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Anime Taste Testing: Paradox Live the Animation
Pretty boys dancing in baggy clothes = hip-hop.
Anime Taste Testing: Overtake!
Let’s all ganbaru together.
Anime Taste Testing: A Girl & Her Guard Dog
Well, the first few anime of the fall 2023 season are coming out and, uh… it doesn’t look good, chief. In all sorts of uncomfortable ways.
To the Humans Behind the Screen
I write this having been recently laid off from my job. I feel depressed, angry, and anxious – but mostly, I just feel exhausted.
Anime Taste Testing: Zom 100: Bucket List of the Dead
This is the last anime on my to-watch list for the summer 2023 premieres, and I have pretty mixed feelings about that.
Anime Taste Testing: Undead Girl Murder Farce and My Happy Marriage
Two historical shows, two vastly different stories and storytelling approaches.
Anime Taste Testing: Ooku and Horimiya
The summer 2023 anime season might not stand out in terms of quantity (yes, I realize that’s a pretty big understatement given the line-up), but it does dish…
Anime Taste Testing: Marginal Service, Oshi no Ko
I have never been this conflicted about two anime premieres in a row.
Anime Taste Testing: Blue Orchestra, Raeliana, Insomniacs After School
I mean… they’re all okay?
Anime Taste Testing: Mashle, A Galaxy Next Door
Allow me to thrill you with my resounding “meh.”
Anime Taste Testing: Skip and Loafer, Mahoutsukai no Yome, Opus.COLORs
Having a grand old time with the good, the wish-it-were-better, and the hilariously ugly.
COLORs, The Ancient Magus' Bride, Opus.COLORs, Skip and Loafer
Anime Taste Testing: Hell’s Paradise, Heavenly Delusion, My Home Hero
With one exception, we’re off to a pretty rocky start you guys, and for another of these shows, I barely made it through the episode.
AAA2022: The Artemis Anime Awards
Welcome to the tenth (yes, really) consecutive year of the AAA – the one-woman anime award ceremony where the tickets are free, the dress code is loungewear (duh),…
Anime Taste Testing: Hikari no Ou (The Fire Hunters)
Of the two major non-isekai fantasy shows airing this season, I know which one I’m more inclined to watch.
Anime Taste Testing: Vinland Saga Season 2 and Mononogatari
One of these was about as expected, the other sounded good on paper but is bland as hell when viewed on screen.
Anime Taste Testing: Giant Beasts of Ars, Buddy Daddies, and NieR:Automata
I don’t know if I’d categorize the winter 2023 anime season so far as good, exactly, but I’ll give it this, it’s not boring.
Anime Taste Testing: Spy Classroom and The Ice Guy and His Cool Female Colleague
You know what they say – prepare for the worst, hope for the best. In that sense, I was not at all disappointed by one of these, while…
Best J-Pop/J-Rock Albums of 2022
Well, another year bites the dust I guess. It was honestly a bit of a flop in terms of anime (if you go strictly by the numbers, anyway),…
Anime Taste Testing: Urusei Yatsura
Some anime do genuinely deserve a reboot. Others should probably never again see the light of day, no matter how historically important.
Anime Taste Testing: Chainsaw Man
Probably the perfect anime series for Tarantino fans.
Anime Taste Testing: Blue Lock and Bocchi the Rock
Two wildly different reactions to two wildly different anime.
Anime Taste Testing: Bibliophile Princess
The only way to explain this is if people literally went out of their way to create something generic.
Anime Taste Testing: Do It Yourself!!
Because the main character’s name is Yua Serufu and she joins a DIY club. Geddit?
Anime Taste Testing: Mobile Suit Gundam: The Witch from Mercury
I made a terrible mistake and watched the prologue first.
Mobile Suit Gundam, Mobile Suit Gundam: The Witch from Mercury
Anime Taste Testing: Raven of the Inner Palace
I liked what I saw of this… I think?
Anime Taste Testing: Reincarnated as a Sword
For a series that seemed to get a decent amount of hype, this first episode is exceptional only in its dullness.
Anime Taste Testing: I’m the Villainess, So I’m Taming the Final Boss
So… has “villainess” become its own genre by this point?
Anime Taste Testing: Shine On! Bakumatsu Bad Boys! and Lucifer and the Biscuit Hammer
I’d say I was disappointed, but that would imply I had high hopes to begin with.
Anime Taste Testing: Isekai Ojisan and The Yakuza’s Guide to Babysitting
The anime I was looking forward to the most this season based purely on the premise was weirdly disappointing. The one I had little enthusiasm for ended up…
Anime Taste Testing: Yurei Deco and My Isekai Life
Happy Fourth of July! I may not be an American, but I’m celebrating like all Americans most assuredly do – watching bad anime and telling people all about…
Anime Taste Testing: Bastard!!: Heavy Metal, Dark Fantasy
Ah, Bastard!!. The perfect anime for horny teenagers desperately trying to be cool and horny adults desperately trying to be young.
Anime Taste Testing: RWBY – Ice Queendom
While most new anime kicking off during the summer season won’t start for another 1-2 weeks, RWBY: Ice Queendom delivered its first 3 episodes a bit earlier than…
Important Question
Actually, two important questions. Full disclosure: this doesn’t have anything to do with a blogging project (although I may blog about it at some point way in the…
Anime Taste Testing: Summer Time Render
Somehow underwhelming and overwhelming both at once.
Anime Taste Testing: Kono Healer, Mendokusai
It’s a hard… maybe.
Anime Taste Testing: Dance Dance Danseur and Spy x Family
Things are greatly looking up with some potential winners on our hands.
Anime Taste Testing: Deaimon and Tomodachi Game
For me at least, this anime season is continuing its weirdly rocky start.
Anime Taste Testing: Paripi Koumei/Ya Boy Kongming!
If only it had been as good as the localized title.
AAA2021: The Artemis Anime Awards
Welcome to the ninth consecutive year of the AAA – the one-woman award ceremony where the tickets are free, the drinking policy is BYO, and the results are…
Anime Taste Testing: Koroshi Ai/Love of Kill
I probably shouldn’t have gotten my hopes up.
Anime Taste Testing: Tribe Nine and Sabikui Bisco
Two post-apocalyptic-themed shows, one clear winner.
Anime Taste Testing: Baraou no Souretsu and Sasaki to Miyano
Neither are great, but at this point, I’m taking what I can get.
Anime Taste Testing: Dolls’ Frontline, My Dress-Up Darling, and Akebi-chan no Sailor-fuku
Do you want anime – any anime – that doesn’t shove fanservice in your face literally every five seconds or so? Too bad, because you’re not getting it.
Anime Taste Testing: Police in a Pod, Land of Leadale, and Tokyo 24th Ward
The verdicts are in, and they all look disappointingly lackluster.
Best J-Pop/J-Rock Albums of 2020 (Kind Of)
Welp, it’s that time of year again. I guess it really did sneak up on me because I just didn’t have the chance to check out that much…
Anime Taste Testing: Deep Insanity: The Lost Child
Full disclosure, I have no idea how this episode ended – my eyes had glazed over by the halfway mark.
Anime Taste Testing: Senpai ga Uzai Kouhai no Hanashi
One of these days, Doga Kobo will once again decide to adapt source material as good as Nozaki-kun… but it is not this day.
Anime Taste Testing: Taishou Otome Otogibanashi and Saihate no Paladin
Believe me when I say it’s a compliment that I found both of these shows boring.
Anime Taste Testing: Blue Period
This is one of those shows that I quite want to like, but am still in the process of working out if I actually do.