Okay, I admit it: Fruits Basket is an anime I could easily have found to be annoying and Tohru Honda is a character I could easily have found to be annoying. I mean, it’s a silly high school romance when you get down to it, and that’s not something I relate to well, right? But […]
Read more "Character Analysis: Tohru Honda"Gleipnir is one of those things that manages to use a story to hide something in plain sight, and that is that it’s thinly-veiled pornography. And let me tell you, that’s one thin veil. So the deal is … do I even need to go through what the deal is? … the deal is there’s […]
Read more "Okay, I Get the Joke: Gleipnir"A long winter storm and a Comic Book weekend (which requires only reading and watching cartoons, including manga and anime) led me to the delight that is The Irresponsible Captain Tylor. There’s a nice story here I might want to break down sometime – it’s like a harem driven by outside forces, which is pretty […]
Read more "Character Analysis: Justy Ueki Tylor"Okay, I’ll be honest: Fruits Basket is not exactly in my wheelhouse in terms of what I want to see, right? I mean you take the rom-com thing and add in the Zodiac animal thing, and that should be a nopety-nopety-nope for me. But, ya know, they sucked me in. You know how. Some really […]
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Confessions of an Overage otaku 