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Tag archive for ‘Analysis’

Speculating on the Spectacle of the Bespectacled Girl

Glasses on a girl are not always a plus.
But they are never a minus.

Sometimes I wonder what kind of reputation I have around the otakusphere. The taste for harem shows that I developed early in my anime-viewing career, starting with Key’s crying shows and fluff-drama pieces like Shuffle and Da Capo, has become what appears [...]

Musings inspired by Author on Coburn on the Search For Number 9 (plus lelangir)

Although my post title may be anything but serious, the combination of these three posts, plus their comments (or rather, one main post, two side posts, a few comments, and a stuffed bear, omoichikaeri!) induced some more of my periodic reflections on rating systems and of one’s Golden Age of anime.
After all, with so many [...]

An Otaku Love Affair: Haruka Nogizaka’s Secret, reviewed

So I understand Code Geass ended recently. Code Geass being what it is – a mysterious force that I haven’t experienced that supposedly mixes trainwrecks, pizza, and ingredient X and comes out with massive popularity – concluded on a rather open-ended note, leaving discussion of the final outcome and its meaning to the hordes of [...]

Why We Love the Characters We Do, and why we do the characters we love

Or at least the first half anyway. I can’t speak for the latter, I’m a prude. That innuendo on the way, it’s been rather quiet here on the home front recently.
Perhaps it’s because I’ve been too busy fighting the war over at MAL, being one of the many front- (or second-) line reporters from the [...]

Lost my Magic: Why I suddenly went missing from ItaKiss and the shoujo scene

As you may have noticed, I’ve been on a bit of a blogging break of late, slowing the routine down to a weekly ritual chock-ful of filler. If I were more pessimistic I would chalk this up to burnout (or to Burnout, which is a fantastic visceral thrill), but really, the fact of the matter [...]