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Rumination - 02 - Animal Snippets

Rumination – 02 – Animal Snippets

     I have been working on my writing lately. Though to be honest I haven’t been writing a whole lot, I started a short story this past weekend using a prompt that I found online and today since I didn’t feel like writing more of that story today I wrote a couple of quick snippets. There are two of them and they both are focused around an animal character instead of a person. The first is about…

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Rumination - 01 - Zero Escape

Rumination – 01 – Zero Escape

     I have been playing through the Zero Escape series lately, whilst also doing other things such as watching Studio Ghibli movies on Netflix, playing Dungeons and Dragons, and working. I am enjoying the games. I especially enjoy having the ability to easily switch between different plot paths through a flowchart. It makes it very easy to find all the endings and as you get closer to getting…

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Hiatus Ended, maybe?

Hi!

I guess this is as good a time as any to start blogging again. When did I last post? Christmas 2018? Yeah… it’s been a little while… (Nervous laughter)

Anyways… I guess this post is just me saying hiatus ended, I guess. Part of the reason why my posting showed down so much is because I lost motivation, and also because I started playing a lot of Dungeons and Dragons. Maybe I’ll write a…

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The series I'm most excited about that are returning in 2019 #12daysofanime

The series I’m most excited about that are returning in 2019 #12daysofanime

I guess today is the last day of this thing. Merry Christmas. For the last day I wanted to take a quick look at the returning series that I’m excited for next year. There aren’t tons of series but there are still a few. So here are the returning series that I’m most excited for in 2019.

Chihayafuru is a series that I watched a couple of years ago and I loved it, the only problem is that it…

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A Little Post on Tsurune #12daysofanime

A Little Post on Tsurune #12daysofanime

Tsurune is a drama from this season that I started watching a little late but enjoy anyway. I guess that’s a common motif of this season since over half of the series I’m watching I started partway through the season. I am enjoying this series so far.

This is a good quiet series with plenty of emotional moments and from the past two episodes it is clear that it covers a couple heavy things.…

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A Little Post on Openings #12daysofanime

A Little Post on Openings #12daysofanime

Since I am running out of both ideas for posts and days where I need to decide on post topics I figured I may as well write a little bit about some of my favourite openings and why I like them.

One of the main reasons I like an opening for a series is because of the song. There are several openings that I like mainly for the song. There is Peace Sign from My Hero Academia, Rain from FMA, and…

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Characters I've Liked #12daysofanime

Characters I’ve Liked #12daysofanime

One of the things I’ve noticed about this year in anime are the multiple characters who are relatable through experiences that I don’t often see in fiction either due to them being thought of as not that dramatic or because they are often overlooked. In a couple of these instances the experiences are from characters are from groups that have never seemed to be well represented in anime in the…

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A Post About my Favourite Arc in Hunter x Hunter #12daysofanime

A Post About my Favourite Arc in Hunter x Hunter #12daysofanime

A couple of weeks ago I finished watched Hunter x Hunter. I enjoyed almost every minutes of it. I figured I might was well write a little post about it now while I’m still doing the #12daysofanime thing. This post is also late because I had to hand in a report today and there was still some work I had to put into it. If only I didn’t have school so close to Christmas, but hey, at least I don’t…

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You and Me: The problem with reviews #12daysofanime

You and Me: The problem with reviews #12daysofanime

A little over a month ago I discovered a cute slice of life anime about a group of high school boys who are close friends. The series I’m talking about is You and Me, and most of the episodes focus around simple moments in their day to day lives. There is even a little bit of really good romance mixed in. This is a quiet series in the same vein as series such as Natsume’s Book of Friends, and it…

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Thunderbolt Fantasy: Not actually an anime, but whatever #12daysofanime

Thunderbolt Fantasy: Not actually an anime, but whatever #12daysofanime

This year has been a good year for Thunderbolt Fantasy. Last winter there was a movie that was part recap and part a quick look at the relationship between two characters that was only mentioned briefly in the first season. The recap part of the movie was done really well and ended with a quick look at the new characters who were going to play a part in the second season. It also ended with a…

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Zombie Land Saga: The first idol anime I've ever tried #12daysofanime

Zombie Land Saga: The first idol anime I’ve ever tried #12daysofanime

Today I will write briefly about this series that I started late in the season but have come to enjoy greatly to the point that it is one of the four series that I have been watching the episodes the day they are released. This series is Zombie Land Saga. I didn’t even touch the first episode until a few weeks ago. Until then it just didn’t seem like a series that I would be interested in, mainly…

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The Forest of Piano: The potential problems with creating a 'genius' character and how they are usually fixed #12daysofanime

The Forest of Piano: The potential problems with creating a ‘genius’ character and how they are usually fixed #12daysofanime

In October I think, I watched the entire first season of this series on Netflix. The second season is supposed to be released in winter. As I was watching the series something was really bugging me about it. It wasn’t the CGI performance animations though those were awful. It wasn’t that the characters were unrealistic or that the music was bad.

After a while of thinking about it I came to the…

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Consequences in Anime #12daysofanime

Consequences in Anime #12daysofanime

One thing I’ve noticed as I’ve watched countless series is the fact that often the actions of the main cast either don’t have consequences at all, the consequences don’t last all that long, or the consequences are done poorly. An example of my last point is in the first season of A Certain Magical Index which was really good up until this very specific point that I will not explain because I…

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A Little Post on Bunny Girl Senpai #12daysofanime

A Little Post on Bunny Girl Senpai #12daysofanime

Sorry for the late post. I was planning on finishing this up last night but the dungeons and dragons game I was in ran a little long and today I had to study for an exam. Anyways since I’m writing a post for different series that I have enjoyed throughout this year for this thing, here’s a quick post about one of the few series that I’ve been keeping up with this season.

That series is Rascal…

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How I discovered Sound! Euphonium #12daysofanime

How I discovered Sound! Euphonium #12daysofanime

So while I’ve been on hiatus I’ve been watching some of the new seasonal series as well as watching some series that I’ve been meaning to watch. One of these is Hunter x Hunter which I will hopefully write a post about in the near future. One of the series that wasn’t on my list of series to watch was Sound! Euphonium, however after a series of random coincidences I ended up watching it.

First…

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Hi! I'm blogging again!

So I’m ending my super long hiatus now I guess. Tomorrow I’ll be participating in the 12 days of aniblogging. For this I will be posting something about a series that I’ve watched over the past year, however I will not be posting any reviews. I don’t know if I will be posting reviews much from now on. Unless a series either amazes me or greatly disappoints me I tend not to have a whole lot to say…

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Toradora! anime review