My Personal Reviews on Anime
You can find a lot of anime that exploits the awkwardness of young love for the entertainment of the audience. There’s something very nostalgic about the innocence and purity of these stories. Teasing Master Takagi-san 2 (and season 1) focuses on the more lighthearted side of young love. After all, sometimes it’s easier to relentlessly…
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In all the anime I’ve seen (which I admit is relatively small), there are not many that match Promare’s visual aesthetic. It’s an odd blend of the traditional with the abstract, choosing a more polygonal approach than organic. Honestly, it’s fairly reminiscent of some modern day western cartoons, choosing rough simplicity over detailed elegance. From…
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BEM started out as one of summer 2019’s more promising candidates. The pilot was was surprisingly fun, giving an almost Batman: The Animated Series vibe with the setting, art direction and villain design. I was genuinely excited for the first few episodes. The mystery created around the protagonists had some promise. Unfortunately, all of that…
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Anime has a special talent for mixing the worlds of fantasy and reality. Among the anime that I’ve experienced so far (which I admit is limited), it’s rare to see an anime focused on the adult workforce that also brings the fantasy into the real world. Miss Kobayashi’s Dragon Maid does exactly this, with the…
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Do you want to unite the anime community like you’ve never seen? Give them a waifu worthy of their love, affection and protection and they will move mountains. Do you want to divide the anime community like you’ve never seen? Give them five in a single show and watch them battle over who can claim…
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Cold and Flu season is nigh (if you’re in the northern hemisphere), so it seemed timely to put together a list of good anime to watch while you’re quarantined. These are anime that you can watch and enjoy even when you’re fever has spiked (and you can’t fully focus) thanks to their light stories, happy…
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While you obviously can’t predict how any anime is going to turn out just based on the pilot, this is a far cry from the review that I expected to write for Demon Slayer. It’s not that I hated it; with everything said and done, it’s still one of my favorite anime to come out…
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Welcome to the Fall 2019 Seasonal Round-Up for anime! As with the last season, I’ve added at least double the number of shows that I should have, and will almost certainly drop at least a third of them. But I wouldn’t be a proper anime fan if I didn’t overload myself with seasonal content because…
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And so we have reached the end of the Summer 2019 season. I have to say, I was wrong more often than not in my predictions about what I would enjoy from the season. There were some surprise hits and some surprise flops. Some were OK at first and then just crashed later. Given the…
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I don’t watch a lot of sports anime; American football aside, I don’t particularly enjoy watching sports in general. Even when I do decide I want to watch sports on television, I can tell you baseball has been my choice exactly one time. I just find the game incredibly uneventful. So imagine my surprise when…
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I Watched an Anime 