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“You used to be a part of me, but then you weren’t. And then we had to face each other in a duel, a duel to determine whether I was ready to stand on my own. And when I defeated you, you left us. You left me. Forever.” – Yugi Moto I’m not ashamed to […]
Read More Yu-Gi-Oh! The Dark Side of Dimensions: A Long Overdue ReviewFounded in 1998, Fanfiction.Net is the largest and most frequented fanfiction website in the world, easily outstripping any other fanfiction archive in sheer volume of fanfics published. For the casual fanfiction consumer, this site may be the only fanfiction stop they need to make. So naturally, in accordance to Sturgeon’s law, Fanfiction.Net is also the […]
Read More Best Practices for Finding Good Fanfiction on Fanfiction.NetYou’d be hard pressed to find a better contender for the illustrious title of Yu-Gi-Oh!’s biggest fanboy than Seto Kaiba. Maybe you’ve bought enough booster packs to support half the game stores in your neck of the woods. Maybe your hours of watching (or playing) children’s card games rivals your hours in class. Or maybe, just […]
Read More When Seto Kaiba Finally Gets His Movie…He’s Still Yu-Gi-Oh!‘s Biggest Fanboy(This is the first part in a multi-post series looking at Mai Valentine (Kujaku Mai)’s characterization, the implications of the narrative’s treatment of her identity as a woman and as a duelist, and how she adds to the overall Yu-Gi-Oh! canon as a main female character. This series is part of a larger series called […]
Read More Be Mai Valentine? Sight, Blindness and Beauty in Yu-Gi-Oh! Episode 6: The Beautiful Harpie LadyAin’t no one who cleans like Levi. Now there’s more to life than just statistics, but a couple months back, WordPress informed me that Anime Monographia hit the 100,000 hit milestone. Now that’s small beans compared to the big-name aniblogs out there, but in a small, awkwardly shaped corner in mind, the aniblogger in me […]
Read More Housekeeping- Awards, Nominations and Lists(This is Part I of “So You Want to Read a Fanfic: A Beginner’s Guide to Finding High Quality Fanfiction”, a four-part post series geared toward anyone interested in reading decent fanfiction. Given the primary audience of this blog, anime fanfiction examples are primarily used.) What is Good Fanfiction? We certainly know what bad fan […]
Read More Top 9 Characteristics of Good FanfictionContrary to popular opinion, Yu-Gi-Oh! GX does not suck. Part of the backlash, I think, originates in the fact that GX’s position within the Yu-Gi-Oh! chronology is an unenviable one. No one wants to be that goofy spin-off series following immediately after one of the most ridiculously epic anime of all time. GX does have […]
Read More Top Ten Yu-Gi-Oh! GX Duels (A Perfectly Scientific Analysis) Part I“Dear God, not another funky haired, necklace wearing card-slapper!” …was my knee-jerk reaction to the news of YGO Arc-V. It’s no secret that Yu-Gi-Oh! has had a special spot in the cockles of my heart. I still regard the first series (Duel Monsters) as one of the best anime of all time. While the spin-offs […]
Read More “Are You Not Entertained?” First Impressions on Yu-Gi-Oh! Arc-V
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