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“I’m Not a Monster, You Are!” Self-loathing and a Wolf Guy
You should read Wolf Guy – Ookami no Monsho, it’s awesome, in a grisly, manly, action-filled display of ferocity. This post is not an endorsement of the manga, for that you had better read this badass...
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Monkeying Around in Tokyo Hotel Rooms: Bakemogatari Style
I went on a Plamo run in Tokyo, the ‘wackiest’ city in Asia. I know this because I watch a lot of anime and read a lot of manga. I also read a lot of related blogs written by people who’ve visited it....
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Char, I am Disappoint: Revelations of a 3rd Viewing of Char’s Counterattack
I think Mobile Suit Gundam: Char’s Counterattack is an exceedingly important movie in that every time I view it, my opinion of something I had thought to be fundamental to the Gundam franchise...
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“I’m Not a Monster, You Are!” Self-loathing and a Wolf Guy
You should read Wolf Guy – Ookami no Monsho, it’s awesome, in a grisly, manly, action-filled display of ferocity. This post is not an endorsement of the manga, for that you had better read this badass...
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Acknowledging Our Guilt for Our Choice of Heroes: Code Geass’ Lelouch Lamperouge
I visit my cross with conviction a fourth time: the concept of the guilty pleasure. For those unaware of my previous writing on it, allow me to distinguish my idea of the guilty pleasure from that...
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Bakemonogatari 11: You Are (Not) a Man
In the conclusion of Nadeko Snake, we learn more about Araragi than Nadeko herself. More and more Bakemonogatari shifts its narrative focus to tell the story of Araragi. Luckily for me, he is very...
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The Inauthenticity of Senjougahararagi: Bakemonogatari 08 (Suruga Monkey Arc...
Bakemonogatari is the kind of show that makes me liveblog. Instead of spamming melative and twitter, I went directly to my draft of this post. I went to this method because there’s so much going on —...
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The Koromo will show you a bit within her endless sea!
MAHJONG IS FUNNNNN TENPAI SUKI RI WAI WAI ahem. As I was saying…well, amidst the endless sea of Koromo monologues, she expresses that if she sticks with her gut, she’d win. Well, in ways, she did win...
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Is it Okay to Like Mirai Now? (Tokyo Magnitude 8.0 05)
They’re close to home. The surroundings are familiar. The shelter they’re headed to is none other than Mirai’s middle school, The Rikka School for Girls. The buildings are low, and the area doesn’t...
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The Inauthenticity of Senjougahara Redux (Bakemonogatari 05)
My fascination is decidedly for Senjougahara. If there’s anything I feel about the Mayoi Snail arc is that I can’t feel invested in Hachikuji’s monster story. I felt that more than anything, it was a...
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Sympathy for the Devil-child: Mirai’s showing a bit of character (Tokyo...
Tokyo Magnitude 8.0 (you know, the anime this blog is suddenly all about) seems to put a lot of value on realism. Research, realistic danger, microscopic detail on depiction of home life — it all...
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The Inauthenticity of Senjougahara (Bakemonogatari 03)
This post is less about episode 02 than the first part of the episode, where I was rather arrested by the whole sequence between Senjougahara and Araragi in the playground. A lot of other things...
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Bits of Character as Makeshift Projectiles (or, Nodoka Miyazaki and Yue Ayase...
[Be thou warned -- some few Negima! spoilers lurk in the underbrush.] I believe it was Socrates (the Plato version) who suggested that true knowledge begins with acceptance of one’s ignorance. No, no,...
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The Evolution Of The Mecha Character Aesthetic (Prototype Characters And The...
Earlier this week ghostlightning wrote up a post about how Gundam Wing had been mislabelled the start of the Bishounen aesthetic in male mecha anime characters, but really it was more of a reason to...
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Not Cheatin’ on Mai Waifu I Promise! Anime Women that I’d Marry Had I Been...
Here in this post is a list and a gallery of female anime characters I hold in very high esteem. I’ve profiled them without using spoilers when I can, and I’ve provided warnings when I cannot avoid...
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Baron Febdash is showing a bit of character…
[spoilers for Crest of the Stars as well as the former portion of Banner of the Stars I (that's up to episode six)] At first glance Baron Febdash — or Atosryua Syun-Atos Lyuf Febdak Klowal — is a...
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