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The Speakeasy #149: Jujutsu Kaisen, Free!, Sorcerous Stabber Orphen + More
This month we tackle various movies and series: Jujutsu Kaisen 0 Sorcerous Stabber Orphen S3 and S4 Free! The Final Stroke Part 1 Uncle From Another World The…
Free! – Iwatobi Swim Club, JUJUTSU KAISEN, Orphen, Sorcerous Stabber Orphen
Free! The Final Stroke
By Andrew Osmond. Free! The Final Stroke is the three-hour long finale to Kyoto Animation’s franchise about male competitive swimmers. This conclusion was released in Japanese cinemas as…
Anime I wanted to watch because of the eye candy + 2 bonus manga additions!
Hi there friends! I hope you’re all doing well! Today I’ll be talking about the best part of any anime: the eye candy. Just kidding, but sometimes I…
Diabolik Lovers, Free! – Iwatobi Swim Club, Muramasa, Sugar Apple Fairy Tale, AJIN: Demi-Human
Disaster Report: TRY KNIGHTS
You know, I've largely dedicated this column to document anime failures of the past but there are plenty of modern shows that are equally br...
The Irresponsible Galaxy Tylor, Captain Tsubasa, Gakuen Handsome, Gankutsuou: The Count of Monte Cristo, Hellsing
The Importance of Relatability in Anime for Me as Seen Through My Appreciations of Sound Euphonium and Free
Character relatability in anime is sort of an awkward concept. When people talk about a character being relatable, it often means that character reminds them of themselves but…
Anime Like Tsurune
Kyudo is a modern martial art with a focus on archery. Minato used to be into the sport in middle school, enchanted by the "tsurune" sound made by…
Dance Dance Danseur, Free! – Iwatobi Swim Club, Stars Align, Tsurune, Your Lie in April
Crunch Time | A Guide to Sports Anime and What You Should Be Watching
Whether you’re a novice at sports anime or one of the pros, this handy guide breaks down what makes the genre so great, and which ones you need…
Megalobox, Scorching Ping Pong Girls, Stars Align, Burning Kabaddi, Free! – Iwatobi Swim Club
13 Best Sports Anime Rivalries That Push Characters To Grow
For a good chunk of sports anime, the appeal isn't in the sport it presents. You can only present soccer, basketball, or baseball in so many different ways
March Comes in Like a Lion, Slam Dunk, Tomorrow's Joe, Fighting Spirit, Free! – Iwatobi Swim Club
Weebsmas Day 4: Holiday-Themed Anime Promo
It’s the 4th day of weebsmas and honestly I, Star, am shocked that we haven’t done this yet and it’s been around forever! For those of you who…
Read My Dear Detective: Mitsuko’s Case Files for Free!
You heard that right. In addition to this week’s new Premium chapter of My Dear Detective: Mitsuko’s Case Files — the #1 manga series on Azuki — for…
The Inter College Animation Festival 2022 – A Japanese Student Animator Showcase – Online and Region-Free!
Details on The Inter College Animation Festival 2022 – A Japanese Student Animator Showcase – Watch Japanese Animation Online From Anywhere in the World!
WHAT IS CGDCT!?
I try to figure out what people really mean when they say ‘CGDCT’ and ‘CBDCT’.
Anime to Celebrate Summer!
Whoo! Summer is here with all it’s barbecues, fireworks, and days at the beach! The weather might be a bit too warm, but cooling down with some shaved…
Not Anime, But It’s Free!
Not Anime But It's Free! Want a free science fiction/political thriller short story? Then I have some great news for you!
Free! The Final Stroke 2nd Part
The dramatic side of Free has always been its weakest point, as the story once again draws on the same conflicts before racing to its predictable conclusion.
Anime Series Like Yuri on Ice
After a crushing defeat at the Grand Prix finale, Yuuri Katsuki returns home no longer as Japan’s most promising figure skater. With his window for
Big Windup!, Carole & Tuesday, Free! – Iwatobi Swim Club, Skate-Leading Stars, Welcome to the Ballroom
JoJo's Bizarre Adventure - Stone Ocean - Episode 5 - Star Platinum Punches Stone Free
Joutarou and Jolyne couldn't move, but their Stands could. So, Star Platinum "moved" Stone Free! JoJo's Bizarre Adventure - Stone Ocean - Episode 5.
JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, Free! – Iwatobi Swim Club
Sports Anime for People that Don’t Like Sports Anime
So not that interested Some people love sports. They love sports in every part of their lives, from their team mascot themed bed to the bumper stickers plastering…
How Anime Creates Appealing Fanservice | The Canipa Effect
Follow the link to play GetsuFumaDen: Undying Moon now: https://bit.ly/3LQ4Vj3 #ad Canipa discusses the work that goes into great anime fanservice and what separates it from the boring ecchi…
Grimgar of Fantasy and Ash, Neon Genesis Evangelion, The Case Study of Vanitas, The Hidden Dungeon Only I Can Enter, Free! – Iwatobi Swim Club
How to play soccer without breaking anything indoors? Futsal Boys First Impressions.
Futsal Boys, with its traditional portrayal of soccer, seems to be trying to get a spot between Free! Iwatobi Swim Club and Ace Of Diamond…
Top 5 Anime Characters Who Would Probably Fail High School
Just because an anime character is super cool and powerful, doesn't mean they are smarter than a 5th grader. These guys probably aren't.
Staff Picks: Our Favorite Video Games of 2021
For the second article in our 2021 Staff Picks series, we rank the games that stood out to us last year! Thanks to continuing supply chain shortages due…
Starting Today, Read the First Three Chapters of Most Series for Free!
When we launched Azuki, we were happy to offer the first chapter of most of our manga series for free so that fans could easily explore our huge…
Free! The Final Stroke 1st Part
For Free! fans who aren't quite ready yet to say goodbye to these characters, this was a nice film that takes the time to set up an emotionally…
Fan Service For Females: 15 Anime Series Featuring Glistening Man-Flesh
Alright, male anime characters. It’s time to get objectified. Like real objectified. Prepare to burn literally every shirt you own and wear your tightest of whities because it…
Golden Kamuy, The Wallflower, Fairy Tail, Free! – Iwatobi Swim Club, Karneval
Anime Series Like Re-Main
Minato Kiyoumizu was once a rockstar among rockstars on his junior high water polo team. However, when a car accident put him into a coma for several months,…
Review: DIVE!!
Swimming events are always some of the most popular events at the summer Olympics. If only this series understood anything about its appea...
“Rage On” — Free! OP
RAGE ON mabushii hikarisurudoku me o somukeru isshun e VERSEhansha shiteku machi o yugande misetetakatamuku FEINTO BURUUnobashita boku no te wa mita koto naikeshiki e tsunagatta jinjou ja…
Episode 156 - Free! - Iwatobi Swim Club -
This week, we go from pretty boy detectives to pretty boy swimmers and Shaun is hellbent on getting Remington wet, so he throws Rem right into the pool…
With a Sharp Grin: 15 Anime Characters With Shark Teeth
While there are those who enjoy the cute little moe fang, there are others who demand a whole mouth of sharp teeth. For some characters, they can come…
Black Butler, Gurren Lagann, Hamatora, Twin Star Exorcists, Free! – Iwatobi Swim Club
Wave!! Let’s Go Surfing!! – Anime Review
Japanese Title: Wave!! Surfing Yappe!! Similar: Free! – Iwatobi Swim Club Haikyuu!! Yuri on Ice Watched in: Japanese Genre: Sports Length: 12 episodes Positives: Has…
Yuri!!! on Ice – Anime Review
Japanese Title: Yuri!!! on Ice Similar: Free! Welcome to the Ballroom Ping Pong the Animation Watched in: Japanese & English Genre: Sports Length: 12 episodes …
Free! – Iwatobi Swim Club, Ping Pong the Animation, Welcome to the Ballroom, Yuri!!! On Ice
This Boy Anime Series – 4 Reviews for the Price of One
The This Boy anime series are a series of classic boy love romances which sport some impressively creative productions.
Free! – Iwatobi Swim Club, This Boy Can Fight Aliens, This Boy Caught a Merman, This Boy is a Professional Wizard, This Boy Suffers from Crystallization
Reminder: Re-watching A Series Is A Good Thing
I’m usually able to list the reasons as to why I liked or disliked it, my favourite parts of the show, my favourite character etc. Dialogue about the…
Attack on Titan, Free! – Iwatobi Swim Club, Fullmetal Alchemist, Neon Genesis Evangelion, Ouran High School Host Club
Reminder: Re-watching A Series Is A Good Thing
I'm usually able to list the reasons as to why I liked or disliked it, my favourite parts of the show, my favourite character etc. Dialogue about the…
exception, Free! – Iwatobi Swim Club, Fullmetal Alchemist, Neon Genesis Evangelion, Ouran High School Host Club
My Top 5 Aromantic Anime Characters
These are my top 5 aromantic anime characters just in time for St-Valentines day! Romance isn't everything for these cuties.
Durarara!!, Free! – Iwatobi Swim Club, Monthly Girls' Nozaki-kun, My Hero Academia
Dorohedoro
Spoiler Free! Adding yet another stacked series to their 2020 line up. Netflix added a winter dark fantasy series that would take four key factors, and play them…
Anime Series Like Taiso Zamurai
Jotaro Aragaki has devoted his life to gymnastics. However, he finds himself no longer able to compete to his own expectations. Despite training every day, even his coach…
Yowamushi Pedal, Free! – Iwatobi Swim Club, Kakushigoto, Bunny Drop, Welcome to the Ballroom
Weekly Round-Up, 9-15 December 2020: My Broken Mariko, Eiko Hanamura Tribute, and Masculinity in FLCL
AniFem Round-Up Boys Run the Riot, Visual Kei, and Gender Euphoria Through Fashion Kazuma Hashimoto spotlights a new fashion manga with a trans protagonist and how the world…
My Fave is Problematic: Free!
One of the biggest gripes I have now with Free! is the amount of fanservice the show throws at you. While the perfectly sculpted muscles of the main…
When men want to cry
Every November you will spot in most English speaking countries a lot of men sporting a moustache. In 2003 a couple of friends in Australia started this trend…
What Are Your Five Favorite Non-Shonen Anime? Here are Ours!
One of our Twitch streamers, negativeprimes, recently tagged a number of our staffers on a Twitter post that’s making the rounds asking users to name their five favorite…
Fruits Basket, Interviews with Monster Girls, Library War, Monster, A Place Further Than the Universe
After School Nightmare Pt. 1 (with Mouna Toure)
Covers volumes 1–5 of After School Nightmare by Setona MizushiroWelcome to the most mysterious and frightening after school club you’ll ever join. Content warning for sexual assault and…
Tokyo Mew Mew, Free! – Iwatobi Swim Club, Fruits Basket, Kimi ni Todoke: From Me to You, Ouran High School Host Club
The Importance of Relatability in Anime for Me as Seen Through My Appreciations of Sound Euphonium and Free
Character relatability in anime is sort of an awkward concept. When people talk about a character being relatable, it often means that character reminds them of themselves but…
KyoAni’s Current Osaka Leaders: Eisaku Kawanami x Takuya Yamamura Interview
Today we’ll cover another indispensable part of KyoAni: their energetic Osaka branch Animation Do, as seen through the eyes of their two series directors at the moment. Enjoy…
A Review of Given
Early in 2014, when I was just getting into anime, I decided to watch Free! Iwatobi Swim Club, the now-famous sports anime by Kyoto Animation. Being in the…
The Decade in Review: The Japanese Industry
I said I wouldn’t be updating this blog for a while, but I remembered that I was working on a two-post "decade in review" which I had star...
In This Corner of the World, Macross, Sailor Moon Crystal, Space Adventure Cobra, Blood Blockade Battlefront
Free! Timeless Medley Roundtable #2: Digital & Background Staff
This is a newly translated roundtable featuring the staff involved with the digital and background portions of Free! Timeless Medley (background art, painting, compositing, 3D animation). It was…
Free! Timeless Medley Roundtable #1: Hand-drawn Animation Staff
This is a newly translated roundtable featuring the staff involved with the hand-drawn animation portion of Free! Timeless Medley (key animation and in-betweens). It was published in the…