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Anime Taste Testing: Everything Fall Anime 2024 (Part I)
Reception last season seemed fairly positive for my “rate this new anime premiere in 3 sentences or less” version of reviews, so I decided to carry on with…
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…
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…
Anime Taste Testing: Black Butler Public School Arc and Yatagarasu – The Raven Does Not Choose Its Master
And so endeth my first impressions for the spring 2024 anime season on a fairly lackluster note.
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.
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.”
Anime Taste Testing: Tonari no Youkai-san, The Fable, Jellyfish Can’t Swim in the Night
A bit of everything for what I can at least say is a fairly varied season so far.
Jellyfish Can’t Swim in the Night, The Fable, Tonari no Yokai-san
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.
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.
Anime Taste Testing: Cherry Magic, Doctor Elise, Metallic Rouge
Things are finally heating up (just as the snow starts to come down in my corner of the world).
Cherry Magic! Thirty Years of Virginity Can Make You a Wizard?!, Metallic Rouge
Anime Taste Testing: Demon Prince, Sign of Affection, Solo Leveling, Mr. Villain
A rather slow start to a chilly season.
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.
Best J-Pop/J-Rock Albums of 2023
Hi to the maybe two people reading this annual post series!
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…
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.
Anime Taste Testing: Bullbuster, Yuzuki Family, and Under Ninja
After a series of fails, the fall 2023 season seems to be trending (mostly) up.
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.