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		<title>New blog: Behind The Nihon Review</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I now write at the new blog, the joint-staff blog project, Behind The Nihon Review.  Go there instead.
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		<link>http://sorrow-kun.nihonreview.com/20070622/new-blog-behind-the-nihon-review/</link>
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		<title>How I learned to stop worrying and love the Harem</title>
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This is one of those articles where I can&#8217;t think up an interesting topic and I&#8217;m writing purely to keep up with my self-imposed schedule, so excuse me if it seems uninspired.
I recently watched Amaenaidayo, a rather generic fanservice anime with a mind-numbing plot and cliched characters and, shoot me, I actually thoroughly enjoyed it. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://sorrow-kun.nihonreview.com/20070422/how-i-learned-to-stop-worrying-and-love-the-harem/</link>
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		<title>Disagreeing with reviews</title>
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I haven&#8217;t done an NHRV related article for a while, so I figured now was the time.
I think we have a great staff with mature opinions and appreciable anime knowledge, but, as is the case with any review database stitched together by multiple people, there are going to be disagreements.  I&#8217;m the strange one [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://sorrow-kun.nihonreview.com/20070415/disagreeing-with-reviews/</link>
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		<title>A &#8216;Bokura ga Ita&#8217;-related aside</title>
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Friendly shout-out to all Bokura ga Ita fans (I like to think I&#8217;ve converted a few around these parts): check this out.
It&#8217;s a vocal album with (I think) all of the OP and ED pieces from the anime, and some of the songs (particularly Sasaki Nozomi&#8217;s works) are outstanding.  I think all Bokura ga [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Spring 2007: First thoughts</title>
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Spring is traditionally the strongest season of the year, and I can&#8217;t see any indication so far why that won&#8217;t be the case again this year.  There&#8217;s a real plethora of entertaining titles out there, and while we haven&#8217;t had an entry of the calibre of Suzumiya Haruhi (which really took the anime watching [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://sorrow-kun.nihonreview.com/20070408/spring-2007-first-thoughts/</link>
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		<title>I don&#8217;t understand how people can comment on anime they haven&#8217;t seen</title>
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Here&#8217;s an interesting phenomenon that has, for various reasons, been brought to my attention: people commenting on anime series and episodes they haven&#8217;t seen.  It&#8217;s something that really makes no sense to me, for reasons that are (I would have thought) obvious.  People claim they are able to get enough of an understanding [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://sorrow-kun.nihonreview.com/20070401/i-dont-understand-how-people-can-comment-on-anime-they-havent-seen/</link>
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		<title>Two years later and Air is still Kyoto Animation&#8217;s best animated series</title>
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Surely with a contentious post title like this I&#8217;ve grabbed everyone&#8217;s attention.
I had a chance recently to revisit Air.  It&#8217;s an incredibly bizarre series, purely because of the way it divides audiences.  Anime has always had its fair share of love-it-or-hate-it anime, the most famous is probably Evangelion, but there&#8217;s no question that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://sorrow-kun.nihonreview.com/20070326/two-years-later-and-air-is-still-kyoto-animations-best-animated-series/</link>
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		<title>AnimeReactor Community Awards 2006, results and discussion</title>
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Since I don&#8217;t really take a great interest in the Anime-Reactor.net community, I can&#8217;t say I know a great deal about the process by which these awards are decided, so there&#8217;s no real point in me commenting on that.  These awards are just as weighty as any other community decided &#8220;awards&#8221;, but they have [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://sorrow-kun.nihonreview.com/20070318/animereactor-community-awards-2006-results-and-discussion/</link>
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		<title>Is Death Note on its way downhill?</title>
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Warning: This post contains Death Note anime spoilers (up to ep 20)
Under normal circumstances, I probably wouldn&#8217;t write a half-way-through &#8220;review&#8221; (and this isn&#8217;t a review, since I&#8217;m purposely keeping it too informal for it to be labeled such) about a currently-airing anime such as this.  But I know I can get away with [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://sorrow-kun.nihonreview.com/20070311/is-death-note-on-its-way-downhill/</link>
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		<title>My thoughts on the &#8220;horse race&#8221; mentality in dating sim anime</title>
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Warning: this post has Kanon 2006 spoilers.
I think I&#8217;d probably surprise a few people after a certain post I made on the ASuki forums, but I actually think the &#8220;horse race&#8221; mentality in harem/dating-sim anime has its place&#8230; sometimes.  For those who don&#8217;t know what it is (which isn&#8217;t a surprise, since I&#8217;m almost [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://sorrow-kun.nihonreview.com/20070304/my-thoughts-on-the-horse-race-mentality-in-dating-sim-anime/</link>
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