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Review Index: 70-79/100
Heres the index for all reviews rated 70-79 out of 100. Arte - 79/100 Ascendance of a Bookworm - 79/100 Astra: Lost In Space - 79/100 The Case…
Bloom Into You, Kemono Friends, Little Women, Little Women, Legend of the Crystals: Final Fantasy
It’s Spooky Season! – Day 20: Shinsekai Yori (From the New World)
There are some anime each season that I watch, enjoy, and then mostly forget about after a few months. There are many fewer anime that I watch and…
Anime Like NieR:Automata Ver1.1a
After an alien invasion, Earth was overrun by the machine lifeforms they created as weapons of war. With humanity making their last stand, they retreated to
Casshern Sins, Ergo Proxy, From the New World, Girls' Last Tour, Land of the Lustrous
Anime Like Heavenly Delusion
After a disaster fifteen years ago caused society to collapse, the survivors struggle to eek out an existence. Alongside trying to scrounge together food,
From the New World, Girls' Last Tour, Kino's Journey, Made in Abyss, Sabikui Bisco
Anime Like The Fire Hunter
After repeated wars, human biology changed. Now when humans get too close to natural fire, they combust. However, society has not completely collapsed without
Kaina of the Great Snow Sea, The Fire Hunter, The Heike Story, The Twelve Kingdoms, To Your Eternity
Anime Like Kaina of the Great Snow Sea
With the world covered by a great snow sea, drinking water becoming scare, and livable land located at the feet of a few deteriorating orbital trees that
From the New World, Gargantia on the Verdurous Planet, Girls' Last Tour, Kaina of the Great Snow Sea, Knights of Sidonia
Ode to the Nobodies
Today, we take an Ode to the Nobodies. The ones we never see, but who we'll always need. Great stories are built on deep characters, but those characters must…
Black Lagoon, Cowboy Bebop, Cyberpunk: Edgerunners, Ergo Proxy, From the New World
15 Anime Series Featuring Slavery and Enslaved Characters
Who really knows as to why, but over the past few years, slavery has come back in style. This time, thankfully, just in anime. From living the power…
From the New World, Mobile Suit Gundam, Redo of Healer, The Ancient Magus' Bride, VINLAND SAGA
11 Oddly Addictive Anime Series That Leave You Wanting More
Perhaps this is only a phenomenon that happens to a select few. However, sometimes you watch an anime series based on curiosity, get some ways into it,
From the New World, One Piece, Symphogear, Attack on Titan, Death Note
13 Anime Series About Sinister Mysteries in Small Towns
While it is fully possible to create horror and mystery in a big city, there is a particular reason that those two genres are drawn to the country.…
From the New World, Ghost Hound, Haibane Renmei, The Lost Village, Umineko: When They Cry
Anime Series Like Another
Ever since 1972, class 3-3 in Yomiyama North Middle School has had a strange tradition of pretending that one of their students did not exist. When
The Promised Neverland, Umineko: When They Cry, When They Cry, Corpse Party, From the New World
17 Anime Series With Exceptionally Satisfying Endings
There are a lot of ways to end an anime. You could cleanly cut off at the end of an arc or leave things particularly vague in hopes…
Fullmetal Alchemist, Gosick, Gurren Lagann, Kids on the Slope, Tsukigakirei
17 Anime Villains That Actually Had Good Intentions
For some shows, they create their antagonist as a flimsy character who does bad things simply to do bad things and they call it a day. However, a…
Jormungand, One-Punch Man, From the New World, Gurren Lagann, Moriarty the Patriot
Review: FROM THE NEW WORLD
In their time, Vertical Comics had a passionate fanbase of readers who considered the company to have better-than-average taste in licenses....
Anime Series Like Shiki
The fifteen-year-old Megumi Shimizu dreamed of leaving her small country town behind for the big city, but those dreams died when she did. It was her
Ghost Hound, Kurozuka, The Lost Village, When They Cry, AJIN: Demi-Human
22 Mindfuck Anime Series Designed to Leave You Ponderous
Mindfuckery – You're supposed to avoid swearing in articles you are writing. It's not professional. However, there is no better way describe some anime
Boogiepop Phantom, Haibane Renmei, Kaiba, Sonny Boy, Steins;Gate
Anime Cult Classics: 15 Anime Series Lacking a Broad Audience Appeal
It is easy to forget sometimes that anime in and of itself is an art form, and art is an explosion! I mean, art is expression, and experimentation,…
The Heike Story, The Tatami Galaxy, From the New World, Legend of the Galactic Heroes, Ranking of Kings
23 Dark Anime Recommendations Full of Chaos and Trauma
There is a time for cozy slice of life and wholesome romance, but that time is not now. You, my edgy friend, wish to dwell in the darkness…
Future Diary, Puella Magi Madoka Magica, Devilman, Elfen Lied, GOBLIN SLAYER
15 Anime Series Where You Watch the Characters Grow Up
Coming-of-age is a big theme in not just anime, but many forms of storytelling. However, the unique thing that can be done with anime, since it isn’t utilizing…
Mobile Suit Gundam, Naruto, From the New World, Gurren Lagann, Attack on Titan
Anime Series Like Sonny Boy
One normal day during summer vacation, the school and the 36 students inside began to drift into another dimension. Once there, many of the students begin to develop…
Penguindrum, Serial Experiments Lain, Sonny Boy, Talentless Nana, WONDER EGG PRIORITY
Five Anime Characters Who Deserve Spinoffs
There are a lot of good main characters, but there are also plenty of great side characters as well.
Making A World Feel Real
If you have noticed, every week that I’ve done for a while has some sort of connecting theme in it. Some are just as basic as being just…
From The New World – A Whole Society Gone Wrong
Man, this show. This is yet another show that I’ve watched a decade ago yet still remember a lot about it. So, I am grateful for watching it…
25 Saddest Anime Series To Crush Your Soul
Sometimes… Sometimes you just want to be hurt. It’s a seemingly weird response, but one that a lot of people have. Maybe you have a lot going on…
Clannad, From the New World, Terror in Resonance, Tokyo Magnitude 8.0, Wolf's Rain
From the New World and the problem of unused weaponry — an #Anitwitwatches post
The rest of the #anitwitwatches crew and I finished From the New World, and I have some thoughts. Oh, boy. Do I have some thoughts. Wait. You out…
The Power of Two: Saki and Satoru
I don’t like to work with relatively obscure works since no one’s seen them, and if no one’s seen them no one can tell me how badly I’ve…
Weekly Round-Up, 17-23 March 2021: Rap in Japan, Villainess Light Novel, and Marriage Equality Update
AniFem Round-Up Non-Binary Orochimaru and the homophobic legacy of queer-coded villainy Danny McLaren unpacks the troubling implications behind the fact that the Naruto universe’s first confirmed LGBTQ+ character…
How racial inequality in From the New World mirrors the Black American struggle
When your cries are constantly dismissed under thinly veiled apologies, it can be hard to feel seen or heard, but that is exactly what happened when I stumbled…
Shinsekai Yori (From The New World) MBTI Types
Shinsekai Yori fans, tune in for learning the personality types of the characters!
Anime Series Like Talentless Nana
Earth has been assaulted by monsters that have come to be known as the enemy of humanity. To combat this, secluded schools were formed to train children with…
Charlotte, From the New World, My Hero Academia, Riddle Story of Devil, Classroom of the Elite
Anime Series Like Ultramarine Magmell
When a new continent known as Magmell emerged, it launched a new Age of Discovery among mankind. However, while it is filled with new flora and fauna, danger…
s-CRY-ed, Ultramarine Magmell, Cagaster of an Insect Cage, From the New World, Kino's Journey
20 Adventure Anime Series With a Real Sense of Discovery
“Adventure” is a pretty easy tag to slap onto your standard action anime, but not every anime series really captures that feeling of adventure. You know the feeling.…
Kino's Journey, Made in Abyss, RADIANT, Gargantia on the Verdurous Planet, Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon?
Cliche Crushers: 10 Anime Series That Skip Cliches to Do Something Original
Cliches and anime are old buddies. Lewd hand-holding buddies that go for long walks on the beach. And that’s not a bad thing! You know how cliches are…
Dorohedoro, From the New World, Grimgar of Fantasy and Ash, Made in Abyss, Paranoia Agent
Anime Series Like Blast of Tempest
Hakaze Kusaribe is a sorceress tasked with protecting the Tree of Origins. However, when a rival member of her family seeking to revive the Tree of World’s End…
Bungo Stray Dogs, Gankutsuou: The Count of Monte Cristo, Gate, Juliet, Le Chevalier D'Eon
Anime Series That Start Off Slow Before Getting Good
Not all anime series start off with a bang. Certainly an exciting first episode is a good way to hook those new viewers, but many shows want to…
Gintama, Land of the Lustrous, Steins;Gate, Texhnolyze, Clannad
Anime Series Like Ergo Proxy
The domed city of Romdo is the last bastion of civilization. Inside, humans are assisted by AutoReiv androids in their daily life. However, when the AutoReivs start going…
Casshern Sins, Ergo Proxy, Ghost in the Shell, Serial Experiments Lain, Witch Hunter Robin
18 Dark Romance Anime Series That Shatter The Fairy Tale
There is nothing wrong with a good gushy romance, but few relationships ever go like that. Sometimes you just want something that hits a little harder. Perhaps you…
Mysterious Girlfriend X, Domestic Girlfriend, Elfen Lied, Flowers of Evil, Kemonozume
Anime Series That Are Good But Hard to Recommend
It is, this week, our fourth anniversary! I’ve been working on this site for four long years, and it is doing great despite sometimes feeling like I’m running…
From the New World, Gintama, Kill la Kill, Legend of the Galactic Heroes, March Comes in Like a Lion
11 Dystopian Anime Series in Which One Class Rules Above the Rest
There are a lot of ways to create a dystopian society in anime. However, one of the easiest ways to create one and also make it relatable to…
30 Day Anime Challenge Two: Day Seven
It is day seven of the second 30 Day Anime Challenge. #7: Character You Wish Had Died Instead The One That Did Can I just say most of…
Peace is power: pacifism in shonen
When the Soul Eater manga came to an end in 2013, it took a bold stance and chose to have a win for peace, with no fists or…
“Bloody History” — The Truth of the False Minoshiro
Are we . . . the “bad guys?” The short answer is yes, obviously. The lengthier one involves a surprising amount of nuance and one, specific moment in…
Top 10 Anime of the 2010s
The 2010s were a major decade for myself personally and solidified my anime fandom as a permanent fixture in my life going into adulthood. Early in the decade…
Land of the Lustrous, Penguindrum, The Tatami Galaxy, Chihayafuru
#2 — From the New World (2012)
I hadn’t rewatched From the New World until I reviewed it specifically for this list. Because it has been seven years, I had forgotten the actual opening of…
Anime of the decade!
An elegiac rundown of my favourite anime of the last ten years. Dedicated to everyone that loves anime.
Shinsekai Yori: A Review
I had actually dropped Shinsekai Yori when I had first watched it- due to being rather uncomfortable at a certain "bonding" scene in episode 5. It was just…
My Top 10 Anime Characters Discovered in 2016
Belated New Year’s greetings dear readers! Whatever you did to acknowledge another trip around the sun, I hope you enjoyed it! This time last year I cast my…
Humanity is Screwed: Dystopian Visions in Psycho-Pass and Shin Sekai Yori (Colloquium)
Since I somewhat recently finished Shin Sekai Yori (SSY), Josh and I were talking (bickering) about it — as we are wont to do whenever I finish a show that…
DDA Top 10: #3: Shinsekai Yori
If you have any pretense to watching this show and haven’t done so yet, you should consider this your last warning. Part of the fun in great storytelling is…
