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Chihayafuru: The Rules of the Shoujo Game

I’m now caught up on Chihayafuru, which is an interesting experiment in how much an anime can be fixated on a single subject without losing its human focus. Is karuta really a metaphor for everything?

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Live-Action Ranma 1/2: Damage Assessment With Joy To Spare

  So it has come to pass. As the great Stephen Tobolowsky once said that was something to the effect of, “When you take a…

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Melancholy of Momoneko-sama

Tamayura Hitotose, episode 9 was funny.

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Through Older Lenses : California Crisis

  Sure we’re virtually well out of the sphere of merely looking into the 1980s as a trendy hot-point of discussion, but what often doesn’t…

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Thoughts about Gate 7

Chikahito Takamoto is a normal high school student from Tokyo visiting his dream city of Kyoto. While visiting a site, he comes upon a battle…

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An evening with Vertical’s Tasting for Drops of God

Rarely has there been a story that would inspire the interest of an industry outside of its target audience. However, this has been the success…

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