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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…
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…
Kakurenbo: Hide and Seek, Perfect Blue, Wicked City, Apocalypse Zero, Blood Reign: Curse of the Yoma
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.
From the New World, Girls' Last Tour, Humanity Has Declined, INUYASHIKI LAST HERO
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…
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.
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
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
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
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…
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…
Rating All the #AniTwitWatches Anime
An idea started by Cameron (Iniksbane).
The Rolling Girls, From the New World, Wandering Son, Kanon, Rampo Kitan: Game of Laplace
#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.
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
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 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
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…
Chihayafuru, Land of the Lustrous, Penguindrum, The Tatami Galaxy
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…
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…
Beyblade, Black Cat, From the New World, Moribito: Guardian of the Spirit, A Certain Scientific Railgun
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…
Fantasista Doll, Heaven's Lost Property, Love Lab, Mayo Chiki!, Yuyushiki
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…
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 (Show #461) Spring Impressions
Shownotes :: (show 461) :: () :: () :: () :: () With Spring Impressions, recorded live April 7th, 2014. This week we started the long journey to…
Jin-Roh: The Wolf Brigade, Little Busters!, Nekomonogatari Black, Sanctuary, Star Blazers 2199
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…
Star Blazers 2199, Berserk, Naruto, Berserk, Hidamari Sketch
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…
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…
From the New World, Kill la Kill, Kuroko's Basketball, Silver Spoon, Gatchaman Crowds