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Review: FLYING WITCH

There are many manga that posit what it would be like if magic and witches were real.  This is possibly the most ordinary notion of that ide...

The Manga Test Drive

Review: FLYING WITCH

There are many manga that posit what it would be like if magic and witches were real.  This is possibly the most ordinary notion of that ide...

The Manga Test Drive

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Spooky Sweet Anime for Scary Season

This fall the anime community has been blessed with another season of Natsume Yuujinchou. A wonderful event that fans have been waiting years for. The release was perfectly…

Anime Hanabi

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15 Cozy Anime To Curl Up With

You just want to sit down and enjoy something that is nice. Like thousands of people who come home and play peaceful cozy games like Stardew Valley or…

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Flying Witch Volumes 10 and 11 Review

From cat spirits, UFOs, and Akane being Akane, Flying Witch continues being a hilariously great time in Volumes 10 and 11.

TheOASG

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15 Anime About Witches Practicing Their Witchcraft

While old stories would have you believe that witches are withered old women with warts stirring a pot of newt's eyes, but anime has rewritten the narrative a

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Flying Witch First Impressions

At first, I thought I had a well-balanced list of anime to watch in terms of technology levels, but then, I realized something. After reading a journal entry…

Advanced495's Anime Blog

Review Index: 80-89/100

Heres the review index for everything Ive rated 80-89 out of 100. A Forest World - 89/100 She and Her Cat: Everything Flows - 89/100 Somali and the…

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Anime Like Yohane the Parhelion: Sunshine in the Mirror

Yohane is a girl who has never quite fit in with everyone else in the scenic town of Numazu. While Yohane takes up a job as a fortune-teller…

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My Top Anime Cats

I mean, I couldn’t not make a follow up after the dog post. For whatever reason, we collectively as a society decided cats and dogs are opposites. You’re…

Phoenix Talks Pop Culture Japan

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Your Name? Your Recommendations! A Blogger Tag?!

I had this written down somewhere in my notes app when I was brainstorming “easy” blog posts. … Starting a tag is not an “easy” blog post idea…

Phoenix Talks Pop Culture Japan

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13 Contemporary Fantasy Anime With Magic in a Modern World

There is magic in a good chunk of anime these days. While there is certainly some charm to enjoying fantasy anime set in a fantasy land filled with…

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Additional Thoughts: Returning to Flying Witch

I decided to sit down and give Flying Witch another chance. I reviewed this show a decent while back, but I wrote the review after I had dropped…

Anime Bird

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Anime Like Do It Yourself

After the Fourth Industrial Revolution, cutting edge technologies have taken over and the old way of doing things is left in the dust. For childhood friends

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Anime’s Feast for the Eyes!

It’s no deep dark secret that there are some anime out there that are absolutely gorgeous to look at. Anime such as Violet Evergarden, A Silent Voice, and…

Anime Hanabi

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Anime Series Like Management of a Novice Alchemist

After her parent's death, young Sarasa was inspired to become an alchemist and graduated from the Royal Alchemist Academy. Sacrificing friendships for

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Bippity Boppity Boo! Anime Witches that are Just Too Cute!

There certainly isn’t any lack of witches in anime that are brooding, dark, intimidating, or just plain scary. Much like their Western counterparts, anime witches like Robin from…

Anime Hanabi

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Anime Pumpkin Spice?

The wind has turned chilly. The hazy Summer sky has finally clear away to reveal a endless sapphire blue expanse over head of fathomless depths. Wide fan-like leaves…

Anime Hanabi

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Brief Thoughts On: Star Children

Written by the mangaka behind Flying Witch, Star Children is a work that spoke to me the moment I first saw it.

Reasons to Anime

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Recommendations: Anime About Witchcraft

A rundown of various anime about witches and witchcraft, separated by historical fantasy and urban fantasy.

Reasons to Anime

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5 Reasons To Watch: Flying Witch

If Flying Witch was intended as a sneaky marketing campaign for Hirosaki, then it did a damn fine job at it.

Reasons to Anime

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Anime Extra! Being a By-stander in Anime?!

I recently was clicking my way through the Youtubes, and I happened upon an interesting video from one of my favorite manga style art tutorial creators. This content…

Anime Hanabi

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Spend a day at an Anime Cafe: Part four of four

Go to Part One Go to Part Two Go to Part Three For our fourth and last visit to an anime cafe, let’s pop into a countryside cafe.…

Anime Hanabi

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Azumanga Daioh 20th Anniversary Special

It's been exactly twenty years since the greatest anime ever crafted by human hands hit the airwaves, and in that time many strange and interesting things have followed…

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Anime to Celebrate Spring!

At last Spring has come to grace the Northern world with all its lush green beauty! The dark green leaves of daffodils and hyacinth have sprouted along every…

Anime Hanabi

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Anime to re-live 2021!

The year is running out in a hurry! A year can fly by so quickly it can feel like it’s ending before you’ve really had a chance to…

Anime Hanabi

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Anime that’s all about family!

There’s nothing more heart warming! There’s nothing more heart warming than watching a family anime. Many anime fans might hear the term “Family Anime” and think, “Eww…

Anime Hanabi

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Sleepy weekends of Summer anime

Some times it’s just too hot outside for action anime. The fiery blast of a mega explosion just irritates the sunburn. The blazing glare of the ultra dramatic…

Anime Hanabi

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If I had to rebuy my manga collection

There’s been a trend with all sorts of content creators along the lines of, ‘if you lost all of *insert collection type here* what would you re-buy?’ being…

Phoenix Talks Pop Culture Japan

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Animecast: Anime That Need More Attention

The hosts of the Otaku Spirit Animecast give a rundown of many titles that they believe didn’t get enough spotlight in the anime fandom. Listen in and prepare…

Otaku Spirit

Episode 705: Flying Zero

This week on Anime Pulse we got illegal maids, homestay witches, and raging against the Magics. Up first Joseph has put down MTG:A to prevent any more veins…

Anime Pulse

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Flying Witch Volume 9 Review

The mandrakes view Makoto as what? And Chinatsu freaks out after learning what at the festival? There's much to explore in Flying Witch Volume 9!

TheOASG

Anime Series Like Majo no Tabitabi: The Journey of Elaina

This is the story of a mage named Elaina who decided to travel the world. On her journey, she happens across many new friends, becoming a small part…

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S3E24 - Flying Witch, Sweat and Soap

In this episode of ScreenTone Club Elliot and Andy get all Sweaty and Soapy with some office romance before taking off and enjoying the finer, calmer things with…

ScreenTone Club

S3E23 - Sleepy Princess in the Demon Castle, Kuzumi-kun, Can't You Read the Room?

In this episode of ScreenTone Club Elliot and Andy just want to shut out the world, either by going to sleep in a Demon Castle or by refusing…

ScreenTone Club

Wandering Witch: The Journey of Elaina: My Impressions So Far

Happy Halloween! Last year, I reviewed three “witchy” anime: Witch Craft Works, Flying Witch, and Ojamajo Doremi. Well, there’s a new witch on the small screen right now,…

Prattler's Paradise

Day 9 of Otakutober: Witches and Wizards of Weeberly Place

Hey everybody! I’ve been gifted with the magical task of talking about some some of my favorite academies for the mystically talented. I’ll be giving some quick summaries…

We be bloggin'

What’s with this Anime Vision of Witches, Anyway?

Welcome, all, again.  I just finished watching episode 3 of Burn the Witch, and I’m confused.  Again.  The show is becoming increasingly entertaining, particularly after getting that first…

Another Anime Review

Whimsical, Healing and More – Flying Witch Mid-Series Musing

I am back again with my favorite, actually my only, iyashiki series, Flying Witch. Like I had remarked in my August Acquisitions, I was really looking forward to…

Phoenix Talks Pop Culture Japan

August Acquisitions – A Manga Haul

Hello friends! I feel as though my manga tab is rather overwhelmed with reviews this past year. So I figured I would take some notes from fellow bloggers…

Phoenix Talks Pop Culture Japan

Flying Witch – The Aomori Iyashikei Anime

I don’t binge-watch often. I have my personal feelings on the subject, but it’s not my usual mode of operation for watching series. Once in awhile, I get…

Phoenix Talks Pop Culture Japan

Flying Witch Volume 8 Review

Makoto ventures to learn what type of element she is; Anzu runs into a samurai ghost; and zombies and volleyball somehow mix in Vol. 8 of Flying Witch!

TheOASG

Sentai Spring Sale – an experiment in unboxing

Like many people, I spent a little money on Sentai’s recent Spring Sale…  They always have great bargains on DVD’s and BD’s.  When the box dropped on my…

Apprentice Mages Lounge.

[Oct. 2019 Tour] Flying Witch: Magic and Normalcy

Another month, another OWLS tour post huh? Yup, nothing unusual about this at all. I was originally planning to skip out on this month’s tour considering that I…

Mechanical Anime Reviews

First Impression: Flying Witch (Volume 1)

The opening panels of Flying Witch have us follow Makoto Kowata as she departs a bus at Shimoyuguchi, Aomori. She’s moving in with some relatives, and this is…

雲の上

Fear of “Flying”

Another popular genre is the witch show. Sometimes, they come off as ‘magical girl’, but they still are putting out some degree of wizardry and prestidigitation. And we…

Nigorimasen!

S1E10 - Inside Mari, Until your Bones Rot

Recorded LIVE at Hibanacon 2018 in lovely(?) Milton Keynes, this episode of Screentone Club sees Andy and Elliot go Inside Mari for spooky bodyswap adventures and then talk…

ScreenTone Club