This week, an angry man barricaded the exits of one of Kyoto Animation's studio buildings and started a fire. Thirty-three workers died in the attack. The rest of the seventy employees on site were [...]
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Fate is back at its most excessive (visually, dramatically, squickily) in Fate/stay night Heaven's Feel ii lost butterfly. This is the second installment in a film trilogy adapting the longest and [...]
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Hi everyone! It's time for our monthly 'state of the blog' post. I'm going to keep it brief. The short version is this: while I greatly enjoy writing for Against Moe, I don't particularly have the [...]
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Exuberant hijinks and melancholic narration meet in Honey & Clover, a sentimental show about art students, inspiration, and love. Its calm moments are poignant; its loud attempts at humor obnoxious [...]
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Uchiage Hanabi, Shita kara Miru ka? Yoko kara Miru ka? Roughly translated means: Skyrockets, Should we see it from the side, or the bottom?  Uchiage is a movie produced by SHAFT, and directed by [...]
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If Inferno Cop and One Punch Man went back in time and had a kid, well, first of all, the world would work very differently from how we think it does. But secondly, that kid would be Astro Fighter [...]
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One Punch Man is a beautifully animated super hero anime that seems to concern itself singularly with one somewhat weak gag: the main dude Saitama is too strong. He's so strong that he defeats any [...]
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It's been a while since I last blogged about Dragon Ball, in part due to scheduling issues. Since last time I've only seen seven more episodes. Now I'm here to repeat the same tired warnings: don't [...]
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If Cowboy Bebop went back in time and had a baby with Golden Boy, well, first of all, the world would work very differently from how we think it does. But secondly, that baby would be Trigun. Vash the [...]
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Is this a hot take? K-On! is a Moe Hellscape Let's get the obvious out of the way: my "Why Against Moe?" article used the K-On! girls for its featured image. The series—a pseudo-comedy about a high [...]
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