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Anime Feminist’s Recommendation Backlog: Girls in Strange Worlds

Let's take a trip back into the 2010s and highlight some of our favorite fantastic(al) speculative fiction with lady leads.

Anime Feminist

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The Quest to Defeat a Magic Long Ago Defeated – Granbelm Spoiler Review

“Mixing genres is fun.” This must have been the thought that went through the mind of whoever put together the pitch for Granbelm, a Magical Girl Mecha Hidden…

Harper Anime Reviews

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Granbelm -The Two Princeps- (Collector’s Edition Blu-ray) Unboxing

The Re:ZERO anime director and light novel illustrator teamed up to produce Granbelm, and it’s now available in the UK on Blu-ray!

The Normanic Vault

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Granbelm – Ep. 13 (Series Finale)

Endings are very important to me and this is one ending that’s stuck with me.

Xenodude's Scribbles

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Granbelm – Ep. 12

The final fight could’ve gone in two ways and both are equally viable paths for the story to go with.

Xenodude's Scribbles

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Granbelm – Ep. 11

I admit to bawling my eyes out over this episode.

Xenodude's Scribbles

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Granbelm – Ep. 10

I could never look at Mangetsu the same way again.

Xenodude's Scribbles

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Granbelm – Ep. 9

That’s quite the 3D chess move there.

Xenodude's Scribbles

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Granbelm – Ep. 8

Should be smooth sailing from here on out…right?

Xenodude's Scribbles

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Granbelm – Ep. 7

To my surprise, the feud between Shingetsu and Anna pays off big time.

Xenodude's Scribbles

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Granbelm – Ep. 6

This is the first episode where “Granbelm” really grabbed my attention.

Xenodude's Scribbles

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Granbelm – Ep. 5

Yes, Mangetsu. That is the name of this show.

Xenodude's Scribbles

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Granbelm – Ep. 4

Mangetsu does seem to be very chummy with Shingetsu.

Xenodude's Scribbles

Granbelm

By Zoe Crombie. Have you ever wondered what an anime series that combines the cute slice-of-life antics of magical girls with the spectacular action of giant mechs would…

All the Anime

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Granbelm – Ep. 3

It can be a little tricky keeping track of everyone in these early episodes.

Xenodude's Scribbles

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Granbelm – Ep. 2

Rewatching this episode and knowing where Mangetsu’s arc ultimately goes, things hit differently for me.

Xenodude's Scribbles

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Granbelm – Ep. 1

The least relevant anime for me to blog about.

Xenodude's Scribbles

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Box Art Extravaganza: January 2023

Years may change, but our tendencies to spend our time and resources on plastic model kits never change, well I mean it can, but you get the idea.…

cvphased / MECHA CATALOGUE

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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…

cvphased / MECHA CATALOGUE

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Mecha Never Dies - A Bandai Namco Story | Anime Studio Spotlight

Install Raid for Free ✅ IOS/ANDROID/PC: https://clcr.me/VcvPtK and get a special starter pack 💥 Available only for the next 30 days #ad Canipa takes a cynical look into the…

The Canipa Effect

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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…

cvphased / MECHA CATALOGUE

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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.

I drink and watch anime

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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…

Recommend Me Anime

Granbelm – Ep. 3

Who is the one supporting and who is the one who is supported?

Xenodude's Scribbles

Granbelm – Ep. 2

Rewatching this episode and knowing where Mangetsu’s arc goes, things hit a lot more differently for me.

Xenodude's Scribbles

Granbelm – Ep. 1

Truth be told, I really regret not covering “Granbelm” when it aired.

Xenodude's Scribbles

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,…

OGIUE MANIAX

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.

SpaceWhales Anime Blog

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…

Never Argue with a Fish

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~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,…

Please, no hate.

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.

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…

Mage in a Barrel

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?

SpaceWhales Anime Blog

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.…

The Anime Duck Compendium

Bakacast #394 – Wait, Do I Have a Podcast?

iTunes | Direct Download | Current RSS | Archive RSS (Episodes 0-323) Hey, folks. It’s, uh, been a while. As you may notice, this episode about the end…

Project Haruhi

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…

Apprentice Mages Lounge.

Bakacast #393 – Tire Fire Force

iTunes | Direct Download | Current RSS | Archive RSS (Episodes 0-323) On this episode of Bakacast, I finally get fed up with Fire Force, my internet again…

Project Haruhi

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…

The Anime Duck Compendium

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…

Cries In Newtype

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…

The Anime Duck Compendium

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”…

The Anime Duck Compendium

Bakacast #392 – A Lady Must Know How to Suplex Robots

iTunes | Direct Download | Current RSS | Archive RSS (Episodes 0-323) On this episode of Bakacast, Fruits Basket has a shaky couple of episodes, Carole & Tuesday…

Project Haruhi

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…

cythoplazma

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…

The Anime Duck Compendium

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…

The Anime Duck Compendium

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…

The Anime Duck Compendium

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…

cythoplazma

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…

Anime Pulse