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Bandai's Lucky Star Volume One is the Most Disappointing Thing I've Ever Read
Seriously. I’ve been neglecting buying this thing for a while, and thank God it was only when my dad offered to get me something at Barnes and Noble that I finally picked it up, cuz I’d hate to have...
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Halo Legends is Completely Awesome if You Ignore Bee Train Screwing it Up As...
I really like these multi-studio vignette productions. They always bring out some of the coolest anime studios to do some excellent short films with some of the highest budgets they will likely ever...
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Finish or Fail 11 – I Still Plan To Watch 2nd Gig, But Let Me Rant About...
I’m falling behind on Finish or Fail posts. I still have to do them for Index, Utawarerumono, and Mononoke (spoiler: all finished) but I felt like writing about Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex...
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Love Cannot Be Bound By Standards! (But I Really Wish That It Could)
“Complex rating systems just kill me. Maybe someday such a system can explain to me how much I love fucking Macross 7.” - ghostlightning, in reply to this post Shakugan no Shana sucks and I hate it —...
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Sometimes, Your Self-Righteous Dumbass of a Male Lead Shits All Over Everything
It’s common practice for an anime to feature a male lead whom the audience can easily relate to, and therefor usually holds to society’s moral compass. It’s also common practice for that male lead to...
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The Secret Santa Files: Mystery, Drama, and Baseball!
My family doesn’t celebrate Christmas. We did growing up, but none of us are Christians, so it didn’t make sense to keep it up once the kids were grown. Instead, we celebrated Festivus in 2008, The...
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The Unbearable Emptiness Of Finishing Katanagatari (AKA My Sword Story is...
Am I exceptionally hard on shows like Katanagatari, or exceptionally easy on them? I’m leaning towards the later, because if Katanagatari wasn’t what it is, then I wouldn’t have picked it back up,...
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My Hatedom of Bee Train Now Has Its Own Website
Appropriately titled I Hate Bee Train. If you like angry rants about terrible, terrible anime, this is a place to go. For those unaware of what Bee Train is, it’s the most terrible anime studio in...
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The First Fullmetal Alchemist Adaptation Had A Shitty Ending
…especially compared to FMA Brotherhood, which had the best and most satisfying final arc I’ve seen in anime (just a bit better than Eureka Seven’s). But that’s hardly surprising, because Brotherhood...
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The Xbox 360 Is A Shitpile (An Anecdote)
You may have noticed that I never talk about Xbox-exclusive games. It’s not that I don’t (didn’t, rather) enjoy the game’s exclusive titles. I used to be a big fan of Halo and Gears of War, and if you...
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Sword Art Online – An Analytical Diatribe
Text version: Sword Art Online is easily the worst TV show that I’ve ever watched to completion. Mind you, ordinarily when I don’t like a show, I stop watching it pretty early on, and when Sword Art...
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How to Lose the Audience – Zankyou no Terror Critical Analysis
Contains spoilers. Text version and links: Analyzing What Good Directing Looks Like, via Zankyou no Terror Ep. 1:...
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Your Anime Sucks: Sword Art Online II (Part 1)
There’s a text version below, but if you can help it I highly recommend watching the video of this. I spent a hell of a lot of time on it! The style and title are in reference to one of my favorite...
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Your Anime Sucks: Sword Art Online II (Part 2)
Video here Text version and links (video version highly recommended though): Co-edited by The Davoo: https://www.youtube.com/user/TheDavoo Part One here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CHhebk70xRo The...
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Your Anime Sucks: Sword Art Online II (Part 3)
Text version and links: Which was mostly edited by The Davoo: https://www.youtube.com/user/TheDavoo Part One here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CHhebk70xRo Part Two here:...
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Your Anime Sucks: Sword Art Online II (FINALE)
Text version (not recommended for first-time experience of this project) and links: Oh my god it’s finally done!! This was mostly edited by The Davoo: https://www.youtube.com/user/TheDavoo Part One...
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The Asterisk War Sucks [Part 1]
Watch on Google Drive Edited by The Davoo Text version and links: So the fall 2015 season is already a month and a half underway, and now that I’ve climbed out of my cryo-sleep chamber that beams old...
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The Asterisk War Sucks [Part 2]
Edited by The Davoo Text version and links: When I left off in the previous video, a handkerchief was floating through the air over an idyllic cityscape, where fancy buildings are interspersed with...
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The Asterisk War Sucks [Part 3]
Edited by The Davoo Text version: I’d like to invite you all to imagine yourselves in the following scenario: Some guy you’ve never met before does something that really pisses you off, so you...
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The Asterisk War Sucks [Part 4] OR, What Are Cliche Characters? (and why do...
If that video disappears, catch it on Google Drive. Text version: Over the course of the last three videos, I’ve complained a lot about how the characters in The Asterisk War seem like nothing more...
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