Every answered question is a murdered child: On keeping Black Rock Shooter open-ended

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When the Black Rock Shooter OVA anime appeared, I wasn’t blogging but I managed to write a little piece about it anyway. I still feel like most of my thoughts apply: at the end of the day, huke and the Ordet crew did a capable job of making a finished work of anime from nothing [...]

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Gentlemen prefer (being) blondes

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Straight from the pages of Anime Cracked, here is something resembling a listicle. If you’re not gonna contribute to the solution, you may as well be part of the problem.

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What’s on: winter begins

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Whoa, I got tired thinking about stuff! Making real points about things is hard work LOL!! So, yeah, here’s an early breakdown of Winter 2012′s season of animated eye sodomy.

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Making peace with that unnameable beast

Such villainy residing inside such a  beautiful man

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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Kill Me Baby

Hope I stuck the landing...

“You’re just gonna use the show’s title as the post title?” Yes, because the title is great and now unforgettable to me thanks to that batshit Mr. Bungle-esque opening song. Like every comedy ever, Kill Me Baby will only appeal to some, and I’m one of them, which is unexpected. Spastic boke-tsukkomi acts are my [...]

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12 Moments in 2011: The New Gig

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Anime blogging has been, on and off, something I’ve done for something like four years now, and I’ve experienced it from all sides. My own blog, Yukan, not-blogging on Tumblr, The Blog That Would Change Everything (yeah, remember that?), podcasting, even being a part of the kind of douchebaggery and faggerjackery that would have confused [...]

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