Almost got to the end of the alphabet this week, but then I went and watched a few things that I liked a lot, so not quite. Featured items this week are a movie from roughly a decade ago, Colorful, and a series from last year. I'll give the English title up top since people might not recognize it by the Japanese one: After Being Rejected, I Shaved and Took in a High School Runaway. Those and six additional items, after the break.

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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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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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Getting dangerously close to finishing the alphabet and deciding how to handle things once that happens. Still in the middle of a stretch where I didn't have much rated very good or excellent, so I'm just going to have one featured item again, but it's a really good one this time, and there are multiple entries in the continuity: Violet Evergarden. That and eight other mixed items after the break.

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I'm coming up on a huge stretch in the alphabet without anything I'd given my highest ratings, so I'm faced with either reviewing like 20 things today (which I'd rather not do) or split it up and have only one featured item this week. And that's what I'll do: a series from just a few years ago, Hinamatsuri, after the break, plus still a large-ish number of other items that varied from good to bad.

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Been featuring a lot of movies lately, huh? Well, there's another this week, The Girl Who Leapt Through Time, but then I finally get to talk about Toradora! Those plus 6 other items, 2 of them rather recent, after the break

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I have encountered Jarvy Jared in three phases: first, his early writings, second, his development as a reviewer, and third, a reprise of reading some of his newer stories. As I check today, he has 212 followers. Why you should add to that count, after the break.

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Still holding steady, as the two featured spots this week get taken by something I just watched since the last blog. Two movies this time, one very new (Belle) and one a little old (Mai Mai Miracle), after the break, plus reviews of 6 other items, including one that just finished last week.

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Still plowing through lots of movies and short series lately. So I'm sorry, Augie, still barely inching toward Toradora! Featured items this week are an oldie but goodie series, Haibane Renmei, and a short movie, The Garden of Words, after the break.

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Featured items this week are ERASED and all things Tenchi Muyo!

I'm on a couple of new missions. One I'll hit on below, but I've also added a bunch of series that composers I really like worked on, so with any luck I'll have some great soundtracks to listen to. I also finished enough stuff recently that I'm backfilling again instead of getting further through the alphabet.

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