Episode Summary When Kaori tells Yuuki how she wishes she could have lunch with a whole lot of friends, the latter tries to integrate Shogo into their little lunchtime activities. His best friend ends [...]
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Ah, convenience stores!  Invented right around the time that Victorianism ended and people realized that they really needed a condom at two in the morning, these handy-dandy “corner shops” have become [...]
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This episode chronicles the sour beginning, sweet middle, and bitter end of a friendship, before starting back at the beginning. It’s almost like a time loop, only it affects just one person: Fujimiya [...]
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Welcome to the final part in my manga project advice series. In case you missed it, it started with letterers, then translators, and then editors. The plan is to hopefully look back at everything [...]
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New podcast is up, with me discussing the Spring season so far with Deadlight, Landon, Slashe, Caraniel, Appropriant, and Zabi. 00:27 — Muppets — We’re Doing a Sequel 01:50 — Introductions 02:41 — [...]
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With the unparalleled dullness of Kagepro's anime series, otaku have turned to the manga to get a better feel for the original story - and holy string of asterisks, what has SHAFT been doing with the [...]
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Album Title: The Wind Rises Soundtrack Anime Title: The Wind Rises Artist: Joe Hisaishi, Yumi Arai Catalog Number: TKCA-73920 Release Type: Soundtrack Release Date: July 17, 2013 Purchase at: CDJapan, [...]
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Manga Used to Teach Subjects Manga is what we know as a form of entertainment.  Readers indulge in manga to let loose and lose themselves in a fictional story that takes them on great adventures. [...]
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The first PV for summer season's oppai anime Momo Kyun Sword, is out - coming straight from an unknown "Tri-Slash" along with staff behind Imocho and Project No. 9, making apparent the hopeless future [...]
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For Today’s Japan Photo, I will be sharing with you one of my favorite photo taken during my Japan trip. Its a simple photo taken outside the Pokemon Centre in Yokohama, where we see a cute pair of [...]
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Things are continuing to move along slowly without really diverging from the source material in any major ways. Again this is still a good thing considering the kind of show it is. This episode pretty [...]
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Stories like to keep casts together. Relationship dynamics are built up and easy to repeat. And when the forces that be create a rift between characters, they stay close to each other no matter how [...]
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As the name suggests, Tokyo Station is the most important railway station in Tokyo, especially due to the Shinkansen lines. However, if you take into account only the regular trains, Shinjuku and Ueno [...]
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This could broadly be described as another of those “Girls Who Save the World” shows, but it is handled in a slightly different fashion, in that there are no transformation sequences, but their goal [...]
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In the same vein as me missing One Piece endings, I love the new One Piece opening. So, because I was too busy to do a lyric blog on it, I’ll use it as SOTW instead. When I was younger, I always [...]
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Well... That was certainly a bit different from what I was expecting given the last two episodes. I recall, quite clearly, saying that this show might not really have a romance element to it, [...]
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I hope that everyone is having an enjoyable Easter. Now, let’s focus on this weeks impressions. (Image Source) Life Updates Since spring semester is coming to a close with about two to three weeks [...]
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So I finally watched the highly revered third Madoka movie and rather than write a review about it I will instead describe my experience watching the film on a Sunday morning in a dark room. WARNING! [...]
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It’s time for a bit of Easter filler. So here are some famous lines from the Book of Plot that comprises the universe of The Story of Jesus Tatsuya. There will be more to enjoy next week. Tatsuya said [...]
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