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Summer 2023 Anime: First Impressions
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Believe it or not, the summer anime season is here! After a winter and spring packed full of returning series and other highly-anticipated shows, summer is a bit…
Summer 2021 Anime First Impressions
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Summer 2023 Anime First Impressions
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Summer 2022 Anime First Impressions
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Summer 2023 Anime First Impressions
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Summer 2020 Anime First Impressions
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Digimon: Digital Monsters, Gal & Dino, DECA-DENCE, Diary of Our Days at the Breakwater
Summer Anime 2023 - First Impressions
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Summer 2023 Anime First Impressions
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Summer 2022 Anime: First Impressions
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Zekkyou (2019) - First Impressions
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Fall 2019 First Impressions
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2021 Summer Anime Season: First Impressions
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Anime Summer Season 2020: First Impressions
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#78 - Summer 2019 Impressions (Group A)
Wow we're doing a seasonal impressions episode?! We haven't done that in forever! In this episode, Sarah, Austin, and Ryan talk about their seasonal picks (1 per) and give…
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#79 - Summer 2019 Impressions (Group B)
Here's the promised Group B of our summer seasonal anime impressions! Sorry this is coming out a week or so later than we intended. School has started and…
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Summer 2020 First Impressions
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Summer 2016 – First Impressions
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First Impressions - Summer 2020
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Autumn 2019 First Impressions – Shorts
I usually like saving short-form anime impressions for later, since that leaves enough time for a couple of episodes to arrive, offsetting the lack of content. There seem…
Motokare Mania (2019) - First Impressions
Motokare Mania is Araki Yuko's latest dorama. It's about people who can't move on from their past relationships. Click the link to read my thoughts about the drama.
Nippon Noir (2019) - First Impressions
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Animecast: Summer 2021 Anime Season First Impressions
After getting fully invested in the Summer 2021 Anime Season, the hosts of the Otaku Spirit Animecast are here to dive into 27 titles of the season. Listen…
Summer 2019 Anime Preview
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Anime Lookout | Summer 2019
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Winter 2019 Anime Impressions
Out of the blue, some short impressions on stuff I will be following this winter. Honourable mentions, good but probably won’t be keeping up with: Endro, HizaUe, Kotobuki…
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Summer 2020 First Impressions – Moeronpan
Like I said before, it’s a smaller season this time so I wanted to do all my shows in one hit. Let’s dive in and see if I…
SUPER HXEROS, Monster Girl Doctor, Uzaki-chan Wants to Hang Out!
Summer 2022 First Impressions – Chimimo
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Summer 2022 First Impressions – Spriggan
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Summer 2020 First Impressions – Ariana
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Autumn 2019 First Impressions – Part 5
Well folks, now that J.C. and I are finished with convention prep for like… maybe a week or so (we have another one coming up in early November……
Autumn 2019 First Impressions – Part 6
Well folks, it looks like we made it to the end of this season’s new anime (well, excluding shorts and sequels… of which there are a ton this…
First Impressions Autumn 2019 Part 1
The leaves are changing colour, the nights are drawing in and, is that a chill creeping up your spine? Yes, autumn is well and truly here! And we…
Cheat Japanese Drama (2019) - First Impressions
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First Impressions Autumn 2019 Part 2
And we’re back! No preamble, let’s get straight into this and get on with the first impressions! Welcome to Demon School! Iruma-kun Iruma is a total pushover, he’ll…
Fall 2019 – First Impressions Part II
The second and final batch of first impressions… It’s a lean season folks, but we’ll make the best of it. Let’s hit the jump and dive right in!…
Fall 2019 – First Impressions Part I
And now it’s the post you’ve all been waiting for! Time to run down the first batch of new shows and try to sift the gold from the…
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Deca-Dence – Summer 2020 Anime First Impressions (Spoiler-Free)
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Anime NYC 2019: General Impressions
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Summer 2022 First Impressions – Junko #2
If “Brownest Show” was a MRP Awards category, this one would win hands down
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Summer 2022 First Impressions – Fuuto PI
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Summer 2021 First Impressions – Moeronpan #1
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