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Colloquium: Mysterious Girlfriend X Episode 6
bitmap: Hey all, it’s time for this week’s Mysterious Girlfriend X post! As for why my name’s in bold like that, well, this is a special post. As you can tell from the title, this week’s post is actually a colloquium, and … Continue reading
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Hold the Line With Me: Chronicling Relationships in Tsuritama
“Tapioca, I don’t like such stifling relationships.” -Akira Agarkar Yamada, Tsuritama Episode Three
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Mysterious Girlfriend X Episode 3
Another week, another episode of Mysterious Girlfriend X! I’ve been voicing my thoughts on the pacing of the adaptation, and this week, we finally got to see how they would fit multiple chapters into one episode. (The contents of episode 3 … Continue reading
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Ashita Dorobou and Manic Pixie Dream Girls
One night, bored and trawling the web for reading material, I landed a seinen romantic comedy that promised the addition of laser-beam-firing alien antics. A recently completed four volume series, so far 13 scanlated chapters of Ashita Dorobou exist in … Continue reading
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Mysterious Girlfriend X Episode 1
I quite honestly wasn’t sure what to expect from the anime adaptation of Mysterious Girlfriend X (Nazo no Kanojo X), even though I had read the original manga. Just what do you get when you combine a studio that’s only produced shows … Continue reading
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The Spring of Adulthood in the Forest of Firefly Lights
With a simple story that could fit as a one-or-two episode arc in Natsume Yuujinchou, the short movie Hotarubi no Mori e, based on a one-shot story by Natsume author Yuki Midorikawa, may be brief, but carries its message and sentiment across … Continue reading
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Colloquium: Mawaru Penguindrum Episode 19
”Am I not good enough?” -Seiya Kou, Sailor Moon: SailorStars
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That Lingering Feeling, part 2
Occasionally, it’s not just the song that calls to our attentions, it’s the visuals in the sequence itself. That’s not to say that the song itself is an afterthought, but I theorize that once an episode of anime is over, … Continue reading
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Colloquium: Mawaru Penguindrum Episode 10
ajthefourth: Backtracking a bit, Mawaru Penguindrum‘s cold open this week is dedicated to reminding us that Shouma was hit by a car in episode eight. Fortunately, Shouma appears to be physically unharmed; however, the consequences of his car accident, and … Continue reading
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The Bitterness of Town of Evening Calm, Country of Cherry Blossoms
I spent the majority of the afternoon today reading this manga that I had picked up at a Borders fire sale earlier this spring. What took me this long to finally read, I can not say. And truth be told … Continue reading →
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