Category: Anime Reviews

Yeah, I Get It: Why Bocchi the Rock! Hits a Little Too Close to Home

There are some anime characters you like because they’re funny, cool, well-written or just entertaining to watch.

Then there are the characters who make you sit there and think:”Okay, I didn’t ask to be personally attacked today.”

Bocchi the Rock! occasionally falls into that second category for me.

In a previous post, I talked about how anime helped me go from a shy, introverted loner who routinely struggled with social interaction to something resembling a social butterfly.

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More Than Cosplay: Why My Dress-Up Darling Resonates With Me

If there’s one consistent thing about me, it’s that I have a handful of passions that I always seem to come back to. Some interests come and go, but others become part of who you are. On the anime side of things, nothing has had a bigger impact on me than Love Live!, a franchise that’s been a constant in my life for years as I wrote about in another post.

Over the last couple of years, though, another series has quietly worked its way into that same conversation: My Dress-Up Darling. When I first heard about My Dress-Up Darling, I honestly didn’t think much of it. My anime watchlist is always several series deep, all competing for the same limited amount of free time, so it takes something special to jump to the front of the line. Somehow, this series managed to do exactly that. What started as “I’ll watch a couple episodes” quickly turned into binge-watching the entire first season in a single day. By the time the credits rolled, I completely understood why so many people had fallen in love with it.

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