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Gakkou no Yuurei (School Ghosts), volume 3
Let's start out 2025 on a scary note, 'cause it's gonna be a scary year. Gakkou no Yuurei (School Ghosts), volume 3, features more supernatu...
Monkey Magic, Iron Virgin Jun, Kujibiki Unbalance, Macross, B.B. Fish
Day 3 of Otakutober: Mostly Ghostly! Ghost Characters in Anime
Hello and welcome back to 13 Days of Otakutober! I hope you all have been enjoying our haunting content (and are prepared for so much more). Today we’re…
Sai Disappearance | How to Portray Grief in a Shonen Manga | Weekly Shonen Jump Greatest Hits
Hikaru No Go tells a stellar coming-of-age story about a young boy inhabited by an ancient spirit, who teaches him the joys of the board game Go. It…
Ranking Every Anime I Watched in 2023
Rendering this pushed my computer to its limit I don't know how Quentin Reviews does it but here it is! Anime: 0:23 - Demon Slayer (season 1 only) 1:02 - Cardcaptor…
Rurouni Kenshin (2023), Anne of Green Gables, Legend of the Crystals: Final Fantasy, FLCL, GR: Giant Robo
Hikaru no Go and Skip and Loafer
This entire MLB offseason is just a constant feeling of low grade dread that Shohei Ohtani will...
Hikaru no Go and Skip and Loafer
This entire MLB offseason is just a constant feeling of low grade dread that Shohei Ohtani will...
Inochi no Chikyuu: Dioxin no Natsu
Here's another project that has been stuck in limbo for a very long time: the 2001 movie Inochi no Chikyuu: Dioxin no Natsu ( Life on Earth...
#89 Cyborg Grandpa-G (Ft. Cartoonist and Grasshopper Community Manager Maddie aka othatsraspberry)
Manga by Obata, Takeshi (Deathnote, Hikaru No Go, Platinum End) I see why Obata has stuck to just doing art… We and our guest Cartoonist and…
Sanada 10 Special
Once upon a time, in the ancient days of the mid-oughts, there was a TV series with the rather long title of Shinshaku Sengoku Eiyuu Densets...
Fire Tripper, Hellsing, Magic Knight Rayearth, Wild 7, My Hero Academia
Recipe: LOVE RECIPE
The only thing worse than a bad BL romance is a bad BL romance that ruins an otherwise good concept for a manga. LOVE RECIPE, by Kirico Higa...
Recipe: LOVE RECIPE
The only thing worse than a bad BL romance is a bad BL romance that ruins an otherwise good concept for a manga. LOVE RECIPE, by Kirico Higa...
Hikari no Ou – 06
I haven't gotten another ep like the premiere to really engage me completely, but I can look at one like this as incremental progress. Read more
13 Best Sports Anime Rivalries That Push Characters To Grow
For a good chunk of sports anime, the appeal isn't in the sport it presents. You can only present soccer, basketball, or baseball in so many different ways
March Comes in Like a Lion, Slam Dunk, Tomorrow's Joe, Fighting Spirit, Free! – Iwatobi Swim Club
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Spy X Family – 12 [The Role of a Mother and Wife]
Welcome everyone, to a super late SpyxFamily episode! Apologies for that. I didn’t get back from a wedding until Monday, and then had to get the Seasonal Preview…
Hikaru no Go Anime Review – 90/100
Slam Dunk. Haikyuu. Cross Game. Aside from being fantastic series in their own right, and being about sports, they all share one thing in common: Their success helped…
Area 88 OVA: Aces Low
Area 88 is a manga that ran from ’79 to ’86. So, this is even older than I am. In 1985 it got a three episode OVA from…
Hikaru no Go, Maris the Chojo, Area 88, Ceres, Celestial Legend
090 - Death Note vol. 3
The dudes talk about the Death Note’s impact as a “non-battle” manga and their feelings to what can be best described as the “Dragonball problem” James and Will…
Arisa Good Luck
Here's a true bluebird: the 1999 one-shot OVA Arisa Good Luck . Last month, Tennouji, translator and proprietor of SakuraCircle, contacted m...
Nagasarete Airantou, Natsume's Book of Friends, Wedding Peach, Inukami!, Minion
Haruka Naru Toki no Naka de 2
Haruka Naru Toki no Naka de ( In a Distant Time ) is an otome game franchise developed by Ruby Party. It spans at least a dozen…
Ah My Buddha!!, The Story of Saiunkoku, Waza no Tabibito, Ai no Kusabi, Batman: Gotham Knight
The best Go player in the world
I’ve recently covered Hikaru no Go series, so I feel it’s only fitting to introduce you the best Go player in our current era.
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Hikaru no Go [1999]
This is so far the only series that has successfully focused on the Go game.
Anime From the Vault Episode 6: Hikaru no Go
A classic in every sense of the word. Read more
The AMERICAN Shonen Jump | 20th Anniversary Retrospective
Shonen Jump Magazine — if you were a North American manga fan in the 2000s, you probably owned at least a few issues. And since this year is…
Ayashi no Ceres: Only Ruined Itself
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Pick of the week: Killer Viz-ion
MICHELLE: It’s the once-a-year release of Kaze Hikaru and there’s also the debut of the fun-looking Happy Kanoko’s Killer Life, but if it’s my last chance ever, I…
MAPS: Densetsu no Samayoeru Seijin-tachi
Here's a wonderful example of the "wide-screen baroque" school of anime science fiction, the 1987 movie MAPS: Densetsu no Samayoeru Seijin-t...
Nagasaki 1945: Angelus no Kane (The Angelus Bell)
The atomic bombing of Nagasaki on August 9, 1945, is less well known that the bombing of Hiroshima three days earlier, for several reasons. ...
The Heroic Legend of Arslan, Barefoot Gen, Hikaru no Go, Kuro ga Ita Natsu, Kuroi Ame ni Utarete
Waza no Tabibito
Here's a modern OVA that slipped under the radar, 2011's Waza no Tabibito ( Skills Journey ). Waza is virtually a one-man production - cr...
Nora, Rizelmine, Food Wars! Shokugeki no Soma, Fruits Basket, Fushigi Yugi: The Mysterious Play
Hikaru no Go – Learning Go For The Future
So this is New Years Week. Yes it is. It’s something that I’m using to my blog’s advantage. I’m using a very loose sort of thematic element to…
2001: 21st-Century Digital Toys
Alexandra Roedder is finishing her Ph.D. in musicology at the University of California, Los Angeles, writing about Joe Hisaishi's Ghibli so...
The Prince of Tennis, Cardcaptor Sakura, Grave of the Fireflies, Hyouka, Mahoromatic - Automatic Maiden
OtakuGeneration (Show #129) Vinyl Toys
NOTE: This was also cross posted in the otakugeneration LJ community. Shownotes :: (show 129) :: (website) :: (podcast feed) :: (direct download) :: (direct iTunes link) With Vinyl Toys,…
OtakuGeneration (Show #47) with Club Chaos
NOTE: This was also cross posted in the otakugenerationLJ community. Shownotes :: (show 047) :: (website) :: (podcast feed) :: (direct download) :: (direct iTunes link) With the…
OtakuGeneration (Show #43) with Jefferson
NOTE: This was also cross posted in the otakugeneration LJ community. Shownotes :: (show 043) :: (website) :: (podcast feed) :: (direct download) :: (direct iTunes link) With…
OtakuGeneration (Show #7) with Jeff Heller
NOTE: This was also cross posted in the otakugeneration LJ community. Shownotes :: (show 007) :: (website) :: (podcast feed) :: (direct download) :: (direct iTunes link) With our guest…
Buzzer Beater, He is My Master, I My Me! Strawberry Eggs, Trigun