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Apr 5, 2022
Given (Anime) add
Really really loved this one. It takes a couple episodes to get going and can be kind of hammy (ok a lot hammy), but BOY did this have me laughing, crying, and smiling tenderly by the end of it.

When I started watching I was expecting like, K-ON mixed with some fluffy romance and I was really pleasantly surprised by the more serious and touching route it took, while still landing a lot of really cute humor. Also, that episode 9 reveal!!! Completely expected but perfectly executed :') My heart.

The animation style is pretty and done with care (I LOVE how they draw Uenoyama's ...
Apr 3, 2022
Mixed Feelings
This manga is a bumpy ride but if you're a fan of Bisco Hatori I'd give it a read! I picked this up because I'm doing a reread of Ouran right now and was curious about her other work. I think this manga is a really interesting representation of that - Millenium Snow comes with a couple of Hatori's older oneshots (one from the Love Egoist universe and another separate one), and the fact that she picked it back up after 10 years of hiatus is something you don't often see. In the last volume, she talks a lot about her planning process, and how ...
Mar 27, 2022
GOD this anime is so tender and sweet!! I've never been involved in the BL community before, but I was heavily active in the slash fanfiction community for other shit on tumblr back in its hay day (lol), and it's so funny how tropes are tropes are tropes (etc). I've gathered from reading other people's commentary that wholesome BL is hard to come by, and I hope that the success of this series opens the doors for more!! As a person whose first experiences were with the same gender, it's really, really nice to see this story depicted so tenderly. I watched all 11 episodes ...
Mar 18, 2022
Horimiya (Anime) add
Mixed Feelings
This show is so cute! But if I had to pick one word to describe it, it would be "uneven." I think the first few episodes are the strongest - then after a while we lose the thread of Miyamura and Hori to meander around side character lane without really accomplishing much, only to come back to Miyamura at the end like we've gone through a miraculous journey with him when it doesn't really feel earned. In the second to last episode, Hori tells Miyamura that she still doesn't know much about him. I found myself thinking the same thing. Our show is ostensibly about ...
Feb 28, 2022
I rewatched this series expecting not much more than a guilty pleasure fun romp. I was absolutely OBSESSED with Ouran as a kid, but surely it couldn't be as good as I remembered, right?

Honestly, literally who hasn't heard of Ouran. This review isn't trying to convince anyone to watch it, if you were in the anime community in the early 2010's and into shojo you've seen it. I just wanted to express my genuine appreciation for how well done this adaptation is. The comedic timing in this series is SO stellar, and the life and movement they gave to the visual gags is so ...
Jan 28, 2022
Mixed Feelings
Haruhi was a foundational anime for me growing up. I used to watch it with my best friend in 5th grade on my mom's desktop computer - when we finished the show we moved onto Haruhi-chan, and all the delightfully silly fan content people were making on youtube at the height of its 2008 fandom heyday. I obsessively read theories online, bought the only two volumes of the light novel that were out in translation, and read TONS of fan comics. When endless eight rolled around we laughed, cried, and gave up on the season midway through out of frustration. I caught up so I ...
Jan 12, 2022
I will preface this by saying this is not really an objective review.

I've been an anime fan since I was in middle school - going on over ten years now. I find that I go through phases of my life where I'm more and less interested in it. When I was growing up, I struggled a lot socially. In middle school, I felt a lot like Komi. I had so much trouble speaking in class, even just raising my hand seemed impossible. I didn't have very many friends, and I didn't feel very understood either. In high school I got better at speaking but ...


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