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Attack on Titan: Manga Volume 1 Reaction & Review!

**Maybe an Insightful Headphone Warning**

I'm FINALLY starting my journey looking at the Attack on Titan manga series, and ALREADY, there are things changing my perspective of characters, ships, and my mind is churning with ideas for the final season! How exciting! 

This...

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Yona of the Dawn: Manga Volume 37 Reaction & Review!

**ANXIETY-INDUCING HEADPHONE WARNINGS**

Remember how I was going to wait until the official releases of the Yona of the Dawn manga? Those were fun days, right?! After this volume, there is NO WAY I can wait to find out the fate of our boy Hak!

Seriously, Kusanagi delivers an ...

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Yona of the Dawn: Reaction Replacement Poll!

I'm going to be reading Yona of the Dawn until the end of October, but I wanted to go ahead and poll what will be replacing it once we've caught up!  

The options below are second places from previous polls! 

Please vote for ANY and ALL options below! This is a PATRON-ONLY p...

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Neon Genesis Evangelion: Rebuild 1.11 FULL LENGTH Reaction!

**EXTRA CONTENT HEADPHONE WARNINGS, Y'ALL**

Hoo boy. I thought I knew what to expect going into this first Rebuild, but I was in for a treat! Gorgeous animation? Yes. Controversial decisions? Yes! Extra content that had me fangirling and my jaw on the floor? YES!

The "preview" at the ...

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Seraph of the End: Manga Volume 28 Reaction & Review!

**DECISION-WORTHY HEADPHONE WARNING**

It's only been about a month, but I'm back with Chapters 115-118 of Seraph of the End and these chapters FLEW by with action and the duel between Yu and Asheramaru -- two individuals (well, one a demon, but still) fighting to save the person th...

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Ace of the Diamond Act II: Manga Volume 32 Reaction & Review!

**ACE-WORTHY HEADPHONE WARNINGS**

After three seasons, and countless volumes...Whiteboard-kun makes his appearance to help me break down Ace of the Diamond! 

Because there is a LOT happening in this volume! Not only character backstory, development, and parallels -- but it's all ...

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Vinland Saga: Episode 23 FULL LENGTH Reaction!

**A MISCALCULATED HEADPHONE WARNING**

Oohh, for a penultimate episode, this seems more like the CALM before the STORM of this season. Thorfinn is at his LOWEST point, but Leif is not giving up on him! And meanwhile, Askeladd thinks everything is playing right into his hands...but Sweyn is n...

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Spy x Family: Episode 12 FULL LENGTH Reaction!

**FAMILY OOTING HEADPHONE WARNINGS**  

Our poor Loid deserves a NAP, especially after pulling overtime with Operation Strix AND side spy jobs as well...but no time for that! He has to take his family out to look "normal" while also preventing a bio-terrorism threat...just another Satur...

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My Hero Academia Season 6: Episode 1 EARLY ACCESS Reaction!

**HEROIC HEADPHONE WARNINGS**  

I have to say, this was a "quiet beginning" to the episode, but things ESCALATE QUICKLY! I loved this episode, though, and just how much ground we cover in 23 minutes! AND NO FILLER EPISODE THIS TIME!

The heroes make their move on two fronts, headi...

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Heaven Official's Blessing//TGCF: Novel, Manhua, & Audio Drama Review - PART TEN!

Ohhhhh, my! There were some serious LABYRINTH vibes in this set of chapters! The main theme of course being: Nothing is as it seems on the Outside! MXTX trying to tell us something?   

I look through Chapters 42-43 in the novel and the new Manhua Chapter 82 in English! Oooh my, th...

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Mob Psycho 100: Episode 7 FULL LENGTH Reaction!

**BROTHERLY HEADPHONE WARNINGS**  

Oh, Ritsu, sweet Ritsu -- our boy, finally able to quench his thirst for psychic powers...goes to the dark side! I'd say he's become Teru 2.0, but as we see...that's maybe not the case!  

Ritsu finally has the means to be on equal footing w...

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My Hero Academia, Spy x Family, & Chainsaw Man!

Hey Everyone!

Just an update about the new shows that I'm starting this fall! 

My Hero Academia Season 6 Reactions will start Monday, October 3rd, at 12:00 pm CST -- if for some reason I am out of town a weekend, the reactions may be pushed back to Monday evening...

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Death Note: Episode 25 FULL LENGTH Reaction!

*FIVE STAGES OF GRIEF HEADPHONE WARNINGS*  

I'm still in a state of shock, if I'm honest. L has been my favorite character in this series, and only now, at this episode does it hit that Light definitely would kill his "only friend" for the sake of becoming a "god of the new wo...

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Look Back: Manga One-Shot Reaction & Review!

**TEARFUL HEADPHONE WARNINGS**

We look at the final one-shot from Fujimoto before his series Chainsaw Man comes out and even though I had originally looked at it in 2021, re-reading it after over a year was still SUCH an emotional experience...

Fujimoto is such a great mangaka in term...

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Jellyfish Diner [Kurage no Shokudou]: OVA FULL LENGTH Reaction!

**Headphone Warning**

I have had this OVA on my desktop for nearly TWO YEARS and I've finally gotten around to watching it and it was SO SWEET and touching!

A nice story based off of a light novel involving loss, grief, and finding ourselves after a loss, but done in a brief, cute fas...

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Neon Genesis Evangelion: Episode 24 SCRIPTS Reaction & Review!

**SOME HEADPHONE WARNINGS**

Many thanks to @BriteGirl for sending me the links to these scripts, which are here: https://wiki.evageeks.org/Resources:Episode_24_Draft_1_(Translation) ...

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Ace of the Diamond Act II: Manga Volume 31 Reaction & Review!

**HOLDING OUT FOR HEROIC HEADPHONE WARNINGS**

What a volume! After five innings of standstill between Inashiro and Seidou, there's finally movement! I love that we get third year backstory, Parents, Shirasu revealing his true nature, Asou being a "hero," and of course, our ace Sawamura bein...

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Vinland Saga: Episode 22 FULL LENGTH Reaction!

**CINDERELLA-ESQUE HEADPHONE WARNINGS**

A repeated duel between two lone wolves -- as one chides the other for having truly learned NOTHING the last decade. I did feel a bit for our boy Thorfinn, as thi s episode did NOT go the way I anticipated at all -- even down to the tables turning and...

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Spy x Family: Episode 11 FULL LENGTH Reaction!

**STELLAR HEADPHONE WARNINGS**

If you can't succeed in academics, and you can't excel in athletics...what do you do to earn a stella? Be a hero! Or at the very least, use what you ARE strong at to save someone!  

This episode was really sweet, but I loved Anya using what she was ...

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Heaven Official's Blessing//TGCF: Novel, Manhua, & Audio Drama Review - PART NINE!

The story takes a FASCINATING twist as we get revelations about our "Bandage Boy," The White Calamity, Hua Cheng, and Xie Lian -- who is apparently REALLY into swords. *ahem*  

I promise, I'll try to give Jun Wu a fair shake, but y'all will have to bear with me pitting him against Hua ...

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Unboxing Round 8: Given and BL Goodness!

It's been a while since I've done an unboxing! I give a brief look at some BL manga I've recently purchased and fellow patron Esteban sends me a glorious surprise! Thank you SO MUCH! You're too kind!  

Thank you for watching with me and for all the support!

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Mob Psycho 100: Episode 6 FULL LENGTH Reaction!

**RITSU-RELATED HEADPHONE WARNINGS**  

Just when we thought Mob was the one having troubles in the family, we see how the brother Mob "seems" to be in the shadow of...thinks quite the opposite of.   

Ritsu is DEFINITELY an interesting little edgelord (as Discord has dub...

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Sports Anime Reaction Poll!

As I'm nearly caught up with Ace of the Diamond Act II's manga, it's time to start a new Sports Anime! Here were the Top 5 choices the Patrons selected! 

Please vote for ANY and ALL choices you want!

NOTE: You can vote once with MULTIPLE selections, but if I see duplicate accoun...

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Death Note: Episode 24 FULL LENGTH Reaction!

**HEADPHONE WARNINGS ARE BACCCCKKKK**  

Ohhhh, y'all....Death Note returns to full form...WITH A VENGEANCE! I suspected that our time with sweet, BoyScout Light would end at some point, but the directions this episode took and the instant transformation of our protagonist were CHILLING...

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Jujutsu Kaisen "0": FULL LENGTH Movie Reaction!

**CURSED HEADPHONE WARNINGS**

This movie was SO WORTH THE WAIT! I can sing praises to Mappa for the animation, the cameos of familiar faces, my shipping heart being quelled by Gojo x Geto, but the real star was FINALLY getting to meet the 2nd year (as a first year): YUUTA.

Coming off ...

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Yona of the Dawn: Manga Volume 36 Reaction & Review!

**HEADPHONE WARNINGS, Y'ALL**

This volume did NOT go at all as I expected! Kusanagi is holding out on the BIG conversations I still think remain to happen, but there was still SO MUCH development in this volume!

Meinyan gets fleshed out (and makes a friend, forming my new crack pairin...

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Neon Genesis Evangelion: End of Evangelion Reaction & Reivew!

Hoo boy...

Nearly two weeks, several re-watches, and lots and lots of notes later, here is my exhaustive look at End of Evangelion! WHAT A TRIP! This was literally an EXPERIENCE viewing and the discussion may have driven me close to madness, but SO worth it! With something this cra...

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Ace of the Diamond Act II: Manga Volume 30 Reaction & Review!

**MEI-CENTERED HEADPHONE WARNINGS**

Oh my gosh, this volume we go through SO much! The chapters fly with Flamethrower Furuya, apparently, as we're already at the end of four innings and neither team budging an INCH! Though there's a LOT of close calls!

I adored Mei in this volume and ...

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Vinland Saga: Episode 21 FULL LENGTH Reaction!

**TRAGIC HEADPHONE WARNINGS**

I was not...expecting this episode to be so SAD.
The tragedy gets handed to us two-fold: 

Bjorn and Thorfinn not resting until they can battle Askeladd just one more time.
Bjorn finally accepting death afterwards, and Thorfinn not willing to ...

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Spy x Family: Episode 10 FULL LENGTH Reaction!

**DODGE THESE HEADPHONE WARNINGS**

This is one of my favorite episodes in the season so far! High School shenanigans that are innocent, but with a hint of fan service, anime references, character development, and the most hilariously self-aware side character created in a while for a show I...

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