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Usagi Drop Roundup: The Viewers Speak Up!

By ghostlightning | Published: August 23, 2011

It’s no secret that we here at T.H.A.T. love Usagi Drop as Mystlord had just put out a post that highlights of all things, how the show takes on the issue of identity, of gender, and contemporary social mores. Here we round up not only other members of this blog, but other viewers from within [...]

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A Left-Handed Discourse; A Sinister Discussion

By Chronolynx | Published: July 27, 2011

No.6 is an interesting enough show. It’s got some pretty good animation, a nice setting, all that jazz. But I can’t help but feel distanced from everything somehow; there’s just something… off about the main characters to me. Now, I don’t want any of ya’ll to think I’m a hater or anything – I completely [...]

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Tennis and FanService of the Female Form in Anime

By ghostlightning | Published: July 15, 2011

No this is not a post about Softenni. I did not last more than an episode of that show. They’re not even doing actual tennis. This sport that I love (and unlike basketball, I love to play tennis more than I like watching it) is pretty amazing. Why? Much like boxing, there is nowhere to [...]

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A Time to Gloat — Despite the Absence of the Variable Fighters, All is (not) Right in the World: The End of Sai Mecha

By ghostlightning | Published: June 23, 2011

Screenshot of my browser tells one story, but Sai Mecha isn’t Sai Mecha Anime, so I had no problem voting robots like the Gunbuster over the Unit-01 Test Type, of course the Variable Fighters of Macross… but I equally had no problem voting for it over the Tachikoma, or over any Gundam in the tournament. [...]

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NBA Finals 2010-2011: The Mavs of Destiny

By Crusader | Published: June 12, 2011

So it is finally over the Dallas Mavericks who probably few if any outside of Texas and Charles Barkley picked to win the NBA Finals are now NBA Champions and has done much to erase the hard memories of the 2006 Finals. This was a story that you could never pass off in fiction, I [...]

Also posted in Kampfgruppen of Shame | 24 Responses

Reflections on a Year of Fangirling…

By Hana | Published: May 29, 2011

It may be my first blog birthday today, but it’s definitely a collective celebration – yay! Hello, readers old and new. This time last year, I published my first post on T.H.A.T., so I thought I’d mark the occasion with some brief words to illustrate the highlights of my first year as an anime blogger. [...]

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This May Be The Last Chance (To Gloat, To Sing High Praises, To Celebrate Victory): The VF-1 May Not Get Past The Evangelion Test Type Next Round, But Let Us Remember Love For What It Did to the Sinanju in Sai Mecha

By ghostlightning | Published: May 23, 2011

Macross’ mecha proved something very important. Without Minovsky Particles, Gundams, Mobile Suits, Armors, Capitol Ships, Every Close-Range Attack Craft in its franchise, is frickin’ TOAST against even conventional weapons. Minovsky Particles render contemporary guidance systems useless, requiring combatants to fight in visual range. Otherwise, it is stupid beyond reason to devote research and development to [...]

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Your Completely Biased Sai Mecha Elite Eight Voting Guide and Image Dump

By ExecutiveOtaku | Published: May 11, 2011

Make a contract with me and become a true follower of the mecha Way. -or- The Declaration of Team Real Robot. So I’ve set up and have been running Sai Mecha, the Super Dimensional Robot Tournament, for a bit now and we’ve arrived at the Elite Eight portion of the tournament. Up until now I’ve [...]

Also posted in Gundam, Macross Frontier, Macross Plus, Neon Genesis Evangelion, SDF Macross | 53 Responses

Getting Older in the Merry Month of May

By Crusader | Published: May 1, 2011

Well it seems that I have been punching keys at THAT for three plus years, since I am very late with this post, still blog birthdays (and a real birthday this week, though not the same as Willie Mays’ sadly…) are still worth posting about if only so that I can count how many of [...]

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Sekai-Ichi Hatsukoi – What’s Love Got to Do with It

By Chronolynx | Published: April 30, 2011

I should start this off by saying I really, really do enjoy yaoi. It gives me something that is very difficult to find anywhere else, and I love it for that. But. That love is not unconditional. Like any genre, there are less than savory aspects that I would rather ignore. Of course it’s the [...]

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