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Gundam 00 – What You Leave Behind
Gundam 00′s Counterttack Call me Siskel to ghostlightning’s Ebert but I greatly enjoyed this movie and only searching for the time to write about it has kept me from making this post. It’s been almost...
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The Purpose of Anime and Manga (Part I)
…is entertainment, I got it. However, it isn’t always as simple. There are complexities and nuances to the experience of watching anime and reading manga that, even if it arrives at an entertaining...
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Fractale 01: The Looming End of Our Fantasies
Fractale starts off building a world of ambitious science fiction, then telling its story via a “meet cute” combining the extremes of adolescent fantasy: a girl falling from the sky, then a setup from...
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I Wandered into Wandering Son
If I spent the past two years expanding my tastes in anime (while I attempted to watch as many Gundam shows as I could), I plan to spend most of my anime viewing this year on my backlogged robot shows...
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The We Remember Love Year in Review 2010
I’m quite reluctant to make a post like this (though I really, really want to) because I feel like I’m creating artificial pressure on myself to do better in 2011 when the game for me has already...
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Super Dimensional Fortress Macross (My boyfriend is a nimrod.)
I take a unique and special joy out of watching a classic and connecting with it. It’s different now than how it was when I first watched pitifully, horrible quality fansubs (I’m talking about picture...
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A Hollow Victory: Finishing Off Mobile Suit Victory Gundam
My apologies in advance, this post is not going to be very readable. I actually doubt that there’s a lot of value here. Those of you who haven’t seen Mobile Suit Victory Gundam let it be enough that I...
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The Purpose of Anime and Manga (Part II)
[Part I] In the previous issue I introduced my concept of watching shows and reading manga for particular purposes, which I find personally more useful than categorizing them in genre lists. Those...
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Another Violent 70s Robot Cartoon For Your Enjoyment: Shinzou Ningen Casshan
If you regularly watch and appreciate 70s anime, then I recommend Casshan without question. I'm not ordinarily able to handle 70s anime, but this might already be my favorite. As for those who haven't...
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For All My Sophist Coordination, My Love For Gundam is All Natural
It may seem like a long time, but I’ve only been a fan of the Gundam franchise for two years, if it makes sense to affix the date on the publication of this post: Before I Knew it, I Became … Continue...
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Madoka Magica’s Great Question
What is that one thing I wish for? It is a very important question because it will come true. Madoka is in a very interesting place because that this she wishes for is actually the cost of the wish....
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The Blade is Broken, the Combat is Non-lethal; and Yet, Broken Blade 03 is...
After three episodes/films I think Broken Blade has grown stronger. Part of this is how the background story’s flimsiness is mitigated by the sheer amount of time spent depicting the smaller robot...
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Adventures in Verisimilitude: the Robot Police Patrol, Patlabor OVA
I’ve been referred to Patlabor several times when I was looking for the most ‘realistic’ among real robot shows. If I were to draw a continuum of relative realism within the real robot tradition, I...
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I Got My Wife to Watch Anime With Me Again. Unfortunately, it’s Beelzebub
We are too harsh on mediocrity sometimes, I feel. Just because we can identify strongly with certain works of excellence (as I do with titles such as Cowboy Bebop, Legend of the Galactic Heroes,...
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The Purpose of Anime and Manga (Part III)
[Part II] In this ongoing series I explore (along with fellow blogger friends) a concept of watching shows and reading manga for particular purposes, which I find personally more useful than...
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I Looked Around the Internet to Find Lists & Recommendations for Anime Love...
I don’t know, maybe it’s because a lot of the people making these lists (or voting in these lists) know little about actual romance (or it may just be that I completely suck at research) . But then...
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Anime Opera IN SPACE
I’m not confident in my genre-theory so I present this post with a galaxy’s worth of disclaimers and caveats. I just thought it’d be a fun exercise to do a Cartesian quadrant kind of chart to “locate”...
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The Only OTHER Bakuman Anime Blog Post YOU’LL EVER WANT TO READ (THE FINALE)
[The Only Bakuman Anime Blog Post You’ll Ever Want to Read] Over the last six months, Ashirogi Muto’s 4-koma FullMetal Panty & Stocking of the Rebellion: You Can (Not) Believe This put them...
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The Purpose of Anime and Manga (Part IV)
[Part III] In this ongoing series I explore (along with fellow blogger friends) a concept of watching shows and reading manga for particular purposes, which I find personally more useful than...
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Reflections on the Power of Inspiration (Hot-Bloodedness): Scale and Skill
As much as I dislike tumblr, I am also addicted to it. There is something about this raw consumption of images; they are barely filtered, editorialized, and commented on. Often they are regurgitated by...
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