Category: Anime
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The Monstrous World-Building of One Piece
My productivity these last few weeks has taken a serious hit. I can come up with any number of excuses for it. ‘I’ve been depressed’. ‘My jobs been kicking my ass’. ‘I just wanna play that new game I bought’. But all of them would be lies. Because the real reason is quite simple. I’ve…
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Hisoka: The Wild Card
Antagonists are the second most important characters in any story, right behind the protagonists themselves. After all, they are the ones that drive the conflict. And without conflict, do you even have a story? The answer is no. Hunter X Hunter has a lot of incredible villains. There’s the cold genius Chrollo and the Phantom…
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A Love Letter to Abridged Anime Parodies
The internet has changed a lot over the last ten years. Facebook has become a breeding ground for idiocy. There are twelve streaming services for every day of the week. Easily abused copyright systems allow people who don’t actually understand copyright law to take a piss all over fair use. You know why that last…
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Piccolo: The Coolest Character Left Behind
It has been 60 0 days since Jonah last talked about Dragon Ball. Dragon Ball has a bad habit of leaving cool characters in the dust as the heroes and villains get stronger. Every human character is so weak by the end of DBZ that you start to wonder why they even show up in…
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Princess Mononoke: Ghibli’s Masterpiece
I had an oddly intense debate with myself as to where to put this one. It was an anime, so surely it would be better off in the Saturday slot. But it’s a movie, so… wouldn’t it be better off in the Monday slot? In the end, I decided two things. One: it didn’t matter.…
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