Ari Frenchie Library

Musings, Anime, Dramas, and Novels

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  • Anime You Should Be Watching!!!

    Anime has seen growing interest and popularity in the West recently. With the record breaking performance of the Kimetsu no Yaiba (Demon Slayer): Mugen Train movie in Japan, both the New York Times and the BBC have posted articles about the success of the movie. Netflix has announced its line-up of anime shows for 2021…

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    01/11/2020
    Anime/Manga, Entertainment
    anime, Attack on Titan, Crunchyroll, Golden Kamuy, Haikyuu!, Kimetsu no Yaiba, Netflix, The Great Pretender, TV Shows, What to watch
  • The Grey World – Revisiting the Story of ‘Death Note’ and the Low Glowing Brilliance of K-Drama ‘Stranger’

    I’ve always been a fan of grey days. The world makes more sense to me when it’s not overwhelmingly bright or impenetrably dark. There are very few things on this earth that are starkly black or white and I like when my days reflect this. It becomes a question. “What kind of day will this…

    arifrenchie

    18/10/2020
    Anime/Manga, Art/Culture, Entertainment
    anime, Death Note, Forest of Secrets, grey, K-drama, kdrama, Korean drama, Manga, Stranger
  • Human?

    We’re all just trying to find the missing parts of ourselves on the journey through life. Whether we remain humans or become demons is up to us. This is the thought that went through my head after I finished watching the anime, Dororo. Humans seek completion, and we desperately search for it in so many…

    arifrenchie

    21/04/2020
    Anime/Manga, Lifestyle, Story Time, The World
    anime, Dororo, Fullmetal Alchemist, Human, Humanity, life
  • Transcending Meaning – Why I Studied Translation

    I’ve always had a fondness for languages. I realised, when I was younger, that it always thrilled me when a movie in a foreign language was on the television. Subtitles have never deterred me, I loved nothing more than hearing people speak with different words and accents. I couldn’t agree more with what South Korean…

    arifrenchie

    09/01/2020
    Lifestyle, Story Time, The World
    foreign languages, languages, stories, translating, translation, words, writing
  • I Watched the Osomatsu-san Movie 3 Times this Week and it Still Wasn’t Enough

    When I was a child, I could watch the same thing over and over again as if every time was the first time I was seeing it. Nowadays, I don’t have the attention span for that kind of thing. So, when I say I watched the Osomatsu-san movie 3 times and I wish I had…

    arifrenchie

    17/11/2019
    Anime/Manga, Art/Culture, Entertainment
    anime, gag anime, Osomatsu-san
  • Soul Restoration- Why I Love Gintama

    Gintama, like life, has no clear path at the beginning. And that’s why I love it. There is an art to aimlessness, but you have to know how to frame it. Knowing how to do nothing is a skill that has been lost to time. In another show I adore, this one a cute Korean…

    arifrenchie

    09/11/2019
    Anime/Manga, Art/Culture, Entertainment, Story Time
    anime, Gintama, Manga
  • Wanderlust and the Privilege of a Few

    With the current state of the world these days, notably, the prominence of migration crises, I wanted to explore the imbalance between those with the means and liberty to travel the world freely, and those with a far more restricted access to the world. It’s actually quite crazy if you think about it. We are…

    arifrenchie

    19/03/2019
    The World
    migration, overtourism, travel, wanderlust
  • Fruits Basket’s Tohru Honda and her Path to Self-Acceptance

    SPOILERS for the entire Fruits Basket manga. Tohru Honda, the kind-hearted, slightly oblivious heroine of Natsuki Takaya’s Fruits Basket, is a fascinating study of a self-sacrificing female character. Selfless heroines are common in anime and manga, but Tohru is particularly noteworthy because her development throughout the series serves as an example of growing up, coming to terms with one’s…

    arifrenchie

    22/02/2019
    Art/Culture, Lifestyle, Story Time
    anime, Fruits Basket, Self-Acceptance
  • 7 Anime I Watched in 2018

    I watched quite a bit of anime in 2018. More than I had watched for a while, and it was fantastic! There were so many amazing shows, some which were continuing with new seasons, and some completely new ones. There was an anime for everyone last year. And here’s hoping that 2019 will have some…

    arifrenchie

    07/02/2019
    Art/Culture, Entertainment
    animation, anime, Attack on Titan, Gintama, Golden Kamuy, Hinamatsuri, Japanese anime, JoJo no Kimyou na Bouken, JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure, Kaze ga Tsuyoku Fuiteiru, Manga, Run with the Wind, Shingeki no Kyojin, Zombieland Saga
  • 5 Anime for the Initiated

    So, you’ve recently begun watching anime. Maybe you’ve seen a few series that you really enjoyed, like some of the entries on my  5 Anime for the Uninitiated list. You’re officially an anime fan. Therefore, it’s time to go to a higher level. It’s best to check off some classics, and some cult status shows,…

    arifrenchie

    16/08/2018
    Art/Culture, Entertainment
    animation, anime, japan, Japanese anime, series
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