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Anime Like Train to the End of the World
The innovative upgrade to a 7G network promised technological advancements beyond belief. However, the aftermath of its official launch has turned Japan
Flip Flappers, Girls' Last Tour, Humanity Has Declined, kemurikusa., Kino's Journey
Absurd Anime! Featuring “Train to the End of the World”
“Absurd” is defined by the Merriam Webster Dictionary as “Ridiculously unreasonable, unsound, or incongruous.” Depending on who you ask, all anime is a little bit weird. But…
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...
The Duke of Death and His Maid, Laughing Salesman, Love All Play, ODDTAXI, Oishinbo
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Revue Starlight: The Movie, Sarazanmai, Yurikuma Arashi, Penguindrum, Revue Starlight
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…
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...
Reader’s Corner: Sarazanmai, The Abandoned Empress, and the Toilet-bound Hanako-kun Artbook
Reader's Corner: Sarazanmai, The Abandoned Empress, and With You and the Rain via @MDMRN @thetangles
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…
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…
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…
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…
Sarazanmai, The Girl in Twilight, Girls' Last Tour, KOKKOKU, Otherside Picnic
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…
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…
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…
![Featured image for Wonder Egg Priority – 02 [The Terms of Friendship]](https://cdn.aniblogtracker.com/live/20210123/1611376256.2281.24376.png)
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…
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…
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…
Sarazanmai, Tsuritama, Arakawa Under the Bridge, Bakemonogatari, Grand Blue Dreaming
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.
Sarazanmai Vol. 1 LN Review
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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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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...
In This Corner of the World, Macross, Sailor Moon Crystal, Space Adventure Cobra, Blood Blockade Battlefront
Nominees For The 2019 Crunchyroll Anime Awards :
The Best anime blog on anime and manga.
JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, KONOSUBA -God's blessing on this wonderful world!, Laura, Ascendance of a Bookworm, BAKI
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…
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…
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…
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.
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…
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…
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?
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…
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…
[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…
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…
SpaceWhales’ Top 10 Anime of 2019
With the year concluding, it's time to countdown the best anime of the year.
#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…
[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.…
A Magical 2019 Pt. I (4th Day of Anime 2019)
This is the yearly rankings post. Just to make it faster for myself, I’ve left the month that I finished at the end of each entry of these…
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…
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…
