“What incensed him the most was the blatant jokes of the ones that passed it all off as a jest, pretending to understand everything and in reality not knowing their own minds.” James Joyce – UlyssesOr at some point in the series, Edamura Makoto I don’t know why I was so excited for this series …
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I know I've been writing on almost nothing except Haikyuu and for those of you who don't follow the series it was probably very boring. Or boring even though you were keeping up with it. I only have one last post for the series (for now, heh) and then I'll go back to my abandoned …
The current anime season is coming to an end so this post might count as a recap, as well as my observations and general thoughts on the show. Today's post won't be coherent, so I should apologize beforehand. I have to start by saying that I had no idea about IWGP before I saw the …
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Greetings~ I’ve recently switched over to AniList to keep up with the series I’ve been reading and watching. It’s still in progress, especially my manga list because up until now I haven’t kept any track of what I’ve been reading. As I was arranging things around, I came across this series I’ve been meaning to …
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This will be a long post and not a spoiler-free one. It will function both as a recap of the season, my overall thoughts and its relation to what it means to be scientifically advanced according to a scientist in the making (a.k.a me). I wrote on how Fugou Keiji was an adaptation from a …
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"Science-y types are always like that!" Every field comes with certain occupational hazards, stereotypes that outsiders come up with that has no actuality, stereotypes that you grow up hearing to a point you end up becoming that very stereotype, misunderstandings and all that, and STEM people are not exempt from any of it. There's no …
Adaptation is a tough ordeal. I'm sure we all have our sweet and sour experiences when it comes to the adaptations of our favorite story. Reading is a very private and personal form of engagement, not just the interpretation of the meaning of the text but almost everything else is up to our imagination and …
Continue reading "WHERE LITERATURE AND ANIME INTERTWINES: PART 1"
H-hello? It's been more than a year since I posted something, wow. I actually drafted 2 long posts but life is cruel and my motivation is non-existent. Hence, I'm back with something I promised my friend and with second season starting, why not publish here as well? In the form of screenshots, as well ~~ …
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Greetings everyone. I wanted to make a quick post about what I had in mind for quite a while because I realized I started enjoying short anime more and more than its longer peers and these three I'm going to mention really deserves recognition. The main point these three short anime have in common is …
Writer's note : From this post, you can expect a criticism of yaoi fandom's reaction towards the non-yaoi related works and characters. This criticism is done through Tagura Tohru's manga Koimonogatari and later on it is expanded to general behaviour. All of the captions from Koimonogatari used in the article are taken by me from the original copy …
