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If you’re wondering where I’ve been, I hibernated this last winter. Seriously.
Great, and now that I’ve answered all your questions, let’s dive right into… wait, the Winter 2017 anime season started already? I guess we can skip the Season Preview and jump right into the First… oh, it’s over now? Wow, that’s uh… well, better late than never, right? Anyway, here are my reflections from the recently completed Winter 2017 anime season.
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3-gatsu no Lion, Adventure, Analysis, Animation, Art, Characters, Chibi, Comedy, Development, Direction, Disappointment, Entertainment, Fantasy, Favorites, Fictional Story, Friendship, Gabriel Dropout, Hand Shakers, History, Kobayashi-san Chi no Maid Dragon, Kono Subarashii Sekai ni Syukufuku o!, Little Witch Academia, Maid, Masamune-kun no Revenge, Mobile Suit Gundam: Iron-Blooded Orphans, Negatives, Nobunaga no Shinobi, Observations, Opinions, OVA, Positives, Ranpo Kidan: Game of Laplace, Reset, Romance, Sangatsu no Lion, School, Season Review, Sequel, Setting, Shogi, Shouwa Genroku Rakugo Shinjuu, Story, Super Robot, Technology, Themes, Trickster, War, Witch, Writing, Youjo Senki
Today is a time to rejoice as we celebrate six years of Avvesione’s Anime Blog. And while I typically use this post as an excuse to post screenshots of Setsuna from Needless to write about my lessons in anime or blogging from the previous year, I find myself lacking in subjects or ideas that weren’t communicated in years passed. But I suppose I should consider myself fortunate for reserving the time to pen a post; this is just my fourth post in the last seven months. Or perhaps more sobering truth of my current situation: in my first 3 years I published exactly 500 posts, whereas in the last 3 years I have only completed 139.
Really, I’d love nothing more than to continue to write about anime and to discuss anime with others, but it’s nearly impossible to find the time these days. Instead of doing the usual for my anniversary posts, I’ll do what I’ve longed to do these last few months and write about the Autumn 2016 anime season!
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Action, Animation, Anniversary, Art, Blog, Brave Witches, Characters, Comedy, Drifters, Ecchi, Fantasy, Fighting, First Impressions, Flip Flappers, Girlish Number, Hibike! Euphonium, Keijo!!!!!!!!, Long Riders!, Mahou Shoujo Ikusei Keikaku, Mobile Suit Gundam: Iron-Blooded Orphans, Music, Mystery, Needless, Ninjas, Nobunaga no Shinobi, Occultic;Nine, Panties, Sangatsu no Lion, Seiyuu, Setting, Shakunetsu no Takkyuu Musume, Shogi, Shuumatsu no Izetta, Slice of Life, Sound, Stella no Mahou, Story, Storytelling, Strike Witches, Super Robot, Swimsuits, Tiger Mask W, Trickster, Udon no Kuni no Kirino Kemari, ViVid Strike!, War, Witch, Working!!, Wrestling, WWW.Working!!, Yuri, Yuri!!! on Ice
The fourth episode of Joker Game had an astonishing setting, both in terms of its historical context and for the presentation of its story. Yet, how was such a locale and situation even possible for a plot like this? This episode was set in Shanghai and between 1937 and 1941, during the height of the Second Sino-Japanese War when Japan was invading and controlling large regions of China. You may be wondering, with war between Japan and China raging across the nation, how was such a setting possible for Joker Game to utilize? How was a military police unit, Chinese revolutionaries, and America and British citizens able to coexist in such a place with such turmoil and conflict? This post on the fourth episode of Joker Game attempts to describe all the details and history of the Shanghai International Settlement and why it was such a remarkable setting for this episode’s narrative.
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Analysis, Anime Spotlight, Cultures, Espionage, History, Japan, Joker Game, Observations, Parallels, Politics, Purpose, Real World, Setting, Symbolism, Themes, War, Westernization, Writing
This post reviews: Tanaka-kun wa Itsumo Kedaruge, Kiznaiver, Hai-Furi, Flying Witch, Sansha Sanyou, Tonkatsu DJ Agetarou, Kuromukuro, and Big Order.
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4x-ing, Analysis, Animation, Art, Big Order, Boring, Characters, Clichés, Colors, Comedy, Cute, Direction, Disappointment, Entertainment, Fighting, First Impressions, Flying Witch, Food, Friendship, Girls und Panzer, Hai-Furi, Kantai Collection, Kiznaiver, Kokoro Connect, Kuromukuro, Mecha, Moe, Negatives, Observations, Opinions, Positives, Relaxing, Rural, Sansha Sanyou, School, Setting, Shounen, Slice of Life, Story, Tanaka-kun wa Itsumo Kedaruge, Themes, Tonkatsu DJ Agetarou, War
This post reviews: Joker Game, Sousei no Onmyouji, Bungou Stray Dogs, Anne Happy, Koutetsujou no Kabaneri, Sakamoto desu ga?, and Shounen Maid.
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Action, Analysis, Animation, Anne Happy, Art, Bungou Stray Dogs, Characters, Clichés, Colors, Comedy, Comparison, Cool, Cute, Direction, Entertainment, Fighting, First Impressions, Friendship, Heartwarming, History, Japan, Joker Game, Koutetsujou no Kabaneri, Light, Maid, Moe, Mystery, Observations, Opinions, Positives, Sakamoto desu ga?, School, Setting, Shingeki no Kyojin, Shoujo, Shounen Maid, Slice of Life, Sound, Sousei no Onmyouji, Story, Themes, Trap, War, Zombie
For Week 3: gushing about the setting of Shouwa Genroku Rakugo Shinjuu, questioning Satoru’s treatment of Hiromi in Boku Dake ga Inai Machi, a personality shift with a positive cause in Dimension W, and highlighting the brilliant animation in Kono Subarashii Sekai ni Shukufuku wo!
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Alternative Timelines, Animation, Art, Boku Dake ga Inai Machi, Characters, Childhood Friend, Colors, Comedy, Death, Dimension W, Durarara!!, Emotion, Emotionless, Fantasy, Fighting, Flashback, Friendship, Interactions, Japan, Kono Subarashii Sekai ni Syukufuku o!, Light, Memories, Personalities, Serious, Setting, Shouwa Genroku Rakugo Shinjuu, Storytelling, Strength, Style, Time Travel, War, Weekly Anime
Hi. I’m still alive.
Last week: questioning the relevance of Isla being a robot in Plastic Memories, considering the skill of the professionals playing the instruments in Hibike! Euphonium, Joseph Joestar’s amazing achievement at the end of JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure: Stardust Crusaders – Egypt Arc, and criticizing the monotonous comedy in Ore Monogatari!!
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Bittersweet, Boring, Characters, Comedy, Death, Fate/stay night, Future, Hibike! Euphonium, Humanity, JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, Music, Observations, Opinions, Ore Monogatari!!, Plastic Memories, Questions, Real World, Religion, Romance, Sound, Story, War, Weekly Anime, Writing
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