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Fruit Brains

This one is literally hot off the presses - well, hot off the airways. Fruit Brains ( Kudamonou ) appeared on a Japanese variety show a few...

Collectr's Blog

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25 Gifts Anime Gave The LGBT Community

Uncensored/Bonus Content Version Of This Video: https://www.patreon.com/KrisPNatz As we count down the days to Christmas let's open some GIFTS a few days early with these 25 anime, movies, characters,…

KrisPNatz

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The Kappa Kappa Butthole Musical Changed My Life!

It’s been a while! This post is not an article, but an announcement that I was part of a Sarazanmai zine arranged by Tomatobird: “Well, we didn’t get…

Coherent Cats

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The Manga Rainbow

…taste the rainbow, am I right? Tune of the post: Born This Way by Lady Gaga (YouTube, Spotify), because…well, why […]

Animanga Spellbook

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Episode 213 - Sarazanmai

This week, it has been less than a month and the frog memes have already gotten to Shaun, so let's sit back w/ our favorite Twitch emote and…

Anime Out of Context

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Penguindrum – Messy Characters Who Try To Hold Onto Something

I’ve only ever written about Utena a while back and a little bit about Sarazanmai when it was airing a while back, but I haven’t discussed all of…

Mechanical Anime Reviews

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Tomohiro Furukawa, Revue Starlight The Movie, And The Legacy Of Experience-Centric Anime

Tomohiro Furukawa draws from the philosophy and methods of living legends like Mamoru Oshii, Hideaki Anno, and his mentor Kunihiko Ikuhara. He reconstructs their teaching and his influences…

Sakuga Blog

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Spy x Family And The Messy History, Dynamics, And Intent Of Anime Co-productions

It’s no secret that Spy x Family is a co-production between Studio WIT and CloverWorks, but what’s the backstory behind that deal, what does it involve, and what…

Sakuga Blog

Review: SARAZANMAI - REO & MABU

Let's take a look at a much more recent manga prequel to the latest outing from one of anime's critical darlings. SARAZANMAI: REO & MABU ( R...

The Manga Test Drive

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Weird Anime: 20 Ridiculous and Bizarre Anime Series Ever Made

If you watch enough anime, as I have been doing over two decades at this point, your are bound to run into some weird ones. Admittedly, anime has…

Recommend Me Anime

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What I Watched This Week – 8/15-8/21

Sarazanmai – I first tried watching this shortly after it aired, and couldn’t finish the first episode on account of it being so damn weird. After watching people…

The Romantic Goldfish

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Day 3 of Hotsui Matsuri: Nihongo Legends- The Mighty Kappa

Hey ya’ll. It’s Luna here, and today for Hotsui Matsuri I wanna talk about some Nihongo Legends. And today? Today on Nihongo Legends, we’re going to be talking…

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It’s Funny because– Humor and Anime

Hello and welcome back to Otaku Thursday! We have reached the end of April which means it’s time for me to serve you up our last Fufufu’s Day…

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Anime Series Like Otherside Picnic

After accidentally entering, Sorao finds herself in the desolate, and as she discovers, dangerous Otherworld. As she ponders whether to just die or not, she is saved by…

Recommend Me Anime

Utena: After the Revolution (with Rose Bridges)

Covers all the short stories in Revolutionary Girl Utena: After the Revolution by Chiho SaitoFor the 20th anniversary of Revolutionary Girl Utena, we were gifted this volume of…

Shojo & Tell: A Manga Podcast

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Tagging Anime with Color Challenge!

We’ve been tagged! Thank you so much Edy from Convoluted Situation for thinking of us in this beautiful tagging challenge! We had a few good laughs putting this…

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The Kunihiko Ikuhara school for teachers (why Wonder Egg Priority’s Sawaki is bad actually)

Is Shuuichirou Sawaki all that bad? I’ve seen this question asked fairly frequently as Wonder Egg Priority has continued to air. Sawaki, who is protagonist Ai Ohto’s teacher…

atelier emily

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Wonder Egg Priority – 02 [The Terms of Friendship]

Frankly, I have never felt this immersed in an anime premiere since… Sarazanmai back in 2019, and if I look further down the line, it was Flip Flappers…

Star Crossed Anime

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Rainbow Releases: Spring & Summer 2020

In 2018, we introduced an anime convention panel called Rainbow Releases to highlight LGBTQ-related anime and manga coming to the United States in English. With anime conventions on…

Coherent Cats

Anime Series Like Arakawa Under the Bridge

Kou Ichinomiya, as the son of a wealthy businessman, has vowed never to become indebted to anyone. However,when he falls in the river under Arakawa Bridge, someone dives…

Recommend Me Anime

Sarazanmai: Reo and Mabu Review

Sarazanmai: Reo and Mabu feels in some ways like a fluffy vacation, which doesn't make the story bad, but feels like only a one-time read.

TheOASG

LGBTQIA+ outside of Yaoi, Yuri and Hentai–Favorite Queers in Anime and Manga!

Welcome back for our last Niji Nights! Tonight is a collab post between the both of us. Star and I chose some of our fave characters/couples from non…

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Chatty AF 118: SARAZANMAI Retrospective

Vrai, Chiaki, and Dee take a look back at yet another difficult to succinctly summarize TV anime by Ikuhara, SARAZANMAI! You know the deal (or maybe you don't…

Anime Feminist

How Can I Connect to You? Breaking out of toxic masculinity and capitalist ideologies in SARAZANMAI

Both Kazuki and Toi emerge from similar circumstances of capitalism, oppression, and the hypermasculine coping mechanisms they’ve been given to deal with the pain of that oppression. It…

Anime Feminist

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Fragglepuss Anime Review 293: Sarazanmai

Sarazanmai Review by: John Fragglepuss Evans Genre: Action, Fantasy, Supernatural, Kappas First Aired: Spring 2019, 11 episodes Summary: Let’s start at the beginning: Kappa are amphibious demons fo…

Fragglepuss

A Review of Given

Early in 2014, when I was just getting into anime, I decided to watch Free! Iwatobi Swim Club, the now-famous sports anime by Kyoto Animation. Being in the…

Sakura Sunrise

Newman’s Nook: Pandemic Loneliness

Novel coronavirus is changing the way most of us are living out lives. Through the pandemic, we find ourselves separated from each other. Schools, businesses, universities, and churches…

Beneath the Tangles

My Top 5 Great Anime with Questionable Premises

Anime can be kind of weird in general, however for this list I’m not just picking anime that is weird to watch. These are series where the actual…

I drink and watch anime

S3E09 - In/Spectre, Arte

In this episode of Screentone Club, Elliot and Andy are torn between multiple realms - the spoooooky yokai realm in In/Spectre and the world of the Renaissance in…

ScreenTone Club

S3E09 - In/Spectre, Arte

In this episode of Screentone Club, Elliot and Andy are torn between multiple realms - the spoooooky yokai realm in In/Spectre and the world of the Renaissance in…

ScreenTone Club

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The Decade in Review: The Japanese Industry

I said I wouldn’t be updating this blog for a while, but I remembered that I was working on a two-post "decade in review" which I had star...

The Melancholic Middle Aged Anime Fan

Day with The Cart Driver Podcast – Summer 2019 retrospective

Yeah we still doing these. We waited a little on these final two shows because a bunch of them hadn’t ended yet and we wanted at least a…

Day with the Cart Driver

Best Anime of 2019 – The Award Edition

I would like to formally welcome you all to our second annual anime awards here on You Can’t Know! After watching almost every single anime from the entire…

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Ty’s Year in Review (2019)

2019 was another awesome year for the anime fandom. Sure, it saw its fair share of controversies – while everybody else was getting all worked up over Fire…

Watashi Wa Bucho!!

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

Animation Awards 2019 Day Two: Best Aesthetics

Our animation awards continue with the aesthetics that have impacted fans and industry members the most: the most inspired art direction and color design, the animation designs that…

Sakuga Blog

Animation Awards 2019 Day One: Best Episode, Opening & Ending, And Creator Discovery

Our yearly animation awards gather writers from all around the world to highlight the animated works that resonated with them the most – and this time we’re taking…

Sakuga Blog

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

Floating Catacombs 2019 Roundup

Merry Christmas!It’s been another successful 12 Days of Anime Blogging under this URL, and I’m a lot more proud of my blogging this time around. Although I didn’t…

Floating Catacombs

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…

Anime Feminist

[Links] 18-24 December 2019: Shiori Ito Makes History, Disability in SARAZANMAI, and Misogynoir in Fandom

AniFem Round-Up [History] The Transcendent and the Perverse: Sexuality in Apollo’s Song and MW Malia looks at two of Tezuka’s darker manga focusing on human sexuality, which cast…

Anime Feminist

Day with The Cart Driver Podcast – Spring 2019 retrospective

After a brief delay we’re back with Scamp and Day and the third to last season of the decade! First Day gets to rave about Ikuahra’s Sarazanmai, then…

Day with the Cart Driver

SpaceWhales’ Top 10 Anime of 2019

With the year concluding, it's time to countdown the best anime of the year.

SpaceWhales Anime Blog

#9 — Sarazanmai (2019)

I was on board with Sarazanmai as soon as I heard it existed. If Kunihiko Ikuhara (Sailor Moon S, Revolutionary Girl Utena, Mawaru Penguindrum, Yuri Kuma Arashi) is…

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[Four] The marketing of Reo and Mabu — Sarazanmai

It’s no coincidence that Reo Niiboshi and Mabu Akutsu were marketed as a couple well before Sarazanmai‘s first episode aired. It’s also no coincidence that they were cops.…

atelier emily

My Girlfriend Writes About Sarazanmai

12 Days of Aniblogging 2019, Day 8so the show about three anal-vore-suit wearing middle schoolers orgasmically extracting fetishists’ secrets from their butts doesn’t go far enough.yeah I said…

Floating Catacombs

7th Day of Anime: Sarazanmai

I still have a hard time believing I actually sat down and watched this show, much less finished it given my initial impressions. You can backtrack to the…

Anime B&B

[Seven] In defense of Enta Jinai (again) — Sarazanmai

Enta, you beautiful idiotic trash child. Of the three Sarazanmai leads, Enta Jinai was the one who received the most criticism and backlash, particularly while the series aired.…

atelier emily