Category Archives: Features

Making peace with that unnameable beast

How an ANN review provided the music to calm my savage breast, if not lessen my pure pure heart of rage. This is a long post, but stick with it until the end for Jun Maeda fanfiction.

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Secret Santa Non-Review — Giant Robo OVA: The “-est” anime

Of all the various mounting traditions that anime bloggers have been saddling themselves with, the most well-organized and effort-intensive is probably the Secret Santa project, masterminded by the Reverse Thieves. This year it was the magnificent Giant Robo: The Day The Earth Stood Still OVA by the retro-robot master Yasuhiro Imagawa. It was the anime’s [...]

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Ruined for Marriage, part 2

Rape On: Apply directly to the Insert-kun. Apply directly to the Insert-kun. Apply directly to thOK got it. Rather than a facile dismissal of rape as a a “horrible plot device” in anime as someone famously once did, I wanted to think a little harder about the concept of Damaged Goods, without being either too culturally insensitive or too culturally knowledgeable.

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I wanna be a celebrity character designer

Well, inasmuch as I want to do anything related to the cartoon arts, which is not at all. Took me a couple years, about $10,000, and the loss of my desire to draw ever again to figure that out. But consider being redjuice for a second. Seems like if I were him, I’d either be [...]

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Play by Play: Madoka Ep 1

I’m trying a bit of a different post format, wherein I watch an episode and pause periodically to jot down my thoughts on events so far. I know, super innovating. Anyway, I’m going to assume this commentary will be best appreciated during a rewatching of the episode, so at the least, I may be increasing [...]

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Redline: Savior of Anime!!!

Redline will fix everything that’s wrong with anime, forever, so you guys don’t have to worry about much of anything else. Go about your business. Oh by the way: This shit’s not for kidssssssssssss

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