My Personal Reviews on Anime
Since the premiere of one of my most anticipated shows for the summer 2019 season is imminent, I figured now would be a good time to post a review of the first season for Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon (ダンジョンに出会いを求めるのは間違っているだろうか) (wow, that’s a mouthful in any language). I’m…
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I’m just going to come right out and say it. My Fridays are going to be a lot more depressing now that Hitoribocchi no Marumaru Seikatsu (ひとりぼっちの○○生活) has finished airing. It was always one of the highlights for Friday anime, especially after a particularly sad episode of Fruits Basket (2019) (and you better believe I…
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Life in Tokyo is continuing much like it always has in recent years. People are working, shopping and dining just like any other day. For otaku Itami Youji, it’s a special day with a doujinshi event. Itami has built his entire life around supporting his hobbies and nothing will stand between him and this event.…
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Since I’ve started watching anime, I’ve come to know and accept one thing about myself: I am isekai trash. There’s something about the genre that strikes a chord with me. I don’t care if the show carries the most basic of plots (at least so far; don’t hold me accountable for this later. I’m living…
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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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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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I Watched an Anime 