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Peace, bitches!

January marks two years for me in this blogging game. It’s by no means a super long time when you look at some blogs, but an eternity considering the average length of an anime blog. Let’s call it “long enough.” I would like to let a few more famous and/or eloquent folks speak for me [...]

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Code Geass R2 Episode 4

Actually, Geass 1 dub thingy Saturday night those of you who are US-based and aren’t too awesome for dubbed cartoons on TV might have noticed that Cartoon Network is airing Code Geass season 1 after the still-trucking Death Note. Personally I really like Adult Swim and I love the fact that they show some of [...]

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Gundam 00 (Review)

Shiny happy robots ending war Aside from being the oldest mecha franchise in existence, the Gundam meta-series is also the quintessential one. While Macross focuses on the music, Evangelion is a dense religious metaphor, and Full Metal Panic! is about panties, Gundam is about robots. Always has been, always will. That said, I’m not too [...]

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What the hell? Catching up with Eva

There’s a lot of talk of Evangelion these days. Myself, I’m debating whether to go after a fansub of the new movie right away or not. But get this: I watched the first DVD of the Neon Genesis/Shin Seiki Evangelion Platinum Collection yesterday. For the first time. The hell you say? I bought the Platinum [...]

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This Ugly Yet Beautiful World

Enjoy this terrible yet awful dub Before I get too far, I should preface this by saying that I love Gainax to death. I’m supposed to though, and so is everyone else. They’re a “for the people by the people” kind of company, a collection of otakus who got together to make better giant robots [...]

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FLCL/Furikuri/Fooly Cooly

There is no tagline random enough to be appropriate here First off, thanks to Adult Swim, who shows this thing often enough I’ve rewatched plenty of times without actually buying it. It’s on right now, in fact. A couple years after the end of the magnum opus Evangelion and its subsequent movie sequels, Gainax teamed [...]

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