Monthly Archives: December 2011

12 Moments in Anime 2011: Kaiji Killed Me Every Week

[Sixth Moment: Daikichi Takes The Highest Road and Portrays a Manliest Display of Manliness (Usagi Drop)] The second season of Kaiji was a coronary threat every week. If you followed it week by week you know very well what I … Continue reading

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Victims of Typhoon Washi Need Your Help, Here’s How

It’s going to be a very rough Christmas for the residents of Cagayan de Oro City, a beautiful destination along the northern coast of Mindanao, the second large island in the Philippines. Yesterday December 17, 2011 floods caused by the … Continue reading

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12 Moments of Anime 2011: Daikichi Takes The Highest Road and Portrays a Manliest Display of Manliness (Usagi Drop)

[Fifth Moment: Hanasaku Iroha and How to Make Boys Watch Cheesy Chick Media] There are notable displays of manliness this year: Banagher Links beats up the captain of the Grancieres, and lectures him on his own righteousness in Mobile Suit … Continue reading

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12 Moments in Anime 2011: Hanasaku Iroha and How to Make Boys Watch Cheesy Chick Media

[Fourth Moment: Madoka's Mom Tells It How it Is] Girls, moé, nudity, in that order so it seems. Growing up around an extended family that is outright matriarchal (think Summer Wars) I had no problems orbiting around a female locus … Continue reading

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12 Moments of Anime 2011: Madoka’s Mom Tells It How It Is

[Third Moment: Saorin Says The Darnedest Things (Wandering Son)] Madoka’s family is nontraditional; subverting the inherited order of having the Husband/Father act as breadwinner while the Wife/Mother keeps house and raises the children. This constructed order is taken apart and … Continue reading

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