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And reading poetry with Nagato... When I started this blog about a year and a half ago, it was an act based on the opinions of a couple Anime Suki friends - Dr. Casey and Heatth - that my lengthy comedic reviews of that encouragingly erotic Endless Eight were overly endless themselves, at least for posts on Anime Suki. As such, I created a blog, primarily to provide episode reviews, and overall

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As far as Japan is concerned, at least, maybe Keima is right... While I liked TWGOK, there was one episode I found slightly disturbing. It was the episode where Keima stated a strong preference for "game idols" over "real idols". In essence, a strong preference for fictional female characters in a game over real girls in real life. Now, there's certainly nothing wrong with engaging in some

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Of fangs and maid outfits... In the field of behavioral psychology, there is something called classical conditioning. Classical conditioning is a form of associative learning that was first discovered by Ivan Pavlov. Classical conditioning, when put into layman's terms, makes one think of "Pavlov's Dog". The idea behind Pavlov's Dog is that the dog would automatically salivate in the presence

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Faces of Anime's Past and Present, Reflecting a Troubling Future... This blog will be one of the most important ones that I ever write. It reflects fears that I've had concerning the anime industry for some time now. Two recent (but in some ways looming) events now come perilously close to confirming that those fears are justified. The picture above is presented here for multiple reasons. For one

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  To boldly go where no otaku has gone before...   As many of my readers know, I've been a part of multiple fandom communities over my life. Currently, my main entertainment passion is anime, which is why this blog exists. There was a time, however, when Star Trek was not only my main entertainment passion, but was also what captivated the imagination of a young Grade 6 student, who would make a

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The most hardcore anime fans, such as many regular posters on Anime Suki, usually have a pretty good idea of which animes will be successful, in the sense of ratings, DVD/Blu-Ray sales, and related merchandise sales. They keep persistent track of which animes will be coming up in the following season, which animation studios will be handling each of them, how popular the source material (if

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  First off, apologies to long-time readers for not getting to this sooner. I know that I scrounge up regular readers about as well as Afternoon Tea Time scrounges up new members for the Light Music Club, but still, Ritsu would not have left you hanging for almost two months, and I should not have either.  That out of the way, I'm going to pick up this series review where I left off at the end

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I recently watched the first episode of the new Iron Man anime. Personally, I thoroughly enjoyed it, and felt that it did justice to the character of Tony Stark/Iron Man. I also felt that its characterization and plot did a superb job of mixing a very western Americanized superhero character into a very eastern Anime-esque setting. Iron Man isn't quite a stranger in a strange land here, but

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Yui against the World... I recently decided to start watching K-On!!, the artist formally known as K-On! In anime, you see, exclamation marks are always in style, and this particular anime show even uses them in place of Roman numerals. A friend joked to me that a hypothetical fifteenth season of K-On! would be called K-On!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!, to which I quipped that only one man could ever pronounce

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There was one scene in Angel Beats! that I didn't touch on much, even though some of the ideas conveyed by it were potentially powerfully poignant, and likely very telling. I didn't touch on it much because it was suggesting a general truism of sorts about anime today which transcends Angel Beats! itself, and hence I didn't want to spend much time on it in an actual Angel Beats! review. That

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Before I begin this review, two key heads-up: 1. This review will be highly spoilerrific. I don't think that I can do justice while delving into the key strengths of this anime, without spoiling a lot of it. 2. I came into this show in large part due to its moe appeal. In other words, I didn't come into it mainly for the action, which I think will give this blog a very different (if not

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I recently watched Amagami SS Episode 9. It had slick artwork and solid animation, it showcased mostly good character designs, and it was rather benign. Few people who are already very familiar with anime would find it disturbing in the least, and the only scene that would even possibly raise the eyebrows of even a total newcomer to anime is the flashback scene of one girl giddily gleefully

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A long time ago, I was in the process of doing write-ups for each character on my Top 10 Anime Characters of All-Time list. I had only one left to do, but sadly, I did not feel up to finishing off my Top 10 list. Until now. My last two entries in that list spoke a bit on fiction in general, and also on the role that conflict plays in fiction. It spoke of the three types of conflict: Man vs.

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Looking ahead to the Fall 2010 Anime Season I know that the main request I get from regular readers of this blog is to finally get around to doing the "Nanoha Takamachi is No. 1!" write-up. And, well, I will get to that eventually, hopefully this weekend. ^_^;; But for now, I want to devote my time to something that will be more of a quick write-up for me. And that is making some predictions

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With us now around the midpoint of 2010, and with significant sales data available for us to evaluate (thanks to you, Eggplant of Anime Suki) I felt that now might be a good time to once more take a 'big picture' look at the anime industry at a whole, but this time rooted in concrete domestic (i.e. within the Japanese market) sales figures. This is something that I honestly don't see a lot of

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Deciding to watch this anime may have been the most whimsical decision of my life. I went on Anime Suki, and saw, to my amazement, that only five series, with their own subforums, were listed under "Current Series". That's the fewest I've ever seen there, which is perhaps a concerning sign for the anime industry as a whole. Four were obvious: The Shounen Big Three, and K-On! Just about every

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"No one's going to side with you, you're stark-raving mad!" - Ash Ketchum "Oh yeah? Just ask your mother..." - Giovanni "That's all in the past!" - Ash Ketchum "Listen to me, little boy, nice guys finish last, last...!" - Giovanni Given the endings of many of the animes with romantic conflicts, that I've recently watched, Giovanni could very well be talking about nice girls instead. Indeed,

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What Dreams May Come... Back in 2006, I was not active in the online anime fandom. I was already an anime fan, but I was watching few animes apart from those that were recommended to me by my cousin who had been an anime fan before me. These animes tended to be of an action-packed (i.e. fighting) sort, and not of the romantic tearjerker variety. These animes also spread across several years, if

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Thanks to acejem and 0utf0xZer0 of Anime Suki for recommending this generously gentle gem of an anime to me. It feels and flows like a heartwarming real life story contained in Reader's Digest, and not just because of its shortness. Six episodes were enough to tell the simple yet multifaceted story which is Hantsuki (the title I'll use from here on in to refer to Hanbun no Tsuki ga Noboru Sora,

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It's been awhile since I did a blog focusing on the anime industry itself. And given that the incident involving the President of Bang Zoom! Entertainment declaring that anime is going to die occurred while I was on my hiatus from anime watching or blogging, I missed most of the discussion surrounding that.However, after taking some time to collect my thoughts on the modern anime industry, and

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The Beauty of Fan and Promotional Art: It Need Not Reflect the Actual Plot Whatsoever.Watching Angel Beats!, True Tears, and Sola over the past few weeks has taught me a lot about anime.Its taught me about how even short anime series' can do, and often do, a complete and dramatic 180 in overall mood, feel, thematic drive, and plot direction. Indeed, the first half of each of these three anime

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0utf0xZer0 was right. I have already begun to soften on True Tears a bit. So much so that I very recently asked 0utf0xZer0 if he could recommend any other anime to me that was very similar to True Tears. And, amongst a few other titles, he pointed me into the direction of Sola.One way in which Sola compares favorably to True Tears for me, is that I strongly doubt it will leave me loathing the

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True Tears indeed...This may very well be the ultimately saddest anime that I've ever watched. At least for me.Just watching the anime scene that the above picture is taken from almost moved me to tears. And I very rarely cry when watching anime, and virtually never for purely melancholic and sad moments. When an anime moves me to tears, it's virtually always because of something very touching in

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My friend Archon Wing, of Anime Suki fame, was a bit bedeviled by the ending of Angel Beats! As such, I hope to do like Otonashi, and be a spiritual healer that can help Archon Wing come to peace with Angel Beats. In so doing, it may be necessary to exorcise some demons. And hence here is my final writeup on Angel Beats.Well, the conclusion to Angel Beats! more or less confirmed my thinking on

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I recently started watching True Tears. The reason why I started watching it is because the character designs and promotional artwork looked catchy, as well as mildly magical to me, after I looked into the anime a bit further. That, and a couple people over at Anime Suki brought it up to me in a positive light, and then there's the fact that I was invited to Anime Suki's True Tears fan group

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=Marvel Comics , of what's commonly referred to as the Golden and Silver Ages of western comics (early-to-mid 60s up through the 80s, IIRC), were (in)famous for loving to put many of their top superheroes in combat against one another just for sheer shits and giggles. And, well, to also play to rampant fan speculation on who would win between Popular Superhero A and Popular Superhero B. Loads of

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Angel Beats! has definitely been the most hyped series of the Spring 2010 anime season. At one point, I had been very much looking forward to it. My thinking upon seeing promotional art for it was that it would be like The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya, only much more action-packed. That seemed almost indescribably awesome to me.However, I became disenchanted with the world of anime in general,

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On the request of Dr. Casey of Anime Suki, I've decided to do a write-up on the one year anniversary of the beginning of the endless recursion of time. Itsuki Koizumi aptly called it an "Endless Summer", and that is what this arc proved to be for many fans of the the Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya anime. While Dr. Casey's request spurred me to give further thought to Endless Eight, it is those

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Welcome back, everybody!After a two-month long hiatus, I've decided to make a short return to focus on a topic of much contention within modern anime fandom. And that topic is moe.No, no, not you, Szyslak. Your dirty secrets are quite safe on this blog.But the dirty secrets of this kind of moe is what this blog will be delving into.And what do I mean by "dirty secrets", exactly? Well, 'dirty'

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I've mostly enjoyed my experience in writing this anime blog, as horribly infrequent as it has been. I've also enjoyed most of my stay as an active poster at Anime Suki.However, I today say goodbye to both. At least for now.There are a few reasons for this.One is that I'm in a bit of a rut right now as far as 'real life' issues are concerned, and I may need to get away a bit from what can be a

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Take a copy of this picture and show it to one hundred people entirely unfamiliar with anime.Then tell them the name, and basic premise, of the anime show that this picture comes from.Tell them nothing else about this anime show (such as that it's adapted from a seinen 4Koma manga).Then ask them "Who do you think is the target audience for the show?".Some may suspect that there's something funny

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After giving it some thought, I believe that there are five phases of entertainment.In other words, that in each and every entertainment medium (be it movies, mainstream American TV, video games, western comic books, manga, anime, or anything else) there are five phases that the entertainment medium continually goes through, at least barring the existence and growth of major distinguishing

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This blog, particularly in recent weeks, tends to focus more on the weaknesses of anime; particularly of modern anime. It does this not out of a love of derision, but as a labor of love.A very large percentage of the most captivating, imaginative, enjoyable, and moving, works of fiction that I've ever read, watched, or played through, has come in anime. I thus hold its potential in very high

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Recently on the Haruhi board of Anime Suki, a lot of debate has sprouted up over the animation studio of Kyoto Animation. This relates to how soon it will be before future Haruhi content is adapted into an anime format, and it also deals with just how highly regarded Kyoto Animation should be by its fans, and by anime fans in general.Basically, what should we make of this revolutionary animation

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Follow the example of Lelouch! Chart your own course, anime!!In recent years, the movie industry has primarily been an adaptation industry. It takes the most popular book, cartoon, comic book, and video game properties that are out there, and adapts them into live-action (and/or CGI animation) movies for the big screen. I don't have solid numbers for this, but I at least get the impression that a

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In recent months over on Anime Suki's General Anime forum, there have been a few threads basically questioning and debating over the recent direction of anime and its industry. Most of these threads have been started by critics of that direction; those critics tending to be people who were anime fans during the 80s or 90s or possibly even before those decades.In those debates, I've often played

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In my previous blog entry, I spoke of that great invention called fiction. Fiction, however, usually entails more than just imaginative creation. Fiction usually involves conflict. In high school, I learned of the three basic sorts of conflict present in fiction... Man vs. Nature Man vs. Himself Man vs. Man Of these three, the one that tends to most convincingly completely capture the

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Fiction is one of the greatest inventions of the human mind.It can creates wondrous worlds in our minds that have swirls of creativity as grand as a cosmic spiral.Bubbles of ingenuity percolate to the surface of our thoughts, and pop with a sparkling light, like a Christmas gift unwrapping itself to reveal interesting intriguing ideas within.Images intensely imprint upon the individual psyche,

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The beloved rulers of the omnipotent Bugrom Empire in myEl Hazard of Haruhi Suzumiyafanfic.Top Ten Countdown - Number 2, Female: Haruhi SuzumiyaMoral Alignment: Chaotic EvilSupporting Quotes - "I've decided that Mikuru is my toy!""Unleash the fires of hell on them!!"Top Ten Countdown - Number 2, Male: Katsuhiko JinnaiMoral Alignment: Neutral EvilSupporting Quotes - "The law must serve my purposes

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I've been terribly negligent on the Top 10 Countdown of my Favorite Anime Characters of All-Time.This is in part because, after my Yuki Nagato write up in the Number 7 spot I didn't feel like I could match or top that write-up for my Number 6 selection. And, as such, I kept putting it off... and putting it off... and putting it off. ^_^;However, I think that those who had been following my Top 10

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Umineko is an anime that I had actually dropped after completing the first arc.At the time, I had felt that it was destined to descend into a somewhat infantile shouting match going something like this...Beatrice: I'm a witch, and magic exists!Battler: BS! Witches and magic can't possibly exist!Beatrice: But they do! Watch me prove it to you!Cue Beatrice creating a gruesome scene most easily

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This blog entry is the second, and concluding part, of my Clannad review. This part of the two-part review will focus on Clannad: After Story.Note: This review will include a lot of content spoilers. You have been warned! ;)Since this part of the review won't include much background information on my own personal life as an anime fan in general, it will enable me to get into greater specifics.

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Don't worry, I'll get back to my Top 10 Countdown soon.However, for the time being, I wanted to talk about an anime that may have altered my Top 10 list if I had watched it before I compiled that Top 10 list. That anime is Clannad.Thanks to the recommendations of my good friend and fellow Anime Suki poster Kogetsu Shirogane, I recently watched Clannad, an anime that I had not bothered with when

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Top Ten Countdown - Number 7: Yuki NagatoMoral Alignment: True Neutral Supporting Quote - "My work is to observe Suzumiya Haruhi and upload the data obtained to the Integrated Data Sentient Entity."AMV showcase video here.It must seem like it's been 15, 532 years since I've last updated my blog. Hence, my blog readers should now find it unusually easy to relate to everybody's favorite organic

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Top Ten Countdown - Number 8: Lina InverseMoral Alignment: Chaotic Neutral Supporting Quotes - "Where monsters rampage, I'm there to take them down. Where treasure glitters, I'm there to claim it. Where an enemy rises to face me, victory will be MINE!!!!!""Just you wait! I'M GONNA EAT ALL THE FOOD IN THAT CITY!"AMV showcase video here.The Lina Inverse image above, done in captivating, coruscating

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Take a good, long look at that picture (I'd recommend clicking on it to get a clearer picture). Take particular note of the similarities between these seven mass marketed, heavily merchandised, promotional personas that have each managed to transcend the entertainment medium or genre that they helped make famous.Can't find the similarities?Well, if not, I'll get to them shortly. ;)Through out my

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Top Ten Countdown - Number 9: Tatewaki Kuno Moral Alignment: Lawful Evil Supporting Quotes - "'What Fates impose that men must need abide.' The course is now clear... A-ha! His hold on you is gone! Come, let us date!" "'Cowards die many times before their deaths...' No doubt he feared my prowess." AMV showcase video here. (This particular AMV I made myself ^_^ ) Before I get into why I

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Top Ten Countdown - Number 10: KaminaAMV showcase video here.On the one sword-wielding hand with the firm manly grip, you couldn't ask for a better way to kick off a Top 10 Countdown List than with the legendary Dai Gurren Leader Kamina. On the other more relaxed yet preparing for combat hand, I suspect that this will be a controversial pick; not because he's in the Top 10, but because of the

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It's the Final Countdown! ;) Well, not really, but I felt that this awesome AMV above could serve to get my readers pumped and primed for my Top 10 Favorite Anime Characters of All-Time Countdown! A few ground rules before I begin... This is, of course, just my own list of favorite anime characters. It primarily reflects my own taste in fictional characters, particularly those presented in an

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The poll results are in! And just like so many recent Canadian federal elections, it's a nail-biter of a conclusion with out anybody, or any option, gaining a majority. However, instead of making passionate calls for a majority much like Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper recently did, I'm instead going to take a page from Tatewaki Kuno's book: You will have them both! ;)With "Bakemonogatari"

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Haruhi Suzumiya certainly has a skill at looking sensuous and sexy with out even trying to. Nice posture that emphasizes some of her most... appealing features, shall we say. ;)My goal with this episode review is to make it in-depth and detailed, but... I'm in much more of a contemplative and reflective mood than in a boisterous bombastic bountiful mood so... you've probably already seen all the

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I hope that my first Blog follower, fellow Haruhi fan Janette, doesn't mind me borrowing this picture taken straight from her blog. I use this picture since it relates a great deal to what this blog entry will prove to be about.First, the 15, 532 million dollar question; the question on every anime blogger's mind that has been following these latest episodes of Haruhi...To Punch, or Not to Punch?

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Here's a shout out to any and all people who follow this blog!Now, sadly, Haruhi 2009 likely comes to an end this coming Thursday/Friday.After that, I probably should start blogging on a new topic. To address what that topic should be, I've put up a short five-option poll on the right side of this blog. Please take the poll! :DOne idea I had was sharing my list of Top 10 Anime Characters of

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So... as a big fan of the Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya anime, and as a big fan of the character of Haruhi Suzumiya, what do I think of the popular, and likely canon, pairing of Kyon and Haruhi?Well, if you've actually read all of my posts on the matter over on Anime Suki's Haruhi subforum, you know that I've kind of wobbled on this; moved back and forth on it a lot. I'm certainly not a

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The first picture is Haruhi's response to "Endless Eight".The second picture is Haruhi's response to "Sighs". ;)Well, with only one episode left to go for this year of Haruhi, and with the general quality of each of the sections of this year of Haruhi not really being much in question for me, I felt that it was time to once again provide a meta-commentary of sorts evaluating the current standing

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Maybe Haruhi should have given herself the main role... ;)I really have to learn to watch episodes before commenting on anything about them.I really do. ^_^;;;The impression that I took from the still pictures of this episode that I combed through over on 2Chan was that Haruhi's facial appearance in this episode would continue to feature bewildering deformed looks, and/or lots of broken lines and

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And by "Numbers", I don't mean Jail Scaglietti's illustrious harem of artificially engineered girls, as much as I respect the good Doctor's inordinate skill at making attractive females by the dozen. ;)No, I'm instead referring to something a bit more fundamental than that.It is not an enemy that Nanoha can bust and break with divinely inspired starlite blasts, and nor is it an enemy that Fate

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I know that Dr. Casey, amongst probably two or three other friends of mine, were probably hoping that I'd write a lengthy and comedic minutia review for Episode 11 of Season 2 of Haruhi. However, I found that hard to do for this episode for two reasons...1) It's not outstanding to the degree where I felt that I could epically rave about it as I did the last five minutes of the last episode of

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Rin Tosaka, of Fate/Stay Night, is probably the best recent example of the classical or traditional tsundere. What do I mean by 'classical or traditional'? Well, let me try to explain in as concise a matter as possible, as understanding the evolution of the term 'tsundere' is key to the main thrust behind this blog entry. Traditionally, a tsundere was a female character that started

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Apologies to Slice of Life, of Anime Suki, for stealing his bit. But we all know what the Simpsons has to say about stealing somebody's bit, so I hope Slice of Life won't hold it against me. :D Anyway, I have a confession to make. A rather big one. Even though I've made a fair number of comments on it, and frequently criticized its art style... I never watched K-On. I spoke of it simply based

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I could think of no more fitting and intriguing topic of discourse for my first anime blog entry than the (in)famous Endless Eight. Also, with the emotional roller coaster ride that was Endless Eight now starting to slowly fade away into memory, like the hazy recollections of a summer vacation after you've been back in school for a week, now is perhaps a good time to sit back, and calmly

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