Category: anime
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Anime Rescue Project #1
(Originally posted on May 23, 2016 on Otakusphere.com) Four times a year, dozens of young, bright-eyed anime characters are set loose upon the world. As joyous as this miracle of nature is, sadly, every season many characters are deployed to the wrong shows, leading to much unnecessary stress and existential angst. For the cost of…
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Finishing Up Food Wars! The Second Plate
(Originally Posted on October 1 on Otakusphere.com) I was a bad girl and didn’t keep up with blogging Food Wars! episodically for most of the season. Part of this was because I discovered Chef’s Table on Netflix, and I was so enraptured by the most pretentious cooking documentary I had ever seen that my quota of food television was…
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Food Wars! S2 Episode 3
(Originally posted on July 21, 2016 on Otakusphere.com) Well, I was wrong: I called the previous quarterfinal match for Megumi, only it was Ryo’s name that got written down with the Giant Brush of Gastronomic Victory. I really felt like the show was telegraphing that Ryo’s strong flavors were too palette-fatiguing and Megumi’s dish was…
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Food Wars!S2: Episode 2
(Originally posted on July 12, 2016 on Otakusphere.com) This episode features Battle Ramen, meaning the judges get to say “Umami!” about a million more times, just in case you didn’t get your fill of that during Battle Bento. Now I know umami is a cool flavor and all (and a point of national pride, since…
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What is First Love Monster?
(Originally posted on September 30, 2016 on Otakusphere.com) Normally, when I want to write about a show, I have something in mind that I’d like to say about it. This is the exception: I am writing about First Love Monster in the hopes that by writing about it, I will figure out what I just watched. Considering…
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Food Wars! S2: Episode 1
(Originally posted on July 5, 2016 on Otakusphere.com) Food porn is very important in my life, mostly because regular porn does nothing for me and I still need something to be deeply ashamed of. And when it comes to food porn, you can hardly do better than Food Wars!, everyone’s favorite anime where people are figuratively…
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The Ten Most Disappointing Things About Pan de Peace
(Originally posted on June 30, 2016 on Otakusphere.com) As the Spring 2016 anime season comes to a close, we’re left with little more than a gnawing sense of regret that we spent too much time watching anime when we could have been playing videogames instead. Out of all the shows I wasted time with when…
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That Time I Got Reincarnated as A Slime, Episode 6
(Originally posted on November 8, 2018 on Otakusphere.com) This episode really surprised me. When last episode introduced the idea of Shizu as Rimuru’s “destined” person, I thought the show was probably going to take a roundabout route to get to her. Maybe Rimuru and Shizu would meet on different sides of a big conflict, multiple…
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Racism in Run With The Wind
(Originally posted on April 2, 2019 on Otakusphere.com) Run With The Wind was a great show, one that goes to show just how broad a category like “sports anime” can be. Among the other things it did well, it tackled the subject of racism, and did so in a kind of understated, nuanced way. I rarely…
Karen L. Mead 