Latest Blog Posts for Anime Monographia

• 12 Days of Anime #7: The Taste of Steel in Thunderbolt Fantasy
  on Dec 21, 2016 in 12 Days of Anime Bu Huan edgeless blades Gen Urobuchi legendary swords swords swords are overrated swordsmanship Taiwanese puppetry technically not anime but anime enough Thunderbolt Fantasy Tian Xing Jian trolling wuxia
  The last thing you’d expect from an epic fantasy wuxia inspired production would be the protagonist to opine against taking swordsmanship seriously.   Thunderbolt Fantasy’s has a stubbornly singular, beaten to death storyline that d...
• 12 Days of Anime #6 Übermensch in Haven’t You Heard? I’m Sakamoto
  on Dec 20, 2016 in 12 Days of Anime cool cooler coolest I'm Sakamoto individuality; celebration of the individual Sakamoto Sakamoto desu ga school anime ubermensch
  What’s cool, cooler and coolest? Inspiring others to help themselves. While we marvel, gape, or go into asphyxiating fits of disbelief, Sakamoto’s magnetic draw is not just his ability to perform physics defying, visually stunning feats o...
• 12 Days of Anime #5 Diligence in Assassination Classroom 2
  on Dec 18, 2016 in 12 Days of Anime Akabane Karma Assassination Classroom Assassination Classroom Season 2 diligence education in Japan exams hard work Koro-sensei math makes my head hurt mathematics middle school mathematics school anime sequel thinking outside of the box
  You know that insane math problem showdown between Karma and Asano in that semester final episode? Yeah, I didn’t get it either. I had difficulty understanding it as a college educated adult–there was no way I would have been able to unde...
• 12 Days of Anime #4: Fatherhood in My Hero Academia
  on Dec 17, 2016 in 12 Days of Anime All Might Boku no Hero Academia fathers hero's journey heroics Izuku Midoriya My Hero Academia what makes a hero
  Was anyone else disturbed by the noticeable absence of Izuku’s father? We see a lot of his mother but his dad is oddly absent. Yet we hardly notice because All Might is so darn good at filling up those paternal shoes. (and the whole scene to bo...
• 12 Days of Anime #3: Heroics in Legend of Arslan: Dust Storm Dance
  on Dec 16, 2016 in 12 Days of Anime Arslan Arslan Senki badass bards badass characters Dust Storm Dance Gieve hero heroics heroism Legend of Arslan loyalty musicians power of words Prince Arslan rogue characters sequel
  There are many wonderful moments to enjoy in Legend of Arslan: Dust Storm Dance (Arslan Senki: Fuujin Ranbu), but the opening fight between Gieve and Hilmes stole the premiere episode for me and affirmed my opinion that Gieve, is indeed, the most ov...
• 12 Days of Anime #2: Anguish in Digimon Adventure Tri: Confession
  on Dec 15, 2016 in 12 Days of Anime adulthood bildungsroman childhood coming of age Digidestined digimon Digimon Adventure tri growing up Narnia Patamon Takeru Takaishi The Digital World
  The Digital World is a cruel place for children. Haven’t you noticed how every time the Digidestined get the chance to go to the Digital World, it is rarely a good thing? There’s an ailment plaguing the land, a sacrifice they have to make...
• 12 Days of Anime #1: Joy in ERASED
  on Dec 14, 2016 in 12 Days of Anime Boku Dake ga Inai Machi Boku Machi ERASED Kayo Hinazuki Mirai Satoru Fujinuma The Town Without Me winter 2016 anime
  While the nail-biting cliffhangers and Satoru’s mounting desperation to avert the tragedy he has lived through kept me on the edge of my seat every week, the emotional payoff when Satoru sees a smiling, healthy Kayo with her baby boy was, for...
• Skating on Thin Ice: When Fandoms Collide (It’s Beautiful)
  on Dec 8, 2016 in Editorial The Real World anime fandom fandom hopping fandom marriage figure skating figure skating fandom Grand Prix Final Japanese figure skaters men's figure skating Plushenko Tatsuki Machida Victor Nikiforov Yuri Katsuki yuri on ice Yuzuru Hanyu
  What do you get when you take the insane cocktail of artistry and ligament-tearing terror that is figure skating and channel that story through the quintessentially eccentric and trope-glutted visual monster that is anime? You either end up with some...
• Fathers and Sons in Sakamoto desu ga? Episode 10
  on Jun 18, 2016 in Episode Analysis anime comedy comedy gag cool cooler coolest delinquent sons Eldritch abomination Father's Day fathers and sons French cuisine Happy Father's Day Haven't You Heard Hayabusa helping hand I'm Sakamoto lending a hand lots of hands Sakamoto Sakamoto desu ga seinen slice-of-life
  Spring’s been an awesome season for anime all around, but Sakamoto desu ga? (“Haven’t you heard? I’m Sakamoto”) is easily my top pick. This week’s mini episode featuring Hayabusa’s culinary ventures with Sa...
• When Seto Kaiba Finally Gets His Movie…He’s Still Yu-Gi-Oh!‘s Biggest Fanboy
  on Apr 29, 2016 in Editorial anime Atem bamf!Yugi card games children's card games Dan Green fanboys fandom fans hung up on the past Kaiba Kaibacorp Millennium Puzzle Pharaoh Seto Kaiba WTF card games Yu-Gi-Oh! Yugi Muto
  You’d be hard pressed to find a better contender for the illustrious title of Yu-Gi-Oh!’s biggest fanboy than Seto Kaiba. Maybe you’ve bought enough booster packs to support half the game stores in your neck of the woods. Maybe you...

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