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Sunshine Blogger Award: Part 3
*tried to make a joke about sunshine, where the sun don’t shine and something about ass, but I gave up* Anyway, yeah, it’s time for another one of these award things. This time, I’m nominated by TPAB....
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One Lovely Blog Award
I suppose it’s time for some awards again. This is the One Lovely Blog Award nominated by Ignite18. For this award, you need to share 7 facts about yourself, and I will do it, musical-style. I will...
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30 Visual Novel Questions
I saw this making the rounds on twitter a while ago, and while I thought of participating, I figured I might as well post it on my blog instead since the content seems blog-worthy enough. …Just...
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9 Year Anniversary
Month after month, I kept dragging my blog’s lifeless carcass around, stubbornly refusing to stay down. And one way or the other, I managed to last till October 1… you guessed it, the date of my...
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12 Days of Gintama – Prologue
Gintama is my favorite anime ever, and I don’t make such claims lightly. When I’m describing favorites, I usually add an “one of my” (favorites), because I often hesitate to claim something is...
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12 Days of Gintama – Day 1: What is Gintama?
With my super extravagance of a prologue, you are probably wondering just what is Gintama all about that I would sing such absurdly high praises on it. Well, since we are still in the introductory...
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12 Days of Gintama – Day 3: A (More) Jocular Look at Gintama
One can say that the parody and meme-y nature is what mainly defines Gintama as a comedy, hence why I allude to that first when discussing Gintama’s comedy. It’s interesting however, because that is...
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12 Days of Gintama – Day 4: A Serious Look at Gintama
What makes Gintama shine, isn’t just the comedy however, but also the top-notch serious arcs that dare I say, is on par with most popular shounen. Throughout episodes and sometimes even arcs of...
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12 Days of Gintama – Day 5: A (More) Serious Look at Gintama
The serious arcs are definitely another defining trait for Gintama, but the occasional seriousness is also the reason why Gintama’s characters can still be treated with respect even though they are...
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12 Days of Gintama – Day 6: Gintama’s Method Behind the Madness
So we have already ascertained Gintama is good at both comedy and drama, but Gintama also has this peculiar ability to blend the two extremes — the one finishing touch that no one expected. Gintama is...
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12 Days of Gintama – Day 7: On Gintama’s Characters – The Importance of...
When an anime is long, you get the benefit that you can add more and more characters, and in addition, to be able to spend ample time for all of them too — investing in the characters, showing...
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12 Days of Gintama – Day 8: The Straight Men (tsukkomi) of Gintama
Among all the chaos in Gintama, sometimes it’s easy to forget that the show largely uses a very classical approach to jokes — the traditional manzai, a Japanese stand-up comedy. In the most standard...
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12 Days of Gintama – Day 9: Why I Like Gintoki – The Perfect Protagonist for...
Reminder: He is the protagonist. Gintama is unlike any other shounen. Instead of focusing on making their characters stronger and even better as a person, it just seems like the more the show...
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12 Days of Gintama – Day 10: Gintama and Sket Dance
Time for some fluff — this time I will talk something a little more fun, namely on the crossover episodes that Gintama and Sket Dance collaborated with each other. I mean, come on, we all love...
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12 Days of Gintama – Day 11: Gintama’s Fights are Raw, Visceral and Desperate
Have I told you before how much I’m a fan of the action genre? This is not just limited to the anime medium as I have watched quite a fair share of action films — I’m particularly a huge fan of...
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12 Days of Gintama – Day 12: Gintoki and Takasugi, A Battle to Reaffirm Their...
Note: A warning for spoilers. Also, this is technically a shipping post, I suppose, lol. Gintama’s fights are fueled with emotions, fueled with the desperate attempt to survive. But furthermore,...
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12 Days of Gintama – Merry Christmas
I was first introduced to Gintama back during the early 2000s, and since then, has been with me through thick and thin for years. It’s a show that I find myself keep coming back to. At times...
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New Year
For now… damn. While I’m just as usual preoccupied with all my endless personal problems, I can feel 2020 was one of the worst years ever even in a general sense. You know the news, so I’m gonna spare...
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An Anime Fan as An Adult
I’m an adult. Well… I’m technically one. I’m of age, but I’m definitely not the mental age of the mature adult that everyone expects. Anyway, it may sound like I’m saying all these out of the blue,...
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1. Mori Calliope Being one of the member of HoloEN, a sub-division of the heavyweight vtuber group, Hololive — Mori Calliope surprised everyone with her sick bilingual bars. Her Dead Beats EP, has...
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