10 Years of Blogging, Looking Back at this Journey
Looking back on 10 years of blogging. From my first cringey posts to becoming Blerdy Otome, this has been one hell of a ride!
Category: Personal
So, I’m a Fujoshi: A Look Back at My Growth Within the Boys Love Fandom
Growth is a normal part of life. I am not the same person I was a year ago, a week ago, or even yesterday. Everybody goes through changes and so too do our our tastes. Some things remain constant over the years, while others don’t. What I liked yesterday, I…
Confessions of an Otome Gamer: It’s Okay NOT to Play the Latest Game
It’s been a while since my last Confession and that’s because I didn’t have anything I needed to get off my chest. But, it’s a new year and with it comes the promise of new game releases and the inevitable pull we as gamers feel to keep up with the…
Is This Otome? – Inclusivity in the Otome Games Fandom
So, apparently there has been some discourse in the otome games community—I mean, when is there not drama—concerning using the term “otome” for more inclusive titles. There have been some folks in the fandom who are upset that folks are using otome as a catch all term for any game that…
Confessions of an Otome Gamer: Indie Otome are BETTER than Otome Games
I know, potentially polarizing opinion incoming–don’t @ me. But, if you’ve been following me for awhile it shouldn’t be such a big shock that I prefer indie otome games over the more “traditional” Japanese otome games. I mean on a very basic level, indie otome games are much more accessible…
Fangirl Friday – Battle Brides, Roomies with Benefits, and Virgin Wizards
Hey Blerdy Tribe, how’s your week been? We finally made it to Friday and for those of us in the States, Monday is Memorial Day, so we get a THREE DAY WEEKEND!! Since I get every other Friday off during the Summer this marks my 2nd three day weekend in as…
Fangirl Friday – Heroes, Demon Daddies, and Manga Madness
Hey Blerdy Tribe, how’s your week been? We finally made it to Friday and let me tell you this has been one hell of a week, so ya girl is ready for the weekend! We have this big conference coming up at work next week, so there’s been a bit…
Shut Up and Let Me Enjoy My Otome: Elitism in the Otome Games Community
Elitism in the otome games community has been the bane of the fandom since the beginning and I’m tired of folks bashing otome game localizations and Western fans of the genre. It seems like every time a new otome game localization is announced, folks who have played these games in…
Confessions of an Otome Gamer: How I Got My Hakuoki Kyoto Winds Art Book
I started this series as a way to get personal with you all and share my thoughts about things happening in the otome community or share fun stories and anecdotes about being an otome fan. So, for the new year I wanted to share a story that is definitely one…
Do You Have Any Game Recommendations?: A Short Guide on How to Ask for a Game Recommendation
I have been running this site for a little over five years and there is one question that has plagued my blogging experience: Do you have any game recommendations? It’s not that I don’t want to give game recommendations. Hell, I give them all the time, to friends, family, complete…
Visual Novels Are Long or Why I haven’t finished that review yet…
Blerdy Tribe, I’ve been rather inactive lately and for that I apologize, but real life got kinda hectic for a while there and I just didn’t have the time or the energy to read through 100k+ visual novels. I’m human. But, that brings me to something that I have been…
Confessions of an Otome Gamer: Otome Game Fans are REAL Gamers
So, when I wrote my anime gatekeeping essay, I was actually attempting to write about gatekeeping in the games community. But, I ended up running super long with the intro and rather than writing a ridiculously long post on gatekeeping, I decided to split the difference and write two separate…
Hi, I Like Anime! YES, I’m a REAL Anime Fan!
gate·keep·ing /ˈɡātˌkēpiNG/ noun the activity of controlling, and usually limiting, general access to something. We are all familiar with the term “gatekeeping” at this point in the game, especially if you run in many of the nerdy circles of the internet. Because, let’s face it the nerd community isn’t always…
Being an anime fan back in the day was a STRUGGLE
I was browsing Crunchyroll and I ran across the anime Demon Lord Dante and man did it trigger some serious nostalgia. For those of you that don’t know—Demon Lord Dante is a supernatural horror series by Go Nagai, the man behind Devilman and Cutie Honey. The 2018 ONA, Devil Man Crybaby is based on Nagai’s Devilman series and…
Blerdy PSA: I Am Tired Of This!
Hey Hey Heroes, Travelers, and Wandering NPCs~ I planned on having a review up today, but I think right now, this is more important. While most of us are still sheltering at home while ‘Rona rages on outside, here in the States, we’re still reeling from the most recent string…
Crocheting While Otaku: Keepin’ It Casual
Hey there Heroes, Travelers, and Wandering NPCs, it’s been awhile since I last wrote about crocheting, and I’m going to be honest with you guys, I didn’t have anything to share because I just wasn’t in the mood to make anything new. I had to fulfill a custom order a…
Confessions of an Otome Gamer – Using Guides and Walkthroughs
Hey, Hey Heroes, Travelers, and Wandering NPCs! I’ve been running this site for the past five years, and it just occurred to me that I don’t really talk at length about my gaming process. Sure, I drop a passing phrase or two every now and again in my reviews, but…
Now This is a Story All About How… I Got Hit with a DMCA Notice from Funimation
So, this incident happened a little while ago but I needed some time to cool off before I wrote about it, because at the time I was PISSED! Time has softened my anger so that now I look back on the whole thing with some degree of amusement, don’t get…
Self-Care in a Time of Social Distancing – How I’ve Been Taking Care of My Mental Health from Home
Hey hey Heroes, Travelers, and Wandering NPCs! I hope you all are doing well wherever you are in the world during the current COVID-19 pandemic. These are some troubling times and while we weather this storm, it’s important that we all remain safe! Many countries have already enacted stay-at-home mandates,…
Visions for A Better Tomorrow – January 2020 “Visions” OWLS Blog Tour
It’s a new year and with it comes the promise of a new beginning for many looking to put the hardships of last year behind them. Like many, I see the new year as a chance to start fresh, both online and in my personal life. 2019 ended on a…
Backlog Diaries: Admitting I Have a Problem…
I’ve kind of been dancing around this topic for awhile now, since like many gamers my backlog is a point of pride and shame. I’m not alone in this, just about every gamer I know has a backlog, that despite our best efforts never seems to get any smaller. In…
Blog Updates… I’m not dead yet
Hey Hey Guys, I wanted to post something real quick about the lack of activity these past few days. I’m not on hiatus or anything, but it’s been pretty hectic on my end. Last weekend I covered Otakon 2019 for MANGA.TOKYO, had a blast, but I’m outlining all those articles…
D.N. Angel is the Reason I have Commitment Issues with Ongoing Series
So, it was recently brought to my attention that Yukiru Sugisaki would start reviving her long running fantasy romance manga series D.N. Angel this year. This is the first mention of anything new from the series since the author went on hiatus 8 YEARS AGO! Yes, you read that right, it has been…
OWLS May “Happiness” Blog Tour: Finding Happiness in the Little Things
Hey Hey Heroes, Travelers, and Wandering NPCs, it’s May and with it comes another OWLS Blog Tour! Last month during our Masculinity Blog Tour we looked at the meaning of the term while also celebrating the amazing accomplishments of women. This month we’re looking at the other end of the spectrum with…
Blog Update: It’s Time for a Change!
Many of you already know this story, but if you’re new here I figured this was as good a time as any to tell it again. I started Nice Job Breaking It, Hero back when I was in my last year of grad school. I was working on a Capstone…
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[OWLS Blog Tour] We All Live in a Pokemon World: An Ode to Pokemon III
Hey Hey Heroes, Travelers, and Wandering NPCs, its been awhile since I participated in one of these OWLS Blog Tours. But, when I read the prompt for this month’s tour, I just knew I had to participate. Here at OWLS, we are pretty thankful that we are able to come…
Crocheting While Otaku: My First Craft Fair Experience Pt. 1 – Selling in Person
Hey there Heroes, Travelers, and Wandering NPCs, it’s been awhile since I wrote one of these and honestly, it’s because I’ve been trying to keep up with this season’s anime… I know shocker! But, things have finally settled down enough for me to bang out another Crocheting While Otaku post!! This time…
Unofficial Hiatus Over!!- Seriously This Time…
Hey Hey Heroes, Travelers, and Wandering NPCs!! I know it has been awhile since I put out content here on Nice Job Breaking It Hero and for that I want to apologize. Life has been really hectic on my end between job hunting, writing for MANGA.TOKYO, running my Etsy shop, and just…
Why Are All the Black People Slaves?!: A Short Rant about Taarradhin
I was originally going to post this as part of my Melanin Monday segment, but, WordPress decided that my original post was a bit too radical and saw fit to DELETE EVERYTHING I WROTE! But, thankfully despite that I was able to salvage most of it with the help of WP’s nifty ‘History’…
Melanin Monday: Why We Need Quality Representation- A Short Rant
Hey Hey Heroes, Travelers, and Wandering NPCs, it’s Black History Month once again and with it comes the revival of Melanin Monday, the post series where I talk about the representation of Black and brown characters in pop culture. While I mainly focus on the nerdier side of the pop culture…