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Summary In a briefing, Eversalt explains that the reason this frontline base was selected for the flag retrieval operation is that it’s only 200 km away from the…

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Speculation Time! Transformers MPG-17 Optimus Prime Style Gen. Revealed!

I don’t normally delve into Masterpiece/Masterpiece-adjacent Transformers figures, mainly due to how they don’t scale with mainline figures. Well, then came MPG-09 Super Ginrai (or Powe…

cvphased / MECHA CATALOGUE

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Tokyo Events For April 2025

April marks the arrival of spring, with cherry blossoms (sakura) in full bloom across the country. Here are the best Tokyo events for April 2025.

Savvy Tokyo

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The Brilliant Healer's New Life in the Shadows Volumes 1-5 Novel Review

The Brilliant Healer’s New Life in the Shadows is, on the whole, a surprisingly good series.

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A VILLAIN’s Closure.. My Happy Marriage Season 2 Episode 12 [Video Review]

Miyo & Kiyoka meet face-to-face against Naoshi and Arata for the final showdown. Video Review What Stands Out the Most? After Miyo, Kiyo and Kazushi helped free Kiyoka,…

OTAKU SINH

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All Hail Sung Jin-woo, our Glorious King

Solo Leveling: Arise from the Shadows S2 Ep 13 Review It pains me to say this, but the second season of Solo Leveling has come to a close.…

D&A Anime Blog

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New shows Spring 2025 1

Let’s start the new season, shall we? I don’t know how many shows I’ll watch this time around. Things get busy, you know, but I’ll look at those…

Too Old for Anime

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Bi-Weekly Booty: Please Put them On’s Takane!

When Anime News Network hates it, you know that it is at least somewhat decent… hopefully. The Bi-Weekly Booty is Takane Takamine from Please Put them On Takamine-san!

Shallow Dives in Anime

Taking it to The Max: The 30th Anniversary of “A Goofy Movie”

The film is now something it wasn’t back in 1995 – a hit - and audiences are now finally admiring its qualities.

cartoonresearch.com

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Mind-Bending

Challenge your perspective and immerse yourself in visually stunning and unconventional storytelling. Paprika Psychologist Dr. Chiba Atsuko uses a device to enter her patients’ dreams, but wh…

Myska's Reviews

Memento Yuri #14 — Reruns Already?

  Uh, okay. Quasi-Impressions: Oh. Apparently there was a special extra episode to be packaged with the blu-rays, as well as on only AT-X for broadcasting, and streaming…

Tenka Seiha

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The Beginning After the End – Episode 1

Perhaps the series becomes more interesting later on, but Arthur’s story doesn’t really have that “hook factor.”

Anime Feminist

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Visions in Uzbekistan

On 'There Will Come Soft Rains' and two other films.

Animation Obsessive

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The Too-Perfect Saint: Tossed Aside by My Fiancé and Sold to Another Kingdom – Episode 1

A promising shoujo fantasy that's very interested in the impossible double-standards women are expected to adhere to.

Anime Feminist

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A run through the Yes studio discography: Part 1 (Intro)

Or, proof that I’ve finally, actually, truly lost my mind. My look at King Crimson’s discography, which I haven’t even finished yet, has taken over two years, mainly…

Everything is bad for you

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Chigasaki Story (3泊4日、5時の鐘, Takuya Misawa, 2014)

Desire and desperation bubble to the surface at a small hotel making preparations for a wedding in Takuya Misawa’s Chigasaki Story (3泊4日、5時の鐘, 3-paku 4-ka, 5-ji no kane). Though…

Windows on Worlds

Review: A Poem in Love (2024)

A Poem in Love 不想和你有遗憾 China, 2024, colour, 2.35:1, 98 mins. Director: Jiang Qinmin 蒋钦民. Rating: 3/10. Some striking photography of a national park in Inner Mongolia is…

Sino-Cinema 《神州电影》

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Rock wa Lady no Tashinami deshite – Episode 1 – The Young Ladies and the Band Session

Suzunomiya Lilisa may be a high-class young lady who attends Oushin Girls’ Academy, an elite academy for upper-class ladies. However, given that Lilisa

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Jin

Jin is the tale of a Japanese brain surgeon named Minakata Jin that gets sent back in time to the Bakumetsu period. There he uses his modern medical…

Hexa Blog

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Does Japan Really Have 24 Seasons?

For over a millennium, Japan's 24 seasons were used to break down the year. Each had its own characteristics based on the natural world.

GaijinPot

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How To Transition Your Wardrobe From Winter To Spring in Japan

Keep or give? Seek clarity of mind in decluttering your clothes and transitioning your wardrobe from winter to spring!

Savvy Tokyo

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Japan’s 24 Seasons Explained

For over a millennium, Japan's 24 seasons were used to break down the year. Each had its own characteristics based on the natural world.

GaijinPot

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Q2 2025 Solicitations for UK Anime Home Video Releases

Anime Limited ventures into Crunchyroll’s back catalog, including Ex-Arm & I’m Standing on a Million Lives, meanwhile Crunchyroll brings back Log Horizon and other recent shows incl…

The Normanic Vault

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Chaotically Queer Podcast Ep. 18 - "It's All Monon-Okay!"

After a busy few months for the gang, we're back for another Podcast and it's time for us to enter to undeniable start to the Golden Era of…

Chloe Sunflora

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Manga the Week of 4/9/25

SEAN: The Easter Rabbit is busy hiding manga all around the area for children to find. Let’s see what they might be… Seven Seas is having a quiet…

Manga Bookshelf

Hi A'Kuan Sesame Broad Noodles Review (Chinese Noodles)

This is the first of a number of Chinese instant noodle products I'll be reviewing in the upcoming months.  A'Kuan noodles have a pretty wid...

Tokyo Excess

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Anime Playlist – Angel Beats!

Fifteen years ago today, the classic anime Angel Beats! premiered. So there’s no better day for a new entry in the Anime Playlist series. So, hit the jump…

Apprentice Mages Lounge.

From Old Country Bumpkin to Master Swordsman: My Hotshot Disciples Are All Grown Up Now, and They Won’t Leave Me Alone, Vol. 6

By Shigeru Sagazaki and Tetsuhiro Nabeshima. Released in Japan as “Katainaka no Ossan, Kensei ni Naru: Tada no Inaka no Kenjutsu Shihan Datta noni, Taisei Shita Deshitachi ga…

Manga Bookshelf

Kumamoto City Might Address Bullying with Security Cameras

Experts are split, with some saying it's a good idea, while others argue it won't address the bullying that occurs online.

Unseen Japan

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First Impression: The Brilliant’s Healer New Life in the Shadows

A young elf woman wakes up in a manor surrounded by trees, ready for another day. The brick is showing in the walls; has this manor seen better…

Beneath the Tangles

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Do These Songs Sound Similar? #ravemaster VS #systemofadown - Anime Edition #fyp #music #anime

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Ray Mona

American Tourist “Mistakenly” Brings Gun Into Japan

You may experience longer wait times at Japan's arrival ports thanks to one American who forgot he was carrying a firearm.

Unseen Japan

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Anyway, I’m Falling in Love with You. (And you and you and you…and you, too!)

I really had no idea what I was walking into with this show other than the expectation of some sort of romance. In a way, that expectation was…

Anime B&B

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The Solo Leveling Anime Awards Are Here!

Fuck anyone who thought Orb: On the Movements of the Earth had a chance

Standing On My Neck

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Seasonal Anime First Impressions: The Thorny Debut of ROCK IS A LADY’S MODESTY

The Girl Band Renaissance rolls on, but can Rock is a Lady’s Modesty stand out from the crowd or is it doomed to get lost in the shuffle?

The Magic Planet

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Thoughts on I Married My Female Friend Volume 4

Things get quieter at Ruriko and Kurumi’s place with Rio moving out in the fourth and final volume of Shio Usui’s I Married My Female Friend manga. This…

Rory Muses

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First Impression: Rock is a Lady’s Modesty

A refined classical melody floats through the air as the ojou-sama of Oushin Girls’ Academy move sedately about their campus in pairs, their long Victorian dress uniforms practically…

Beneath the Tangles

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CloverWorks drops stunning animations of 7FATES: CHAKHO and THE STAR SEEKERS

BTS and TXT's webtoon series "7FATES: CHAKHO" and "The Star Seekers" have been turned into animation shorts by CloverWorks.

K-Comics Beat

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SAKKA Online Streaming Service Takes Us to “A Far Shore,” an Okinawa-set drama by Masaaki Kudo, set for release on April 18

Details on the streaming debut of Masaaki Kudo’s “A Far Shore” on SAKKA, coming April 18th, 2025.

Genkinahito

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Babanbabanban Vampire Episode 12 Review + Final Thoughts – Bloody Love Comedy

I need a season 2 so I can see Sakamoto and Ranmaru get together…

Arum Journal

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Once Upon a Witch’s Death – Episode 1

The best way I could describe Once Upon a Witch’s Death is sweet, sentimental, and inoffensive.

Anime Feminist

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Lupin the 3rd: Part II 09 (Ukiyo-e Heist #LupinIII)

AstroNerdBoy reviews Lupin the 3rd: Part II 09. Lupin steals the last, legitimate Sharaku Ukiyo-e piece for an elderly decedent.

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Rock is for Ladies #01 — Excessively Rigid Hair

  They know that looks awful, right? Impressions: At least it made me laugh. That's better than most comedies. Not with it. At it. I spent a lot…

Tenka Seiha

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Hajime no Ippo: New Challenger Anime Series Review

I am so happy that they made a sequel to one of my favorite anime of all time…seven years later.

Anime News Network - Views

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INTERVIEW with Independent VTubers: YaBoiEdgee

YaBoiEdgee shares their streaming tips and describes how VTubing came to be an important part of their life.

Yatta-Tachi

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The Long Summer of August 31st Volume 1 Review

The Long Summer of August 31st volume 1 brings the reader into a slow-burn romance between two lovable characters stuck in a timeloop.

Behind the Manga

Healer Kicked From Party #01 — Soup

  Excitement. Impressions: Hey, let's look on the bright side. Half of the show didn't involve the protagonist, nor the premise at all. It was just his harem…

Tenka Seiha

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Futari Gurashi is Back! Episode 13 Secret Garden King-Menu Subs 2025

Aoyama Kenji, when he meets a boy called Saitou Hikaru. However it turns out that “he” is actually a girl who was raised as a boy. Yes we…

King Menu Anime

Galette, No. 29 (ガレット)

And….I was wrong. ^_^ Galette No. 28 was not the end of Hakamada Mera’s “Aikata System,” just of Kairo and Abiko-sempai’s story. In Galette No. 29 (ガレット) The…

Okazu

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The 100 Girlfriends who Really, Really, Really, Really, REALLY Love You Season 2: Dewbond still Really x 5 loves this show.

Sometimes a show comes along that doesn’t just check all your boxes, but shows you all the possibilities of that genre. A show that is able to put…

Shallow Dives in Anime