Review: House of Five Leaves

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Every year I tell myself I’ll take part in Reverse Thieves’ Anime Secret Santa project, and every year I forget all about it until it’s too late to sign up. This time around though, I wrote it down. Like physically, with pen and paper (quaint, I know), and I finally managed to get there. Merry Christmas indeed. Continue reading “Review: House of Five Leaves”

Review: Danshi Koukousei no Nichijou

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It’s difficult for me to find anime comedies I can really get behind. Too often I find the humour either incredibly formulaic and uninspired, or else just plain sexist or crass, mired as it frequently is in slapstick fanservice and/or insipid moe hijinks. I count it as a major achievement when any given anime comedy makes me laugh aloud, especially since the titles that manage this are so few and far between. So, how did Danshi Koukousei no Nichijou, or Daily Lives of High School Boys, fare on my personal laugh-o-meter? Continue reading “Review: Danshi Koukousei no Nichijou”