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Panning the Stream: Winter 2016 Premieres, Round 2
Be careful what you wish for? On Monday, shortly after watching four lackluster premieres in a row, I shot out a grumpy tweet hoping that the spring season had gotten all the boring anime out of the...
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Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. – Episode 3.16: “Paradise Lost”
We have a tendency to go into a bit of a mid-season slump with AoS in terms of story fluidity and general writing, a trend that began last episode and continues into this one. I wouldn’t call it bad so...
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Sailor Delays
I mentioned on Twitter on Friday that the final Sailor Moon recap was delayed, and while I’d hoped to have that out to you before the weekend was over, that’s very much not going to be the case now. A...
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Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. – Episode 3.17: “The Team”
Did somebody order the red herring? After a few weeks of table-setting, Agents of SHIELD promptly flips that table, leaving silverware and glasses scattered all over the floor as we head into our final...
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Sailor Moon Newbie Reviews: Episode 200 (Stars Finale)
My God, it’s full of Sailor Stars! And so we come at last to the end of things. As is tradition, I’ve got a Stars retrospective after the recap, with general commentary on the season as a whole. As for...
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Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. – Episode 3.18: “The Singularity”
Past the point of no return? Hive’s endgame is revealed, his army grows, and the gang find themselves with a major victory totally eclipsed by their more recent failures. Oh, and a ‘ship long in the...
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Rule of Three Review: Spring 2016 Anime Digest
Don’t mind me, I just fell over under the weight of my watch list. I hemmed and hawed about exactly when I should post this sucker. Due to a combination of already offset premiere dates and delays...
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Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. – Episode 3.19: “Failed Experiments”
There’s more than one civil war brewing in the MCU. There’s a possibly game-changing MCU film on the horizon, but our SHIELD team doesn’t have time to press pause and set the stage for that. No,...
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Life, The Mooniverse, and Everything: The Sailor Moon Newbie Retrospective
A two-year-long journey through a twenty-year-old classic. A couple springs ago, when I was just getting into the planning stages of launching this blog, Viz hit us with some big news: They had...
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Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. – Episode 3.20: “Emancipation”
Er, spoiler alert? The political boulder Civil War threw into the MCU pond ripples down to the small-screen this week, highlighting the difference between public officials and private citizens as well...
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Panning the Stream: Spring 2016 Midseason Review
Pick a show, any show. We’ve reached the midway point and Spring shows no sign of slowing down or dropping off. From calming comedies to urban fantasies to action-packed (melo)dramas to...
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Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. – Episode 3.21 & 3.22 (Season Finale)
Our season three showdown was bundled into a 2-hour finale that refused to quit playin’ games with my heart, featuring the usual blend of fist pumps, emotions (soooo many emotions), bursts of...
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Site Update: Wandering Josei
If I’ve seemed rather silent as of late (especially compared to that four-posts-a-week juggling act I was doing for a while there), there’s a few reasons for that. Some of those are about focusing on...
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Watch Me If You Can: Context & Nuance in Imperfect Fiction
Meandering through the media maze. A while back I had a Tumblr follower ask me a knotty question about media engagement: They wanted to know where the line between “personal taste” and “hypocrisy”...
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Review: Welcome to Night Vale –“Ghost Stories”
My big ol’ nerd umbrella expands to cover podcasts with my review of the latest Night Vale live show. I’m fairly new to the town of Night Vale (feel free to greet me with a friendly “Interloperrrr!” if...
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No Geek Girls Need Apply: Bias & Blind Spots in Princess Jellyfish Vol. 1
Never judge a princess (or anyone else, for that matter) by their gown. They say girls turn pretty when they fall in love. But if they never fall in love, will they stay gross forever? Amars may not...
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Tanaka-kun is Always Listlessly In The Moment
Zen and the Art of Laziness? I’m trying something new this time around: A sequence of li’l essays about a single show viewed through different lenses. This is Part 1 (of ??) in a series on Tanaka-kun....
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Moon Crisis Make Up! How Chiaki Kon Saved Sailor Moon Crystal
A miracle romance for the ages. Sailor Moon Crystal premiered to a lot of excitement, but the hype train soon ground to an unceremonious halt thanks to the show’s poor production values, breakneck...
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Tanaka-kun is Always Listlessly Growing Up
Taking the staircase elevator to adulthood. Part 2 (of ??) in my Tanaka-kun is Always Listless mini-essay series! This time I thought we’d veer away from specific cultural influences and talk about...
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Glancing Upstream: Spring 2016 Retrospective and Review
Gold and silver and bronze and on. Spring might have been lacking the standout masterpiece and shoujo gem that Winter had (Shouwa Genroku and Snow White, respectively), but it more than made up for it...
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