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What I Watched This Week – 11/5 – 11/11
Pluto – I came to this without ever reading or watching any Astro Boy or other Tezuka manga, and I’ve never read or watched anything by Naoki Urasawa,…
What I Watched This Week – 2/5-2/11
GoShogun – It’s been a little while since I watched an 80s anime, so I decided to watch this show I added to my watch list a while…
What I Watched This Week – 6/5-6/11
Denki-Gai – This workplace comedy about seven oddballs working at a pop-culture bookstore is written by the same person that does Aharen-san, so if you’re enjoying that show,…
What I Watched This Week – 9/5-9/11
Uta no Prince-sama – I’ve watched a fair amount of different kinds of anime, but this is my first real foray into idol anime, and it was a…
What I Watched This Week – 10/30-11/5
Junjo Romantica S3 – I know I don’t really like this series, so don’t ask me why I watched all three seasons, because I don’t have a good…
What I Watched This Week – 3/5-3/11
Penguindrum – While I haven’t seen everything Ikuhara has done, of the four I’ve seen, this is far and away my favorite. I was enthralled with it pretty…
What I Watched This Week – 11/29-12/5
Orenchi no Furo Jijou – When the algorithm suggested this to me, I felt attacked. Sure, I enjoy BL and fujobait, but surely I’m not so desperate that…
What I Watched This Week – 11/20-11/26
Giant Gorg – This week’s classic anime selection throws it all the way back to 1984 with a fun little two cour original anime about a boy and…
What I Watched This Week – 11/21-11/27
Jingai-san no Yome – This is one of those shows where I read the description and decided I needed to watch it to see if it was as…
What I Watched This Week – 11/19 – 11/25
Reborn! Ep. 1-25 – I’m enjoying the currently airing Ron Kamonohashi series, so I figured I might as well pick up her previous series, which apparently had a…
What I Watched This Week – 11/7-11/20
Spirited Away – I last watched this so long ago, I had forgotten as much about it as I had remembered. I was definitely as puzzled this time…
What I Watched This Week – 11/22-11/28
Bungo Stray Dogs S1 – The first few episodes were rough, and I’m still not sure what this show is trying to be, but ultimately I found it…
What I Watched This Week – 11/13-11/19
Blue Seed – By all rights, I should have turned this off in the middle of the first episode when the plant vine tentacle monster ripped off the…
What I Watched This Week – 11/6-11/12
Wolf’s Rain – This is kind of a hard one to talk about since I haven’t actually seen the whole series. I put on the series that’s on…
What I Watched This Week – 11/12 – 11/18
Chrono Crusade – I’ve been vaguely aware of this series basically since it came out in the US, and just had never gotten around to watching it. Now…
What I Watched This Week – 5/23-5/29
Classroom Crisis – I’ve had this on my watch list for a while now, and the announcement that it was leaving Crunchyroll inspired me to finally hit play…
What I Watched This Week – 5/30-6/5
Cute High Earth Defense Club LOVE S1&2 and Special – I am not well-versed at all in magical girl anime, but I do like cute and colorful anime…
What I Watched This Week – 5/15-5/21
Kiznaiver – I need to sit down and make a list of every original anime Mari Okada has written the script for and commit it to memory so…
What I Watched This Week – 5/16-5/22
Silver Spoon S1&2 – This has been in my watch list for a long time, but Crunchyroll’s announcement that it was leaving the platform at the end of…
What I Watched This Week – 5/14-5/27
School Rumble S1&2 – I’ve avoided this series for the longest time because I had it mixed up in my crumbling old brain with Rumbling Hearts, which looks…
What I Watched This Week – 5/2-5/8
Space Runaway Ideon – Imagine, if you will, taking Gundam and stripping out the charismatic villain, adding more annoying little kids with more screen time, making most of…
What I Watched This Week – 5/9-5/15
City Hunter – This absolutely is not the kind of show I would normally watch, but it came out in 1987, and that’s the last year in the…
What I Watched This Week – 5/12 – 5/25
King of Braves GaoGaiGar – I’ve been trying to watch more super robot mecha lately, and this has been sitting on my watchlist ever since Discotek licensed it…
What I Watched This Week – 5/7-5/13
The Rose of Versailles – I initially planned to watch the first 20 episodes this week, then watch the second half next week, but the story got its…
What I Watched This Week – 11/27-12/3
Legend of the Forest – The YouTube account for Tezuka Productions has posted a number of short, experimental animated works by Osamu Tezuka for free to celebrate his…
What I Watched This Week – 10/29- 11/4
Vampire Princess Miyu (TV) – My last spooky season anime was this shoujo horror series about a vampire who looks like a teenage girl and is charged with…
What I Watched This Week – 12/11-12/17
Heat Guy J – As Crunchyroll keeps adding Funimation content and/or adding dubs to their shows, I keep browsing their “new” tab to see what catches my eye.…
What I Watched This Week – 11/28-12/4
The Idaten Deities Know Only Peace – I started watching this while it was airing, then put it on hold after three episodes because it all felt a…
What I Watched This Week – 6/11-6/17
Sayonara Zetsubou-Sensei S2 – It’s fascinating how this series that is jam-packed with references to a whole range of Japanese media and culture still manages to be consistently…
What I Watched This Week – 4/11-4/17
Patlabor the Mobile Police (TV) – Shows about police are not generally my thing as it’s a little tough to picture them as the good guys, but having…
What I Watched This Week – 11/26 – 12/2
Gankutsuou – This has been on my watchlist approximately forever, because a far-future retelling of a classic novel with creative visuals is absolutely up my alley, but revenge…
What I Watched This Week – 9/11-9/17
Yona of the Dawn – Early last week, I watched a YouTube video that played the opening bars of this anime’s first opening song, and that meant I…
What I Watched This Week – 10/31-11/6
The Way of the Househusband, Part 2 – Retired yakuza and current stay-at-home husband Tatsu returns for five more half-length episodes of hilarious domestic comedy and frustrating animation.…
What I Watched This Week – 7/11-7/17
Sailor Moon Ep.25-46 – I watched this because I felt like I should be familiar with something that has had the influence this series had on anime, but…
What I Watched This Week – 2/11 – 2/17
Lovely Complex – After that contractor who worked on the English dub for this posted that long Patreon post about how awful this series was and how he…
What I Watched This Week 7/30 – 8/5
Mobile Suit Gundam ZZ Ep.1-25 – The way everyone talks about this series as some kind of garbage had me hesitant to start watching it, but I really…
What I Watched This Week – 12/5-12/18
Gravitation + OVA – It is perfectly on-brand for me that my 600th completed anime listing is this twenty-year-old tropey BL. I’d be hard pressed to boil down…
What I Watched This Week – 4/28 – 5/4
The Weakest Tamer Began a Journey to Pick Up Trash – I completely chose the wrong horse last season when I decided to watch Fluffy Paradise instead of…
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What I Watched This Week – 4/30-5/6
Aim for the Ace! – When Discotek put this out on Blu-ray, I picked it up on principle, as I absolutely want licensors to make older shoujo more…
What I Watched This Week – 2/27-3/5
Polar Bear Café – I really enjoyed this episodic slice-of-life comedy about a café run by a polar bear in a town with a mix of humans and…
What I Watched This Week – 4/25-5/1
Go Lion – I picked this up for two reasons: I’m a big fan of Netflix’s Voltron reboot, and because I’m trying to watch at least one show…
What I Watched This Week – 1/30-2/5
Yuri!!! On Ice – When I first tried watching this a few years ago, I dropped it after two episodes because I really didn’t like the way Victor…
What I Watched This Week – 5/28-6/3
Psycho-Pass S1 – Cyberpunk stories where the protagonists are the police are a challenging thing to pull off, and while I enjoyed this story while I was watching…
What I Watched This Week – 9/4-9/10
Cute High Earth Defense Club Happy Kiss! – I really enjoyed the first two seasons of this show, and held this season aside as a break glass in…
What I Watched This Week – 1/9-1/15
How to Raise a Mummy – I have to say I’m honestly surprised I’ve never seen anyone talk about this show, because it might be one of the…
What I Watched This Week – 4/16-4/22
WWW.Wagnaria!! – This took a bit to get started for me, as the beginning leaned a bit too heavily into how wacky the cast of characters was before…
What I Watched This Week – 3/13-3/19
Muhyo & Roji’s Bureau of Supernatural Investigation S1&2 – Despite being an adaptation of a Shonen Jump title, I don’t think I have ever seen anyone mention this…
What I Watched This Week – 1/15-1/21
Good Luck Girl – Considering the way this shounen comedy about an extremely fortunate girl hounded by a poverty god is 25% boob jokes by volume, I should…
What I Watched This Week – 12/19-12/25
Gingitsune – As a basic slice-of-life series, this story about a high school girl who can see spirits living at a shrine with her widowed father and the…
What I Watched This Week – 3/7-3/13
Kiki’s Delivery Service – While it didn’t seem to have the sort of deeper meanings I’ve seen in other Ghibli/Miyazaki movies, I still really enjoyed this straightforward com…