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Hyakko- episode 03

bissexual class reps and mecha constructors

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Kannagi Cosplay Episode: A fine sense of fashion and eyecandy.

This bra does not fit at all. Altough I’m glad she did.

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Kuroshitsuji - I know it’s a horrible yaoi trap but I don’t care, that is terribly cute.

Kuroshitsuji has been messing with my sexuality. Can any uncontaminated mind confirm that this is indeed cute?

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[The season in question] v0.1 Kannagi, why I think it is great.

This is an unfortunate season for me as blogger but a great one as a spectator. How could such a dichotomy arise? Let me explain:

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Toradora!- episode 03

smile my little gremlin, smile!

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Mahou Tsukai ni Taisetsu na Koto: Natsu no Sora- episode 07

Kuroda, you whiny brat….

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Hyakko- episode 02


Wreaking havoc in every club they go to.

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Japanese History from 1854 through 1939, very interesting yet often outshadowed by the events of the second world war.

I’m in the middle of my work on Japanese History within that very period, it’s amazing what I’m learning even though I consider my general education to be generously wide. In short, that time-span is the modernization and westernization of Japan. Japan as we know it is only 130-some years old. As close from now as 1867, the Tokugawa Shogunate was ruling Japan. That’s right, we’re talking Samurais and Shoguns here, it was a feudal military dictatorship. Guys like these:

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Toradora!- episode 02

Moving too fast…

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Tytania 01

Probably the best anime I’ve treated myself with after weeks of hard work. Artland’s new space opera brings all the classic elements we have come to know and love in epic storytelling and gives it a flair much akin to the Legend of Galactic Heroes.

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