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Kinkmas: Milia Wars
This article was released the day before Christmas Eve.Just pointing that out.Let's finish up Kinkmas tonight with one of the most infamous fetish games out there, known mainly because it's one of the...
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Jonathan's Fave 2016 Anime (He Actually Finished)
2016 was not a great year for me anime-wise. Life hit me with a hammer, and I spent my energy on other endeavors, so I did not finish many shows. It did not help that most the shows this year were just...
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Last Exile: Fam, the Silver Wing
I suppose it's finally time for the only person who asked for a sequel to Last Exile to review it. I'm behind by about five years, I know, but without a network of bloggers, I'd just be talking to...
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If it Walks Like a Ponoc: The Studio Ghibli Effect
So how about that new Studio Ghibli film? I’m not talking about Ocean Waves, although I’m excited to see that too, I’m talking a new and interesting film. I thought it wouldn’t happen, especially with...
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Otaku Queer: Kanji Tatsumi & Naoto Shirogane
This time for Otaku Queer, I'd like to redirect our attention from anime and instead to games. With Persona 5 finally finished and coming to US stores soon, I figured I should strike while the iron is...
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Is Hayao Miyazaki Sexist?
I think some context is needed before I discuss the subject of the day: I found this article both almost 6 years too late and without intending to. It began with a discussion on Twitter with a fellow...
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Disaster Report: GATE
Whenever I’m asked to talk about bad anime that I’ve seen, I usually don’t have much to talk about. That seems to be kind of unusual, at least from my perspective. Most of my peers in this fandom...
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Attack on Wish-Lists
With Attack on Titan’s second season premiering in under 4 months, I figured now was the best time to share some hopes and concerns. After all, it’s been almost 3 years since it debuted in the West, 4...
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The Good Ones: Queen's Blade
Welcome to The Good Ones, a little series about appreciating good characters in less than stellar anime, manga, games and so forth. As a watcher of bad anime, I tend to notice that even the worst...
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Otaku Queer: Queen's Blade
Since I brought it up with my last article, I figured I might as well get some more Queen's Blade thoughts out by looking at the franchise's odd relationship with queerness. What I mean is, since it's...
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Voltron: Legendary Defender (2016)
As an eighties kid who was literally rewarded a Voltron toy that separated into five hard plastic parts with sharp edges for being potty trained, you'd think I'd have far more knowledge and insight...
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Coping with Cowboy Bebop
On November 6th, 2008, my university’s TA union announced they were going on strike. I was initially confused by what this’d mean for me as a freshman, but as the days turned into weeks, and my mother...
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Crunchyroll Manga Sampler: Course Seven
It's been a while since we enjoyed our last sampler. Since then, the number of manga on Crunchyroll just keeps growing, so the Crunchyroll Manga Sampler menu only grows bigger. Today's trio is a...
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Whitewashed in the Shell: A Follow-Up
*Sigh* A while back I wrote an article on Infinite Rainy Day discussing the live-action adaptation of Ghost in the Shell. In it, I stated the following point:“The rumours of a live-action, Hollywood...
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18 (Android)
If you've picked up a smart phone for more than a few seconds, you've probably played match three puzzle game. I've reviewed one in the past, but today's match three subject is in a different subgenre:...
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Was Studio Ghibli a Mistake?
The present-day anime industry suffers from many problems: high demand, limited resources, insane hours, weekly deadlines, crap pay and a lack of healthy influx of new talent. It seems like it could...
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The Strange Case of Zoo Corporation
Have you ever browsed Steam for awhile and ran across those strange Pretty Girls games? You know, those games that take established simple games like Mahjong and Texas Hold 'em and promise cute anime...
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Makoto Shinkai Retrospective: Voices of a Distant Star
Despite owning every domestic release of Makoto Shinkai's work, I am one of the most surprised he has the #1 grossing movie in the WORLD (As far as the relatively calm box offices of January-February...
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S.A.V.E. Me from the Classics: Dissecting Anime's Greatest Hits
Let’s face it: capitalism sucks. Like, really sucks. It’s such an easy system to exploit and has made many people’s lives miserable. It’s petty in more ways than one, creates an uneasy disparity...
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What the Hey is Up with Heybot, Hebo?
If you've spent any time on Twitter over the last two seasons, you've certainly heard of one kids' anime whispered in hushed tones: "Heybot". Despite one or two long-running kids' series being licensed...
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