American Gaijin
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Cinderella Girls: Lessons in Gender Identity
I’ve been watching a lot of anime lately. I mean, a lot. That is not to say that I’ve even made a dent in the available anime (I haven’t), and I don’t intend to either. But there’s been a lot that peaked my interest. Some are great, some are mid, some are awful. One of…
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Requiem for a Cat
I had to put my cat down last week. She was fifteen years old. She was sick. I took her to the vet and they couldn’t find anything obvious wrong, but she wasn’t using her litter, and I knew that it would just get worse. After a couple of days, I took her back to…
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Relife: High Functioning NEET
Over the past couple of days, I watched an anime that I almost regret watching. It was good. I mean, it was really good. And it asked a question, well, a lot of questions, that made me take a long look at my life, and realize, something’s very wrong. The plot of the story revolves…
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Sound! Euphonium S3E12 (spoilers)
This is a post I made on MyAnimeList about Sound! Euphonium S3E12. As noted, there are major spoilers. This episode has been on my mind for days. One of the things I simply don’t understand, is how many people are calling this anime “trash” and “garbage” because they decided to deviate from the LN. I…
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My Father, the Abject Failure
Let’s be blunt: My father is dead. I don’t really care to talk about him all that much. The world will be better off when he dies the second death of never having his name spoken again. Except right now, I kinda feel like I have to. I’ve recently been taking lessons at certain things…
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Temple Anime – Or Not
So having had a couple of weeks of vacation that are now over, I decided to spend some of it looking for places in Temple to buy anime stuff. That, ummm… didn’t work. Temple is a town of maybe 90,000 people, and I’d guess about two actual Japanese people, give or take. And maybe twenty…
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Bell County Comic Con
So… apparently Bell County has a comic con. Bell County is not a large county. I’m actually a little surprised by how active the “comic” community is here, even if it’s not nearly as active as it is in some of the bigger cities. I’m debating going. At the moment, I’m leaning towards “no”. I…
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Music Moves Me – Because it Moves
There is a song. It’s the opening theme to the second series of “Sound! Euphonium”. It’s called “Soundscape”. And it hits me hard, emotionally. And I wasn’t sure why, until today. In the beginning it has a very interesting progression, one that I didn’t know was possible. It’s a V7 to V/vi to vi progression.…
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I love Japan – but not everything.
I started learning about Japan and Japanese culture about six years ago now, and I kind of fell in love with it. I don’t know any other way to describe it. I would love to go to Japan someday (though it’s seeming very unlikely and more unlikely with each passing day) and see some of…