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Mamoru Hosoda Month-The Wolf Children
For those who unfamiliar, my introduction can be found here. Parts 1 and 2 can also be found here and here. Moving on. The Girl Who Leapt Through Time opened my eyes to the possibility that someone...
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Double Review: Xenoblade Chronicles X/Trails of Cold Steel Chapter 1
A double game review is an odd prospect, especially on an anime blog, double especially given the length of the two game adds up to a solid week straight of playing without rest, and triple especially...
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Mamoru Hosoda Month-The Boy and the Beast
For those unfamiliar, here’s the introduction, as well as Part 1, Part 2 and Part 3. For everyone else, welcome to the finale! Earlier this year, roughly January or February, Mamoru Hosoda’s latest...
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Final Thoughts on Summer 2016
Welcome to the final seasonal post for a good long while.We've been doing seasonals since the site first launched, but it's no longer feasible. Staff has left for various personal reasons, and we're...
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Kei-WHOAH!!!!!!!!
(Warning: the following piece contains suggestive content and imagery. Reader discretion is strongly advised.)Butts and breasts. It’s no secret that anime has a really weird relationship with...
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Otaku Queer: Kumiko Oumae & Reina Kousaka
As I write this, the second season of Sound! Euphonium is airing, and I highly recommend you catch up with season one. It's one of the best anime I have seen in a decade, exploring the intense emotions...
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Shelter Me from the Anime Discourse
Have you seen Shelter yet? If you haven’t, please do. If you have, that’s great! What’d you think of it? I found it quite interesting, even if there were parts (like the electronica) that I wasn’t so...
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The Studio Ghibli Conundrum
It's no secret that I’m a huge Studio Ghibli fan: I own every movie they’ve made except The Ocean Waves. My room has a giant Totoro plush on one of my shelves. I own a detailed book of the studio’s...
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The Reject Demon: Toko - Episode Zero (PC)
Since I've started writing about games more often again, I've started diving my toe into the vast ocean that is the western visual novel scene, a place flooded with sub-par titty games and messy...
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The Musical Dilemma
HIT IT! Yin no Piano — Darker Than BlackIt’s no secret that music and film have a shared history. Since its inception, when film was only silent images juxtaposed to a piano player, music has been an...
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Otaku Queer: Love Live! Sunshine!!
Welcome to another installment of Otaku Queer, were we look at various queer and queer coded characters in anime, manga, Japanese games and all the like! Today, the topic is Love Live Sunshine, as in...
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I'm So Moe, You Already Know...
With the post-election aftermath rippling across the world, I figured that now was the best time to offer up a distraction. After all, the situation looks bleak, and people need diversions from...
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VA-11 Hall-A and Japanese PC Cyberpunk
Earlier this year, we finally saw the release of the Venezuelan visual novel VA-11 Hall-A. If you missed out, I wrote a pretty comprehensive article on it for Hardcore Gaming 101, but the short story...
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Taking a Ride on the Bee Train
"In the land of Twilight under the moonWe dance for the idiots."-Yuki Kajiura lyrics, .hack//SIGN soundtrackMy relationship with studio Bee Train is a little confusing even to me. I do not enjoy most...
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Kinkmas: HunieCam Studio
Welcome to Kinkmas, everyone, the happiest and saddest time of the year at the same time. Every Friday in December, I'll spotlight a different weird fetish game I've found, and yes, the large majority...
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"Ahola, Alola", How Sun & Moon Mark Pokémon's Resurgence
For many kids of my age, and for myself, Pokémon was the first, if not one of the first anime we ever saw on television, not that many of us understood what anime was at this point; coming off the back...
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Kinkmas: Huuna Mina
Welcome back to the four part Holiday series I call Kinkmas, where I look at weird fetish games I've found on my travels through the dredges of the internet. The first game I talked about was a tad on...
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Kiki, or Bouba? Synesthesia Theory in Anime
Take a good look at these two shapes: What do you see? What makes them unique? What makes them stick out? What if I told you one of them is called “Kiki” and the other “Bouba”? If I were to ask which...
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Kinkmas: Battle the Three Sisters
Welcome back to Kinkmas, my holiday timed four part look at weird fetish games, from the guilty pleasures to the infinitely strange. I'm taking off the kids gloves from here on, so now it's time to...
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The Ocean Waves Are-a Coming!
Let’s face it: 2016 was a cruddy year for everyone. Whether it was the lacklustre film cycle being especially lacklustre toward Oscar season, the insane number of celebrity deaths, the Brexit vote or...
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