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A comprehensive list of where I am with the Spring 2020 lineup. Please keep in mind that some anime are ongoing, some are on hold, some are postponed,…
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Spring 2022 Anime Roundup
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2021 Anime Roundup
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Spring 2021.
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2021 Spring 1
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Animage Jan. 2021 Interview: Wataru Komada (Translation)
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Animage Jan. 2021 Interview: Soma Saito (Translation)
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Hyping Up Spring 2021
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Spring 2021 Season Preview
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Anime Lookout | Spring 2021
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Spring 2021 Season Preview
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SPRING 2021 | First Impressions
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Spring 2021 – Week 3
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The Spring 2021 List
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The Spring 2021 List
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Spring 2021 Check-in
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Spring 2021 Anime Preview
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2021 Spring Premiere Digest
The latest shower of premieres brought us a huge bouquet of new shows to watch!
Koikimo, Pretty Boy Detective Club, SSSS.DYNAZENON, To Your Eternity, Fairy Ranmaru
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That Spring 2021 Schedule
It’s spring. Most hyped anime of the first few months in 2021, alongside many great anime have ended for now. But, as always, there’s more to come. let’s…
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Spring 2021 in Review
This past anime season, counting holdovers from the Winter 2021 season, I watched 26 anime. Of those, I completed 22. Normally, we at the Backloggers would do an…
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Spring 2021 First Impressions
Hello everyone, and welcome back to For Great Justice! A couple brief weeks ago, Yata delivered some overdue final verdicts on the winter season solo, and with the…
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Anime Awards: Spring 2021
Thus the spring season of anime concludes, and I shall now be taking a look back at what I watched over the past few months, and celebrating the…
Blue Reflection Ray, Boruto: Naruto Next Generations, I've Been Killing Slimes for 300 Years and Maxed Out My Level, My Hero Academia, My Hero Academia Season 5
Listening to Japanese Music — 2021 Recommendation Roundup Awards
Folks, it’s that time of the year