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BtT Week of Thankfulness, Day 6: Writers and Editors

It’s Black Friday, the day after Thanksgiving. And while the world goes a little crazy today purchasing goods (at least most of them are for others, right?), we…

Beneath the Tangles

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From the New World: Bloodstained Memories

“Let me disclose the gifts reserved for age/ To set a crown upon your lifetime’s effort. / First, the cold friction of expiring sense / Without enchantment, offering…

Beneath the Tangles

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The Crazy World Of Horror Anime

Use code BONSAIPOP50 to get 50% OFF your first Factor box plus 20% off your next month of orders at https://bit.ly/3yYecEq! Horror anime is a tought customer. It's not only…

Bonsai Pop

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Anime Like Dead Dead Demon’s Dededede Destruction

Three years ago, humanity made first contact with alien life when an ominous giant mother ship full of invaders suddenly appeared in the sky over Tokyo.

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Weekly Round-Up, 19-25 June 2024: Dyslexia-Friendly Fonts, Yuri Autofiction, and Omegaverse Chat

AniFem Round-Up How racial inequality in From the New World mirrors the Black American struggle The series achieves deeper nuance than many fantasy metaphors, and isn’t afraid to…

Anime Feminist

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The “Beginner Anime” Debate and Actually Recommending Good Series to Start With

Fans have long discussed where to start when it comes to the medium of anime, so hopefully I can contribute something worthwhile.

Animated Observations

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…

joyousmenma93

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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…

Season 1 Episode 1 Anime Reviews

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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

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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,

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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

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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

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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…

ProfessorViral

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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

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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....

The Manga Test Drive

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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

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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…

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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.

Animated Observations

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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…

Mechanical Anime Reviews

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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…

Mechanical Anime Reviews

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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…

In Search of Number Nine — An anime blog

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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…

Confessions of an Overage otaku

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#AniTwitWatches Rd. 12: Shin Sekai Yori 1 – 2

If you’ve seen one of these posts around, you know the drill already. See this post by Jon for more details.

The Animanga Spellbook

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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…

Anime Feminist

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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…

Anime Feminist

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Shinsekai Yori (From The New World) MBTI Types

Shinsekai Yori fans, tune in for learning the personality types of the characters!

Anime Rants

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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

Animated Observations

“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…

atelier emily

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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…

Hollow Pursuits

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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…

Otaku In Review

#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…

atelier emily

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Anime of the decade!

An elegiac rundown of my favourite anime of the last ten years. Dedicated to everyone that loves anime.

Bateszi Anime Blog

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…

Anime Locale

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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…

The Omega Geek

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…

Chromatic Aberration Everywhere

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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…

Dataport Doll's Anime Reviews

OtakuGeneration (Show #479) OTAKON

  Shownotes :: (show 479) :: (website) :: (podcast feed) :: (direct download) :: (direct iTunes link) With OTAKON, recorded live August 11th, 2014. This week we discussed our…

otakugeneration's Podcast

OtakuGeneration (Show #478) InterventionCON

  Shownotes :: (show 478) :: (website) :: (podcast feed) :: (direct download) :: (direct iTunes link) With InterventionCON, recorded live August 6th, 2014. This week we talked with…

otakugeneration's Podcast

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Shin Sekai Yori / From the New World

Shin Sekai Yori (adapted from the novel of the same name by Yusuke Kishi) is an anime that aired late 2012 that I actually intended to review late…

Spherical Cows

OtakuGeneration (Show #462) Spring Impressions

  Shownotes :: (show 462) :: (website) :: (podcast feed) :: (direct download) :: (direct iTunes link) With Spring Impressions, recorded live April 14th, 2014. This week we continued…

otakugeneration's Podcast

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OtakuGeneration (Show #461) Spring Impressions

  Shownotes :: (show 461) :: () :: () :: () :: () With Spring Impressions, recorded live April 7th, 2014. This week we started the long journey to…

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OtakuGeneration (Show #460) Detroit Metal City

  Shownotes :: (show 460) :: (website) :: (podcast feed) :: (direct download) :: (direct iTunes link) With Detroit Metal City, recorded live April 2nd, 2014. This week we…

otakugeneration's Podcast

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Shinsekai Yori – review

I’ve finally found some time to finish the series. New semester has set in, so I was rather tight on schedule, and Shinsekai Yori is not a series that…

Rapid Brush Movements

Top 20 Anime of 2013

After a barrage of really good series last year, 2013 stepped things back a little to take a breather, slowly working its way up from an empty winter…

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