My Personal Reviews on Anime
Welcome to a review of a show that spends the first three minutes telling you that it’s going to be one kind of anime, and then immediately ditches it for a different style all together for the rest of the series until the last five minutes of the final episode (which, I might add, are…
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June, 2018. I’m sitting in my cozy little apartment in the Pacific Northwest. Keeping in tradition with the nickname of “June-uary,” it’s cool and drizzling rain outside much like it does early in the year in the PNW. There are two things I can do on a Saturday with weather like this: I can take…
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Anime’s favorite thing to do is take really boring concepts and ideas and turn them into a masterpiece. OK, so maybe Chihayafuru (Chihayafull; ちはやふる) is actually based on the real sport of karuta, but you can’t blame me for feeling that way about a show that is essentially about competitive poetry battles. To an outsider,…
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Every so often I come across an anime that knocks the wind out of me. The impression is one that I won’t forget for a long time; it would be impossible. Very likely, it’s a feeling that I wouldn’t want to forget, even if I could. The impact is deeper than simply a story that…
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Slice of Life is probably my favorite genre of anime. There is just something about slow day-to-day life that appeals to me. Sure, action is fun and anime arguably has some of the best action sequences ever created, but in the end I find myself drawn to the more laid back stories. I like character…
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This movie is going to be difficult to write about. I Want to Eat Your Pancreas (KimiSui, Let Me Eat Your Pancreas; 君の膵臓をたべたい) is a movie about fulfilling the dying wishes of a girl with a terminal pancreatic illness. But that isn’t what makes it hard to write about. More than anything, this movie is…
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There are two things that will make me binge an anime in a single day or less: 1) it’s short, or 2) it’s really good. And sometimes, I’ll find an anime that falls into both categories and I’ll finish it even faster than I normally would. If I’m lucky, it will also fall into a…
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It’s not an exaggeration to say that a lot (and I do mean a LOT) of anime focuses on school age characters (mainly middle school and high school). I won’t pretend to know exactly why that is, but that’s the way it seems to work out most of the time. Maybe it’s because youth always…
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Here it is. The first official movie review. And I picked a good one. A Silent Voice (The Shape of Voice; Koe no Katachi; 聲の形) returned to American theaters for the second time this week for a special two-night event (one night for the Sub, and one night for the wrong one Dub) and I…
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There is a specific sound that a bowstring makes when an arrow is released; the more perfect the shot, the more incredible the sound. It’s high pitched, sharp and, for lack of a better term, beautiful to hear. It has an almost captivating sensation to it, making you wish you could hear it again and…
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I Watched an Anime 