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My Life in Anime & Manga

By ghostlightning | Published: August 26, 2010
Let’s get serious for a moment, totally dead serious. Sure anime and manga is just a hobby for some of us, but for me it’s a life-long love affair. I’m 33 years old and though that’s still quite young (don’t mess with me here), I’ve gone through quite a bit (career, marriage, child). I’ve started [...]
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The Nobility of Realism in Legend of the Galactic Heroes

By ExecutiveOtaku | Published: August 17, 2010
(Essay two of three on Legend of the Galactic Heroes. As they will cover the entirety of the series, there will be spoilers.) In the grand scope of its politics and conflicts, Legend of the Galactic Heroes definitely seems to favor one school of international relations theory for explaining how the universe works. Realism, one of [...]
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The Legend of the Legendary Heroes – Those With Power…

By Mystlord | Published: August 16, 2010
Are badass? Yes, but more than that. The Legend of the Legendary Heroes is certainly one of the stranger shows of the Summer season. In essence, as someone on a forum said, “The creators crammed the slice of life adventure of Slayers into Legend of the Galactic Heroes and made the two share the time 50/50.” [...]
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Legend of the Galactic Heroes and the Weight of History

By ExecutiveOtaku | Published: August 10, 2010
(Essay one of three on Legend of the Galactic Heroes. As they will cover the entirety of the series, there will be spoilers.) . Legend of the Galactic Heroes is epic in scope, in many senses of the word. It is an epic in terms of its story of great deeds, heroes, and villains. The scope of [...]
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Reflections on One Year of Blogging

By ExecutiveOtaku | Published: July 28, 2010
Something about the duality of anime, 2010 edition. On this day last year I started blogging and entered into the fan community in an entirely new way. Those of you who saw that first post might remember the picture I took of a Zaku II and Miyuki that I used as a representation of the variety [...]
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On What it Means to Call Anime Characters One’s Favorites

By ghostlightning | Published: July 22, 2010
We have favorite shows, and we also have favorite characters. Sometimes our favorite characters aren’t even on our favorite shows (if we look at our top 5 lists). Here I will look at our habits of favoring anime characters and speculate a little on why we do it the way we do. In any case I [...]
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Fight Japan! The Dialectic on the NEET Problem in Anime

By Mystlord | Published: July 20, 2010
No, I’m not. Any regular person can be a strong one. Japan is and has been in a rut for the past decade. Between the slowly aging population, economic stagnation, high levels of public debt, and the ever growing NEET problem, it feels like Japan is experiencing a torrent of problems that aren’t really getting any [...]
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Rainbow and Japan’s Postwar Disillusionment

By Mystlord | Published: July 16, 2010
Can you even begin to imagine what this is like? I have to say that between Angel Beats and Yojouhan Shinwa Taikei last season, I had my share of both heated discussions and intellectual thought. This season I’ll be dabbling here and there, trying to find a show I’ll end up consistently blogging, but I thought [...]
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Waltzing Macross – Song, Motivation, and Conflict in Anime

By ExecutiveOtaku | Published: July 11, 2010
One of the main reasons why it took me so long to give any Macross series a try was because I was aware of how integral singing was to the plot of the original series. The idea of singing being a big part, and even a tool, of conflict just sounded ridiculous. Once I gave [...]
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A Different Kind of Porn, a Different Kind of Wank

By Chronolynx | Published: July 9, 2010
So I was watching Nurarihyon no Mago the other day, and I noticed two things: I liked the music, and I liked the backgrounds. I can’t really comment on the content of the show (I don’t yet have an opinion either way), but watching it did make me think back to a division of anime [...]
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