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3-gatsu no Lion 2nd Season | Episode 10 and 11 Review
Episode Ten and eleven Thoughts Considering how long it’s taking me to finish the second season of 3-gatsu no Lion, I’ve come to the conclusion that longer length…
March Comes in Like a Lion, March comes in like a lion Season 2
338 – One Shot 36 – Mermaid in the Bottle & Leaper & Mine-kun is Asexual
On this episode we answer lots of emails and dakazu reads about the devastation on the Sanriku Railway during the 2011 Tohoku tsunami in Santetsu! Then we review…


3-gatsu no Lion 2nd Season | Episode 8 and 9 Review
Yup, it’s back. I was scrolling through my list on MAL, thinking to myself “What do I really want to watch?” and 3-gatsu no Lion 2nd Season stuck…
March Comes in Like a Lion, March comes in like a lion Season 2
Pick of the Week: Penguins, Legends and Childhood Friends
SEAN: Given that it turns out Manga Bookshelf are top-tier futurists, I’m tempted to pick March Comes in Like a Lion, but that will have to wait for…
337 – One Shot 35 – Sawanabe Zombie & Ikyoudo
This week we agree that Yusuke is superior to Gon, we celebrate the licensing of March comes in like a Lion, and we review Kakio Tsurukawa’s Sawanabe Zombie…
Pick of the Week: Listen to Our Picks
MICHELLE: I’m looking forward to getting caught up on Wave, Listen to Me! and Haikyu!! and Spy x Family are extremely high on my list of favorites, but…
Skip Beat!, Wave, Listen to Me!, March Comes in Like a Lion, Re:ZERO -Starting Life in Another World-


March Comes in Like a Lion, Pornographer: Playback, Under the Turquoise Sky, You with a 1-meter Radius, Let’s Walk Upward Japanese Film Trailers
March Comes in Like a Lion, Pornographer: Playback, Under the Turquoise Sky, You with a 1-meter Radius, Let’s Walk Upward Japanese Film Trailers
Manga the Week of 3/3/21
SEAN: March comes in like a lion with a pile of new manga, though sadly none of them are March Comes in Like a Lion. Get on that,…
TangleCast 84: Goodbye from Our Crew and a 3-Gatsu New Year
The day is here: After more than two years and 33 episodes later, our team of David, Holly, Peter, and editor, Celetron (Marcelo), are stepping away from the…
Hikaru no Go – Anime Review
A young boy finds the spirit of an ancient Go master, who will force him to play the game.
Hikaru no Go, March Comes in Like a Lion, Yu-Gi-Oh!, Yu-Gi-Oh!
Throwback Thursday: 三月のライオン (Sangetsu no Lion)
As we close out 2020, and complete our 10th year anniversary celebration, we’ve been posting a final series of Throwback Thursday posts from writers, past and present, revisiting…
Master List of Christmas Anime Episodes
A tradition as hallowed as the beach episode, and nearly as common, the Christmas anime episode is an opportunity to put anime boys and girls into festive (and…
Weekly Round-Up, 25 November – 1 December 2020: Quinton Flynn Updates, Disability in Manga, and Heart of the Woods
AniFem Round-Up The Fractured and Famous: Celebrity culture and control in Perfect Blue Priya Sridhar explores how Perfect Blue’s depiction of toxic fan culture and industry abuse still…
The Speakeasy #119: Rose of Versailles, Log Horizon, March Comes in Like a Lion, Blue Period + More
We discuss all the things we’ve been watching and reading lately: Burn the Witch, Smile Down the Runway, Higurashi New, Blue Period, March Comes in Like a Lion,…
Log Horizon, March Comes in Like a Lion, Rose of Versailles, Smile Down the Runway
How The Queen’s Gambit Feels Like An Anime
The answer? Tournaments. Dynamic characters are the bread and butter of virtually every tournament anime. The Queen's Gambit is no different.
20 Anime “Dere” Character Types That You Have Never Heard Of
Permit me to be old for just a moment, but back in my day, we only had a handful of “dere” type classifications in anime. You had: the…
Death Note, Dragon Ball Z, Black Clover, Heaven's Lost Property, The World God Only Knows
Interview with Xanthe Huynh, Suzie Yeung, and Brandon McInnis of Appare-Ranman!
During this fall anime season, we’ve had the opportunity to speak with directors and voice actors involved in the English-language version of P.A. Works’ stirring and beautifully crafte…
APPARE-RANMAN!, Maquia: When the Promised Flower Blooms, Promise
The Three Best Characters in March Comes in Like a Lion (Besides Rei)
Shouting out some of the best characters in March outside of Rei.
The Best of Us, The Worst of Us, The Lot of Us: Rei Kiriyama
Rei Kiriyama is one of the most overlooked characters in anime. Here’s why.
Feeding the Flames: A Series of Hot Takes
Taking another break this week and throwing out a few anime/gaming hot takes.
Kiriyama Rei’s painful privilege to success
No friends, no family, and far beyond his competition in terms of skill; the peerless Kiriyama Rei was painfully alone. The struggle to overcome loneliness is one of…
TheOASG Podcast Episode 105: Comic-Con@Home, Licenses, and That Cool Haikyu!! Story
Show Notes 0:00: Justin and Helen once again chat about what they’ve been up to, which, for Justin, gets into the Comic-Con@Home experience (both watching it and…taking part…
It's Impossible to Live as a Crunchyroll Translator | The Canipa Effect
Canipa discusses the issues of low pay and overwork on anime simulcast translations, particularly at Crunchyroll, a company built on the foundations of unpai...
My Hero Academia, Naruto, Recovery of an MMO Junkie, Eyeshield 21, Gargantia on the Verdurous Planet
OWLS June “Mindfulness” Tour: Shimada and Loving Shogi
Discussing the character of Shimada from March Comes in Like a Lion in the June OWLS post.
Ten Commandments. Ten Anime.
Near Eastertime, our newest write, Gaheret, began developing a series meditating on the holiday and relating specifically to the Ten Commandments. With this morning’s post, the series has…
Mob Psycho 100, Serial Experiments Lain, The Tatami Galaxy, Kino's Journey
Anime Series That Are Good But Hard to Recommend
It is, this week, our fourth anniversary! I’ve been working on this site for four long years, and it is doing great despite sometimes feeling like I’m running…
From the New World, Gintama, Kill la Kill, Legend of the Galactic Heroes, March Comes in Like a Lion
OWLS May “Adapt” Tour: Rei and the Need to Adapt
In “March Comes in Like a Lion,” Rei deals with many challenges, often ones that require adaptation.
Easter: Ten Anime for the Ten Commandments (I)
Christ is Risen, Alleluia! After the long wait, Easter comes in like a lion, even through the struggles of the pandemic. The circumstances make it a time for heroism…
Anime March Madness 2020: Round One (Day Two)
We kicked off the first set of matches yesterday and have four more for you today! Voting closes at 7:00 a.m. ET tomorrow. Remember that you can also…
Manga the Week of 3/4/20
SEAN: March is coming in like a lion, unless you mean March Comes in Like a Lion the manga, that’s still unlicensed. But what else do we have?…
30 Day Anime Challenge Two: Day 29
It is day 29 of the second 30 Day Anime Challenge. #29: Favorite Anime Franchise Lol, I’m not even explaining this. March Comes in Like a Lion is…
OWLS February "Legacy" Post: "March Comes in Like a Lion" and a Guide for Depression
"I have talked a number of times, and will continue to do so, about the impact that 'March Comes in Like a Lion.'"
Gushing About “March Comes in Like a Lion,” But on this Blog
Welcome, weebs, to Ani- Oh, wait, this is supposed to be for Ayano. Hmmm, well I suppose it would not be a bad idea to potentially attract some…
A Decade of Anime – 2016
Here we are, the year that started the blog and had me watching more anime than ever before. Also the year with two of my favourite anime ever…
Anime Feminist’s Top 25 Anime of the Decade
The Roaring Twenties are right around the bend! Before we turn that corner and leave the Turbulent Tens behind us, we wanted to lavish some love on the…
TangleCast 68: Christmas Special
This Christmas Eve, we’re bringing you a quieter, more intimate episode of the TangleCast. Join Peter as he chats with Holly, David, and our editor, Marcelo, about their…
12 Days of Christmas: March Comes in Like a Lion
Day 9: Reason During the holiday season,we are surrounded by thoughts of gifts, vacation, and Christmas cheer. As I’m writing now, we are much closer to the Christmas…
Chica Umino Talks About How Western Children’s Literature Influenced Her Stories
In Japan, it is common for classics to be republished with modern manga-style cover art to appeal to a younger audience. Shueisha did that for Anne of Green…
2018 Anime Year in Review
Overall this feels like one of the weaker years for anime in recent memory. Yes, I’m giving 3 “outstanding” ratings, but 2 of them are for series begun…
GeGeGe no Kitaro, Golden Kamuy, Karakuri Circus, March Comes in Like a Lion, My Hero Academia
[12 Days 2018] Day 12: Best of Anime, Part 2!
Another year of anime and blogging in the books! Thank you all for reading the 12 Days of Anime posts until now. To end off, we take a…
[12 Days 2018] Day 11: Best of Anime, Part 1!
Welcome to Through the Painting’s third iteration of the annual Top Anime Awards! This is where I run through what I’ve seen of this year’s anime and award…


Back to the anime life, for now
Hello there! I’m back! …for a while at least. Unbelievable, it’s been 2 years since I posted anything! So what have I been up to? Mostly real life…
Golden Kamuy, HINAMATSURI, Macross, Nodame Cantabile, Piano no Mori
Episode 563: After the Lion
Happy Father's Day! This week Joseph has plenty of Fire Emblem Tharja and Overwatch to talk about, and Andrew celebrates the recruitment of the VG Pulse hosts to…
After the Rain, Fire Emblem, Kill la Kill, March Comes in Like a Lion
How Studio Shaft Crafts the Perfect Montage (March Comes In Like a Lion)
In which I continue to be a pretentious fuck and break down as many details about March Comes In Like a Lion's opening episode in as much depth…
Rashomon and March Comes in Like a Lion
Matt Harvey was DFA’d?? Not to be confused with the Woken one, Matt Hardy. This is the Mets pitcher, and he’s been kind of bad since 2016 after…
March Comes in Like a Lion (Season 2) Ends
March Comes in Like a Lion (Crunchyroll) serves as a object lesson that you shouldn’t rely too much on first impressions. After the first episode of the first…
The Essence of Visual Storytelling (March Comes in Like a Lion Ep. 1)
Join me as I once again get myself off by looking waaaaaaay too deep into every single cut. March Comes in Like a Lion has a fantastic grasp of…
Bottom Two Anime of 2017, and All the Rest
And good-bye to 2017. Having covered my top shows for the year, it’s time to hit up the worsts and all the rest. Shows marked with an asterisk…


My Top 14 Anime of 2017
2016 didn’t really end when it became 2017 and this hellscape of a world continues to get increasingly stupid and hostile, but hey! At least the anime was…
Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid, New Game!, Showa Genroku Rakugo Shinju, The Eccentric Family, March Comes in Like a Lion
2017 Anime Year in Review
2017 was like most years in anime: a lot of crap, some amusing but forgettable shows, some pretty good shows and a small number that seem like real…
Gabriel DropOut, Hozuki's Coolheadedness, Little Witch Academia, My Hero Academia, Showa Genroku Rakugo Shinju