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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…
They Identify as Bugs – Blue Gender Spoiler Review
Putting humanity on the brink is nothing new in anime. Threatening our species with extinction at the ends of the various appendages of some menace, alien or otherwise,…
Seasonal Selection – Kaiju No. 8 Episode 1
This one is going to be from the perspective of a Manga reader, be warned.
The Clothes Make the Waifu – Tsugumomo Spoiler Review
So, I think Tsukumogami are a sort of interesting subject. Surprising probably no one, in addition to anime itself I kind of have an interest in the culture…
“Twenty-four! Ah-ah-ah! Twenty-four Episodes of this!” – Plunderer Spoiler Review
Anime has a lot of premises that are pretty odd, doesn’t it? Concepts you just sort of have to roll with in order to even start the show,…
Seasonal Selection – Metallic Rouge Episode 12
A penultimate episode, that’s for sure.
A Long Time Ago, In a Galaxy Where There Is Only War – Armored Trooper Votoms Spoiler Review
Sometimes I feel like I don’t crack into enough vintage anime on this blog. Before streaming, before DVR, the industry for basically all things television was a different…
Neon Genesis Evangelion, Record of Lodoss War, Armored Trooper Votoms
Seasonal Selection – Metallic Rouge Episode 11
Just let them put the action set pieces into play.
The STL of a Double Feature – Gundam Build Divers & Gundam Build Divers Re:RISE Spoiler Reviews
I love model kits. I have made no secret of that this month, and will probably be happily assembling various mechas and mecha musume into the future. I…
Gundam Build Divers, Gundam Build Divers Re:RISE, Mobile Suit Gundam
Seasonal Selection – Metallic Rouge Episode 10
So it turns out that red doesn’t have to go versus blue.
The Plamo of a Double Feature – Gundam Build Fighters & Gundam Build Fighters Try Spoiler Reviews
Ah, Mobile Suit Gundam… it’s kind of a marvel that no entries in such a huge and venerable series had made it onto the review blog up until…
Gundam Build Fighters, Gundam Build Fighters Try, Mobile Suit Gundam
Seasonal Selection – Metallic Rouge Episode 9
Visiting the Visitors
It’s Only a Model – Busou Shinki Spoiler Review
So, some time ago I reviewed Frame Arms Girl, a show based on a line of plastic model kits, depicting the mecha musume girls from the kits as…
Seasonal Selection – Metallic Rouge Episode 8
Answers and purpose at last!
Earnest Fakery – Saekano: How to Raise a Boring Girlfriend (plus .flat and Fine) Spoiler Review
Rounding out a February of warped love we have Saekano: the harem romcom about making a dating sim visual novel. On paper, Saekano is about the trials and…
Sisterly Lust – Kiss x Sis Spoiler Review
Well, it’s Feburary, and because this month contains a holiday certain cultures associate with love and sexuality, I end up slotting it full of reviews of shows that…
Seasonal Selection – Metallic Rouge Episode 6
Everybody gets punched day.
Putting the Hentai in Sentai – Super Hxeros Spoiler Review
So, if you thought the plot for last week’s entry sounded like an overly complicated excuse for porn, get a load of Super Hxeros: In a world assailed…
Seasonal Selection – Metallic Rouge Episode 5
If you have trouble following what’s going on this episode, I think that’s intentional.
Make Out For the Sake of All Mankind – Hybrid x Heart Magias Academy Ataraxia
Someone seriously asked the question “What if we had Infinite Stratos but the super suits are literally powered by arousal?”. That idea got greenlit for real. And you…
Seasonal Selection – Metallic Rouge Episode 4
Another down, five “Immortal Nine” to go, and it’s time to send in the clowns.
Zero to Hero(ine) – Ga-Rei-Zero Spoiler Review
You know it, you love to see it: a world where it’s the modern day except secret ghosts and ghouls menace reality and are fought off by equally…
Seasonal Selection – Metallic Rouge Episode 3
Let’s build the world while we let Rouge fly solo for a bit.
In the Grim Darkness of the Future, there are Little Girls – Black Bullet Spoiler Review
Well, if an idea isn’t broke, don’t fix it. Instead, remix it! Here we have a very classic and functional idea, a world where humanity is on the…
Seasonal Selection – Metallic Rouge Episode 2
Few answers, but fewer new questions makes this feel like a slow-burn affair. Despite that, we still got some impressive action and solid world-building.