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Anime Like Honey Lemon Soda
After being bullied in middle school for her shyness being misinterpreted as coldness, Uka Ishimori hopes that she can get a fresh start in high school.
A Condition Called Love, Horimiya, Kimi ni Todoke: From Me to You, My Happy Marriage, A Sign of Affection
Reader’s Corner: Dogsred (Vol. 1), Insomniacs After School (Vol. 9), and Omniscient Reader’s Viewpoint (Vol. 6)
Hockey, magic, first love, isekai, vampires, and mobsters—who says that manga isn’t a diverse medium? The light novels, manhwa, and manga we’re reviewing this week feature all those…
Anime Like Orb: On the Movements of the Earth
In the 15th century, the Church has firmly established the idea of geocentrism—the idea that the sun revolves around the earth—as God's truth.
Golden Kamuy, Insomniacs After School, Kino's Journey, Orb: On the Movements of the Earth, Space Brothers
Anime Like Blue Box
Every morning, first year Taiki Inomata looks forward to heading to the school gym to practice badminton before school starts. However, it isn't so much that
Your Lie in April, Blue Box, Dance Dance Danseur, Horimiya, Insomniacs After School
Reader’s Corner: Dandadan (Vol. 10), Zom 100 (Vol. 16), and Fool Night (Vol. 3)
Happy New Year’s Eve, friends! As the clock counts down toward midnight, what will you be doing? Dancing the night away at some posh event? Watching staid music…
A Very GLORIO 2024: Euri Decided to Read (again)
Euri talks about his fortunes turning around this year, and what manga he read along the way.
A Very GLORIO 2024: Euri Decided to Read (again)
Euri talks about his fortunes turning around this year, and what manga he read along the way.
Anime Like 365 Days to the Wedding
Takuya and Rika are co-workers and desk neighbors at a travel agency in Tokyo. While they work closely to each other, they each have their own fulfilling
365 Days to the Wedding, Horimiya, My Senpai is Annoying, Nisekoi, The Ice Guy and His Cool Female Colleague
Anime Like Senpai is an Otokonoko
Despite his mother's disapproval of his love for cute things and dressing in cute clothes, Makoto Hanaoka secretly dresses like a girl at his high school.
Princess Jellyfish, Blue Period, The Troubled Life of Miss Kotoura, O Maidens in Your Savage Season, Senpai is an Otokonoko
Anime Like Makeine: Too Many Losing Heroines!
Nukumizu Kazuhiko is a high school boy that is content with just blending in with the crowd. One day, he watched a popular classmate, Yanami Anna, get dumped
Hyouka, Makeine: Too Many Losing Heroines!, My Teen Romantic Comedy SNAFU, O Maidens in Your Savage Season, Pseudo Harem
Anime Like Days With My Stepsister
After his father suddenly remarries, Yuuta Asamura gains Saki Ayase as a stepsister, a beautiful girl from his school who has a dubious reputation due to her
Eromanga Sensei, The Angel Next Door Spoils Me Rotten, A Couple of Cuckoos, After the Rain, Domestic Girlfriend
Reader’s Corner: Fool Night (Vol. 2), Pink & Habanero (Vol. 1), and Insomniacs After School (Vol. 7)
Subaru faces not one witch but half a dozen, the banished hero moves one step closer to reuniting with his sister, the plants of a dying world take…
Banished from the Hero’s Party, I Decided to Live a Quiet Life in the Countryside
Reader’s Corner: Insomniacs After School (Vol. 6), The Remarried Empress (Vol. 7), and Unnamed Memory (Vol. 5)
A plethora of releases come out today, and we’ve got you covered, fam, with reviews of a number of them, including series about magical world receptionists, a witch…
Anime Like A Sign of Affection
Born with a hearing impairment, Yuki Itose is college student who rarely interacts with others because of her disability. However, when she has an awkward
The Ice Guy and His Cool Female Colleague, A Galaxy Next Door, A Sign of Affection, A Silent Voice, I Want to Eat Your Pancreas
Kimi wa Houkago Insomnia / Insomniacs After School (Vol. 1) by Ojiro Makoto
Kimi wa Houkago Insomnia / Insomniacs After School is another library find. It’s a straight forward (and straight) romance about two high schoolers who have trouble sleeping at…
My Top 25 Anime of 2023
2023 was quite a roller coaster ride of anime releases, there's a lot of really good releases, 2nd seasons and painful to watch ones as well. And across…
Buddy Daddies, GOBLIN SLAYER II, Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End, Tengoku Daimakyo, My Happy Marriage
The End of 2023 ~Air/My Purest Heart for Tired Evangelion Jokes~
Look, I only called you the Begging Bassist because of your begging. And because you play bass.
BanG Dream!, BanG Dream! It's MyGO!!!!!, The Dangers in My Heart, Mobile Suit Gundam, Mobile Suit Gundam: The Witch from Mercury
Best Anime of 2023 That Anime Fans Need to Watch
If you are looking to watch the best anime of 2023, then you definitely need to check out there anime recommendations.
Dark Gathering, Farming Life in Another World, Handyman Saitou in Another World, Shangri-La Frontier, The Dangers in My Heart
2023 in Review
A year of retreads and repeats, none of them good: War in Ukraine. War in the Middle East. Covid, flu, and RSV. Donald Trump and Joe Biden r...
Laughing Salesman, Noel's Fantastic Trip, Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End, Tomo-chan Is a Girl!, Undead Murder Farce
Manga the Week of 12/20/23
SEAN: It's almost Christmas, so get your Noddy Holder screams ready. No debuts for Viz, but we do see Alice in Borderland 8, Insomniacs After School 4, Love's…
The Great Jahy Will Not Be Defeated!, Alice in Borderland, Otherside Picnic
12 Days of Anime 2023 – Day 04: Magari Isaki + Shiromaru Yui
I was tossing up which of these two characters from Kimi wa Houkago Insomnia to choose for this post. And then I realised that there was absolutely zero…
Reader’s Corner: Omniscient Reader’s Viewpoint (Vol. 1), My Lovesick Life as a ’90s Otaku (Vol. 1), and Insomniacs After School (Vol. 4)
Need recommendations for manga and manhwa to gift this Christmas season? No need to worry—we’ve got you covered this week with new and recent series that would make…
Asian Pop-Up Cinema Japan Showcase Report
Featured Image is from Asian Pop-Up Cinema’s Official Instagram Account. Specifically this post. Asian Pop-Up Cinema was something I had only discovered early into 2018, in it’s 6th…
Episode 278 - Insomniacs After School
This week, Shaun feels it's finally time to visit a show that was once offered in a prior choice episode that Remington snubbed. Will 3 episodes of Insomniacs…
Character Analysis: Isaki Magari
Let’s be frank here: Insomniacs After School is so sweet it could be named High-Fructose Corn Syrup. That’s not necessary a bad thing. When you’re making an anime…
Reader’s Corner: The Do-Over Damsel (Vol. 1), Alice in Borderland (Vol. 7), and Insomniacs After School (Vol. 3)
This week we bid adieu to Hachiken, Mikagi, and the rest of the loveable farm kids of Silver Spoon; give a rare review of a volume we didn’t…
Alice in Borderland, Legend of the Crystals: Final Fantasy, Silver Spoon
Bookshelf Briefs 7/31/23
Insomniacs After School, Vol. 2 | By Makoto Ojiro | Viz Media - It can be hard to start up a club that's already been shut down before.…
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Insomniacs After School (2023) review [Fantasia Film Fest 2023]
Ikeda’s narrative contains all the right ingredients, but the final mixture is not able to give the narrative the emotional impact it looks for.
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Insomniacs After School (君は放課後インソムニア, Chihiro Ikeda, 2023) [Fantasia 2023]
Two teens begin to overcome their fears and anxieties after bonding over their shared insomnia in Chihiro Ikeda’s adaptation of the Makoto Ojiro manga.
Firechick's Anime Reviews: Insomniacs After School
Rating : 81/100 As someone who isnt normally a fan of romance media, I love it when I manage to find one that actually manages to appeal to…
~SPOILER FREE~ FINAL THOUGHTS: SPRING 2023
It’s here! The season of romance! I never thought I’d see one of these again, but boy am I glad. There were so many that, for once, I…
The Dangers in My Heart, KamiKatsu: Working for God in a Godless World, TOO CUTE CRISIS, Insomniacs After School, Stella of the Theater: World Dai Star
Kaiseki Anime Podcast Episode 127 – Spring 2023 Season Review
00:00 Intro 01:16 The Aristocrat’s Otherworldly Adventures: Serving Gods who Go Too Far 02:59 The Cafe Terrace and Its Goddesses 04:21 A Galaxy Next Door 05:15 I Got…
Kuma Kuma Kuma Bear, Dead Mount Death Play, My Love Story with Yamada-kun at Lv999, Sacrificial Princess and the King of Beasts, TOO CUTE CRISIS
Insomniacs After School Review — B-
Kids have trouble sleeping.
Spring 2023 Anime Season Reflections
Hi friends, I hope you’re all doing well! It’s that time again to review some of the shows I loved, hated, and was meh about! As always, I…
The Café Terrace and Its Goddesses, Yuri Is My Job!, Hell’s Paradise, Why Raeliana Ended Up at the Duke’s Mansion, Insomniacs After School
Insomniacs After School Volume 1 by Makoto Ojiro
Sweet Gentle Tale of Two Troubled Youths
Kimi wa Houkago Insomnia – 13 (END)
「最古の星 メトツエラ」 (Saikoboshi -Metotsuera-) "The Oldest Star -Methuselah-" I'll say this much. If I hadn't seen the leak that a second season of Kimi wa Houkago Insomnia had been greenlit,…
Insomnia finale, and new shows 1
Before going to the new shows I want to wrap up Kimi wa Houkago Insomnia, a finale which has no surprises whatsoever yet was lovely to watch. Ganta…
Kimi wa Houkago Insomnia – 13 (Season Finale)
The essential truth of this pairing is so self-evident that it's easy to imagine no obstacle could thwart it. Read more
Insomniacs After School – 13 (Fin) – Something’s Different This Time
Isaki cannot contain her exuberance upon learning that Ganta will indeed be “kidnapping” her so they can go to the Mawaki Site together as planned. After making her…
Kimi wa Houkago Insomnia – 12
「迷い星 惑星」 (Mayoiboshi -Wakusei-) "Planet -Wandering Star-" Kimi wa Houkago Insomnia getting a second season is a legit surprise to me - but I'm sure not complaining
Poll: What Were Your Favorite Series of the Spring 2023 Anime Season?
As the spring 2023 anime season draws to a close the summer one begins, we want to know: which shows were your favorites? Please pick up to three…
Dead Mount Death Play, My Love Story with Yamada-kun at Lv999
8 Spring 2023 Season Anime Worth Watching This Summer
The usual rule is that the longer these lists are, the more middling the season was. Nothing was too bad, but nothing was overwhelmingly good either. Not this
The Dangers in My Heart, Hells, My Love Story with Yamada-kun at Lv999, Skip and Loafer
Kimi wa Houkago Insomnia – 12
If the material is good enough, faithful works just fine. Read more
Finales and Insomnia
I don’t know how I got three episodes behind with Jijou no Shiranai etc, and it doesn’t really matter since much of it is the same. The mean…
Insomniacs After School – 12 – Love is Powerful
The bad news: The next day is raining cats and dogs, with more terrible weather in the forecast, so no photography work can be done. The good news:…
Kimi wa Houkago Insomnia – 11
「夜明けの⼀番星 プレアデス星团」 (Yoake no Ichibanboshi -Pureadesu Hoshi-) "The First Stars of Dawn -The Pleiades Star Cluster-" I'll just say this much. It's testament to how otherworldly good Boku no…
Kimi wa Houkago Insomnia – 11
I can't even imagine a better feeling. Read more
If my Kimi wa Houkago Insomnia post is late this week, it's because I overslept
You put salt on the watermelon, didn't you?
Reader’s Corner: Insomniacs After School (Vol. 2), Bottom-Tier Character Tomozaki (Vol. 10), and No Longer Heroine (Vol. 3)
Legendary heroes making bento boxes, a heroine trying to break up an adorable couple, two astronomy club kids who can’t sleep, and a vampire yuri romance are all…
Spice and Wolf, Bottom-Tier Character Tomozaki, Fate/stay night, My Happy Marriage
Insomniacs After School – 11 – Invincible Peas in a Pod
An episode full of bliss begins with the worst morning of Ganta’s life, when he wakes up to find his mother has suddenly gone without a word. That…