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The Royal Tutor – Episode 5: “Assailed by the Greatest of Trials”
One torte, two torte, red torte, blue torte. The King of Glanzreich (a.k.a. Viktor) (a.k.a. The God of War) (a.k.a. Dad) returns to the palace to check up on his boys, but our Proud Papa isn’t all...
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Fan vs Service: WorldEnd vs Hajime no Ippo
When bad frames happen to good people. When I learned that this season’s new anime, WorldEnd (or SukaSuka), was based on a light novel about an adult man becoming a caretaker for a group of under-18...
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The Royal Tutor – Episode 6: “At Café Mitter Meyer”
Don’t worry, this java blend comes with plenty of sweetener. As promised last week, Licht takes center stage–or does he? Thanks to a tattletale noble, our youngest prince’s solo story quickly becomes a...
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The Royal Tutor – Episode 7: “The Whereabouts of a Dream”
Write like you’re running out of time. At long last, an entire episode dedicated to resident puppy dog and Character I Identify Way Too Closely With: Bruno! I liked “The Whereabouts of a Dream,” but I...
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Panning the Stream: Spring 2017 Midseason Review
Some of these spring buds are really starting to blossom. I finished writing this a few days ago, but I held off on posting it so I could roll it in with a neat bonus: I joined Amelia and Peter on the...
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The Royal Tutor – Episode 8: “A Timid Heart”
Like Kai, there’s more to this show than meets the eye. Last week, The Royal Tutor tackled more serious, introspective topics without quite knowing how to balance all that with its trademark cute...
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Like Its Pint-Sized Protagonist, “The Royal Tutor” is More than Meets the Eye
Weekly posts couldn’t contain all my Royal Tutor love, so I wrote an article about it for Crunchyroll, too! All Heine all the time always! When The Royal Tutor first came out, I had zero expectations....
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The Royal Tutor – Episode 9: “The Price of the Past”
Yippee ki-yay, class. After spending the past few episodes easing us into a more steady blend of goofy and serious, The Royal Tutor ups the ante once again with an action-packed tale of kidnappings and...
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Site Update: Tip Jar & Beach Week
I mentioned this in my Royal Tutor post the other day, but for those who missed it: I’m on my way to Florida for sun, sand, and fruity drinks with li’l umbrellas in them! This means no Royal Tutor...
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A Dream of One’s Own: Finding a home outside femininity in Chihayafuru
Cards against gender conformity. Chihayafuru is one of my all-time favorite anime series, so you can imagine my surprise and delight when Kodansha announced they’d licensed the manga for an...
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The Royal Tutor – Episodes 10-11: “The Professor I Don’t Know”/”The Pair’s...
Flawed but Feelsy. In the big lead-up to our grand finale, Count Rosenberg shows his claws, the boys show off their growing maturity, and Heine… shows himself out the door?! Sensei, say it ain’t so!...
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The Royal Tutor – Episode 12: “The Last Lesson”
Concludin’ ain’t easy. A series that began with comedy and surprises ends with drama and predictability, and I can’t say I’m too happy with that shift. It’s not an awful finale by any stretch, and...
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Glancing Upstream: Spring 2017 Retrospective and Review
Hot sequels, cool tutors, and. Um. Kado. This is a sparser list than usual, jam-packed with sequels but relatively light on everything else. I took a vacation in early June where I didn’t have time to...
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An Introduction to the Saiyuki Anime*
*As told by a fan who read the manga almost a decade ago After being off the air for nearly 13 years, Saiyuki has at last returned to grace our televisions with attractive men beating the crap out of...
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Panning the Stream: AniFem Premiere Review Digest
Boldly going where… I go every season, actually… Like I did last season, I tackled some of the full-length Summer premiere reviews over at Anime Feminist. I’ll have my usual Premiere Digest out later...
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Panning the Stream: Summer 2017 Premieres Digest
Let’s see what sort of treasures we can excavate this time! I’ve been hard at work writing and editing the full-length premiere reviews for Anime Feminist, so you’ll have to excuse me if the write-ups...
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Rule of Three(ish) Review: Summer 2017 Anime Digest
Are you not entertained?! Waiting on slowpoke Gamers to air its third episode meant a whole bunch of shows had already made it to their fourth, hence the “ish” in that title. Ah, well. Just means more...
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Failed Tanuki and Half-Baked Tengu: Identity & Community in The Eccentric...
I always said I’d write a bunch of words about this series someday. Who knew I’d write them all in one go? “Humans live in the city, tanuki crawl the earth, and tengu fly through the air. Since the...
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Failed Tanuki and Half-Baked Tengu: Identity & Community in The Eccentric...
Picking up right where we left off… “Tengu, tanuki, humans… why are all of you so foolish? I’m completely surrounded by fools!” In Part One of our winding two-part Tour de Kyoto, we talked about the...
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Panning the Stream: Summer 2017 Midseason Review
Beating the heat with some cool summer series. I’m writing this fresh off an Otakon Anime Convention whirlwind of a weekend, and dear readers, I am T-I-R-E-D. The thought of catching up with and...
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