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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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Vlad “Dracula” Tepes: The Widower Lord of Vampires (The Mind of a Character)

No, I’m not on a Castlevania kick. What made you think that? As I mentioned in the MOAC on Trevor Belmont, the Castlevania Netflix series is loaded to the brim with fantastic characters! Each of them deserves their own analysis (which they will get sooner or later). But none of them come even close to the series…
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The Wonderful, Wacky World of Comic Books and Why I Don’t Talk About Them

No, I’m not just padding for time so I can finish another few books. What are you talking about? Comic books have had an odd sort of explosion in the last decade or so. It’s safe to say that the Marvel Cinematic Universe had a major part to play in it, considering the… um… impressive success it…
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Crawling Claw: Addams Family Joke (Best of the Bestiary)

How else should I describe this thing?! I mean come on! The Crawling Claw is… a thing. I don’t hate it, nor do I love it. It just kind of exists. While it does have about half-a-page of flavor text, but none of it is especially deep or interesting. The design is one of the flattest…