As Riki and Rin leave the world that Kyousuke created, what harsh realities will they face?
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Little Busters Refrain – Episode 12 – A Glimmer of Hope
Kyoukai no Kanata – Episode 12 (END) – The Final Showdown
As Akihito reunites with Mirai to confront the youmu inside him, will they stop Miroku’s plan in its tracks?
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12 Days of Anime – Part 2: Free!, Ore no Imouto 2, Japanese Video Games, Pokemon
Since Christmas comes in about another week, its time to share the second part of 12 Days of Christmas (Days 5-8). (Image Source)
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Little Busters Refrain – Episode 11 – Bidding Farewell and Facing Reality
Since the world Kyousuke created is coming to an end, how will Riki and Rin fare when they have to face reality?
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Kyoukai no Kanata – Episode 11 – The Cold Truth and Miroku’s Evil Plan
As Mirai sacrifices herself, does this mean that she defeated the ultimate youmu? No since Miroku has something up his sleeves.
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12 Days of Anime – Part 1: Tamako Market, Boku wa Tomodachi, Kyoukai no Kanata, Love Live
Since finals start this week, I plan on starting 12 Days of Anime one day early this year. As mentioned earlier, I started doing this project back in 2010 with the idea being created by a certain Anime Blogger several years back. With that, I want to share my first four moments in Anime.
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Little Busters Refrain – Episode 10 – The Secret of the World Revealed
As Riki successfully recruits Kengo, what is the secret that Kyousuke has been hiding for a while?
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Anime Blogosphere Pokemon Tournament and 12 Days of Anime
As 2013 comes to an end, I want to share what special things I have planned for December. (Image Source)
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Kyoukai no Kanata – Episode 10 – It’s All Just a Dream
People are wondering if Akihito actually dies? We’ll see…
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Thoughts on Anime/Japanese Media Criticism – Can there ever be an Objective Criticism?
In the past, I covered several topics relating to criticism such as what Anime is good and what is bad. Now, I want to focus more thoughts on criticism of Anime or media in general as I only touch upon how I reviewed things. I understand that people will have different options, thus a well-balanced or objective one can be difficult to achieve for various reasons.
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Little Busters Refrain – Episode 9 – Lessons of Winning and Losing
Kengo is the person Riki has to beat.
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Tales of Hearts R – Final Review
To me, I felt that 2013 is the year of remakes in Japan since Hyperdimension Neptunia Re;birth1, New Atelier Rorona, and Tales of Hearts R got released this year for the Playstation Vita. With that, I decided to pick up my first Tales game that never made it out of Japan, which received a remake. That game is Tales of Hearts R. (Image Source)
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Kyoukai no Kanata – Episode 9 – Manipulation and Despair
As Akihito’s side wakes up again, Mirai is left with a tough choice to make.
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Young Characters and School Settings – Why they are popular?
Back in 2009 when I started watching Anime, I started to notice a noticeable trend in Anime these days, It seems that most of these shows take place in a high school setting and usually star a young male or female character. While I think demographics play a big role in this, but there are cultural and other reasons why they do so. (Image Source)
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Little Busters Refrain – Episode 8 – The Fight of Strength and Friendship
Riki now faces his first obstacle in reviving Little Busters, defeating Masato.
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Hyperdimension Neptunia Re;birth1 – First Impressions
Back in 2010, Compile Heart created a roleplaying game based on the console wars with video game consoles personified as cute girls in a game called Hyperdimension Neptunia (超次元ゲイムネプチューヌ). While it was an interesting concept, Idea Factory managed to mess it up. The first game shows this with obvious gamebreaking bugs, poor graphics for a PS3 game, difficulties trying to heal your characters among other things. They eventually realized how unfinished the first game was, so they remade it for the Vita. Since I received the game three weeks ago, I want to share my first impressions. (Image Source)
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Kyoukai no Kanata – Episode 8 – The Calm Before the War
As the lull approaches, what does this mean for Akihito?
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Nostalgia Filter and the Anime Fandom
During the summer, I have shared my thoughts about the Anime Fandumb. Of course, I forgot to write about the very thing that also fuels the whole moe debate and the old versus the new, the Nostalgia Filter.
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Little Busters Refrain – Episode 7 – A New Start
After Kyousuke’s complete failure from last time, the ball is now in Riki’s court as a loop takes shape.
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Nagi no Asukara – Episode 6 & 7 – Unresolved Feelings
It seems that Hikari figured out that the sea village is pretty much doomed. Therefore, he does the obvious.
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Pokémon The Origin – Final Review
During my childhood, I used to watch the Pokémon Anime. It was enjoyable seeing Ash/Satoshi use his Pikachu to defeat an Onix. Eventually, I lost interest in the show since it has a lot of filler episodes and for the fact that it’s loosely based off the games, especially when Ash/Satoshi’s Pikachu lost to a freaking Surskit in a recent episode!
On the other hand, Gamefreak decided to make short Anime special based off the original games titled Pokémon The Origin staring Red and Blue (named Green in this Anime). With this new take on the Pokémon Games, will it live up to its name? Perhaps. (Image Source)
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Kyoukai no Kanata – Episode 7 – Rescuing Sakura
Finally, Sakura decides to have a rematch against Mirai. How well will she do this time around?
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Little Busters Refrain – Episode 6 – Suffering, Deception and Betrayal
Kyousuke deceives everyone and shows that he is evil.
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I’m not Doing This Because I Like You or Anything – Thoughts about The Tsundere Archetype
Believe it or not, one of my favorite character archetypes has always been the tsundere. While I have read other’s opinions about this in the past, I felt the need to share my thoughts since not all tsunderes are created equal and that these characters usually have interesting character development that make them enjoyable. (Image Source)
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