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Fall 2024 Impressions: Uzumaki, Let This Grieving Soul Retire, I’ll Become a Villainess Who Goes Down in History
Uzumaki Short Synopsis: One by one, the residents of a small Japanese town fall victim to a spiral-themed curse. Mario: It feels surreal that we finally get to…
I’ll Become a Villainess Who Goes Down in History, Let This Grieving Soul Retire, Uzumaki
Bye Bye, Earth Anime Review – 66/100
One of the main reasons I prefer novel adaptations to manga or light novels is that, usually, it’s harder for a novel to get picked up for one.…
Guest Post: Unearthed Treasure: The Summer You Were There (82/100)
Man, it seems like the yuri/shoujo-ai genre is going through some kind of renaissance, what with so many of those titles being ported to the US, and several…
I Parry Everything Anime Review – 73/100
There’s no shortage of OP MC fantasy shows out there. Even ignoring the entire Isekai sub-genre, your still left with shows like MASHLE, Tower of God, Solo Leveling,…
I Parry Everything, MASHLE: MAGIC AND MUSCLES, Solo Leveling, Tower of God
Fall 2024 Season Preview
Lenlo: Hello all, and welcome to another seasonal preview! We’re looking at the last season of the year, with plenty of anime to look forward to. Personally I’m…
Warhammer: 40,000 – The Horus Heresy – Horus Rising by Dan Abnett
Welcome all, to the first book of my Warhammer 40k book club and our introduction to the Horus Heresy, Horus Rising! I wasn’t sure what to expect from…
Warhammer: 40,000 – The Horus Heresy Series – Quick Primer
Welcome all, to a fun new thing I’ve decided to do. So for those who might not know, I’ve been a big Warhammer: 40k fan for a while…
Guest Post: Unearthed Treasure with Firechick – Natsu-Mon: 20th Century Summer Kid (88/100)
Hey kids! Remember back in the 90s-2000s, people were convinced that video games made people violent? Or believed that video games were only violent shooters, and stuff like…
Dead Dead Demon’s Dededede Destruction – 5-9
The countdown to August 32nd has begun, but Dead Dead Demon remains fiercely committed to its coming of age story. I don’t know if I’ll ever return…
Summer 2024 Mid-Season Check In
Welcome all, to a mid-season check in post! I’m stuck in the middle of a writeup on My Hero Academia that’s taking longer than I thought, so I…
Guest Post: Unearthed Treasure with Firechick – A Little Lily Princess (90/100)
Now, I know what you’re thinking: “What?! Why would anyone adapt a classic Victorian era novel into a visual novel?! This is gonna suck soooooo bad!” Yeah, adapting…
2023 Anime Awards and Top 10 List
Wooper: At this point in the lifespan of Star Crossed Anime, we publish whatever we want, whenever we want. Sometimes that means timely season previews and first impressions,…
Dead Dead Demon’s Dededede Destruction – 1-4
Just when I thought I was out, they pull me back in. The last seasonal anime I blogged was Heike Monogatari in the fall of 2021. Since…
The 4 (8?) Forms of Ancient Greek Love, Using Anime
Relationships are complicated. From learning how to communicate and respecting each others boundaries to how they are established, grow and change, there’s a lot that goes into them. And…
Summer 2024 First Episode Awards & Other Announcements
Another frenzied half-month of aniblogging has come to a close, with a handful of series emerging as summer frontrunners. There probably isn’t an all-time great among them (though…
Guest Post: Unearthed Baubles with Firechick – The Flying Phantom Ship 74/100
Show of hands, who here has ever heard of this old movie from 1969 called The Flying Phantom Ship before 2022? No? Me neither. I never even knew…
Summer 2024 Impressions: I Parry Everything, Bye Bye, Earth, Atri: My Dear Moments
I Parry Everything Short Synopsis: Noor has wanted to be a hero since he was a child, but he was never good enough at anything to do so.…
Summer 2024 Impressions: The Magical Girl and the Evil Lieutenant, Too Many Losing Heroines!, Why Does Nobody Remember Me in This World?
The Magical Girl and the Evil Lieutenant Short Synopsis: An admitted war criminal and a part time worker face off…and fall in love. Lenlo: On the surface, this…
Summer 2024 Impressions: Na Nare Hana Nare, Mayonaka Punch, Koi wa Futago de Warikirenai
Na Nare Hana Nare Short Synopsis: Cute girls doing cheerleading, and all the drama behind it. Mario: There are so many strikes against Na Nare Hana Nare that…
Summer 2024 Impressions: Isekai Shikkaku, Sakuna: Of Rice and Ruin, Elf-san wa Yaserarenai
Isekai Shikkaku Short Synopsis: Osamu Dazai tries to commit double suicide but ends up in an isekai instead! Amun: Honestly, this premiere was everything that I had hoped…
No Longer Allowed in Another World, Sakuna: Of Rice and Ruin
Summer 2024 Impressions: Quality Assurance in Another World, Tower of God S2, My Deer Friend Nokotan
Quality Assurance in Another World Short Synopsis: A player tries to save a village with a bugged strategy to kill a dragon. Mario: There’s more to Quality Assurance…
Quality Assurance in Another World, Tower of God, My Deer Friend Nokotan
Summer 2024 Impressions: Shoushimin Series, VTuber Legend, Dungeon no Naka no Hito
Shoushimin Series Short Synopsis: A girl who loves sweets and a boy who is really trying his best to be normal solve a mystery and (temporarily) get some…
Summer 2024 Impressions: Monogatari Series: Off & Monster Season, 2.5 Dimensional Seduction, Tasuuketsu
Monogatari Series: Off & Monster Season Short Synopsis: The new season of Monogatari, covering various side stories not included in previous arcs. Mario: It feels right at home…
2.5 Dimensional Seduction, MONOGATARI Series: OFF & MONSTER Season, Tasuketsu -Fate of the Majority-
Summer 2024 Impressions: The Elusive Samurai, Twilight out of Focus, Senpai Is an Otokonoko
The Elusive Samurai Short Synopsis: The would-be inheritor of the Kamakura shogunate flees his birthplace after his family is betrayed by a powerful warrior. Lenlo: Competing with Monogatari,…
Summer 2024 Impressions: Giji Harem, Ramen Akaneko, Days with My Stepsister
Giji Harem Short Synopsis: A new drama club member adopts a host of different personas for the amusement of her senpai. Lenlo: I feel like I just watched…
Summer 2024 Impressions: Oshi no Ko S2, Alya Sometimes Hides Her Feelings in Russian, Shinmai Ossan Bouken-sha…
Oshi no Ko S2 Short Synopsis: Aqua attends the first several rehearsals for “Tokyo Blade,” the stage play in which he was recently cast. Wooper: I watched all…
Kimetsu no Yaiba S4 Anime Review – 63/100
Lets not beat around the bush, Kimetsu no Yaiba had a tough time last year. From lackluster and hard to follow fights to a nonsensical narrative and mediocre…
Summer 2024 Impressions: Strongest Magician in the Demon Lord’s Army, Suicide Squad Isekai, My Wife Has No Emotion
The Strongest Magician in the Demon Lord’s Army Was a Human Short Synopsis: Literally the show’s title. Amun: First premiere of the new season, hooray! Usually the first…
Wind Breaker Anime Review – 69/100
Delinquents are a pretty common sight in anime. From classic Shounen like Yu Yu Hakusho to more modern series like Tokyo Revengers, we get plenty of them every…
Viral Hit Anime Review – 51/100
How familiar are you with the Creator Clash? That boxing event hosted by iDubbbz where various content creators box each other. Ever heard of that? Well remove the…
Guest Post: Unearthed Baubles with Firechick – Air (Visual Novel) 68/100
Nostalgia can be a funny thing. One of the first anime I watched fansubbed was Air, and back then, I didn’t know it was based on a video…
Summer 2024 Season Preview
Lenlo: Hello all, welcome to our first Season Preview since my retirement from consistent content! I told you things would still happen, just not on a weekly schedule.…
What’s Cooking
Hello everyone! It’s been a while since my last post here announcing my semi-retirement. Now that we’ve all had some time to digest that, and I’ve been able…
Guest Post: Unearthed Treasures with Firechick – Les Miserables Shoujo Cosette (95/100)
The year was 2007. It was around that time that I was really starting to dip my toes deeper into the anime fandom beyond just Pokemon, Digimon, Yu-Gi-Oh,…
State of the Blog – We need to talk
Hello everyone, Lenlo here. Lets talks, about the state of the blog, the state of my life, and where things are going. Or well, I’m going to talk,…
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Ranger Reject – 7 [The Zigzag Road to the Final Exam!]
Welcome all, to another episode of Ranger Reject! This week continues the exam, revealing the true secret behind it and driving our cast to conflict, meanwhile in the…
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Kimetsu no Yaiba S4 – 3 [Fully Recovered Tanjiro Joins the Hashira Training!!]
Welcome all, to another week of Kimetsu no Yaiba! For how simple the premise is, how little promise the arc seems to have, I’m enjoying myself a shocking…
Spring 2024 What-I’m-Watching Summary – Week 7
Hey all, quick note at the top here, apologies for all these delays. Wrote it in the Nana post but I’ve been pretty sick since Wednesday and have…
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Nana – 7/8 [Yasu Appears! Room No. 707/Strawberry Glass and Ren-Lotus Flower] – Throwback Thursday
Welcome all, to a late post on Nana! Sorry about that, I’ve been rather sick since Wednesday and have only just recovered. Doesn’t help that this was a…
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Ranger Reject – 6 [1 Plus 2 Equals… Threat!]
Welcome all, to the halfway point of Ranger Reject This week is another fast one, blazing through content in way I’d rather Ranger Reject didn’t. That’s right, this…
Guest Post: Unearthed Baubles with Firechick – Pokemon Puzzle Challenge (72/100)
Hey Pokemaniacs, remember this game? Because I do! In fact, I bought this along with other mainline games when I had my first GameBoy Color, and I loved…
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Kimetsu no Yaiba S4 – 2 [Water Hashira Giyu Tomioka’s Pain]
Welcome all, to episode 2 of the new season of Kimetsu no Yaiba! I got some pushback last week to my disappointment with the series premier, and that’s…
Spring 2024 What-I’m-Watching Summary – Week 6
Wind Breaker – 7 [Fight to Win] https://www.sakugabooru.com/data/faae108957a452609e7cf0ad6c08df15.mp4 It’s absolutely ridiculous how close Wind Breaker is to figuring itself out and being great. It already has the shounen…
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Nana – 5/6 [Ren’s Dream, Nana O.’s Feelings/Snowing in Tokyo! Nana and NANA] – Throwback Thursday
Welcome all, to another week of Nana! This week we finish up our flashbacks, finally seeing why Ozaki came to Tokyo, as well as get a small reminder…
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Kimetsu no Yaiba S4 – 1 [To Defeat Muzan Kibutsuji]
Welcome back everyone, to the 4th season of Kimetsu no Yaiba! It’s been a while. Gotta say, with a title like “Hashira Training Arc” I’m not that excited…
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Ranger Reject – 5 [Fighter D, as a Part of ‘Ranger Force’]
Ranger Reject is back everyone! Sports may have stolen our episode from us last episode, but I think that breather did the series good because this episode was…
Spring 2024 What-I’m-Watching Summary – Week 5
Jellyfish Can’t Swim at Night – 5 [Viewer Comments] Ah Jellyfish, the only other show this season that has a shot at consistently beating out Dungeon Meshi. I…
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Nana – 3/4 [Nana K. and Shoji, Love’s Whereabouts/Nana K.’s Love, Nana O.’s Dream] – Throwback Thursday
Welcome all, to another (late) week of Throwback Thursday! In this weeks episodes we continue to dive into Nana’s past, seeing how she overcomes her trauma with Asano…
Spring 2024 What-I’m-Watching Summary – Week 4
Dungeon Meshi – 18 [Shapeshifter] To absolutely no ones surprise, Dungeon Meshi continues to be great. This week it brought us the classic Doppelganger encounter, but with the…
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Nana – 1/2 [Prologue: Nana K. and Nana O./Love Friendship Nana K. and Shoji] – Throwback Thursday
Welcome all, to the new season of Throwback Thursday! For the next few months we have Nana, the 2006 romance from Studio Madhouse! This is our first week…