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Anime Taste Testing: Everything Summer Anime 2024 (Part II)

Aaand we’re back with the second part of my previous post, where I attempted to summarize every new anime from the summer 2024 season I’d watched thus far…

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Anime Taste Testing: Everything Summer Anime 2024 (Part I)

Hi guys. I was too busy this season to do my usual ‘anime taste testing’ first-look reviews (like “going to bed after finally finishing work at 2am” kind…

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Anime Taste Testing: Oblivion Battery and Viral Hit

Nearing the end of the premiere list now. The adage “saving the best til last” does not apply when it comes to seasonal anime releases.

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Anime Taste Testing: Vampire Dormitory and Tadaima, Okaeri

Hitting that weird storytelling midground between “on paper, this should technically be interesting” and “why oh why did the creators make these choices.”

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Anime Taste Testing: Bartender and A Condition Called Love

And the Spring 2024 anime season kicks off with… well, if not a bang, then at least one completely unexpected premiere.

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Anime Taste Testing: The Witch and the Beast, Bucchigiri

Probably the final two premieres I’ll be checking out this winter. Anime ‘Hell Week’ is over for another season.

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Anime Secret Santa 2023: Laid-Back Camp

I hate camping, but luckily this show did a lot more for me than an actual night spent in the great outdoors.

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Best J-Pop/J-Rock Albums of 2023

Hi to the maybe two people reading this annual post series!

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Anime Tasting Testing: The Apothecary Diaries

This one’s a bit later than usual because I ended up watching all three (sigh) of the released episodes rather than only the first one. But yes, the…

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Anime Taste Testing: My New Boss Is Goofy

What Zom 100 would have been if there had been no zombie apocalypse and the MC just got another job.

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Anime Taste Testing: Bullbuster, Yuzuki Family, and Under Ninja

After a series of fails, the fall 2023 season seems to be trending (mostly) up.

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Anime Taste Testing: Paradox Live the Animation

Pretty boys dancing in baggy clothes = hip-hop.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Anime Taste Testing: Undead Girl Murder Farce and My Happy Marriage

Two historical shows, two vastly different stories and storytelling approaches.

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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…

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Anime Taste Testing: Marginal Service, Oshi no Ko

I have never been this conflicted about two anime premieres in a row.

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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.

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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.

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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),…

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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…

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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),…

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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.

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Anime Taste Testing: Chainsaw Man

Probably the perfect anime series for Tarantino fans.

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Anime Taste Testing: Blue Lock and Bocchi the Rock

Two wildly different reactions to two wildly different anime.

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Anime Taste Testing: Bibliophile Princess

The only way to explain this is if people literally went out of their way to create something generic.

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Anime Taste Testing: Do It Yourself!!

Because the main character’s name is Yua Serufu and she joins a DIY club. Geddit?

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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.

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Anime Taste Testing: I’m the Villainess, So I’m Taming the Final Boss

So… has “villainess” become its own genre by this point?

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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…

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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…

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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.

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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…

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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…

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Anime Taste Testing: Summer Time Render

Somehow underwhelming and overwhelming both at once.

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