Category: Diary of an Anime Lived

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The SNAFUS of Youth

Gendomike returns with a rambling reflection on what Oregairu meant to him. And a reminiscence.

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The Anno Age: Moving On From Hideaki Anno (Part 2)

The second part of Gendomike’s meditation on the effect HIdeaki Anno’s anime had on his life: from Kare Kano until today’s Evangelion remake films.

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The Anno Age: Hideaki Anno and My Early Fandom (Part 1)

I: Insufficient Depression The problem with Hideaki Anno these days is that he seems too happy. At least that’s the impression one gets from reading…

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Barakamon: The Artist In Recovery

A personal reflection by gendomike on how artists–or people, in general–recover, through the lens of Barakamon.

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Forget Me Not

A meditation of friendship, forgetting, and how to remember to love, in the wake of One Week Friends.

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WataMote

Remember when you thought you had no friends and you were so socially awkward you couldn’t talk? Gendomike–and the new show WataMote–remembers.

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