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The Asterisk War Sucks [Part 3]
Edited by The Davoo Text version: I’d like to invite you all to imagine yourselves in the following scenario: Some guy you’ve never met before does something that really pisses you off, so you...
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The Asterisk War Sucks [Part 4] OR, What Are Cliche Characters? (and why do...
Text version: Over the course of the last three videos, I’ve complained a lot about how the characters in The Asterisk War seem like nothing more than walking cliches. Now I’d like to take this video...
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Anime Secret Santa Gifts (Slightly Unwrapped)
Every time I participate in the Anime Blogger Secret Santa project, I try to take on all three of the shows that I’m recommended at once and make a point to finish at least one of them. This year, I...
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The Asterisk War Sucks [Part 5]
Edited by The Davoo Text version: Episode two is really when it sinks in that The Asterisk War is fucking boring. Sure, the first episode was boring too, but for a lot of more technical reasons that...
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Stuff I Loved in 2015 (and plans for 2016)
Text version: 2015 was a pretty lackluster year for me in terms of media consumption. Lots of things came out that I enjoyed, but there was little which I truly loved, at least among the media which I...
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The Asterisk War Sucks [Part 6] OR, How To Screw Up A Sci-fi Setting
Edited by The Davoo Text version: Y’know, when I stop to think about it, The Asterisk War is basically just an incredibly shitty cyberpunk story. Aside from the fact that it’s missing a film noir...
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The Asterisk War Sucks [Part 7] OR, Building the Worst Protagonist Ever
Edited by The Davoo It’s time that we address the elephant in the room–the elephant so large that none of us even realized it was standing over us at first; like that scene in that shitty Godzilla...
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The Asterisk War Sucks [Part 8]
Edited by The Davoo Alrighty; at this point, I think we’ve all got a pretty firm grasp on the broad strokes of what’s wrong with this show, as well as a lot of its typical methods of fucking up....
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My history with A-1 Pictures
Lately, the subject of my feelings towards A-1 Pictures has been coming up constantly in response to my videos, and has been the subject of a lot of argument and misinterpretation. The upcoming 9th...
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The Asterisk War Sucks [Part 9] or, How A1 Pictures Gets Away With It
Edited by The Davoo Text version: This video is an opinion piece and not a journalistic article. Nothing here should be taken as fact at face value, and I encourage you to research these subjects...
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Dark Souls vs. Bloodborne: The Player Character
Text version: In Hidetaka Miyazaki’s 2011 masterpiece, Dark Souls, the character who is controlled by the player is an undead warrior, who starts the game rotting away in a prison cell; and who is...
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The Asterisk War Sucks [Part 10] or, Cute Girl With Sword Just Doesn’t Cut It
Edited by The Davoo Text version: Throughout the next three-episode arc, it rapidly becomes apparent that nothing is going to happen in the Asterisk War. Not to say that I necessarily require a moving...
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Anime Directors As Animators [Sakuga Compilation]
Also on google drive.Filed under: Great Scenes in Anime
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The Asterisk War Sucks [Part 11] or, How To Screw Up A Tournament Arc
Edited by The Davoo Text Version: Ass War episode nine kicks off the last arc of the season by finally launching us into the much-awaited Phoenix Festa! In other words, it’s time for a good...
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Akira’s Animators Over the Past Decade [Sakuga Compilation]
1988’s Akira is among the most revered and influential anime films of all time, and is today regarded almost as a symbol of a certain time and place in anime history, both stylistically and in terms of...
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The Master in the Background of 40 Years of Anime
Check out this interview with him that Toco Toco TV posted last year: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V1tiKOsCz2M Text version: You might not know his name, but you may be familiar with the work of...
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The Asterisk War Sucks [Part 12a]: Chivalry of a Failed Knight Doesn’t Suck?
Edited by The Davoo Text version At the beginning of the Fall 2015 anime season, a pair of light novel adaptations became the subject of ridicule based on the alarming extent of their similarities:...
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The Asterisk War Sucks [Part 12b]: Chivalry of a Failed Knight Doesn’t Suck!
Edited by The Davoo Text version: Back when I was talking about the last two arcs of The Asterisk War, I kind of just glossed over episode eight. Funnily enough, episode eight is probably the least...
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Konosuba is Genuinely Hilarious!
Text version: When I was growing up, there was this show called Yuu Yuu Hakusho, where the main character saved a little kid from getting hit by a car, and then died–so when the Winter 2016 anime...
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Anime Is Getting Lazy With Its Meta
Text version: If you’ve watched enough different anime shows to count them on one of your hands, then you’ve probably noticed that a lot of them are pretty derivative. Guys are always walking in on...
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