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Rule of Three Review: Winter 2017 Anime Digest
Easing on down the road, speed bumps and all. I keep thinking of this as a light season, but I’m still keeping up with nine series so clearly I have no concept of what “light” means anymore. Maybe by...
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Showa Genroku Rakugo Shinju Season 2 – Episode 4
The One That Killed Me (But, Like, in a Really Good Way). Usually by the time I get to writing these commentaries I’ve poured all my flailing fangirl energy into tweets and can focus on that High...
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Showa Genroku Rakugo Shinju Season 2 – Episode 5
Just, uh, gimme a minute to pick my jaw and heart up off the floor. Things had been looking up for our rakugo family as of late, but that may have just been the long slope to the top of a very steep...
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Showa Genroku Rakugo Shinju Season 2 – Episode 6
Past, present, and future all under one rickety roof. There’s a kind of magic to an old building, an imprint left by those who lived and worked and played there. The more people, the stronger the...
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Panning the Stream: Winter 2017 Midseason Review
It’s Valentine’s season, but this post is more of a Like Letter than a Love Letter. My watch list has slipped a few shows shorter than it was at the Rule of Three. Interviews with Monster Girls is out...
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Showa Genroku Rakugo Shinju Season 2 – Episode 7
History is written by the survivors. So, uh… how’s everyone doing out there? Still thinking about That Scene? If you’re anything like me, you haven’t been able to stop thinking about it. You may have...
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Showa Genroku Rakugo Shinju Season 2 – Episode 8
The portrait of the artist as a young man. Through its echoes of the past and its glimpses of the future, Rakugo Shinju has always fluctuated between grief and hope, melancholy and elation, as its...
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Speak, Fan, and Enter! Heroes & Gatekeepers in “Akiba’s Trip”
For the love of trivial pursuits. Akiba’s Trip is an up-front, silly fanservice show that takes its ogling about as seriously as it does its story. While I’m not usually a fan of the ‘service, Akiba’s...
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Showa Genroku Rakugo Shinju Season 2 – Episode 9
When it comes to unnerving ghost stories, “Shinigami” has got nothing on Rakugo Shinju. Not content to simply kick me in the feelings every week, Rakugo Shinju decides to ratchet up the tension and...
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Showa Genroku Rakugo Shinju Season 2 – Episode 10
For everything there is a season. Each week I think Rakugo Shinju can’t possibly get any better, and each week Rakugo Shinju shouts “CHALLENGE ACCEPTED!” and proves me wrong. After last episode’s...
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Showa Genroku Rakugo Shinju Season 2 – Episode 11
Teach ’em how to say goodbye. So here we are at the end of Yakumo’s–no, at the end of Bon’s story, or at least the end of this volume. I’ve hesitated to talk about religion or philosophy with Rakugo...
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Love in the Time of ClassicaLoid
Get your ‘ship on. Welp, they’ve done it again. The creative team who assured us that being a girl was a state of mind rather than a state of body brought that same chipper progressivism to their silly...
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Showa Genroku Rakugo Shinju Season 2 – Episode 12
Time for our final curtain call. Since last week saw the end of our central story, this week is by nature a more subdued epilogue, a comedown from the peak we hit before. While it didn’t have quite the...
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Glancing Upstream: Winter 2017 Retrospective and Review
March comes in like a dragon and out like a maid (that’s totally how that saying goes, right?). Just a couple short weeks ago I was ready to come into this post a little tired and bummed about the...
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Panning the Stream: The Royal Tutor – Episode 1
They’re good boys, Brent. There’s a subgenre of anime that I’ve recently become quite fond of, which I like to call “cute girls behaving badly.” The idea is simple but subtly subversive: Take your...
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Panning the Stream: AniFem Premiere Review Digest
Venturing out to explore the new anime season. We tossed some coins and drew some lots and, in addition to The Royal Tutor, I covered a trio of other premieres for AniFem this season: WorldEnd: What do...
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Panning the Stream: Spring 2017 Premieres Digest
Don’t mind me, just drooling over a fresh batch of titles. Even though some series are heading into their third episodes, believe it or not this post is not belated! The spring premiere season decided...
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The Royal Tutor: Episodes 2-3
Please take your seats, class. The weekly posts will now begin. From a bouquet of impressive sequels and promising new series, I have plucked a silly, warmhearted comedy about teachers, students, and...
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Rule of Three Review: Spring 2017 Anime Digest
Feels like only yesterday we were talking about the Spring premieres. They grow up so fast…! It’s a great season for sequels, a good season for fantasy, and a not-too-shabby season for female...
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The Royal Tutor – Episode 4: “The Princes Go To Town”
To market, to market, to buy a fat book. Heine organizes a field trip into the city of Wiener (I know, I giggled too) so the princes can see how the common folk live firsthand. With their tutor as...
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