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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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Welcome to Starbucks Westeros
(Originally posted on May 6, 2019 on Otakusphere.com) In the latest episode of HBO’s popular medieval fantasy series Game of Thrones, a disposable coffee cup was visible on screen during a feast at Winterfell. Most viewers thought this was simply a production goof, however, those of us who have read the books and all of the…
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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…
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Review: Penguin Highway
(Originally posted on June 6, 2019 at Otakusphere.com) Let’s get the most important thing out of the way: the back-of-the-book blurb for Penguin Highway confidently proclaims “Everything made sense…until the penguins showed up!”, which may just be my favorite book summary of all time. In fact, I’m thinking of adopting that phrase as my personal motto. Now…
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Game of Thrones Showed The Failings of Punching Up
(originally posted on Otakusphere.com on June 4, 2019) Many viewers were disappointed by the final episode of HBO’s fantasy behemoth Game of Thrones, but I was not one of them. While invested in the story to some extent, for a long time, I’ve valued the series as a pop-culture phenomenon rather than a narrative, and in…
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Review: Good Omens
(Originally posted on Otakusphere.com on July 5, 2019) The book version of Good Omens occupies an odd place in my personal pantheon. I have great fondness for it, yet even at the time I first read it (sometime in the mid-90s), I wasn’t convinced it all came together that well. Like some of the middle volumes in…
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Book 5? What Book 5?
I have deleted Demonic Cafe Book Five, Always A Golem, Never a Bride from Amazon. I initially said I wasn’t going to do this and just learn to live with it the way it is, but I realized I couldn’t do that. The book got a 1-star rating on Amazon, which is not in and…
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Karen L. Mead 