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Full name There's no freaking way I'll be your Lover! Unless... This was somewhat hyped in 2025, but that it was going for an actual Poly resolution was not something I recalled coming up. As much as I am a long time Yuri fan I have spent the last few years feeling less obligated to watch every Yuri, especially when so many are still not even being Dubbed. I have talked on this blog before about…
I find it interesting how many YouTube videos about Lucky Star the 2007 TV Anime as being a time capsule depicting what Otaku Culture was like in 2007. But the show isn't set in 2007, it's clearly set in 2006. The first season of The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya is clearly currently airing, one scene depicting Konota's reaction to the episode Someday in The Rain which aired May 28th 2006, neither…
It more then lived up the Hype. It made me Cry more then once. I don't have the ability to judge it as an adaptation, I don't think adaptation is the best word anymore, more like Reimagining. It does justice to the legacy of the original in exactly the metatextual way I was hoping. There is no exposition about Saphir having a Heart of Both a Boy and a Girl, but she is still called a Knight, from…
It manages to do much better the seeds of compelling new ideas The Sequel Trilogy introduced and squandered, but without all the falling back onto wanting to also be an OT Remake. The sequel trilogy wanted us to believe that Kylo Ren wasn't a Sith but something different, but no meaningful distinction was ever made. Nawaan in The Ninth Jedi is the opposite of a Sith, while the Sith are all about…
When discussing why I feel April 2006 through March 2007 can be considered the best year of Anime I referred to Code Geass as an important Anime that transcends Genre rather than as one of the shows I consider the best of its Genre. And I felt like elaborating on that. As an Anime with a consistent spot in my top 10 since I first got into it, I feel I can safely call it my favorite Anime that can…
My prediction of what episodes would be included in the second half of the FBI collection were partly correct but not entirely. Ayu's Tumblr Post hasn't updated the Watch order yet but I'm sure she will. https://matchaandmayhem.tumblr.com/post/799001080524570624/detco-dub-order [Update: It's updated now.] If I have any criticism it's the decision to pronounce Yaiba as Yaiber. Now that I'm 40 I…
Nina Einstein is by the end of the R2 not at all Racist anymore. Which is not unique to her, the show is filled with Britannian characters who were being quite racist to the Japanese early in the show and aren’t at all anymore by the end. None of them have a particular moment where they repent of their past racism and denounce it, it simply becomes apparent that they clearly aren’t racist anymore.…
John Carter is the name of a 2012 film adapted from a 1912 Pulp Sci-Fi series originally titled A Princess of Mars but it and it's sequels are often called the Barsoom series. The way this movie was seen as so generic despite how it's source material predates everything it was seen as derivative of has made it a euphemism in my mind for all similar scenarios, something highly influential that…
I made a prior post inspired by a BookTuber named EverymanReads where he argued for that. https://mithrandirolorin.blogspot.com/2026/02/booktuber-overing-classic-fantasy-novels.html There we were talking just in the context of Prose Novels. Looking beyond that the case becomes even stronger. For movies we have Hook, Army of Darkness , Peter Jacksons' LOTR Adaptations and the first two Star Wars…
I’ve done a post on why I technically have beef with the starting premise of the genre , and another where I explain why I do enjoy some of these shows regardless of that . But today I want to discuss how the history of this sub-sub genre goes against certain common narratives about the relationship between trend setters and trend followers. It’s a conventional wisdom I often personally disagree…