Alternate title: Maintaining Threadbare Connections; I Just Can’t Let This Blog Die I’ve had a sense for many years of being disconnected from current anime fandom, first as part of growing older and [...]
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The last twelve months have been difficult for everyone – social disorder; worldwide illness, and deaths from COVID-19 and its variants; remote interactions failing to be complete substitutes for [...]
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Hey there. I realized a couple days ago that it’s been 14 years since I published my first anime blog post on May 14, 2006. The time feels longer than that to me while I’ve been looking through many [...]
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Hi there! It’s been a number of months since my last update. Too busy with law school courses. I watched Cromartie High School and the first season of Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion with my [...]
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Another popular genre is the witch show. Sometimes, they come off as ‘magical girl’, but they still are putting out some degree of wizardry and prestidigitation. And we have to keep it on the QT, as [...]
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2018 was a long year for me. I moved to another city and started law school. The Winter Olympics happened in South Korea and the FIFA (men’s) World Cup happened in Russia, but unfortunately, I don’t [...]
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Hi there. I’ve been busy with my first semester of law school and with work projects, so I haven’t had a lot of free time lately. I was able to watch some anime series and go to an anime convention, [...]
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I have never been able to fathom the Japanese obsession with robots and all things mecha. I am sure that if you did a run-down of anime themes, that genre would be at the top of the listings. I can’t [...]
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I started my first law school classes last week, so I may have less time to write blog posts. Whatever posts I do write will likely be fairly brief. Fanime 2018 I only attended two panels, both by [...]
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Have you ever been to New York City, so great, they had to name it twice? I was there recently and it is everything they say it is and more. As “The Town That Never Sleeps”, it is a magnet for all [...]
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