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An archive of all my work, not just from here but from elsewhere as well. Here are all my stories listed out, organized by category! I will continue to update this archive as more stories are published.

Last updated: 03/28/2025

Update changes: Hello, again! It’s been a while since I updated but I’ve continued writing as always (despite the avalanche of negative news from the new presidential administration). Since the last update I’ve fixed the year above, so it is now correct and have added all my weekly reviews of the anime Zenshu from Winter 2025. I’m still working on other stuff, including rewatching Death Parade for a Ten Years Later piece and have picked up Summer Pockets to review throughout the Spring and Summer 2025 seasons. Honestly I’m just waiting for Thousand Year Blood War to come back soon!

Essays/Analysis

• Why You Should Watch A Certain Magical Index (February 2019)
• When Anime Goes Corporate: Netflix and Amazon (April 2019)
• Saga of Tanya the Evil on God, Fascism and War (May 2019)
• Fate/Apocrypha Goes All in on Action and Loses the Story in the Gamble (August 2019)
• I Played Fate/Grand Order (For Free) for Half a Year. Is it Worth it? (October 2019)
• Violet Evergarden Illustrates the Joy of Receiving a Letter in the Age of Social Media (January 2020)
• Accelerator: Creating a Sympathetic Villain (May 2020)
• Why Angel Beats! Made You Cry (October 2020)
• Log Horizon and How to do Politics in Anime RPG Style (July 2021)

Misc. Features

• The Best Anime of 2018 (January 2019) [FIRST ARTICLE]
• Can You Separate Art From the Artist? (February 2020)
• What Makes a Good Adaptation? (February 2020)
• When Should You Drop an Anime? (March 2020)
• 19 Anime on Netflix to Get You Through Your COVID-19 Quarantine (April 2020)
• Winter 2021 mid-season impressions (February 2021)
• Best and Worst of Winter 2021 (April 2021)

Personal/Opinion

• The Anime That Got Me Into Anime (April 2019)
• We Need to Talk About Chuck Huber’s Definition of Fringe (September 2021)
• What now? (November 2024) [NON ANIME RELATED]

Fandom Post X Years Later Features

• A Certain Scientific Railgun S 10 Years Later (April 2023)

• Kill la Kill 10 Years Later (October 2023)

• Log Horizon 10 Years Later (January 2024)

• Space Dandy 10 Years Later (August 2024)

• BLEACH 20 Years Later (October 2024)

Fate/stay night Unlimited Blade Works TV 10 Years Later (December 2024)

Works Currently in Progress

• BLEACH Thousand Year Blood War reviews (40/xx episodes covered)
• A retrospective on Black Clover (60% done)
• A piece on autism/neurodivergence in anime (80% done)
• An essay on CLANNAD (10% done)
• 6 planned x years later retrospectives for 2025

Fandom Post reviews

Light Novels/Manga reviews

Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon Volume 1 (Audiobook version)

Spring 2021

Joran The Princess of Snow and Blood

• Episode 1
• Episodes 2–3
• Episode 4
• Episode 5
• Episode 6
• Episode 7
• Episodes 8–9
• Episodes 10–12

Combatants Will Be Dispatched

• Episodes 1–3
• Episodes 4–5
• Episode 6
• Episode 7
• Episodes 8–9
• Episode 10–12

Vivy

• Episodes 1–4
• Episode 5
• Episode 6
• Episode 7
• Episode 8
• Episodes 9–10
• Episode 11
• Episode 12
• Episode 13

86 EIGHTY-SIX

• Episodes 1–2
• Episodes 3–4
• Episode 5
• Episode 6
• Episodes 7–8
• Episode 9–11

(See Fall 2021 for part 2 reviews)

Summer 2021

Peach Boy Riverside

• Episodes 1–4

(Further reviews on indefinite hiatus)

Drug Store in Another World — The Slow Life of a Cheat Pharmacist

• Episodes 1–4

(Further reviews on indefinite hiatus)

Fall 2021

86 EIGHTY-SIX Part 2

• Episode 12
• Episode 13
• Episodes 14–15
• Episodes 16–17

(Further reviews on hiatus)

Winter 2022

Tribe Nine

• Episode 1
• Episodes 2–3

(Further reviews on indefinite hiatus)

Spring 2022

The Executioner and Her Way of Life

• Episodes 1–3
• Episodes 4–5
• Episodes 6–7
• Episode 8
• Episode 9
• Episode 10

Fall 2022

BLEACH: Thousand Year Blood War

• Episode 1
• Episode 2
• Episode 3
• Episode 4
• Episode 5
• Episode 6
• Episode 7
• Episodes 8–9
• Episodes 10–13

(See Summer 2023 for Part 2 reviews)

Summer 2023

BLEACH: Thousand Year Blood War — The Separation —

• Episode 14
• Episode 15
• Episodes 16–17
• Episode 18
• Episode 19
• Episode 20
• Episode 21
• Episodes 22–23
• Episode 24
• Episodes 25–26

(See Fall 2024 for Part 3 reviews)

Fall 2023

Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End

• Episodes 1–4
• Episodes 5–6
• Episode 7
• Episodes 8–10
• Episodes 11–12
• Episodes 13–14
• Episodes 15–16

(See Winter 2024 for Mage Exam arc reviews)

Winter 2024

Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End Mage Exam Arc

(Further reviews on hiatus)

Metallic Rouge

• Episode 1
• Episodes 2–3
• Episodes 4–5
• Episodes 6–7
• Episodes 8–9
• Episodes 10–11
• Episodes 12–13

Summer 2024

Suicide Squad Isekai

• Episodes 1–3
• Episode 4
• Episode 5
• Episode 6
• Episode 7
• Episode 8
• Episode 9
• Episode 10

Fall 2024

BLEACH: Thousand Year Blood War — The Conflict —

• Episode 27
• Episode 28
• Episode 29
• Episode 30
• Episode 31
• Episode 32
• Episode 33
• Episode 34
• Episode 35
• Episode 36
• Episode 37
• Episode 38
• Episodes 39–40

Winter 2025

Zenshu

• Episodes 1–2
• Episode 3
• Episode 4
• Episode 5
• Episodes 6–7
• Episode 8
• Episode 9
• Episode 10
• Episode 11
• Episode 12

Movies

• For Whom the Alchemist Exists

ONAs/Complete series

• B: The Beginning Succession

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