Posted in Video Games

Blue Dragon Plus (DS): First Impressions

Blue Dragon Plus, a strategy RPG in the vein of Final Fantasy Tactics for the Nintendo DS, turns out to be a pretty easy-to-learn and…

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Posted in Original Content Poetry

O Pocky! My Pocky!

O Pocky! My Pocky! our shopping trip is done; The pack has weather’d every press, the space we sought is won; The chair is near,…

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Oshii with a penny-pinching budget for a film – Good?

From ANN – Sky Crawlers’ Oshii PLans 1 Anime, 2 Live-Action Films …the writer and director known for the…revealed his upcoming film plans at a…

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Posted in Anime Reviews

Alien Nine: Utter Alienation

To steal a line from Spike Spiegel, there are three things I hate: crying kids, incompetence, and strange, unidentifiable fluids. So tell me, why has…

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Posted in Anime Reviews Editorials

Aversion and hikikomori

Sayonara Zetsubo Sensei makes the argument that the hikikomori complex is an elaborate form of aversion. In fact, all the people portrayed in the show…

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Toradora 23 – what is that feeling…?

What is normal?

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