Explaining the canon of Cardcaptor Sakura: Clear Card (anime), connection to the second film

March 13, 2018.Reading time 19 minutes.
Sakura is not amused by your ignorance!

Saku­ra is not amused by your igno­rance! Card­cap­tor Saku­ra: Clear Card marks the return of my all-time favorite mag­i­cal girl, Kinomo­to Saku­ra (and mag­i­cal boy, look­ing at you Syao­ran!) into the world of Japan­ese ani­ma­tion, start­ing off the 2018 year on a good note. And I’ve returned from the dead to explain some very com­mon […]

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Cardcaptor Sakura: Clear Card Arc — Revival of a classic Magical Girl

August 27, 2016.Reading time 10 minutes.

As the quin­tes­sen­tial Card­cap­tor Saku­ra fan­boy around the blo­gos­phere, I felt it was only right for me to start writ­ing about my thoughts on this at some point. A con­tin­u­a­tion of the series after 20 years is a pret­ty big thing, after all. You could mess around with Digi­mon Adven­ture tri. or Drag­on Ball Super […]

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Support Kodomo no Jikan

July 11, 2016.Reading time 1 minute.

About six days ago, the Kick­starter for the Kodomo no Jikan Eng­lish local­iza­tion suc­cess­ful­ly raised enough mon­ey to offi­cial­ly bring this man­ga series to the Eng­lish-speak­ing world for the first time ever, since Sev­en Seas’ failed attempt to bring it over to the US as Nymphet in 2007. I’m famil­iar with the series, and hon­est­ly, […]

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Fanime 2016 — Experience and Haul

July 9, 2016.Reading time 6 minutes.

Rid­er Hen­shin! This post is com­ing a bit… sor­ta… uh, this post came too late. Fanime was over a month ago, and unlike oth­er years, Fanime 2016 was kind of meh for me. Being sur­round­ed by ani­me is always a pret­ty cool deal and the gam­ing room is always fun, but noth­ing real­ly amaz­ing­ly notable […]

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「Localization Decisions For Literal Dummies」 Shirou doesn’t care if his body is made of swords

April 25, 2016.Reading time 4 minutes.

Alright, let’s talk about Eng­lish dubs. I don’t talk about dubs much, most­ly because I haven’t seri­ous­ly watched one since Samu­rai Cham­ploo’s (amaz­ing) dub. I don’t even both­er play­ing Japan­ese video games with Eng­lish audio either (nowa­days I don’t real­ly play local­ized JRPG’s that lack a dual audio option). I do like a few of […]

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「Localization Decisions For Literal Dummies」 Akiba’s Trip 2 and “weaboos”

April 16, 2016.Reading time 6 minutes.

Mar­velous USA (a.k.a. XSEED) is one of the only local­iza­tion com­pa­nies I trust nowa­days when it comes to Japan­ese video games. I par­tic­u­lar­ly com­mend them for respect­ing the tar­get audi­ence of the niche games they bring over and pay­ing no heed to our west­ern cul­ture’s increas­ing­ly inces­sant need for polit­i­cal cor­rect­ness. Their local­iza­tion of Akiba’s […]

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「Localization Decisions For Literal Dummies」 Syaoran the Bestie

March 12, 2016.Reading time 9 minutes.

When Nip­pon Ichi Soft­ware Amer­i­ca released their pre­mi­um edi­tion of the Card­cap­tor Saku­ra Blu-ray col­lec­tion in 2014, I was obvi­ous­ly the hap­pi­est per­son on Earth final­ly being able to own the defin­i­tive view­ing expe­ri­ence of pos­si­bly one the cutest ani­me series in exis­tence, at an afford­able price. And every­thing was almost per­fect, espe­cial­ly the video […]

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「Localization Decisions For Literal Dummies」 Atelier Escha & Logy: Alchemists of the Dusk Sky

February 15, 2016.Reading time 12 minutes.

Alright, I love the crap out of the Ate­lier series. Old school JRPG game­play with adorable char­ac­ters designed by awe­some Japan­ese artists such as Mel and Hidari, and alche­my man­age­ment with some minor VN ele­ments thrown in here and there? I’m game, def­i­nite­ly bet­ter than your annu­al soul­less first-per­­son shoot­er series. And I total­ly appre­ci­ate […]

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Back with new content and a new PC

February 13, 2016.Reading time 6 minutes.

Alright then… first post of 2016. Sor­ry about the sud­den dis­ap­pear­ance of new posts. What was sup­posed to be a month-long break from the blog for school turned out to be a dis­as­ter. You see, I was going to write a Christmas/New Years post about my 2015 weeb high­lights for 12 Days of Ani­me, but […]

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Why would you censor an M‑rated game?

October 31, 2015.Reading time 15 minutes.

Image Cred­it: Hiten from Pix­iv Hap­py Hal­loween, every­body! Ever since I’ve out­grown the tra­di­tion of dress­ing up in a spooky cos­tume and going door­­bell-to-door­­bell ask­ing for can­dy, I’ve instead made a new tra­di­tion for myself where I marathon spooky video games; my favorite among them being Japan­ese hor­ror games such as Zero, bet­ter known as […]

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