It's one of those romantic comedy animes. No dub.

Had the opposite problem this time: plenty of other stuff but holding out for a second thing I wanted to feature. And the featured items are Akebi's Sailor Uniform and Takt Op. Destiny, plus the usual extras, including one that just finished a few days ago, after the break.

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Heyo, the quarter century mark! And I've been at this nearly a year. Why!? Oh, right, anime's actually pretty good (except when it isn't). Featured items, after the break, are a roundup of Cartoon Saloon's movies, Song of the Sea, The Secret of Kells, and Wolfwalkers. They're not really anime, but I don't care, and you can't make me. And as a side note, thanks to one Paul Asaran, I keep having the theme song to Kujibiki Unbalance run through my head. It's a stupid

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Finally finished a couple of sequels so that I can review the original series as well. Featured items this week are SSSS.Dynazenon and Way of the Househusband, plus six other items, one of which I gather is considered a classic, after the break.

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My to-watch list keeps growing, but it's heavy with slice of life series at the moment. I usually like to watch 2 or 3 series of different genres at a time, but I might have to double up on the SoL just to even things out more. Not to mention all the things currently airing on Toonami or that I'm waiting for them to get new seasons of. (I say this as I'm halfway paying attention to a recap episode of Black Clover, which has become thoroughly average after they ruined the arc of the

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Land o' Goshen! On time this week! And freshly back from some literature wins at the county fair! (Though the number of entries was way down from usual this year.)

By chance, this week will knock out all the rest of the Satoshi Kon things I've seen, but there are more I still intend to watch. Featured items are Only Yesterday and Paranoia Agent, after the break.

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Last week would have been my normal time to post, but I forgot about it all evening, then same Wednesday and Thursday, so, eh, I just pushed it to this week. The usual quick hits of various things, but the featured items today are Dead Leaves and Dimension W, after the break

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Finally (almost) recovered from my business trip that I stretched into a vacation, but I'm still suffering jet lag two days later. Oh well, the Labor Day holiday is coming up, so I'll sleep then. Featured items this time are Michiko & Hatchin and Moribito: Guardian of the Spirit, plus the usual shorter reviews of other things in this neighborhood of the alphabet, after the break.

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Tuesday is probably the most convenient day for me to do these, so I'll slide into that schedule starting now. My intent was to start at the top of my alphabetized "finished" tab, but as I look down it, the first two things to discuss on it are both movies, and the first two of these blogs were also about movies, so I'm going to skip them for now and come back to them next time. A couple of series, after the break.

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Switching up the title a bit so it's more obvious what actually happens in these blogs. As I noted last time, I'm going to come back to a couple of movies in this edition, plus some quick-hit reviews of the rest as I start at the top of the alphabet. Featured movies are A Silent Voice and A Whisker Away, after the break.

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Saturday Night, October 2nd. All Times Eastern.

8 PM - Cartoon Carnival (2021)(Documentary.)
9:45 PM - 100th Anniversary of Fleischer Animation – Part 1: The Silent Era (2021).
10:45 PM - 100th Anniversary of Fleischer Animation – Part 2: The Sound Era (2021).

I am sorry about this blog, but anime as in japanese cartoons made in japan are under attack by western moral puritans, because it doesn't adhere to their moral standards. This strikes me as a very imperialistic mindset, not everyone has to adhere to our values.

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Haha, and - spoiler alert - did it at the end quite her way, not way some good friends of friends wanted it. So, nice end for the series. Thing is, in real world things not as easy as just overcoming some personal psychological problem (of me) ... Humans still want to build their much more dolphinarium-like 'sanctuary/rehabilitation centres' without giving any damn about what dolphins (and co) actually feel, and how it all will affect them ('cetaceans are more emotional than humans' can

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Yay for a couple of movies giving me a quick infusion of additional things to review! Featured items this time are a series from just a couple of years ago, Darwin's Game, and another from a decade ago that had a lot of big names involved, Kids on the Slope, plus four other good to not good things, after the break.

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Animation isn't a genre. It's an art medium that one can tell any story with. It annoys the hell out of me that execs/boomers think that animation is automatically catered towards kids. And for them to also think that animation should have typical themes like sex, drugs, and violence for it to cater towards adults is ridiculous AF.

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Looking forward to reviewing this season's crop in another month or two, but for this week, featured items are a series from a while back, Monthly Girls' Nozaki-kun, and a movie from two years ago, Sing a Bit of Harmony, plus five others of varying goodness after the break. The new shows this season have been a mixed bag. Heavenly Delusion was my early front-runner for favorite, but it's gotten off track, and a wonderful installment of Insomniacs After School

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Who knew it might be a good idea to help people find reviews than to leave them searching? I'll keep this updated as I add new blogs and retroactively link it in the old blogs. I'll list items alphabetically by title (the title I perceive as it being best known by in the US, but I'll include an alternate title as well, when one exists, so if you don't find it under one, look for the other, though it may be necessary to Ctrl-f a key word or two, just because of different spellings in various

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EDIT: Damn it, YouTube! Could you stop changing my fucking thumbnails?! If this affects how many views this video gets, I will be royally pissed off!

Going to be a lot of entries to talk about this week, but I won't crowd the blurb with why. Featured items are a series, Witch Hunter Robin, and a new-ish movie, Words Bubble Up Like Soda Pop, after the break, along with several other series I liked quite a bit.

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