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Winter 2024 Anime First Impressions Part 2
I have limited love in my heart, or indeed enthusiasm. All of that enthusiasm shall be directed towards Bravern. There will be no enthusiasm left for anything else…
Winter 2024 Anime First Impressions Part 1
If I write “part 1” in the title of this post, it not only encourages my loyal readerbase to come back for the second part, but it also…
Anime of the Year 2023
These are the looks you get if you haven’t watched Migi and Dali yet. Around November I found myself wondering if this year was truly one of the…
Winter 2024 Anime Season Preview
They’re making another Madoka Magica sequel movie. In the year of our lord Madoka 2024. Honestly? Fine, I’ll take it. Yeah Magia Rising didn’t work for me, but…
Is Space Dandy still one of my favourite anime of all time
The level to which Space Dandy ended up being forgotten by time remains shocking to me. It launched with such fanfare. Here was the director of Cowboy Bebop…
Fall 2023 Anime Early Impressions Part 2
I enjoy how pleasingly round Frieren’s head is. It’s one of those details that makes you nod your head in quiet satisfaction. Also noticed the slight change in…
Fall 2023 Anime First Impressions Part 1
Ron Kamonohasi used the geass in the first episode of that show, so obviously I’m going to watch all of it. Guys, I think this deranged detective might…
Fall 2023 Anime Season Preview
Ah shit, it’s already September? I haven’t written a post in almost 3 months? Well at least I got this post out on the very first day of…
Summer 2023 Anime First Impressions
My computer blew up over a week ago. Hard drive fried, I was left to wander the streets in search of substanance. I would blow on windows then…
Summer 2023 Anime Season Preview
Just reminding everyone how goddamn amazing the Jujutsu Kaisen ED is. Somehow this season they’ve managed to not pack in a single sequel I actually want to watch,…
Is Death Note still one of my favourite anime of all time
My very first post announcing the start of the Favourite Anime Project lead with a picture from Death Note. The idea behind starting this project was that I…
Is Roujin Z still one of my favourite anime of all time
Roujin Z was an absolute gem of a find for me when going through old anime OVAs. Here was something written by the author of Akira, as well…
Is Kino’s Journey still one of my favourite anime of all time
When I originally saw Kino’s Journey, I thought it was such a smart, thoughtful anime. Each episode had a meaning, almost like a Aesop’s fable. The simplicity of…
Is Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann still one of my favourite anime of all time
Gurren Lagann was the goddamn best shit back when it aired. A supposedly dying Gainax out of nowhere dropped the single best super robot anime of all time,…
Spring 2023 Anime Early Impressions part 2
I thought this season of Birdie Wing would struggle to live up to the lesbian golf mafia mania of season 1, but then someone got a DNA test…
Is Dominion Tank Police still one of my favourite anime of all time
Around 2010 I went back in time (metaphorically speaking) and dusted off an old VHS player (metaphorically speaking) to watch a whole bunch of old anime OVAs. Between…
Spring 2023 Anime Early Impressions part 1
I’m here to report that Dr Stone is still amazing, or more like Dr Swag. Also the author should put all his female characters in sunglasses because that…
Is Puella Magi Madoka Magica still one of my favourite anime of all time
Madoka was an absolute sensation when it aired. It was the new defining anime, kickstarting a new era in anime fandom. At least, that’s what it felt like…
Spring 2023 Anime Season Preview
BIRDIE WING BIRDIE WING BIRDIE WING time to watch the lesbian golf mafia murder each other with bogeys hell yeah! err-hum. Welcome to Day the The Cart Driver’s…
A year into the Favourite Anime Project
A year ago I embarked upon an perilous journey that would drive even the bravest adventurers mad. Yes, I decided to rewatch all my favourite anime. Spare your…
Is School Rumble still one of my favourite anime of all time?
School Rumble was a lot of firsts for me in my anime fandom. It was one of the first anime I ever watched. It was one of the…
Is Redline still one of my favourite anime of all time
Redliiiine! I saw Redline in the cinema when it first came out. I then went and watched it again in another cinema. Then I went and watched it…
Predicting the Crunchyroll Anime Award 2022 winners
The Crunchyroll Anime Awards are about a week away. To keep up my new tradition of predicting the winners as I did last year, time to see if…
The problems with the Crunchyroll Anime Awards
Last year I did a whole string of posts predicting the winners of the Crunchyroll Anime Awards. I got them about half-right, with most of my errors coming…
Is Steins;Gate still one of my favourite anime of all time
Visual novel adaptations used to be way more of a thing. I hated basically all of them, since they tended to fall into one of two categories: Dating…
Short reviews of every game I played in 2022
When the pandemic started and I was stuck indoors, I decided to dig through my library of games and achieved the unthinkable in clearing out my Steam backlog.…
Is Arakawa Under the Bridge still one of my favourite anime of all time
Arakawa Under the Bridge was my favourite TV anime of 2010. It was an early anime I blogged weekly and I went extremely in depth covering it, more…
Winter 2023 Anime First Impressions part 2
My expression as I sit through more isekai anime before I finally have enough episodes of Vinland Saga stacked up to watch in one big cosy sitting. Except…
Winter 2023 Anime First Impressions part 1
When I first watched Vinland Saga, it was after having multiple wisdom teeth taken out. I was drugged up on painkillers and feeling sorry for myself, looking much…
Is Berserk still one of my favourite anime of all time?
Berserk was the subject of one of my most effervescent, breathless, glowing reviews I’ve ever written, way back in 2010. I didn’t just enjoy Berserk. I thought it…
My Top 10 Anime of the Year 2022
I’m writing this intro after having finished the entire rest of this post. The writing process helped me collect my thoughts and come up with a short and…
Winter 2023 Anime Season Preview
I like to open new season posts with the Best Girl of the season. So naturally here’s Best Girl Thorkell, back to grace our screens with their presence.…
Is Mobile Suit Gundam 0080: War in the Pocket still one of my favourite anime of all time
I’ve come to the gradual realisation over my lifetime that I’ve never really been a Gundam fan. I’m don’t particularly like any of the alternate universe Gundams that…
Mobile Suit Gundam, Mobile Suit Gundam 00, Mobile Suit Gundam 0080: War in the Pocket
Is Arrietty still one of my favourite anime of all time
I love Arrietty to bits. It might be my favourite Ghibli movie ever, or at least it was up there tied with Porco Rosso. I’d always figured it…
Is Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex still one of my favourite anime of all time?
Few anime had the reach of Ghost in the Shell. It’s massively inspirational for anime and cyberpunk, arguably right up there alongside Blade Runner. It is a rare…
Is Akira still one of my favourite anime of all time?
Akira is the anime I’ve seen the most, albeit not intentionally. I first saw it as a young teenager since my dad owned it on VHS. My parents…
Is Cromartie High School still one of my favourite anime of all time
Comedies have not fared well in this project to rewatch my old favourite anime. Daily Lives of Highschool Boys ran out of jokes after 2 episodes and just…
Fall 2022 Anime First Impressions
It’s already happening. Chainsaw Man posts are spreading to the furthest reaches of anime fandom. Soon non-anime fans will start talking about it. Your parents will send you…
Is Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood still one of my favourite anime of all time
Fullmetal Alchemist. *eyecatch, slightly different voice* Fullmetal Alchemist. If you gathered 10,000 anime fans in a room and told them they couldn’t leave until they agreed upon one…
Is Princess Jellyfish still one of my favourite anime of all time
I do not think Princess Jellyfish will have aged well. Let’s just put that out there right now. It was one of the josei anime made back during…
Fall 2022 Anime Season Preview
Get ready to see this anime girl’s face everywhere. Welcome to Day with The Cart Driver’s world-renowned anime season preview! This time we’re covering the fall 2022 season,…
Is Tatami Galaxy still one of my favourite anime of all time?
The Tatami Galaxy is by the acclaimed auteur director Maasaki Yuasa. I saw it as it aired back in 2010, only 2 years after his previous work Kaiba,…
Is Millennium Actress still one of my favourite anime of all time
Millennium Actress is a movie I would consider perfect. For as much as Perfect Blue is a traumatic horror without peer, and as much as Tokyo Godfathers is…
Is Crest of the Stars still one of my favourite anime of all time?
I came to a shocking realisation recently: Nobody watches Crest of the Stars anymore. I used to categorise it alongside Spice and Wolf as “well-written anime about a…
Call of the Night is the lo-fi chill FLCL to relax and get horny to
A teenage boy is feeling unhappy, unsure at his direction in life, and slightly estranged from his parents and in school. Then an older woman appears out of…
Is Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust still one of my favourite anime of all time
I have a big soft spot for Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust. It was so unapologetically goth that it broke through any cynicism I might have towards the genre…
Night Warriors: Darkstalkers' Revenge, Vampire Hunter D, Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust
Is Daily Lives of Highschool Boys still one of my favourite anime of all time?
I would not still be an anime fan if Daily Lives of Highschool Boys didn’t come along. Cast our minds back to the start of the 2010s. It…
Is Porco Rosso still one of my favourite anime of all time?
I’m a bit of a Ghibli hipster. When other people are listing their favourite Ghibli movies with Spirited Away, Princess Mononoke or My Neighbour Totoro, I’m out here…
Summer 2022 Anime Season Preview
It’s Day with The Cart Driver’s world famous anime season preview for summer 2022! After an unusually good spring anime season, I’m feeling refreshed and reinvigorated and excited…
Is Baccano still one of my favourite anime of all time?
Baccano aired in 2007, right when the home video market crashed, the world as a whole was about to crash, legal streaming hadn’t taken off yet, and Crunchyroll…