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Ayakashi Triangle Review: Anime Was a Mistake
Directed by Noriaki Akitaya Produced by Connect Streaming on Crunchyroll I have defended ecchi anime about as often as I’ve criticized it. For every Food Wars and My Dress-Up Darling, there is a Seven Deadly Sins or a Classroom of the Elite. While fanservice can be used to enhance a story by embellishing existing romantic…
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Chainsaw Man Review: Duh, It’s Perfect
Directed by Tatsuya Yoshihara & Ryuu Nakayama Produced by MAPPA Streaming on Crunchyroll I struggled for a hot minute on how to handle this review. Chainsaw Man was the first manga that I reviewed, and it’s wild that it is finally here. I’ve spent so much time hyping up the Chainsaw Man anime that now…
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Mob Psycho 100 Proves Zack Snyder Wrong
This is one of those posts where I really have no idea where it’s going to go, but I already promised I was going to write it, so it’s a little too late to back out now. Let’s boldly go where no internet critic has gone before, and crap on Zack Snyder’s portrayal of Superman.…
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Demon Slayer is Mid Except for the Animation
You’ve heard it before. I lamented that you can’t go five minutes on the dumb bird app without someone saying Demon Slayer would be forgettable if not for Ufotable’s work on the series. I’ve pushed back against that line of thinking pretty much for the entire time I’ve spent writing on this blog, in an…
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Demon Slayer Season Two Review: The Fate of the Series Going Forward
Studio: Ufotable Director: Haruo Sotozaki Streaming on: Crunchyroll, Funimation It’s been quite a while since I’ve properly spoken about Demon Slayer. The current format of releasing anime films in the west several months after initial screenings makes it impossible to talk about them while they’re still relevant, so I didn’t get a chance to review…
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Chainsaw Man is the Perfect Shonen
Chainsaw Man ages like fine wine. It feels like not too long ago that I read Chainsaw Man as it was serializing, and while I enjoyed it, I wasn’t blown away. I’m aware of what that says about me; perhaps I was simply inexperienced in analyzing manga, and what makes one truly great. It seemed…
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Kaiju No. 8 Review: Oh, No, There Goes Tokyo
Art and Story by Naoya Matsumoto All chapters available on the Shonen Jump app For nearly 70 years, kaiju have been one of Japan’s most significant cultural exports. The precise cultural importance of creations like Godzilla, Mothra, and King Ghidora has been lost in translation, but the world at large has no qualms about enjoying…
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Why I Still Love Fullmetal Alchemist (2003)
If you became an anime fan in the last couple of years, you have it pretty good. In the early 2000s, a hot shonen manga would receive an anime maybe a year or two into serialization. However, the average anime based off of a manga needs to use 1.5 to 2 twenty page chapters to…
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My Hero Academia: Anime’s Rule Breaker
If you have read my essay exploring hard and soft magic systems through different applications in anime superpowers, you might have an idea of where I am going with this. If you haven’t, you can read it right here, it’s actually one of my more creative pieces. However, this title is not as deceiving or…
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