Tag: Rom-Com
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Fixing Anohana: The Flower We Saw That Day
This post will contain spoilers for Anohana: The Flower We Saw That Day You have been warned. I love Anohana: The Flower We Saw That Day. Its premise perfectly sets up its character-driven narrative and establishes its emotional core: after the cheerful Menma dies in a tragic accident, her five friends drift apart. Ten years […]
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Why I Love Anohana: The Flower We Saw That Day – And You Might Too
Aging is a strange thing. Our current age is a snapshot of a fleeting moment in our lives. After all, the present is a tiny thing, only lasting for a single moment before it becomes the past. Memory, then, sifts through those snapshots, bringing a piece of the past back to our present. My teenage […]
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Why I Love Yona of the Dawn (Akatsuki no Yona) – And You Might Too
All Yona wanted was to marry the man she loved. But with one sword strike, she loses her love, her family, her throne, and her home. Yona of the Dawn, 2014 Hakusensha / Funimation Yona’s sixteenth birthday bliss turns into a life-or-death flight in the wake of a deadly coup. Her only companion is her […]