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March 2024

Liminal Anime

So it’s taken me a while, but I think I’ve finally processed my feelings on “Love Live” and similar anime, and now I will inflict it on you, who may even read this. Anyone who’s watched anime for any length of time knows that there are a few different broad classes of anime.  There’s “Slice of Life” anime, there’s “Cute Girls doing Cute Things” anime, there’s “High School Rom-Com”, there are the action “Shounen” anime which involve a lot of fighting and girls with unrealistic bodies, Shoujo anime which involve… Read More »Liminal Anime

Happiness

This will be another of those posts where I intend to take full advantage of the fact that no one reads this. As you might have gathered from the last few posts, “Love Live” hit me hard.  The thing about that is, there’s no obvious reason why that should be the case.  I’m a middle-aged guy from Texas who has about as little to do with the lives of even an ordinary Japanese schoolgirl, much less a group of them that are involved in a “school idol project”, as a… Read More »Happiness

What I Hate about Love Live

I really like Love Live. But it’s not perfect. I mean, it’s really not perfect.  Some things about it are bad.  In fact, they’re so bad that they pull me out of my suspension of disbelief and it takes a bit to pull me back in. What bothers me is not the girls.  In all of the series, they are characterized really well and realistically.  There is just the right amount of comedy and drama, and they have believable personalities and backstories. What bothers me isn’t even the premise of… Read More »What I Hate about Love Live