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Highschool of the Dead (Manga) review

TW: ACAB. Alt-Right Nationalists, Xenophobia, Islamophobia, Homophobia, Ageism, Racism, Abel ism, Misogyny, SA (Assault) The leftists would try and reason with the zombies, is a point that is brought up twice on separate occasions through the story. One, in a case of 'police brutality' and the other in a case of 'they can be cured'. This scenario as driven as an impetus of misdirecting the aggression away from zombies and towards each other. And the saviors of this story, at various points? Cops. The Army. And of course, Ultra Right Wing Japanese Nationalists. Because they're determined, in the situations that present themselves, to handle things with force and without hesitation. That they can make the sacrifices and choices necessary to involve the survival of the greatest good. Because they get things done. Except of course, that the perspective that people who are left would reason with corpses in a fight for their life, is one of many ramblings produced by a cr...

After the Rain (Anime) Review

TW: Underage Attraction, Age Gap, Predatory Dating, Blackmail, SA, Assault Just write. That's what I'm thinking finally. I've stared at this page a number of times and puzzled over what to say. I assume everything would feel wrong, it would be too personal, too under researched, to foolish. I realized the moment I started to think of writing again, it was in part so a friend of mine could read it. This was my first mistake. To write for an audience that will only perhaps appreciate it, if it feels genuinely from the self. I can be wrong; but if it feels like it's from me, that is not necessarily the worst thing to be. To being wrong then. After the Rain is 'wrong' and yet seems to not know whether it wants to commit to that choice and pass itself off as approving of the central premise as it seems; a seventeen-year-old girl, Akira, falling for a forty five-year old man, Kondou, is okay; or if it is trying to imply this is a distraction, that this focus and inten...