It’s fair to say that many fans of Japanese pop culture get into it via either anime or manga, or even video games to some extent. After that initial hook some may venture deeper, exploring music, [...]
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In an attempt to dust off this blog and get some content up, I’m going to fully embrace the early-2000s era approach to blogging by “reporting” on “news” from over a week ago[1]Or, about a century ago [...]
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Before I knew it, 17 years had passed since my first and only encounter with the anime Lucky Star. I first watched it in real time on fansubs, and just a few weeks back I finished a second watch of [...]
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I came up in a very liberal household, one in which there was vocal support for left-leaning policy that advocated for equality. The reason for this could be my eclectic ethnic background, with [...]
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I vowed to never apologize for being late on posting things here, as Analog Housou has always been just a hobby to me. But I do have to state that my salaryman job has left me quite ragged for the [...]
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I am by no means a huge fan of the works of Miyazaki Hayao, but I do respect that he’s a master of his craft, and has contributed significantly to Japanese animation. As such, I do make a point to see [...]
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You’re reading Deadly Games, a series of posts looking back at the Yugi film trilogy starring Matsuda Yusaku. This post will look at Shokei Yugi (The Execution Game), the third and final film in the [...]
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You’re reading Deadly Games, a series of posts looking back at the Yugi film trilogy starring Matsuda Yusaku. This post will look at Satsujin Yugi (The Killing Game), the second film in the trilogy. [...]
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This is Part III of a series of posts looking back at the 2000s-era anime I watched during quarantine in the early days of the COVID 19 pandemic. Earlier parts can be read here. Years into this stupid [...]
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This is Part II of a series of posts looking back at the 2000s-era anime I watched during quarantine in the early days of the pandemic. Part I can be read here. As the pandemic wore on, it became [...]
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