Day Thirteen: A Tiny Glimpse of the Scars You Bear
2016 has been a rough year. Britain voted to leave the EU, cities around the world were hit by terrorist attacks, major news publications wrote puff pieces about white nationalists, […]
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Day Three: You and I are the Same.
It’s hard to talk about Natsume Yuujinchou. The show broadly focuses on the themes of loneliness, abuse, friendship, and family. In fact, every episode focuses on these themes. Since the […]
Day Twelve: Flip Flap, Flip Flap.
What got you into anime?
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 […]
Day Eight: All Aboard the Satoru Noda Express
2016 was a wild ride and I think a lot of us would have preferred it if this train-wreck of a year hadn’t taken off at all. But there are […]
Day Six: Everything is Terrible in Mob Psycho 100
Most high school stories in anime go something like this: the protagonist transfers into a new school that is presided over by an all-powerful student council. There he joins a […]
Day Five: Me, Myself, and Sakuga.
It’s hard to sum up how 2016 has affected me in brief words, outside of the absolute train wreck of political events, artist deaths, and sheer ignorance and bigotry of […]
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 Two: Let’s Do The Time Warp Again
[Maaaaybe spoilers for Nobunaga Concerto. But. I mean. If you know how it ends in history then is it even really spoilers?] Nobunaga is an extremely common historical figure in […]
Day One: A Shadow of Eagles Across the Moon
Welcome to the 12 Days of Anime! Here we pay homage to our favorite moments of 2016, our favorite shows of 2016, our favorite animators of 2016, and anything else […]
