debuted at the 9th position in Oricon’s weekly ranking, with an estimate…
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This week: Dragon Maid flies, Sonny Boy confounds, and The Detective is invalidating the title of her own show.
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