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Anohana and the Drama of Information Asymmetry
Menma, always there yet out of sight… [Ayazaka] Ever wondered what AnoHana would be like if we, the audience, couldn’t see Menma either? Would we believe Jinta from the start? Would we, like the rest...
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Chancing The Market: Thoughts On The OELVNs Community (+Always Remember Me...
When I told my friend I was going to buy a commercial OELVN to check it out, the response was “Why would you do that!?” Even western fans of Japanese visual novels often frown upon the OELVN (Original...
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Ikoku Meiro Culture Shock: Dogeza Kowtow and the West
Cultural shock always interests me— assuming I’m not the one experiencing it xD Experiencing the different mannerisms of faraway cultures can be bewildering, especially when one has no clue how to...
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Moshidora and Fair Process: Lessons for More Than Just Managers
Somehow, I tend go missing for a while and then finish editing posts in batches xD [Deisel-turbo] In many ways, Moshidora could be seen as a fictionalized, dramatized management textbook that started...
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Not Alive Again, Certainly Not
I finally brought up enough courage to log in again… It’s been a while, and I deeply apologize for those who still follow me for my sudden death and long-time disappearance. Some life issues happened,...
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Light Novel Project and Project
Tyranny may flourish under the wisdom of one. — Yet unrestrained, it takes but another to ruin the works of all. Democracy may ensure a balanced hand. — Yet dissociated, it concedes to the desires of...
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Campione! Light Novel Review: Fight Heresy with Blasphemy
Well we’ve finished translating 1st volume and it’s a summer anime, so here’s the review! Sikorsky really isn’t the best illustrator, but he gets better. I wasn’t particularly impressed by Campione!...
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Reconstruction… First time is always the hardest.
Took me a long time to return here. I simply didn’t feel good each time I looked upon that dashboard. It wasn’t that I regretted stopping blogging (could be in denial though; I could never tell with...
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True Favorites always remain Favorites
I recently re-read Kare Kano, for the 4th time in my life — all 21 volumes of it. I remembered the plotline. I remembered the characters. Yet I couldn’t help but feel mesmerized once more. It shocked...
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Kyoukaisen, Audience Base, and the Cultural Gap
Find me another series where witches on broomsticks dogfight mecha; where super robot King Lear fights spirit summon Macbeth in a contest of Shakespearean tragedies… with Shakespeare participating....
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