Category: Watch This Anime!
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Haikyu!! To the Top Part 2: A Match of Ups and Downs
The pandemic wasn’t kind to the anime scene. Dozens of shows were put on hold, some of them mid-season. And when they came back, there was no guarantee that the production quality was the same. You already know where I’m going with this, aren’t you? Part two of Haikyu!!’s fourth season, Karasuno VS Inaraziki, did…
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The Misfit of Demon King Academy: The Ultimate Power Fantasy Trash… With Actual Substance?
What’s this? An extreme power fantasy that isn’t an Isekai?! AND IT’S ACTUALLY PRETTY GOOD?! What world am I living in?! Initially, I wrote off The Misfit of Demon King Academy as another trash show that I might watch if I wanted to turn my brain off. And it is indeed that! But in all…
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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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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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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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