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Fanart: Rin (Bunny Drop) dressed up in the Penguin Queen’s Outfit
(Originally posted on July 17, 2011 on Otakusphere.com) This is a fanart sketch for two shows few people remember: Bunny Drop and Mawaru Penguindrum. This was drawn back when I used to draw everyday, so even though it’s a pretty simple sketch, it’s still smoother than anything I’ve done recently. I just figured I’d post…
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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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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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