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Respect for the Classics – Ayakashi: Japanese Classic Horror Spoiler Review
Ayakashi is an anthology of, as the title would suggest, classic Japanese horror tales. So strap yourselves in and get ready for a slice of period spookiness. Specifically,…
Seasonal Selection – DanDaDan Episode 3
Let’s get crackin’
7 Minute Monsters – Kagewani (& Shou) Spoiler Review
Kagewani is a story about monsters. It wants to be something new and refreshing: neither the tale nor the monsters seem to be derived from any other source…
Seasonal Selection – DanDaDan Episode 2
Let’s Get Black & White.
Inner Scars, Outer Junk – Mayoiga/The Lost Village Spoiler Review
Take a cast of colorful and engaging characters, and then put them somewhere you can have a creepy atmosphere of suspicion and fear. This is a pretty basic…
Seasonal Selection – DanDaDan Episode 1
Let’s get freaky.
Cry Me a River – True Tears Spoiler Review
We’ve had a lot of craziness in this Back to School month, haven’t we? Insane clubs, ninjas, time travel, and giant warships aside, it’s time for something relatable…
Seasonal Selection – ATRI -My Dear Moments- Episode 12
In this penultimate episode, we learn Natsuki’s grandmother may, in fact, have been a supervillain.
Hello, Sailor – High School Fleet Spoiler Review
The Sailor Uniform is easily one of the most recognizable variants of Japanese schoolgirl uniform. Though it has many variants and of course only superficially resembles actual naval…
Seasonal Selection – ATRI -My Dear Moments- Episode 11
Batteries are serious business.
Seasonal Selection – ATRI -My Dear Moments- Episode 10
Punches come from the heart.
Back to School, and Back Again – Sakurada Reset Spoiler Review
Time Travel anime. Much like Video Game Anime (aside from the Visual Novel set) have a bad habit of coming out mediocre at best, Time Travel shows have…
Seasonal Selection – ATRI -My Dear Moments- Episode 9
Rage against the machine commences.
Yer a Ninja, Ittoki – Shinobi no Ittoki Spoiler Review
Ninjas are cool. School settings are cool. Therefore, school ninjas should be perfectly doable! Sure, Senran Kagura made a poor anime, but the game was fine. Surely this…
5 Girls, 1 Brain Cell; or, Who To Bill for Fourth Wall Repairs – Chronicles of the Going Home Club Spoiler (?) Review
Unlike many of my peers, I didn’t find High School to be a hellish experience. It certainly had its downs as well as its ups, but on the…
Seasonal Selection – ATRI -My Dear Moments- Episode 8
Sometimes an imitation can’t compensate for the real thing.
Seasonal Selection – ATRI -My Dear Moments- Episode 7
Wherein we go on a date as a form of Turing Test.
No Sanity Is To Figure In The Story – The Detective is Already Dead Spoiler Review
The Detective is Already Dead seems like the kind of show with an obvious premise: it’s literally in the title. So, this should logically be a detective story…
Seasonal Selection – ATRI -My Dear Moments- Episode 6
Well, they didn’t bother keeping the truth away for too long once it was made obvious. I have to respect that.
Delay of Game – When Will Ayumu Make His Move? Spoiler Review
Shogi. Shogi never changes. When Will Ayumu Make His Move? (the title is curious) is, like last week’s lamentable offering, a show about Shogi, a storied chess-like game…
Foul Move – The Ryuo’s Work is Never Done! Spoiler Review
Ah, Shogi. Shogi is a chess-like table game (sometimes called “Japanese Chess” in the West) with a long and storied history. Notably, compared to Chess, Shogi is seen…
Seasonal Selection – ATRI -My Dear Moments- Episode 5
Mostly Slice of Life, Partially Intrigue.
A Different Shade of Isekai – Tenchi Muyo! War on Geminar Spoiler Review
Once upon a time, the Isekai subgenre was… kind of a different beast, where the standard model both of introduction and of the setting and story that the…
Seasonal Selection – ATRI -My Dear Moments- Episode 4
Stand by for technical difficulties (in the show. The blog is fine.)
World of Mehcraft – Death March to the Parallel World Rhapsody Spoiler Review
Into every anime viewer’s life, a little Isekai must fall. Wait, no it doesn’t. You can leave. Turn your back on today’s schlock and watch whatever you want!…
Seasonal Selection – ATRI -My Dear Moments- Episode 3
Sending your robot to school because she’s an idiot.
The Brilliant Detective in the world of the Id – ID:Invaded Spoiler Review
Normally, I try to have quite the preamble to these reviews, but this time I’m going to keep it short: ID:Invaded is a mystery taking place where it’s…
Seasonal Selection – ATRI -My Dear Moments- Episode 2
Super Chuuni Robot and psychological trauma.
Press F to Pretend to Emote – Magatsu Wahrheit: Zuerst Spoiler Review
Why do video game animes suck? I know that’s something of a loaded question in that it presupposes the suckage, but the evidence seems to bear that out.…
Seasonal Selection – ATRI -My Dear Moments- Episode 1
Set in a cozy catastrophe future where sea levels rising abruptly has sunk cities and produced a shiny maritime experience, ATRI is either the story of a boy,…
And Now For Something Mostly Different – “Oshi no Ko” Spoiler Review (Season 1)
Part of why I run this blog is to address and highlight different shows. Shows that may have been forgotten. I don’t like jumping on the bandwagon of…
Anime Expo 2024 Day 3 – Selected Preview
Yeah, I’m just going ahead and filing off the plural. Today, I took a loot at Dungeon People, which screened its first two episodes.
Anime Expo 2024 Day 2 – Selected Previews
Today, the topic up for bid was Ubel Blatt. So, briefly, I’ll share what I saw.
Anime Expo 2024 Day 1 — Selected Previews
Sometimes an anime reviewer goes to an anime con. At those times, it seems prudent to report on some of what was seen. Today, I have impressions of…
Seasonal Selection – Kaiju No. 8 Episodes 11 & 12
The trial of Hibino Kafka is on.
School Shooting – Upotte!! Spoiler Review
Years before Girls’ Frontline, there was another anime that presented cute girls who were also, somehow, famed military combat rifles. While Moe Anthropomorphizations are common enough, there…
Immortal Genre – Kemono Jihen Spoiler Review
The world has been saturated with Isekai for so long that it’s hard to remember sometimes that there are other genres that are or were nearly as overused.…
Seasonal Selection – Kaiju No. 8 Episodes 9 & 10
In this pair of episodes: Loads more fighting and a really pivotal moment that there isn’t all that much time to pivot on.
Character Bonding – H2O: Footprints in the Sand Spoiler Review
Welcome to Visual Novel land, where everything’s made up and only the cute girls matter! There’s certainly a style to the more typical or classical VN adaptations, the…
Turning Over the Right Leaf – Kemurikusa Spoiler Review
Rarely have I seen a story that just decides to throw the viewer into a such a bonkers scenario without building any real investment or reason to care…
Seasonal Selection – Kaiju No. 8 Episodes 7 & 8
Long battles and a lingering finish – we’re going to be wanting more when 12 episodes are done.
Because it sounds cooler that way – Beyond the Boundary Spoiler Review
In a world where we have a truly absurd number of Urban Fantasy supernatural battle shows, indulging in a world under Masquerade where inhuman threats exist just out…
Start Your Engines – Wish Upon the Pleiades Spoiler Review
Some series exist to push product. It’s true in Western animation and it’s true in Anime as well. Usually, the product in question is some manner of toy;…
Seasonal Selection – Kaiju No. 8 Episodes 5 & 6
Keeping on with double feature seasonals, it’s time for us to actually get down to business with the Defense Squad.
The Quest to Defeat a Magic Long Ago Defeated – Granbelm Spoiler Review
“Mixing genres is fun.” This must have been the thought that went through the mind of whoever put together the pitch for Granbelm, a Magical Girl Mecha Hidden…
Blue Reflection Ray Spoiler Review
Let’s talk about feelings. But not any specific feelings. Feelings in abstract. The idea of feelings. Let’s ride the fine line between deeply exploratory science fiction and outright…
Seasonal Selection – Kaiju No. 8 Episodes 3 & 4
With the pace this show is taking, I might stick to reporting in every other week. It’s a great ride, but it takes its sweet time to get…
What. – Yohane the Parhelion: Sunshine in the Mirror Spoiler Review
Yohane the Parhelion: Sunshine in the Mirror is a show about a girl called Yohane, who is trying to make it big as a pop idol when… let…
(Inter)Planetary Romance – Waiting in the Summer Spoiler Review
Sometimes creators come back to an idea after some time has passed. Whether the world has seen the “old version” or not and however the two stack up…