Odd Taxi was a beautiful anime that got me thinking a lot about ‘society’. What exactly makes a society? What is it that we all share as people? All these questions have been swimming i…
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「アイドルなんて呼ばないで」 (Aidoru Nante Yobanai de) "Don't Call Me an Idol" Something rotten this way comes.
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「付け焼き刃に御用心」 (Tsukeyakiba ni Go-yōjin) "Borrowed Plumes and the Bodyguard" Here's a meme waiting to happen.
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「お大事に」 (Odaijini) "Bless you" It seems we’re getting ever closer to Odokawa’s mirage being broken down, but the show wants to dive deeper into why it's there in the first…
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