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Spring ’24 Mid-Season Report, Part 1
We’re approaching the midpoint of the Spring 2024 season, and thanks to having more free time on my hands than expected, I am still keeping up with way…
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Spring 2020 Mid-Season Report
First up – I finally changed the layout on this site after…I don’t wanna count how many years. And despite saying so over a year ago and then…
Winter ’24 Mid-Season Round-Up, part 2
In Part 1 last week, I covered series that have not been getting episode reviews at Anime News Network. In this installment, I will be offering my take…
Spring 2022 – Week 6 /7 & Mid-Season Part 2.
And I’m back! Here with two weeks worth of thoughts and comments! With no further ado, let’s hit the jump and run ’em down!
Winter ’24 Mid-Season Round-Up, part 1
Really, this should have been started last week, when the earliest-starting series were first hitting episode 7s, but sometimes real life intrudes. Anyway, I have plenty of time…
Spring 2022 – Week 6 & Mid-Season Part 1.
A couple of dramatic and tone shifts this week… Plus some hit episode 6, mid-season, where I traditionally give a quick review of the show to date. All…
Spring 2023 Mid-Season Rankings
DAMN, this is good anime season. Unlike Winter, where I made a picked up a few dodgy, middling series, so far everything I’m watching this Spring is at…
Ranking of Kings, Ranking of Kings: The Treasure Chest of Courage
Spring 2020 Mid-Season Thoughts
As the world continues to be a mess, this season’s anime—the ones that haven’t halted production, at least—continue to be pretty damn good. Between the sticky summer weather…
Spring 2024 Mid-Season Rankings
Now this is more like it! I have so much more hype for my spring anime lineup compared with last season’s, but miraculously managed to keep my list…
Spring 2020 Mid-Season Rankings
Time for my usual mid-season anime post, in an anything but usual season! I had hoped to follow 16 series as I did during the Winter, but COVID-related…
Spring 2018 Mid-Season Review
Halfway or a little more through the season, and as the (American, at least) school year draws to a close, lets take a look at how all of…
Hugtto! Precure, Katana Maidens ~ Toji No Miko, Comic Girls, Flip Flappers, HINAMATSURI
Spring 2024 Mid-Season Review
This season has provided us with so many good anime that I feel compelled to drop one. If you guessed Yataragarasu, you would be incorrect. The Misfit of…
Spring 2022 Mid-Season Rankings
It’s only Spring, and I’ve already given up my plans to limit myself to 8 new anime per season this year. :razz: Though I only went for one…
Spring 2021 Mid-Season Rankings
Spring 2021 has been a fantastic season for anime! Quite short on sequels too, meaning that I was able to load up on more all-new series than normal.…
Summer 2016 Mid(Late)-Season Status Report
Time may fly when you’re having fun, but it doesn’t really get up to speed until you try keeping up with a packed anime season.
Mid-Season Musings: Attack on Titan Final Season Part 2
Attack on Titan’s final season (part 2) has been absolutely mind-blowing for me so far. By isolating from most social media, I’ve managed to avoid manga spoilers so…
Attack on Titan, Attack on Titan Final Season, Attack on Titan Final Season Part 2
My Summer 2023 Anime Mid-Season Report Card
We’re halfway through August and through the summer 2023 anime season. Can you believe it? I’ll be honest, though—it’s right around this time each season that I start…
Winter 2024 Anime Week 6: The Mid-Season Report
February 10th, 2024 We are in Week 6! Time really flies and now we find ourselves at the midpoint of the season. So today, I wanted to take…
Animecast: Spring 2021 Anime Season Review Part 2
With the wrap up of the Spring 2021 Anime Season, the hosts of the Otaku Spirit Animecast are here to give their reviews of 13 amazing titles for…
Fruits Basket, House Hunting, Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid, My Hero Academia, Pretty Boy Detective Club
Vintage Report 10: 1978, Part 2
As 1978 approached its midpoint, Yamato fever was heating up. The publicity campaign was just starting to ramp up, but production was running at full speed as the…
The Ancient Magus’ Bride Season 2 Part 2 Episode 24: Favorites
The Ancient Magus' Bride Season 2 Part 2 Episode 24: Philomela, Chise, and friends had the magic book. But could they keep it from Lizbeth?
Spring 2015: Part 2
Oh, it’s been a month. Quite a month! Lots of things to say and lament, and over much fewer shows than the first installment. But let’s not wait,…
Chatty AF 116: 2020 Spring Mid-Season Check-in
Dee, Caitlin, and Peter check in on the 2020 Spring season!
Chatty AF 207: 2024 Spring Mid-Season Check-In
Alex, Toni, and Peter check in on a number of eyebrow-raising romances and some science fiction series with big but as-of-yet unrealized potential.
Chatty AF 184: 2023 Spring Mid-Season Check-In
Vrai, Toni, and Peter try and fail to keep their discussion of a packed-to-the-gills season to a reasonable duration!
Chatty AF 139: 2021 Spring Mid-season Check-in
Caitlin, Peter, and Mercedez check in on the 2021 Spring season!
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The Winter 2019 Anime Final Report, Part 2
Seeing as I didn’t write anything for three months, I guess I shouldn’t be surprised that I was unable to keep myself brief enough that a part 2…
Dororo, Dororo, Kaguya-sama: Love is War, Promise, Sword Art Online
Vinland Saga Season 2 – 24 (End)
This way the ideas in this story naturally flowed until they’d carved its only possible course was a marvel of brilliant writing. 「故郷」 (Kokyou) "Home"
The Devil is a Part-Timer! Season 2: Episodes 22 to 24
If there’s one thing I know about people, it’s that our minds can change. We can grow mentally in unexpected ways. Society is proof of that. Look how…
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The Frontline Report [10/24/21]
This week; mostly just Mieruko-chan to be quite honest.
Vintage Report 24: January-March 1980
The new decade dawned with the making of a new Yamato adventure that would be just one part of Academy Studio’s busiest year of them all. While the…
Space Battleship Yamato 2205 Report 24
June was about as lively as May (meaning not very much). On the other hand, live music was performed, the 2199 manga returned, a new game arrived with…
Doctorkev’s Spring 2023 Anime Postmortem Part 2 — Best of the Season
Yesterday I wrote about the Spring 2023 anime shows I graded from “meh” to “ok” to “good”. This time it’s the turn of the shows I found…
First Impressions Spring 2020 Part 2
Welcome back everyone! Let’s cut the waffle and get straight to it, what juicy new anime delicacies have been on offer this week? Let’s find out! Ascendance of…
Anime Lookout | Spring 2019 Part 2
Usually when these posts are late (which they often are), I tend not to have great excuses. But, weirdly enough, this time around I think I can kind…
First Impressions: Spring 2016 – Part 2
Well here’s the next part of the past few days new releases! Mobile Suit Gundam Unicorn RE 0096 My Hero Academia Pan de Peace! Kumomiko: Girl Meets Bear…
Sailor Moon, Sailor Moon Crystal, Sailor Moon Crystal Season 3, Unico, Macross
Doctorkev’s Thoughts on the Spring 2024 Anime Season Part 2: New Shows
Yesterday, I covered this season’s heavy weighting of sequels and ongoing shows, but now it’s the turn of new, shiny anime! Apart from the…
Autumn 2020 Mid-Season Rankings
Mid season anime thoughts time! And we’re back up to sixteen series, as was always going to be the plan for 2020 until COVID delays made that impossible.…
Winter 2022 Mid-Season Rankings
Mid-season thoughts time~ For 2022, I’m only aiming to pick up 8 new series per season – we’ll see how long that lasts, but I managed it for…
Summer 2023 Mid-Season Rankings
As July approached, all the weekly anime I had been watching ended at once, leaving me with a completely empty schedule. I looked at the charts giving details…
Winter 2021 Mid-Season Rankings
Winter 2021’s episode counts are all over the place, some shows are about 3 weeks ahead of others! For the sake of fairness, I’ve watched no more than…
Autumn 2022 Mid-Season Rankings
This is, without a doubt, the strongest anime season I’ve experienced since I started watching shows weekly, more than a decade ago. I ended up skipping sequels for…
Winter 2024 Mid-Season Rankings
Another year, another season, another anime list~ Not a big one; winter 2024 didn’t have much that caught my interest, and while on one hand I’ve managed to…
Summer 2020 Mid-Season Rankings
Mid season anime thoughts time~ The expected lineup for Summer was hit even harder by COVID-19 delays than last season, so I’ve thrown in a couple of those…
Autumn 2023 Mid-Season Rankings
Are we really half way through the season already? I don’t want most of these series to end, this lineup is so much better than summer’s! As usually…
Chainsaw Man | Mid-Season Review
A lot of anime were hyped but none reached the hype like Chainsaw Man. After a long wait, we got the Chainsaw Man anime adaptation. I have been…
Summer 2019 Mid-Season Rankings
Breaking from the usual fortnightly blog post formula, partly because I’m away next weekend, but also because nothing I’m watching this season was awkward and aired weeks later…