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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.
Anime Taste Testing: Platinum End
If Madoka Magica was a (bad) battle royale instead of magical-girl.
Anime Taste Testing: Takt Op. Destiny
After the travesty that was Listeners, my expectations for the similar-sounding Takt Op. Destiny were pretty low, making this series premiere all the more enjoyable.
Anime Taste Testing: Sankaku Mado no Sotogawa wa Yoru
You know what my problem with this first episode was? Basically everything.
Anime Taste Testing: Kaizoku Oujo
Swash swash buckle buckle.
Anime Taste Testing: Night Head 2041 and Sonny Boy
The final two anime on my to-watch list this season, and they’re… well, they’re not great, but at least it’s something. And if that doesn’t sum up the…
Anime Taste Testing: Shiroi Suna no Aquatope and D_Cide Traumerei
In what feels like an increasingly barebones season, at least one show is starting off on the right foot.
Anime Taste Testing: Uramichi Oniisan
There always seems to be one show every season that I want to like more than I actually do. This time around, that’s Uramichi Oniisan.
Anime Taste Testing: Re-Main and Kageki Shoujo!!
This season’s not off to an amazing start. That said, looking over what seems to be the dozen or so male gaze-centric isekai/power fantasy shows and the ton…
Best Anime of All Time?
‘Sup, everyone. This post is exactly what the title says – I’m looking for your nominations for the best anime of all time, however you choose to define…
Anime Taste Testing: Fumetsu no Anata e
My final and favorite premiere of the season.
Anime Taste Testing: Tokyo Revengers, 86, and Shadows House
No, very no, and absolutely not.
Anime Taste Testing: Super Cub and Fairy Ranmaru
I really seem to have a knack for reviewing two complete opposites in the same post, don’t I?
Anime Taste Testing: Hige wo Soru. Soshite Joshikousei wo Hirou. and Seijo no Maryoku wa Bannou Desu
Two light novel adaptations, one of which I genuinely regret giving a chance.
Higehiro: After Being Rejected, I Shaved and Took in a High School Runaway, High School Girls
Anime Taste Testing: Vivy – Fluorite Eye’s Song and Dragon, Ie wo Kau
Once again, two anime that could scarcely be less alike.
Anime Taste Testing: SSSS.Dynazenon and Mashiro no Oto
One show is about transforming dinosaur-like robots, the other is about the art of the shamisen. The former is the subtle one.
Anime Taste Testing: Mars Red and Jouran – The Princess of Snow and Blood
No break between seasons this year, so it’s straight into things for me with two titles that, interestingly, are both set in alternative history Japan (albeit with differing…
AAA2020: The Artemis Anime Awards
Welcome to the eighth consecutive year of the AAA – the one-woman award ceremony where the tickets are on the house, the drinking policy is BYO, and the…
Anime Bingo
I don’t do memes too often anymore (not cool enough), but I really enjoyed this one, which I first saw posted on Rise’s blog a couple of days…
Watson Watches: Gankutsuou
Way back in 2014, a friend and I collaborated on a series of articles we called Watson Watches, in which I forced enticed Watson to examine a bunch…
Sailor Fuku: The Long and Short of It
Despite or perhaps even because of its prevalence in anime, the traditional sailor-style school uniform, or sailor fuku, is one of the more misunderstood articles of clothing out…
In Case You Missed It (Winter Anime 2021)
I’ll likely be taking this post down in around a week or so, but given that I ended up watching the season premiere of a lot more anime…
Anime Taste Testing: Wonder Egg Priority
Funny story, I almost passed up on giving this series a look entirely (I don’t even remember why, but possibly simply because there was so little info on…
Anime Taste Testing: Kemono Jihen
While quite possibly the series I was least looking forward to giving a watch, this ended up being surprisingly alright.
Anime Taste Testing: SK∞
Fast and Furious: Okinawa Drift.
Anime Taste Testing: Horimiya
Aside from the creepy teacher, this series is actually pretty okay.
Anime Taste Testing: Back Arrow
So it’s mecha but with backwater villagers dressed as old-west cowboys and the more tech-advanced folk looking like something out of a Chinese-inspired historical-fantasy. Cool cool.
Anime Taste Testing: 2.43 – Seiin Koukou Danshi Volley-bu
Come for the promise of a decent sports anime, stay for the Fukui-ben.
Anime Taste Testing: Hortensia Saga
This would have felt lackluster and cliché had it been released 20 years ago – and what’s more, nothing would have changed between then and now aside from…
Anime Taste Testing: Urasekai Picnic
I think I would have enjoyed this one a lot more had I not felt like it was trying so hard to be purposefully enigmatic – with the…
Best J-Pop/J-Rock Albums of 2020
2020 sure has been a year, huh? Luckily, despite… well, you know, everything, there was some pretty good music to come out of this one, and I actually…
Re-Thinking ‘Otaku’
Given the name of this blog, it seems only fitting that I make a post dealing with the word ‘otaku’ – its linguistic roots, the connotations it carries,…
Anime Taste Testing: Taisou Zamurai
Being a sports anime, a dad anime, and a surrealist comedy all in one is a tough sell, that’s for sure.
Anime Taste Testing: Taisou Zamurai
Being a sports anime, a dad anime, and a surrealist comedy all in one is a tough sell, that’s for sure.
Anime Taste Testing: Akudama Drive
I don’t know what I just watched, but I know I want more of it.
Anime Taste Testing: Akudama Drive
I don’t know what I just watched, but I know I want more of it.
Anime Taste Testing: Noblesse
I just realized I still don’t know if these guys are meant to be vampires. However, they do seem to drink plenty of tea – maybe there’s blood…
Anime Taste Testing: Noblesse
I just realized I still don’t know if these guys are meant to be vampires. However, they do seem to drink plenty of tea – maybe there’s blood…
Anime Taste Testing: Ikebukuro West Gate Park
A PSA on Japan’s stance against drugs. Remember kids, weed is evil!