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Summer 2024 Anime Check-Up: Second Week Impressions (a lot happened this past week)
I’m only watching four shows at the moment, but all four have been enjoyable, which a not something I could say about the last two seasons. I’m getting…
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Summer 2024 Anime Check-Up: First Week Impressions
For those who have followed this blog for a while, you would know I am not good at catching up with weekly releases, especially at the start of…
BATTERY the animation, Oblivion Battery, One Piece, The Elusive Samurai
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DanielSonic Anime Awards: Spring 2024
The more I write on this blog, the more I’ve wanted to talk about something besides animation quality. Therefore, I have forgone the “Sakuga Round-Ups” of the past.…
Delicious in Dungeon, Kaiju No.8, One Piece, The Grimm Variations, WIND BREAKER
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Final Spring 2024 Anime Check-Up: Everything’s Mediocre
This was more disappointing than last season. At least Winter gave me something to be mad about (i.e. Solo Leveling), but Spring had nothing to write home about.…
Solo Leveling, Unnamed Memory, WIND BREAKER, Azumanga Daioh: The Animation, Little Shark's Day Out
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Monthly Rewatches: April 2024
I would have released this much earlier, but the antics of two famous lyricists held my attention throughout the week. If I was confident about my analytical skills…
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Spring 2024 Anime Season Check-Up: Happily Never After
I normally make a long-winded intro for these check-ups, but I’m super behind schedule, so uhhhhhhh…… here ya go.
Unnamed Memory, Delicious in Dungeon, Kaiju No.8, Little Shark's Day Out, Re:Monster
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Spring 2024 Anime Season Check-Up: Red Flags Need Love Too
Spring 2023 is a slow season for anime so far. Aside from the return of KonoSuba and Spice and Wolf, there hasn’t been as many shows in widespread…
Dawang Raoming, Kaiju No.8, Solo Leveling, Spice and Wolf, BATTERY the animation
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Sakuga Roundup: Winter 2024
(This was supposed to be postponed, but I couldn’t help myself) It seems like Winter is a slow season for sakuga. When I started watching anime regularly in…
Delicious in Dungeon, My Dress-Up Darling, One Piece, Shangri-La, Shangri-La Frontier
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2024 Winter Anime Season Ranked
I usually make a different kind of post at the end of the season, but this time I’m doing something different. For this post, I ranked every anime…
Yu-Gi-Oh!, BUCCHIGIRI?!, Sasaki and Peeps, The Fire Hunter, Yu-Gi-Oh!
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Monthly Rewatches: February 2024
This was a light workload for this month’s rewatch session, so I went extra hard with each entry. I hope that explains why it took me a week…
One Piece, Solo Leveling, The Weakest Tamer Began a Journey to Pick Up Trash
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Anime Check-Up: Good food from unlikely places
That’s right, I’m bringing this format back (not that anyone cares). Unlike my previous attempts at an “Anime Check-Up” format, I’m not going to post these at a…
Blue Giant, Little Shark's Day Out, Metallic Rouge, The Fire Hunter, A Letter to Momo
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Monthly Anime Rewatches – January 2024
This Winter season hasn’t been promising this year, but there still a lot of cool stuff worth a second viewing.
Delicious in Dungeon, Metallic Rouge, One Piece, Undead Unluck, Urusei Yatsura
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Sakuga Awards 2023
(This post has no affiliation with Sakugabooru’s Animation Awards) Welcome to the 1st Annual Sakuga Awards, where we celebrate the best that animation has to offer. I’m your…
Undead Unluck, JUJUTSU KAISEN, Magical Destroyers, Scott Pilgrim Takes Off, Tengoku Daimakyo
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2023 Sakuga Awards Survey: 2 Days Left
On January 4th, I launched a post notifying my readers that I was making a 2023 Sakuga Awards post in the future. I wanting anyone who saw that…
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Sakuga 2023 Awards: Poll Time
At the end of every season, I took the time to list my favorite pieces of animation to come out of Japan and elsewhere, from TV episodes to…
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Sakuga Roundup: Fall 2023
Fall 2023 was an absolutely stacked season for Sakuga. I decided to reduce my Top Episode list from 10 to 5 entries, but that reduce the… the quality…
Undead Unluck, Attack on Titan, JUJUTSU KAISEN, The Apothecary Diaries
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Monthly Anime Rewatches – November 2023
Every month, I take the time to rewatch a few episodes, OPs, EDs and shorts from this season. The entries in this post applies to the whole Fall…
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Monthly Anime Rewatches – October 2023
Every month, I take the time to rewatch a few episodes, OPs, EDs and shorts from this season. Here’s my thoughts on what I rewatched this month. Undead…
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Sakuga Highlights: Yuusha by YOASOBI
I didn’t watch this music video when I was making my Sakuga Roundup, so this short blurb was made to make up for that. Sousou no Frieren is…
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Sakuga Roundup: Summer 2023
It’s that time of the season again; it’s time to showcase the best animation the anime world had to offer this Summer. This time around, I decided to…
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Summer 2023 Anime Season Check-Up: I swear, I don’t post monthly
There’s a reason I’ve been absent for so long, but I would prefer not to go into detail. Long story short, I could not access WordPress, YouTube, or…
Bleach, Bungo Stray Dogs, Horimiya, JUJUTSU KAISEN, One Piece
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Summer 2023 Anime Season Check-Up: Rare MAPPA W
This last month has been busy, both with me going to Comic-Con and taking care of my pets after surgery. Still, I took the time to catch up…
My Happy Marriage, The Masterful Cat is Depressed Again Today, Black Clover, Bungo Stray Dogs, JUJUTSU KAISEN
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Summer 2023 Anime Season Check-Up: The Good, the Bad, and the GoHands.
I’m trying to do regular posts again. Hopefully I won’t get discouraged this time around. Currently airing: Jujutsu Kaisen Season 2 Episodes 1 & 2 About a year…
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Sakuga Roundup: Spring 2023
It’s that time of the season again; it’s time to showcase the best animation the anime world had to offer this Spring. Each entry has a “Notable Scenes”…
Magical Destroyers, My Love Story with Yamada-kun at Lv999, My One-Hit Kill Sister, One Piece, Ranking of Kings
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Sakuga Highlights – Spring 2023 (May Update)
The Spring anime season is definitely better than Winter this year. Favorite Episodes One Piece #1061-1062 I’ve been waiting for these episodes for about half a year, and…
Magical Destroyers, My Love Story with Yamada-kun at Lv999, My One-Hit Kill Sister, One Piece, Ranking of Kings
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Spring 2023 Sakuga Highlights – April Update
(Meant to post this 2 weeks ago, sorry) This is the start of a post series that highlights the great animation I’ve seen. These are monthly posts, but…
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Spring 2023 Seasonal Anime Ranking – April Update
#1. Tengoku Daimakyou Tengoku Daimakyou, or Heavenly Delusion, blew up almost overnight. I remember seeing an animated PV for the manga around 3 years ago, but I haven’t…
Magical Destroyers, Ranking of Kings, Skip and Loafer, Tengoku Daimakyo
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DanielSonic Sakuga Awards Winter 2023
How ya’ doin’ folks? Welcome to the Winter 2023 Sakuga Awards, and I’m your host, Marcus Markinson. *stock_applause.mp4* Thank you, thank you, you’re too kind. Now, we’ve got…
The Fire Hunter, Urusei Yatsura, Bungo Stray Dogs, Cardfight Vanguard, My Hero Academia
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Winter Anime 2023 Ranked
This was a weird Winter for me. I hadn’t watched most of the big shows this anime season. There were too many sequels to catch up with, and…
Attack on Titan, Ayakashi, Ayakashi Triangle, Bungo Stray Dogs, Play It Cool, Guys
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Top 10 Anime Episodes of Winter 2023 (February Update)
It’s been a while since I posted, huh? Last week’s ranking was pretty weak since I only watched 10 episodes of currently airing anime back in January. Luckily,…
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Weekly Recap 3: The Mid-ening
Covers February 12-18, 2023. THIS IS MY LAST WEEKLY UPDATE I planned to post this a day or two earlier, but I had a family matter to attend…
Buddy Daddies, Bungo Stray Dogs, Play It Cool, Guys, My Hero Academia, One Piece
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Weekly Recap 2: The Backlogs (Found Footage)
Covers the week of February 5 2023 to February 11 2023. It’s been a long week. I’ve got my first paid graphic design project in months, and I’m…
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Shorts Spotlight: Primitive Flame
Credit: 猴houge on YouTube / @nian4111 on Twitter I wanted to talk about this a week ago, but I didn’t have time until today. In fact, I still…
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Weekly Recap 1: DanielSonic regrets his life decisions.
Covers the week of January 29 2023 to February 4 2023. Currently Airing ONIMAI #1-5 I got a lot of notes on this one. I was excited when…
Bungo Stray Dogs, Play It Cool, Guys, One Piece, One-Punch Man
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Top 10 Anime Episodes of Winter 2023 (January)
I’ve only watched 4 shows this month, so I’ve only seen 10 episodes of anime total this month. I’m updating this list at the end of February, so…
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Top 5 OPs and EDs of Winter 2023 (January)
The original criteria for this list was that these OPs and EDs all had to come from shows I watched this season. However, I only managed 4 shows…
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Welcome to the Blog, I guess
This is my new blog. Here, I talk about stuff I’ve seen or heard. Most of it will be anime focussed, but I might talk about films or music,…