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Kinda Wanna Watch The Series Now: MODEROID “Granbelm” White Lily & Viola Katze
Good Smile Company and their Good Mecha Smile brand has been doing a great job of bringing exposure to otherwise more obscure mecha properties with their MODEROID line…


Impact Indeed! Mecha Smile Impact #MODEROID Reveals: Isekai & Magic Robots
Before 2021 ended, Good Smile Company and its mecha sub-brand Good Mecha Smile have been promoting Mecha Smile Impact, an event which they promise would excite and bring…


Top 5 Anime With Bad First Episodes
Sometimes a really great show has a bad first episode and that can discourage some viewers. These are 5 times I'm glad I stuck with it.


Vivy: Fluorite Eye’s Song
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Becoming The Battle Girl: How The 2010s Transformed The Magic in Magical Girl Anime
The New 10s saw the transformation of the magical girl genre into something different, but what?
Symphogear, The Girl in Twilight, Flip Flappers, GRANBELM, Princess Principal


Anime Series Like Assault Lily: Bouquet
Humanity is pushed to the brink by an entity known as Huge. To combat this, a weapon called CHARM was developed. Best used by teen girls, these young…
Granbelm – Ep. 3
Who is the one supporting and who is the one who is supported?
Granbelm – Ep. 2
Rewatching this episode and knowing where Mangetsu’s arc goes, things hit a lot more differently for me.
Granbelm – Ep. 1
Truth be told, I really regret not covering “Granbelm” when it aired.
Gattai Girls 11: “Granbelm” and Kohinata Mangetsu
Introduction: “Gattai Girls” is a series of posts dedicated to looking at giant robot anime featuring prominent female characters due to their relative rarity within that genre. Here,…
Objectivity, subjectivity, bias, impartiality: my personal reviewing philosophy
My philosophy for rating anime has changed over the years – all in the hope of becoming more accountable for my opinions.
Anime Corner: Granbelm Review
This is Granbelm! What’s the Story? 1,000 years ago all magical power in the world was sealed away. Now, under the light of the full moon, candidates to…


~SPOILER FREE~ SUMMARIZING THE YEAR! 2019
2019 is oooover! It was an… interesting year. On the personal side, I released my first game, improved my reach on Twitter, made a whole bunch of music,…
The Rising of the Shield Hero, BABYLON, Carole & Tuesday, GRANBELM, ASTRA LOST IN SPACE
Anime Feminist’s Top Picks for 2019
Our two-week recommendations extravaganza comes to an end with the staff's Best of 2019 list! The post Anime Feminist’s Top Picks for 2019 appeared first on ANIME FEMINIST.
A Story of Reasons: My 2019 Anime Year in Review
There will be a few confessions made, and some resolutions declared. It’s the end of the year after all! It’s time to look forward, even as we reflect…
SpaceWhales’ Top Components & Moments of Anime in 2019
With the top anime of 2019, overall, out of the way, let's look a little closer at the bits that made each anime what they were, shall we?
12 Days 2019, Day 7: If you Die in the Granbelm
Granbelm was one of 2019’s biggest surprises, I had no idea what to expect going in and it ended up being my favourite new series of the year.…
Worth Reading – 10/31/2019
New rule for Worth Reading – five entries, or end of the month, whichever comes first. By the luck of the draw, I hit both about the same…
Granbelm Episode 13: A Better World
So here we are, at the end of Granbelm. While for the most part I’ve loved the show a lot there’s always been an edge of caution to…
Q&A with Granbelm’s Armanox Designer and Chief Animation Director, Jimmy Stone
With permission, these questions and answers were taken from Jimmy Stone’s question box that he answers on his twitter. — When I see the design for the secondary…
Granbelm Episode 12: A Thousand Years
This episode managed the improbable feat of actually making me feel sorry for Suishou. So that’s impressive. She’s always been more of a force of nature than a…
Granbelm Episode 11: Goodbyes
As the final showdown with Suisho draws near, Granbelm took some time off for a picnic. The show’s “everything important happens on the night of the full moon”…
Pilgrimage Shorts: Spec-Ops Asuka
Welcome to the first installment of Pilgrimage Shorts. Join me as I retread the most memorable anime pilgrimages from my last trip to Japan. I already wrote about…
Granbelm episode 10: Dolls
Well this is late but what the hey. My excuse is that a lot happened in this episode and I needed time to mull it over (it’s acutally…
Granbelm Episode 9: Truth
Somewhat obviously for an episode putting Suisho at the center of things there was a lot of deception at work this episode. These lies were also coupled with…
Granbelm Episode 8: Absence
This week’s episode was heavily focused on the gaps left by things that aren’t there anymore, and how the absence of something can be just as revealing as…
Granbelm Pilgrimage to Lake Biwa
Granbelm is not the greatest show ever made, nor is it as picturesque as a Shinkai flick, but it was interesting enough for us to reserve time for…
Episode 617: Summer 2019 Previews #6
Why do the Japanese like cats? Would you start a war over your waifu? And if you wrote an isekai what would it's premiss be? These questions and…
Granbelm Episode 7: Hot and Cold
The inevitable showdown between Anna and Shingetsu finally became unavoidable this week, and the show didn’t pull any punches. While not a single long battle like Nene’s the…
Granbelm episode 6: Chasing the Ideal
Weirdly enough that’s sort of novel these days. I apreciate the show continuing to not be suffering porn. Nene got over her loss last week surprisingly quickly, tracking…
Granbelm Episode 5: A short girl’s long fight
This episode was one long drawn out battle and it was spectacular. The show’s always looked good but they definitely went all out this episode. Beamspam happened, big…
[AniFemTalk] What genre mashups would you like to see?
GRANBELM has brought magical girls and mecha back together. What other genres could use a shakeup? Favorite series that mixes genres? What two genres would you like to…
Granbelm Episode 4: Teaming up
As expected this week’s episode was fairly Nene centric, although not necessarily in the way I’d expected. Rather than having her act as the central figure of the…