S.A. – Special A
Time to ease myself back into blagging. So recently, if you’re following me on Twitter you’ll have noticed that I have not been shutting up about Special A. Special A is a shoujo manga that I decided...
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Ever since I finished finals, I thought like I should start something that I could finish pretty quickly. During finals I started and caught up with Cross Game and Negima. I really liked both, but I...
View ArticleImpulse manga pickup: Kare Kano
So after my shoujo manga binge, I picked up Macross Frontier after a week or two of listening to the vocal soundtrack. I also decided to finally read the Jinchuu arc of Kenshin, so that it would end...
View ArticleThis week’s manga: Beck
So there are a few titles that are on my to-watch list that are older than the rest. After I’d gone through most of the stuff from the past few years, I worked my way backwards, intent on watching some...
View ArticleNot Naruto: shounen manga that I’m reading
My RL animu-knowledgeable friends will be interested to hear that shortly after the Pain arc finished up, I dropped Naruto for reals. I did this a few months before with Bleach. Both of these pretty...
View ArticleTrue End: The Jinchuu Arc (Rurouni Kenshin)
It took me a few years, but I finally got around to finishing Rurouni Kenshin’s final arc. I went through Kenshin fairly early on in my anime consumption, not too long after the likes of Naruto, Gundam...
View ArticleOn Solanin
So after some buzz on the internets, a movie trailer, a bit of Urbana bus reading and an Asian Kung-fu Generation single, I decided I should probably finish Solanin. And since it’s pretty short, at two...
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12 Days XII: Life sucks
「punpun」/「m2」 That’s what Asano Inio is trying to say. Well, okay, there’s a bit more to that: life sucks, but, you know, It’s going to be okay. I’ve already talked about Solanin, but since then, I’ve...
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Brian Mulroney on the Usagi Drop ending
「うさぎドロップ」/「 LC斐爾 」 One of the few famous quotes in Canadian politics is one by Brian Mulroney, leader of the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada and the 18th Prime Minister of Canada, during the...
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Suugaku Girl supplementary handout for chapter 1: Sequences
That really isn't enough terms to identify as Fibonacci Suugaku Girl is a manga about people who really like math. The great thing about it is that it contains a substantial amount of math. This is...
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Suugaku Girl supplementary handout for chapter 2: On definitions
An introduction to mathematical writing In chapter 2 of Suugaku Girl, we’re introduced to the third component of the little love triangle that’s forming. Tetra is the underclassman that the main...
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12 Days II: My body is lady
「ありがとう放浪息子」/「神田川」 The main problem for the characters is some variation of that, isn’t it? Anime is full of traps and when you sit back and think about it, it’s kind of like, wow, they’re everywhere,...
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12 Days VIII: Actually, I don’t think I quite caught the bunny allusion
「うさぎドロップ」/「ゆーた」 Single dad manga? Why not? Yotsuba&!’s great! I don’t know whether there’s much I can add about Usagi Drop. The whole thing is fairly straightforward. It’s a great story about a guy...
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Suugaku Girl supplementary handout for chapter 2: Prime numbers
She doesn't seem that excited So last time, Tetra was being enlightened by MC-kun about definitions. This actually arises from MC-kun using prime numbers as a motivating example. Primes are megas...
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12 Days XI: Sad Oreki in school
「夏空と屋上」/「たかな」 Iris Zero is Hyouka except the Oreki Houtarou here has been bullied since childhood and loves cakes. He gets by keeping as low a profile as possible, until he’s dragged out of his shell...
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Maoyuu: Points of order
Here, we can see the demons do not subscribe to the ‘living tree’ doctrine of constitutional interpretation. In the latest chapter of Maoyuu, the Demon Queen faces a confidence vote through a...
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12 Days V: I don’t really want anyone else to know about this side of you
宮村くん！！ | もちゃこ Two high school students inadvertently discover a different side of the other than they usually present to the rest of their classmates and now they’re both in on the secret. At first,...
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The 4th annual π day anime and mathematics post: Traveling teacher time
Korosensei is fast, but can he do better? せーの、 Korosensei can move at Mach 20 and takes advantage of this fact to make frequent trips around the world. Obviously, in the interest of efficiency, he...
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12 Days IX: Sad boys in snow
After some years, I sat down and took the time to read through Kii Kanna’s manga. The aesthetic was really my thing. The character designs were a bullseye for me, which when coupled with the fashion...
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