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(Just as a heads-up: I’ve kept things relatively non-graphic, but very late in this piece I describe a sexual assault in the manga in question. I'll also be talking about a comic that only exists in English in fan scans, and which for reasons we will get
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I haven’t had the chance to talk about the current anime season much, but suffice to say my favorite was easily Brave Bang Bang Bravern. Director Masami Obari and writer Keigo Koyanagi delivered a strange, self-parodic, unpredictable, yet moving narrative packed with all the explosive heroics and joyous catharsis
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The Christmas party at the parlor is one of the mahjong-lightest episodes yet, second only to maybe the barbecue.
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An episode that looks like it’s going to be about an unusual local festival is actually a full episode of the girls trying to out-cheat each other at the mahjong table. I find this series is frequently caught between trying to be about the girls playing mahjong and the
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I wanted to make absolutely sure this went up today, as today is Pi Day (3/14). It's possible that all the delays in my life have led up to this moment.
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A lot of anime that take place in remote, picturesque Japanese towns are specifically trying to push tourism to their real-life settings, betting on the “otaku pilgrimage” effect proven most famously by Girls & Panzer. Pon no Michi— which, if you didn’t notice, is actually punning on the name
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Nothing is impossible in mahjong, though. Play long enough and you will see some things.
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Though there isn’t a ton of mahjong in this episode, I managed to squeeze quite a bit out. This is actually the episode where I decided to write this series, as the subs were finding such new and exciting ways to blow it on terminology.
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This wasn’t necessary to specify before, but I’ll restate that I’m using Bilibili’s subs, with all of the mahjong-related flubs that they make. There are a few fansub efforts around Pon no Michi that fix incorrect translations, but I conceived of this idea while looking at
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This introductory week has to introduce the girls, reveal the parlor, reveal Chombo the mascot character, teach the girls mahjong, and get them in a game all in one shot, so it's very heavy on mahjong stuff. This post is even bigger than the last one, so let&
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I had been looking forward to Pon no Michi (The Way of Pon), or perhaps I was looking forward to what I thought Pon no Michi might have made happen. Anime series about niche interests always bring new converts into the fold— I was myself inspired to learn mahjong by