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Brief Thoughts On: Ningyo (1964)
Serving as one of Osamu Tezuka's very first films, Ningyo is an interesting part of anime history to look back on.
Idol Watch #21: March/April 2024
Rounding up the best idol songs from the past two months, featuring YUION, ASP, courtesea and more, plus a look back into the great catalog of MIGMA SHELTER
A Dance Floor for Outsiders: History of Migma Shelter in 6 Songs
A look back into the psych-trance group and their incredible music before their indefinite hiatus
Winter 2024 Anime Awards
The winter 2024 season of anime has come to an end. Therefore, it is time for me to take a look back over what I watched and celebrate…
Gushing Over Magical Girls, Metallic Rouge, One Piece, The Weakest Tamer Began a Journey to Pick Up Trash
The Best Anime of Winter 2024
With the end of the Winter 2024 anime season upon us, it's time to look back at the best of what the season had to offer.
The Legacy of Akira Toriyama: Dragon Ball and Beyond
While Akira Toriyama’s passing was sudden, his legacy is eternal. Join us for a look back at the history of Akira Toriyama.
Dungeon Meshi (Delicious in Dungeon) – 09
There were a number of times I would look back on these events and remember them as the first time some or other story element was introduced.
This Week in Anime - A Look Back at Tatsuki Fujimoto Of The Prophecy
Director Kiyotaka Oshiyama will adapt Tatsuki Fujimoto's Look Back manga into an anime film this year, so there's no better time for review the inimitable creators' other one-shots.
The LONG Fall of the Ten Count Anime
Extended Uncut Version of this Video: (coming Saturday) Over the course of this channel's history, an ever present topic of discussion has been the long awaited anime adaptation of…
Otaku no Video & the History of Otaku | KYOTO VIDEO
For my 6th anniversary, I wanted to take a look back at an anime that's more of a historical document than an actual anime. Through a …
Year in Review 2023
A new year, a new reflection on the past year’s events. These posts have become somewhat therapeutic over the past few years, helping me look back at the…
Top 10 Manga Reviews of 2023
With the original Obscure Manga blog celebrating its 10th anniversary later this year in 2024, we thought it would be fun to look back over our most popular…
Looking Back at My Manga of 2023
The idea came to me to look back on the manga I read last year. My Goodreads reading challenge reveals a rather sporadic manga reading year: I never read…
AniTAY Podcast S9 E1: Looking Back on 2023
Join DocKev, Hybridmink, Reikaze and Requiem as we look back on 2023, and reminiscence memories of a fonder time!
Your Anime Rankings - Best of Fall 2023
New series are starting up one after the other, but let's take a quick break to look back on the final user rankings of the Fall 2023 season!
Earl and Fairy: The Spectral Lover
By Mizue Tani and Asako Takaboshi. Released in Japan as “Hakushaku to Yōsei” by Shueisha Cobalt Bunko. Released in North America by J-Novel Heart. Translated by Alexandra Owen-Burns.…
2023 in retrospect: top 50 amvs (ineligible videos)
Hello everybody, and welcome to my yearly look back at my favorite AMVs and (in the case of this particular post) AMV-adjacent videos from 2023! Before getting to…
Doctorkev’s 2023 Anime Postmortem — A Year Deconstructed
Happy new year, everyone! The Winter 2024 anime season hasn’t really begun yet in any meaningful sense, so let’s pause to have a look back…
Top 5 Anime of 2023
It's time to look back at the (objectively) five best anime of 2023. Did your favorite anime of the year make the list?
Sunday Retrospective (2023)
Aww dang, here we go again. It's time for the retrospective, where we look back at Sunday and wonder where all the time went. Overall this w...
Hayate the Combat Butler, Million Doll, Urusei Yatsura, Call of the Night, Case Closed
Fall 2023 Anime Week 13: Fall 2023 Anime Awards Part 2
December 30th, 2023 We finally made it to the end of the Fall season, which also means that it’s the end of 2023. This was a pretty fantastic…
Autumn 2023 Anime Awards
2023’s autumn season of anime has come to an end, therefore it is time for me to look back over what I watched and celebrate all the different…
Umamusume: Pretty Derby, Umamusume: Pretty Derby Season 3, One Piece, Soaring Sky! Precure, Stardust Telepath
Top 10 Games of 2023
As 2023 comes to an end, it’s around the time I look back and share ten of my favourite games of the year. A year that was pretty…
TOP 10 Upcoming Games of 2024
And begins that time of the year where I publish nothing but lists. Of course, I am going to start with something that doesn’t look back at this…
Best Anime of 2023!
The End is Nye! But no need to worry. Though 2023 is coming to a close, we have a year’s worth of adventurous and fun anime to look…
2023 Switch Otome Retrospective
With the new year around the corner, I thought it would be fun to look back at all the Switch otome games to make their way over to…
Mass release day — In honor of CP! 2023
Here we are yet again, marking the time of year where we look back on the good, the bad,and the sorrow, how long has it been since our…
Mass release day — In honor of CP! 2023
Here we are yet again, marking the time of year where we look back on the good, the bad,and the sorrow, how long has it been since our…
A Very GLORIO 2023: Jel’s Best Anime Moments
It is time once again for our annual look back at the past year, and my favorite anime moments from 2023.
Blast from the… 2023?! – Giant Beasts of Ars Spoiler Review
So, when you look back at older Fantasy, in a certain time frame for anime and a different one for Western media, there’s this palpable “anything goes” feeling…
So, I’m a Fujoshi: A Look Back at My Growth Within the Boys Love Fandom
Growth is a normal part of life. I am not the same person I was a year ago, a week ago, or even yesterday. Everybody goes through changes…
This Week in Anime - Key, The Landmark Visual Novel Studio
The visual novel studio Key created some of the most heartwrenching stories adapted to anime. Christopher and Steve look back on CLANNAD, Kanon, Planetarian, and more to see…
Pet Shop of Horrors | KYOTO VIDEO
In 1999, the nascent genre of "josei horror" finally got its moment in the sun. And while it was brief, it's certainly good enough to look back on…
This Week in Anime - Director Masaomi Andō, from School-Live! to SHY
Director Masaomi Andō (SHY) has quietly created some of the best series in the last decade. Steve and Nicky look back at his past work to see how…
Why OG Naruto Went So HARD
Naruto was iconic, and as a kid i was enamored by the anime. Now that it's reached its 20th anniversary, I wanted to look back fondly on the…
Weekly Round-Up, 18-24 October 2023: Bleach Recasting, Love Live Plagiarism, and Women Firefighters
AniFem Round-Up Reconsidering Belladonna of Sadness: Still powerful after almost 50 years With Discotek’s exciting rerelease on the horizon, it’s a good time to look back at this…
Ep. 105: Goodbye, Eri, by Tatsuki Fujimoto
This week, the Mangasplainers go back for a TRIPLE Chip-Dip into the oeuvre of one Mr. Tatsuki Fujimoto, creator of Chainsaw Man and Look Back
Summer 2023 Anime Awards
There was not a lot going on during the summer 2023 season of anime, so there’s not all that much to look back on. Still, I’ll guess I’ll…
Spy Classroom Season 2, YOHANE THE PARHELION -SUNSHINE in the MIRROR-, One Piece, Pretty Cure, Soaring Sky! Precure
Weekly Round-Up, 20-26 September 2023: Anarcho-Feminist Ito Noe, Video Game Actor Strike, and the End of RightStuf
AniFem Round-Up Every Rose Has Its Thorns: Vilifying female ambition in The Rose of Versailles In honor of the shoujo classic becoming available for free on RetroCrush, here’s…
This Week in Anime - Why Is It So Hard to Make Anime Into Live-Action?
With live-action One Piece receiving favorable reviews from critics and fans alike, Nick and Steve look back and previous attempts to bridge the gap between anime and live-action…
A Look Back on the Armored Core Series
It's been a hot minute since Armored Core has been a “thing,” so we've assembled a basic primer for the series for anyone wondering what the commotion is…
Anime is Dying - Here's How to Save it.
Citations and more info: https://hitregbroke.com/anime/ Anime is probably the only place where animators are pennies per hour while working in an industry valued at $25 Billion. Why? How?…
Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: 30th Anniversary Tribute
While the Power Rangers franchise is still going strong after 30 years, I thought I’d look back at the early seasons of “Mighty Morphin Power Rangers,” which premiered…
Criticism and nostalgia: My look back at The Simpsons
I know I said I probably wouldn’t ever cover western animation again, but this is an exception I have to make. A while back, I found an interesting…
Spring 2023 Anime Awards
Time to take a look back over the spring season of anime, and celebrate all my favourite things from it. The shows I watched were: – Alice Gear…
Mobile Suit Gundam: The Witch from Mercury, Mobile Suit Gundam, Mobile Suit Gundam: The Witch from Mercury Season 2, One Piece, Yuri Is My Job!
1980 Lookback, mecha designs
From the Star Blazers/Yamato Premium Fan Club magazine, Vol. 15 (October 2022): mecha designers Arashi Ishizau and Mika Akitaka look back at the progressive year 1980 and share…
The World’s Strongest Rearguard: Labyrinth Country’s Novice Seeker, Vol. 8
By Tôwa and Huuka Kazabana. Released in Japan as “Sekai Saikyou no Kouei: Meikyuukoku no Shinjin Tansakusha” by Kadokawa Books. Released in North America by Yen On. Translated…
Episode 80: Our Four-Year Anniversary
Wow, we’ve been doing this for four years! In this episode, we look back on the last four years (including the hectic last few months) and get excited…
Kenpachi is INSANE! - Bleach Arc 2 - Soul Society: The Sneak Entry
Today we're back with part 2 of my Bleach retrospective series. A series where I go through Bleach arc by arc and give my thoughts on the show…
Diva Wisteria, 9for, and TEITO drop a Jaeger bomb remix!
Diva Wisteria, 9for, and TEITO drop you into this new remix for Jaeger and go full tilt from tip off. This song hits the ground running and does…