Category: Editorials

Top 7 Type-Moon Moments for 2014

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hisui_icon_4040 There will be very nearly 250 Type-Moon related posts on the blog by the time I post the article. It is presently 15% of the total content of the blog. I mostly mentioned that so if you see that I am no longer writing for the blog after this post then you will know why. Thankfully Kate’s eyes mostly gloss over anything that says Type-Moon on it so I am probably safe. For now.

Until the time in which I am mercilessly kicked off my own blog I feel it is my honor and obligation to do an overview of the highlights of the year in the world of Type-Moon. If anything else much like the “Narutaki & Hisui VS. The Best of” posts these articles help me look back on what I loved about Type-Moon every year. It is easy to remember the annoying fan wankery, ugly flame wars, delayed titles, or untranslated gems just slightly out of reach that can easy sour you to everything. But when you see all the great things that happened in 2014 it easily makes you excited to see what we are going to get in 2015. Hopefully if you are a fellow Type-Moon fan than this post will do the same for you.

This is hardly the definitive list of the coolest things that happened with Type-Moon this year. But it is a list of the things that meant the most to me.

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Narutaki & Hisui VS. The Best of 2014

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It is easy to focus on the shows like Cross Ange, The Irregular at Magic High School, and Rowdy Sumo Wrestler Matsutaro!! (which are not getting links) every year and wonder about the decline of anime and fandom. But as John Milton once wrote, “The mind is its own place, and in itself can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven.” The problem is that as humans we tend to think of the times we were burned more often than the times we enjoyed. With that knowledge we are focusing on the best of the year. What shows made us laugh, cry, or think more than any others while still giving us a positive feeling about our hobby and the medium it is formed around. Think of this as our anime Happiness Jar.

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Some Changes For the New Year

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We are announcing the official retirement of Ongoing Investigations. Once it was removed from weekly rotation, we realized it became so infrequent as to be kind of useless. So where will you find little snippets about what we’ve been reading, watching, and playing? On The Speakeasy Podcast!

That leads us to another change: a new format for The Speakeasy Podcast. Starting with episode 61, the first half of every episode of our monthly podcast will feature the shows, manga, books, games, and whatever else we’ve been sampling lately. The second half will continue to be our more editorial style discussions albeit with a more short and eclectic format focusing on current anime/manga news, events, and hot topics.

We hope you’ll continue to enjoy the blog and podcast as we continue to change and tweak our approach.