Day Nine: What I Talk About When I Talk About Being Strong
This year was fantastic for new anime, and I’m gonna have a difficult time whittling down a top ten list within the next week. Nevertheless, the best show I watched […]
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Day Four: Garbage Day (2016 Trash Anime Roundup)
2016 was, by all accounts, a bad year. A bad year full of bad people doing bad things. So what better way to cope with impending global disaster than by […]
Day Three: Me, Catholicism, and Maria the Virgin Witch
Catholicism used to be a huge part of my life. I was baptized in the Church. I attended Catholic kindergarten and elementary school. I was ecstatic to receive my first […]
Just Another Face in the CROWDS: Gatchaman Crowds insight Episodes 0 + 1
The very first thing we see in the new season of Gatchaman Crowds, subtitled insight, is a collective of red CROWDS attempting to assassinate the prime minister of Japan. So we’ve got a problem. […]
The Bear Necessities: Yurikuma Arashi Episode 4 Roundtable
[Three bears are loafing around the courtroom. Their poses are questionable.] Bear 2: Once upon a time, there were three bears who talked about anime a lot and contributed little […]
The Bear Necessities: Yurikuma Arashi Episode 2 Roundtable
[Three Bears sit a table. Their porridge is taking a while to heat up] Bear 2: I don’t even know what porridge tastes like. Bear 1: Is it better or […]
Secret Santa 2014: Simoun Says
“We’re all children. That’s why, when we try to heal each other’s wounds, we just end up inflicting more.” For my inaugural year of Secret Santa participation, I had the […]
Twelve Days of Anime 9: Zvezda vs #SmokerGate
One of the true standout episodes of the year came courtesy of one little girl’s crusade against tobacco smoke. World Conquest Zvezda Plot united Type Moon writer Meteo Hoshizora and […]
Twelve Days of Anime 8: Visions of a Beautiful Dreamer
I watched Urusei Yatsura: Beautiful Dreamer for the first time this year, more so for the Mamoru Oshii connection (whose other films I’ve so far loved) and less so for […]
Twelve Days of Anime 6: The Out-Of-This-World Fashion Synergy of Haruka and Michiru [Tailor Moon Part 2]
The last time I wrote about Sailor Moon, I wrote about fashion in spite of my embarrassing ignorance regarding anything about fashion, and women’s fashion in particular. So how about […]
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