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12 Days of Christmas 2014 #03 – Welcome to the NHK and Facing Reality
Welcome to the NHK is a special anime. It follows the university dropout Satou as he is forced to face the reality of having become a hikikomori – a shut-in. With neither job nor employment, Satou is...
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12 Days of Christmas 2014 #02 – Yama no Susume 2 and a Dream to Climb Mount Fuji
Climbing, hiking and camping. These are all things I have not really done outside of more casual occasions, yet those times live on as warm memories inside of me. Despite being years ago since I last...
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My Favorite Anime of 2014
It has been quite a while since a post appeared on the blog, hasn’t it? Hopefully there are still some readers out there eager for some more stuff! Feeling a bit stiff when it comes to writing, I...
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Four Years of Anime Blogging and at a Crossroads
It has been four years since Anime Viking was created. With each passing year it becomes harder and harder to believe that I was once eighteen years old, still in high school and wet behind my years...
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The Nisekoi Appreciation Day – Of Fanfiction and Fanart
Last year there was an anime-related creative contest online. In it, you could enter up to three different categories including things such as holiday cards, confections or shorter stories. Normally I...
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Made in Abyss and the Importance of a Believable Setting
Made in Abyss. What a beautiful series unlike any other in recent memory and one of a kind I doubt we’ll see again in a very long time. For my lack of ability to convey how absolutely special it is,...
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Umamusume: Pretty Derby is all the goofy, but intense, fun I ever wanted
Premiering earlier this spring season was Umamusume: Pretty Derby, an anime series featuring horse girls – “human” girls with horse characteristics such as tails and ears, not to mention speed –...
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Those Final Steps – 10 Years of Anime Blogging
Here I am, finally taking my final steps in the blogosphere on Anime Viking. And I have been okay with it for a long time, no longer trembling as I did when I first set out on my journey a decade ago....
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Anime Viking has a new blog
Hello all! Long story short, I’ve been feeling the itch to keep on writing from time to time for a while. Since this blog is finished, I’ve decided to create a new one. The content will be similar to...
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