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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: 01/01/2024

Update changes: Happy new year! The rest of the weekly Bleach: Thousand Year Blood War reviews have been updated (now includes eps 29–40 reviews) and a Ten Years Later piece on Fate/stay night Unlimited Blade Works TV has been added. The non-anime piece “What now?” in response to the election has also been included. The current progress section has been updated to reflect that I’m not currently making a manga volume review (even though I want to get to it) and the X Year Later counter has been changed to reflect 2025 ideas. Freiren Mage Exam Arc review status has been changed from “indefinite hiatus” to just “hiatus.”

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

Movies

• For Whom the Alchemist Exists

ONAs/Complete series

• B: The Beginning Succession

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