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Top 5 Anime Questions I Get Asked All The Time And Don’t Have An Answer For
I’m not sure if it’s the same for you guys but whenever someone new finds out I really enjoy anime, I usually get asked the same handful of questions. This is particularly true of non anime watchers. You would figure that after all this time I would have a stock answer all ready to shell…
September OWLS tour – Lover of Natsume
Hello all, I’m back! If you didn’t notice I was gone, don’t worry about it!
FOMO in Anime
Do you suffer from fear of missing out? Silly question, we all do at some point. But what about specifically in anime? Do you get little pangs in your heart when everyone is talking about an anime you can’t seem to find in your country or avidly debating a series you never got into? Just…
Fire Force Episode 11 – A Kind Man – Gallery
Once again I tried to do a nice short and sweet review of Fire Force on 100 Word Anime and once again I failed! At it’s best, this show really inspires me and I find tons to say about it. Unfortunately that applies to the visuals as well but I will try to contain myself.
In Anime, Is Genre the Message?
There’s a moderately famous dictum that goes “the medium is the message”. Maybe it’s only moderately famous here? It’s credited to Canadian philosopher Marshall McLuhan. We Canadians love to talk about other Canadians. It’s a thing, hey. In very distilled (possibly misunderstood) form, that expression means that the medium itself rather than its content is…
Granbelm Episode 12 – Puppet Masters – Gallery
We are now just one episode away from the grand finale (to my surprise). You can read all about my initial reaction to finding out that Granbelm was not a 12 episode series over on 100 Word Anime. I think penultimate episode are often tricky. You want to keep your best images for the last…
Why do Midnight Occult Civil Servants Avoid Looking Out of Windows Before Lunchtime? So they’ll have something to do with the rest of the shift!
Genre : Supernatural, procedural, mystery, action, urban fantasy*, yokai! Episodes: 12 Studio: LIDENFILMS Are you the type of person that’s driven by a need to help others? Arata is, this is why he became a civil servant in the first place. He’s just the type of guy that wants to make sure everyone around…
Review of Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba Episode 25: Tanjiro Triumphant and What’s Up with Kanao? —
Hi, Irina! I hope you’ve had a good week. I didn’t hear how your video game session went last weekend. I hope it went well! Getting any time at all to kick back is so far too rare these days. At least it is for me! Hard to believe another week’s gone by. Here we… via…
My Appreciation of Anime Depends on the Days
If you’ve been reading my blog for a while you know that I am a fan of well defined situations. I like rules and rituals. I promise I’m more fun than I sound… I think…
Dr. Stone Episode 12 – Chasing the Green Fairy
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Irina’s Top 5 Waifus and Matt’s Top 5 Husbandos
Do you guys have any feelings about the word waifu? I know some people may take the idea a bit too seriously but otherwise I have nothing against it. Sounds like a form of domestic martial art. What a fed up lady would use when her husband forgot to fold the laundry again. “She used…
Bludgeoning Angel Dokuro-Chan, What Did I Just Watch?
Genre : Comedy, Ecchi, Slice of Death, Supernatural Episodes: 8 season 1 and 4 season 2 Studio: High school is a confusing age for a young man when his thoughts turn to fancies and his body starts going all weird and stuff. We’ve all been there. Those moments when you start to realize some people…
Given Episode 9 – A Lighter Note – Gallery
Oh no guys, it’s all coming to an end. It’s nigh, nigh I tell you! After this only one more episode of Given… One more Thursday night of coming home to sensitive boys with guitars to cheer me up and give me feels. One more week of looking forward to what happens next. One more…
Dutch Angles in Anime
Want to impress you friends by throwing around fancy cinematography language? Want to convince them anime is a serious art by analyzing classical methods and their use in an animated medium? Well you’ve come to the right place! Unless your friends know anything about cinematography or proper usage of fancy words. Then we’re both screwed…