Category: Anime
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Monthly Girls’ Nozaki-Kun: Comedy At Its Best (Watch This Anime!)
If you dig deep into Crunchyroll’s vast catalog of anime, you can find several diamonds in the rough. Most of which I didn’t know were even there! ‘Samurai Pizza Cats’, the various parts of Lupin the 3rd, ‘Mushi-Shi’, ‘Ghost Stories’ (including the fantastic English dub!), ‘Cardcaptor Sakura’ and more are waiting in the website’s depths. Sure, you…
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Fire Emblem Awakening: Putting a Series on the Map (Game Night)
I’d happily review Fire Emblem: Three Houses today. But I’m roughly thirty hours into it and I’m only halfway through one of the three stories in the game. So you can expect that one in… god knows when. Current consensus: it’s a very good game. But that’s not the Fire Emblem I’m talking about today. A few years ago,…
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Dragon Ball: No Z, No GT and Not Super (Watch This Anime!)
Dragon Ball. No anime can claim to have the same level of recognition that this series has. Any anime fan worth their salt has at least heard of Dragon Ball Z, and any DBZ fan is well familiar with both GT and the recent Dragon Ball Super. The franchise has been going strong for years,…
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Trevor Belmont: The Vampire-Slaying Drunk (The Mind of a Character)
*Note: I’ll be talking exclusively about the animated series version in this post. I love Trevor from the games, but I find the show’s take on him to be more interesting and likable. Don’t be mad at me, game fans!* Trevor Belmont falls into one of my favorite categories of character: the reluctant hero. It…
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The Ups and Downs of Anime Video Games
Video games are an interesting art form when it comes to appearances. Mario has a bright, carefree and cartoon-like aesthetic. Meanwhile, Naughty Dog games like Uncharted or The Last of Us prefer a more realistic graphical style. Many games share the same style, but no two styles look similar. Anime games are an odd exception.…
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