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My Interpretation of Laozi’s “上士聞道” Quote
If you’re not familiar with Laozi, he’s the Chinese philosopher who essentially birthed Daoism. His book, Daodejing, lays the foundations for the philosophy of Daoism as a whole. I have never read Daodejing in its entirety, but I’d like to someday though. This is a quote from page 41, it’s a quote I’ve heard many…
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Finished the Original Dragon Ball
Hello, it’s been a good while since my last post. I’ve been quite busy the last few months, but I’m finally more free now. I am kinda writing this post at 3am on a thursday, so it’s not gonna be too long (dw I fell asleep by accident at 8:30pm and woke up like an…
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Frieren Season 2 – First Thoughts
Season 2 of Frieren’s finally here!!! It’s been a bit over 2 years since S1 ended, and man, they spent those 2 years absolutely cooking. Frieren s2 is just as perfect as s1 was, no blue lock or opm type of season 2. Alright, so I just wanna quickly point out some things about ep…
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The Darwin Incident – First Thoughts
To start off winter 2026, I’m watching The Darwin Incident as one of the seasonals I plan on watching as it airs. I don’t really have any knowledge about this anime outside of it’s anilist page, but it has me intrigued. I’m a fan of the sciences, and biology is no exception, back in middle…
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Fall 2025 End, Winter 2026 Plans, Other Stuff
Apologies for the lack of posting, I have been quite busy in these past few months, but all has been well. It’s crazy how fast december always passes, christmas is already in 2 days. Tomorrow, Christmas Eve, is also when the start of Hayate takes place. I was thinking off doing a project where I…
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Kessoku Band is Real
So aniplex just dropped this video showing the behind the scenes and stuff of the bocchi VAs learning and practicing their respective instruments. I just wanna talk a little bit about this because this is something I love about BTR. There’s other anime where the VAs actually play the instruments of their characters, like in…
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5 Centimeters per Second
The passage of time is a theme that has always resonated with me. Magnetic rose, Frieren, Hoshi no Koe, and 5 cm per second. Yesterday and today I read through all of the 5 cm per second manga. I’m not going to go super in depth bc I simply don’t have time to say everything…
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Hinagiku Ep 4 Part 1 Frames
Ahhhhhh Yattaaaaaaa. Finally, the ep 4 part 1 video is done. God this took so long, about a year specifically. Let’s talk about it for a bit. So before this, all I’ve done was the 1st OP, 1st ED, and the ep 4 preview frames, all of which were pretty short and less than 200…
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Mobile Suit Gundam 0080: War in the Pocket
So today’s post is about gundam war in the pocket. Currently this is probably my 2nd favorite gundam anime after 79. I watched this several months ago so it’s not totally fresh in my memory, so I’m not gonna go in depth, but I will talk about all the major things I wanted to say.…
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Tsukasa and C.C.
Kind of a random post, but I’m rewatching code geass rn, and I realized, Tsukasa and CC kinda have a good amount of things in common. I’ll just list a few that I noticed. Obviously Tonikawa manga spoilers and code geass spoiler warning! -Tsukasa and CC are both immortal -They both have been alive for…
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