Right here.

Funnily enough, the first post reads like it could have been written by me. Pretty much everything I have ever said or felt about this character is accounted for.

This is the bit that most got me:

His family treats him like a second class citizen, he has very few friends (unless I am forgetting someone, only Toru... and even Toru called ( Read more... )

I went to see it with a family friend who's a few years younger than I am now. It's SO GOOD! Seriously, go watch it if you ever get a chance! Feelings as colorful mascots that look like cuddly toys! XD (And the opening short is pretty good too ( Read more... )

Consider the story from Furuichi’s point of view. Put yourself in his shoes for a moment. You’re a teenage boy living in a sexist society. A good boy, so far as anyone can tell. You’re a bit serious and intense, but you have a playful, nurturing side. The kids at the local martial-arts school look up to you as an instructor. You may have grown up ( Read more... )

“Animal I Have Become”-Three Days Grace

Pretty self-explanatory, I think. Furuichi hates what he’s become as a result of the Xam’d, but he can’t avoid it, and it leads him to do some pretty awful things. Worthy of note is how passive the singer of this song sounds-“Somebody get me through this nightmare/I can’t control myself/Somebody wake me from ( Read more... )

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( Warning: suicide, death, and talk of rape and abuse )

 So just last week, I finally realized, definitively, just how much I hate dead baby comedy. It just hit me. I don't know if it was all the soul searching I'd been doing, or the time I'd spent in sporking circles, or watching internet reviews; but finally I found myself confronted with it. I'd seen plenty of examples of dead baby comedy before, and ( Read more... )

I know this wasn't intentional, but once I saw it, I couldn't unsee it.

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