Monthly Archives: September 2009

Gaming Humanity in Gambling Apocalypse Kaiji

After many recommendations and reading lots of hype, I watched Gambling Apocalypse Kaiji. The unsurprising part: it’s rather very good. I’ll get to that in a moment. The surprising part: I didn’t enjoy it as much as I intended. For … Continue reading

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Araragi Doesn’t Deserve Your Thanks: Bakemonogatari 10

Araragi says (to himself, but intended for Nadeko), I don’t have the right to be thanked. I tried to save the person who put the curse on you. This just bugs me. It bugs me a lot. Where does this … Continue reading

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Where the Dead Lie: Tokyo Magnitude 8.0 10

I respectfully ask for your indulgence for writing this piece in a way that it’s thinking aloud.’ The last three episodes of this show calls for (at least at me) to write as ‘raw’ as I possibly could. I find … Continue reading

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Gundam Villains And Sexual Deviancy (Do They Go Hand In Hand?)

The top right corner features the image in question that has sparked some pretty interesting discussion A lot of people have expressed surprise and even shock at this picture of Alejandro and Ribbons hugging that has been inserted into the special … Continue reading

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An Introduction to Warfare in Macross: First Fight (Macross Frontier 07)

A moment of silence as we remember love for the fallen, and the heroes during 9/11/2001. The episode itself is a showcase of the martial capabilities of the SMS. By this I mean the tactics, the personnel, and the ordnance; … Continue reading

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