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On the Palmtop Tiger of Happiness
On November 11th, 2011, I was counting down the seconds to the eleventh minute of the eleventh hour in my eleventh grade Law class. Several weeks before, word…
Somehow, I made it: Updates and Thoughts on Weekly Blogging
At last we’ve arrived at the epilogue.
Happily Ever After. Oregairu Kan – Episode 12
I never quite know what to say whenever the shows that I watch come to an end. And I mean a proper end here, none of that “to…
The Setting Sun and the Falling Snow. Oregairu Kan – Episode 11
These past eleven weeks have felt both extremely long and unexpectedly short and before I realized it, we had arrived at this, the penultimate episode of Oregairu. The…
Her False Wish: Oregairu Kan – Episode 10
Every couple episodes or so of Oregairu, I almost always feel the need to sit down and re-evaluate all that’s happened thus far in the season. It’s a…
Bitter Bitter Sweet. Oregairu Kan – Episode 9
Coming off the back of last week’s heavy episode, this week’s one was surprisingly light. Or, at least on the surface. I came out of my first viewing…
Yukino’s Ending: Oregairu Kan – Episode 8
As much as I spoke last week of the culling of unimportant scenes in these posts, this week’s episode brought us right back with a veritable mix of…
What Will April Bring? Oregairu Kan – Episode 7
What a weird episode, this week’s one was. As excited as I wanted to be with the arrival of the season’s first yahallo what came with it was…
Yuigahama’s Lie: Oregairu Kan – Episode 6
Another week and still zero yahallos. Why even live? Welcome back to yet another one of my weekly write-ups. I left this week’s episode feeling very much like…
The Long Road to Yukino: Oregairu Kan – Episode 5
Oh, how quickly the days pass in times like these. Hello and welcome back once again to another one of my weekly write-ups. This week’s episode was a…
Now and Forever: Oregairu Kan – Episode 4
As expected, last week’s relatively fun episode was just a momentary breather before all that was to come with the complications of this final season. This week’s one…
Lights, Camera, Prom! Oregairu Kan – Episode 3
Welcome back once again to the pain zone! Or perhaps not? This week’s episode was surprisingly more on the lighter side but there was still more than enough…
Returning was Never an Option: Oregairu Kan – Episode 2
Another week has passed and yet another episode of Oregairu has come and gone, this time taking a part of me with it. Somehow even heavier than the…
Falling Snow Signals the Start: Oregairu Kan – Episode 1
Woah what’s this? A second post outside the regularly scheduled 12 days of anime? 2020 certainly is a wild year. Hello, my friends and welcome to my attempt…
“We’ll be alright” – Thoughts on Weathering with You
It’s been a very long time since I’ve had the experience of walking out of a theatre and wanting, intensely, to walk straight back in and to watch…
[One] Over and Over Again
A little over three and a half months ago, I found myself lying awake in the middle of the night in a hotel room on the other side…
[Two] Kirito’s kind of a cutie, too.
The fervent swinging of an ax and an ever-growing count mark the start of this story. Just two boys swinging away at an impossibly vast tree under the…
[Three] Minori’s Ghosts
This year will be the fourth consecutive year in which I’ve participated in the 12 days of anime making it very much a holiday tradition now. But even…
[Four] To Those Near and Far
In April, I was met with perhaps the largest and most unexpected moment of emotional release that I’d felt in a long while. I’m not sure what possessed…
[Five] The Sounds of Togetherness
In her final year of middle school and on the grand stage of the national koto competition, Satowa Hozuki, the prodigal heir to the Hozuki school of koto,…
[Six] Just a Few Light Novels I Liked this Year
For a variety of reasons, I found myself with a lot more interest and time for picking up and following new light novels this year. It’s gotten to…
[Seven] The Unseen Torch
It appears that I just can’t go a year without writing about MHA. As the fourth episode of My Hero Academia’s fourth season played through my time-worn speakers…
[Eight] Wolf and Sheep
Several years back now, I promised a friend of mine that I would watch one of his all-time favorite shows, Spice and Wolf. It was a series that…
[Nine] Special Fluffy Gooey Omelet Rice
This is a story about omelet rice. The beginning of this year came with a number of firsts for me. The first year I failed to finish the…
[Ten] From Me to You
Everyone’s probably got one of these but there’s a couple a of shows for me that immediately come flooding back to mind, not seconds after any track of…
[Eleven] My Youth Romantic Comedy Can’t Possibly be This Awkward (Thoughts on Tomozaki-kun)
In the days leading up to the release of Bottom-Tier Character Tomozaki-kun’s second volume, I found myself suddenly (and maybe a little unreasonably) excited to get my hands…
[Twelve] Cryin’ my heart in such common places
At the beginning of the year, a couple of friends and I spontaneously decided to watch the first episode of Mob Psycho II while winding down an evening…
[One] Hello you, Hello me
Almost exactly a year ago, I had an idea for a blog post that came from this tweet of Hag’s; it would’ve been an entire post talking about…
[Two] All We’re Given
Note: Spoiler warning for Maquia: When the Promised Flower Blooms It’s been a couple months since that fateful day in August when I had the opportunity to watch…
[Three] Crumbling Pillars
Note: Spoiler warning for the third season of My Hero Academia A year and a half ago, I wrote about a hypothetical point of no return for the…