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AniTAY Podcast S9 E16: Too Much Sugar
Sometimes Romcoms can be too sweet for the grumps in the AniTAY Podcast! Back again with more takes on the Summer 2024 Anime Season is…
Doctorkev’s Summer 2024 Anime Postmortem Part 2
The Autumn 2024 season already started a week ago, even though a handful of Summer 2024 shows either haven’t finished yet, or have only…
AniTAY’s 9 Anime of Summer 2024 You Should Watch
How was your summer? What sorts of fun did you get into? Watch any good anime? Our folks at AniTAY sure did, and we are excited to share…
Doctorkev’s Summer 2024 Anime Postmortem Part 1
It’s that time in the season where things are starting to wind down. Although quite a few shows still have one or two episodes left, at…
AniTAY Podcast S9 E15.5: Fall Anime Preview
It’s time for the fall seasonal podcast. AniTAY gets together once more to give you insight on the upcoming anime season.
The Fragrant Flower Blooms With Dignity Manga Review
Star-crossed lovers, a tale as old as time. A romance that pulls at your heartstrings in the most pleasant of ways.
Monogatari Off Season: Nademonogatari Anime Review: DoctorKev and Lia
A long time ago, I used to do deep dives into every Monogatari arc, ranting and raving about how much I adored the franchise. The talented…
AniTAY Podcast S9 E15: Too Many Losing Bowties
The best way to grab a weeb’s attention is to put too many bowties on yourself. Get more silly pieces of advice by listening to the…
Mashle’s Fun is an Easy Recommendation
Everyone loves Harry Potter — even if you say you hate it, you love it. Calm down, Nathan, that was a joke, it’s okay I understand you’d…
AniTAY Podcast S9 E14: My Diagnosis, Needs More Trauma
Don’t you hate being stuck in meetings? Our local DocKev recommends inflicting trauma to yourself and others to relieve the boredom.
The Definitive Ghost in the Shell Franchise Review Guide
Apart from my long-running Monogatari review-marathon, I’ve never attempted such a large writing project as reviewing my way through…
Love is in the Air (Summer 2024 Season)
Another season, another batch of romance shows to check out and/or avoid. Now that we’re nearly halfway through the current season, let’s…
Doctorkev’s Thoughts on the Summer 2024 Anime Season: Sequels and Ongoing Shows
Having recently covered this anime season’s middling selection of new shows, it’s now time for me to look at a far more exciting selection…
Doctorkev’s Thoughts on the Summer 2024 Anime Season: New Shows
It’s been a while since I last wrote about anime — partly because I took a month or so off writing mainly for health reasons (a…
Discovering Myself in Anime
When I came out and announced that I would be transitioning to my friends, several of them joked that I was the last person to figure out…
TYPE MOON Review: Tsukihime: A Piece of Blue Glass Moon
Kinoko Nasu certainly has a knack for writing terrifying women. From Witch on the Holy Night’s Aoko Aozaki and Alice Kuonji, to Garden of…
AniTAY Podcast S9 E13: Dick Fight Island
Join DocKev, Gugsy (AKA Coach), Lia, Reikaze and Reqiuem as they talk about sweaty dudes hitting each other and other things in relation to…
Time is Running Out for ‘That Time I Got Reincarnated As a Slime’s Third Season
When I think of the examples for isekai done right, a few names jump out: Mushoku Tensei, Re:Zero, The Eminence in Shadow, Tsukimichi, The…
AniTAY Podcast: Summer 2024 Preview
AniTAY Podcast: Summer 2024 Preview:
The 6 Anime of Spring 2024 You Should Watch
It has been exactly ten years since AniTAY first published a seasonal list of recommended anime series. Since then, we have put out a list…
AniTAY Podcast Season 9 E12: Anime Came Back With Milk!!!!!!!
Join DoctorKev, Hybridmink, Raitzeno and Reqiuem as they talk about the new shows from the Summer 2024 Season, but also talk about things…
“Hollow Hunger” — Overlord and a Complicated Viewing Experience
I’m coming in hot this time, Overlord has caused me more frustration than anything I can remember watching in the last few years. Four…
Masamune Shirow’s Ghost in the Shell 2: Man-Machine Interface Manga Review
Finally, I’ve reached the (probable) end of my enormous Ghost in the Shell (GitS) retrospective article series, with this, my 36th article…
Masamune Shirow’s Ghost in the Shell 1.5: Human Error Processor Manga Review
Although my recent coverage of the vastness of the Ghost in the Shell (GitS) franchise lately has been nothing short of exhaustive (and…
The Summer 2024 AniTAY Sequel Guide
Got an anime backlog to fill? Check out our hot summer sequel guide for some suggestions to keep you inside in the cool!
Ghost in the Shell: Virtual Reality Diver VR 360 Video Review
Just when I think I’ve exhausted every single animated incarnation of Ghost in the Shell (GitS), my online detective work finds yet another…
Ghost in the Shell Stand Alone Complex Official Log 1 DVD/Guide Book Review
Until recently, I had no idea this hardback book/DVD combo even existed — it completely passed me by upon its release in 2005. That’s been…
Ghost In The Shell SAC_2045 Official Visual Book Review
While it seems like the 2020–2022 anime series Ghost in the Shell: SAC_2045 may be generally disliked (unfairly in my opinion) by the vast…
Doctorkev’s Spring 2024 Anime Postmortem: Part 2
Some of this season’s anime really left the conclusion of their runs right up to the wire, only ending today on the last day of June! Some…
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Masamune Shirow’s PIECES Gem 01 [The Ghost in the Shell Data +α] Art Book Review
Published in 2014 to mark Ghost in the Shell’s 25th anniversary (the first manga chapter was published in March 1989), this small hardback…
The Art of Ghost in the Shell Hardcover Review
If there was one positive aspect of director Rupert Sanders’ 2017 live action movie version of Ghost in the Shell, it was the phenomenal…
AniTAY Podcast S9 E11: The Episode with Yuri Subtext
It’s the end of Spring, you know what that means… YURI subtext. AniTAY discusses the end of the season and one show with yuri… ENJOY!
Doctorkev’s Spring 2024 Anime Postmortem: Part 1
It’s that time of the season where I look back with regret that once again I was unable to contain myself and ended up watching far too…
Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence Ani-Manga Box Set Review
The idea of using photographs to produce comics has been around for a long time, across many cultures, appearing to originate in 1940s…
Ghost in the Shell: The Official Movie Novelization Review
I often wonder what the point of movie novelisations are in the modern day. When I was a kid, novelisations played an important role —…
Ghost in the Shell (2017) Live Action Movie Review
It was inevitable that we would eventually find ourselves here. After spending months delving deeply into the voluminous Ghost in the Shell…
Ghost in the Shell: SAC_2045: Sustainable War Movie Review
Now that I’ve covered all three of the mid-2000s Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex films (The Laughing Man, Individual Eleven, and…
Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex: Individual Eleven OVA Review
Yesterday I reviewed the first Stand Alone Complex (SAC) compilation OVA/movie that streamlined the first season’s Laughing Man storyline…
AniTAY Podcast S9 E10: This Episode was Sponsored By Netflix
This week’s members: DocKev, Gugsy, Marquan, and Requiem, with Reikaze handling the editing duties.
Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex: The Laughing Man OVA Review
What, exactly, are the point of compilation films? In the context of popular TV anime shows, it seems they mainly exist to re-package and…
Ghost in the Shell: Comic Tribute Review
We’re really getting into the weeds with this one. Up until now I’ve done my best to cover everything Ghost in the Shell published in…
The Ghost in the Shell: Global Neural Network Review
Despite originating as a Japanese property, first with a manga written and drawn by Masamune Shirow, and a subsequent anime movie directed…
The Ghost in the Shell: Five New Short Stories Review
Around of the time of 2017’s Hollywood live action Ghost in the Shell movie there were a flurry of tie-in books published. Apart from the…
Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex Novel Vol.3: White Maze Review
With this third Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex novel, I come to the end of Junichi Fujisaku’s work on the franchise (apart from…
Ghost In The Shell: Stand Alone Complex Novel Vol. 2: Revenge Of The Cold Machines Review
Revenge of the Cold Machines is the second in Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex TV scriptwriter Junichi Fujisaku’s trilogy of spinoff…
Ghost In The Shell: Stand Alone Complex Novel Vol. 1: The Lost Memory Review
Which writers or directors immediately spring to mind when you think of Ghost in the Shell (GitS)? Original author Masamune Shirow is a…
Love Is In The Air this Spring 2024 Anime Season
There are fewer things in life I enjoy more than a good romance. Now, let’s check out what this anime season is offering us.
Masamune Shirow’s Intron Depot 1 Review
As a manga-obsessed kid in the early 1990s, the art of Masamune Shirow had an enormous impact on my adolescence. In my mind, the artists…
Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex Manga Volumes 1–5 Review
Sometimes, when you read tie-in media, do you wonder why does this exist? In the Very Far Before Times, before even DVDs, before even VHS…
The Serial Betrayal of an Audience
It has been almost four years since The Day I Became a God aired, and I would be lying to say I don’t think about it more frequently…