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Yesterday wo Utatte, Episode 3
Never expected to be saying this after last week’s rough going, but that was rather pleasant (in the end), wasn’t it? I was kind of expecting Yesterday wo Utatte to pivot to letting us see a little...
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Yesterday wo Utatte, Episode 4
Ah, teenagers. After three engrossing episodes focused on individual characters, the fourth episode of Yesterday wo Utatte splitting its focus between Shinako and Rou felt like a bit of a letdown....
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So… I Started Watching Anime Again | Summer 2022
A few months ago, I told a friend I was getting back into watching seasonal anime. Although it’s something that sounds a bit like a joke, I was serious. After about a year and a half away from the...
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Is “Bocchi the Rock!” Mean to Bocchi?
Something I’ve been considering almost since the start of Bocchi the Rock! is the central source of the show’s comedy and how that intersects with a compassionate understanding of mental health....
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An Objective* and Comprehensive** Look Back at the 2022 Anime Year
* Not objective ** Not comprehensive It’s been a good number of years since I’ve watched enough yearly anime to make an annual retrospective post make sense, but it finally happened. Not only did I...
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The Only Good Anime of Winter 2023
WARNING: Many words ahead. More than I expected. Watching seasonal anime these days feels much different than it used to for me. While I’m still good at picking up shows that I’ll enjoy and have...
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I’d Like to Apologize to These Two Spring 2023 RomCom Anime
It turns out there is still room in this heart for cute romance. Some of you might not know this, but I have this tradition on Twitter where I post my own little seasonal preview as a screenshot of a...
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Don’t Let All the Joyless Hacks Who Only Hate on Things Distract You from the...
GoHands does it again (unironically). In way, the furor over the premiere of The Girl I Like Forgot Her Glasses (hereafter, SukiMega) has been refreshing. The episode has divided opinion—perhaps a...
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Who Will (and Won’t) Trust Jujutsu Kaisen after Episode 43?
Before you begin to read, please allow me to inform you that there are spoilers ahead for the anime adaptation of Jujutsu Kaisen up to episode 43. I tell you this because, unlike the lawless land of...
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Great Escapes: A Fond Look at Makoto Shinkai’s Disaster Film Triology
As sometimes happens on Discord, instead of Twitter, these days, I was talking with some friends about Makoto Shinkai, director of smash-hit Your Name., regular-hit Tenki no Ko, and not-really-a-hit...
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Every Anime I Watched in 2023 and What I Thought about Them
Over the years, these year-end wrap-up posts have taken a variety of shapes and forms. In the past, I’ve enjoyed making list of my top shows of the year. But in a year where few airing television...
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