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The Weekly Orbit [2/11/25]
On this week’s Weekly Orbit: The return of Flower and Asura. Plus: more toxic yuri than you can shake a spider lily at.


Twenty Perfect Minutes: BanG Dream! It’s MyGO!!!!! Episode 13 – The Only One I Can Trust Is Myself
BanG Dream! It’s MyGO!!!!!’s finale is the end of one story and the beginning of another. But the two are intertwined, and the sinister symmetry that reflects each…
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The Weekly Orbit [2/2/2025]
In the first Weekly Orbit column in a few months, we dive into the warped world of Ave Mujica. Plus: horse girls and (even more) toxic yuri.


Seasonal First Impressions: Pining For Those SAKAMOTO DAYS
Sakamoto Days is a non-stop pain train of cool action sequences, with some occasional, slightly-questionable comedy and sweet domestic moments to grease the tracks.


Seasonal First Impressions: Check in to TASOKARE HOTEL
Tasokare Hotel is an understated, surprising standout, a fine-tuned clockwork of a show based on momentum and subtle detail.


Seasonal First Impressions: The Poet’s Soul of FLOWER AND ASURA
In the season’s strongest premiere so far, Flower and Asura paints a compelling portrait of a young woman and the poetry that inspires her.


Seasonal First Impressions: SORAIRO UTILITY Is NOT Up to Par
In the year’s first truly disappointing anime, the girls-play-golf original seeks to land a hole in one, but is stuck in a sand trap of passionless flailing.


Seasonal First Impressions: Enter Oblivion with BANG DREAM! AVE MUJICA
The first episode of the MyGO sequel paints a picture of its lead as a truly damaged person. But are the masks enough to keep her band, and…


Seasonal First Impressions: Battle Girl Acid Ramen – What Even Is MOMENTARY LILY?
Look to the far future, and there you will find GoHands.


Seasonal First Impressions: Mysteries, Medicine, and Malpractice in AMEKU M.D.: DOCTOR DETECTIVE
Despite being marketed in the Anglosphere largely on a surface-level similarity to House, this series is much more worthwhile when taken for what it actually is: a classical…


Ranking Every 2024 Anime (That I Actually Finished) From Worst to Best
In this gargantuan article, I rank all 27 anime from 2024 that I completed from the very worst to the absolute best.
ISHURA, MAYONAKA PUNCH, Metallic Rouge, The Elusive Samurai, A Salad Bowl of Eccentrics


Seasonal First Impressions: Can DEMON LORD 2099 Bring Isekai into The Future?
Demon Lord 2099 is brave enough to ask, can a man in a tracksuit save us from technocapitalism?


Seasonal First Impressions: Maid in Abyss – Is YOU ARE MS. SERVANT Strange Enough To Stand Out?
The master/servant age gap romcom mixes comedic stylings and denpa imagery, but is that enough to stand out in 2024’s crowded landscape?


New Manga First Impressions: Shot Through The Heart – Love, Loss, and the Ephemeral Beauty of a Grassroots Fandom: The Story of LOVE BULLET
Mangaka inee’s sparkling, spellbinding debut is an instantly-classic work of drama, action, and of course, romance. Find out why you should #ReadLoveBullet


(REVIEW) The Black Thread of Fate: Death, Past and Present, in NOIR
The red dream of a black cat.


Big Feelings in Small Moments – A Short (REVIEW) of the Short & Sweet HONOBONO LOG
Totaling just barely 20 minutes, Honobono Log is a catalogue of short, simple moments from lives any one of us could lead.


(REVIEW) Today, Tomorrow, and Every Day Onward – Beginnings and Endings in FRIEREN: BEYOND JOURNEY’S END
Someday, and somewhere, this will all make sense. But that day is not today, and that place is not here.
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The Weekly Orbit [8/11/24]
This week: band girls, giant robots, theater kids, and demonic samurai.
Code Geass: Rozé of the Recapture, The Elusive Samurai, BanG Dream!
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The Weekly Orbit [8/5/24]
This week, emotions run high with vampire tragedies, theater kids at each other’s throats, and shot-down love confessions.
Makeine: Too Many Losing Heroines!, MAYONAKA PUNCH, The Elusive Samurai, BanG Dream!
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The Weekly Orbit [7/29/24]
This week; a weird amount of talking about anime EDs.
Alya Sometimes Hides Her Feelings in Russian, Quality Assurance in Another World, The Elusive Samurai
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The Weekly Orbit [7/22/24]
The Weekly Orbit is a weekly column collecting and refining my more casual anime- and manga-related thoughts from the previous week. Mostly, these are taken from my tumblr blog, and…
2.5 Dimensional Seduction, Alya Sometimes Hides Her Feelings in Russian, Code Geass: Rozé of the Recapture, MAYONAKA PUNCH, My Deer Friend Nokotan


Seasonal First Impressions: Out of Luck, Out of Love in MAKEINE: TOO MANY LOSING HEROINES!
Makeine: Too Many Losing Heroines! isn’t reinventing the wheel with its take on romance anime. Instead, the extremely promising premiere sets itself apart with wit, charm, and passion.
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The Weekly Orbit [7/15/24]
This week on a late-night edition of the Weekly Orbit; isekai new and old, rejected scripts, and a cameo that threw me for a complete loop.
Alya Sometimes Hides Her Feelings in Russian, Code Geass: Rozé of the Recapture, Magic Knight Rayearth, Quality Assurance in Another World


Seasonal First Impressions: Summer 2024 Stragglers, Part II
Seasonal First Impressions is a column where I detail my thoughts, however brief or long, about a currently-airing anime’s first episode or so. The Magical Girl and the Evil…


Seasonal First Impressions: Succumb To The Power of MY DEER FRIEND NOKOTAN
On subtitles, surrealism, and seeing how far we can go in dissecting stupid jokes: My Deer Friend Nokotan is a hit in every sense of the word.


Seasonal First Impressions: MAYONAKA PUNCH is a Total Knockout
Local toxic Youtube influencer gets cancelled and meets a vampire. You won’t believe what happens next!


Seasonal First Impressions: Summer 2024 Stragglers
Seasonal First Impressions is a column where I detail my thoughts, however brief or long, about a currently-airing anime’s first episode or so. I’ve done one of these once…
Dungeon People, Senpai is an Otokonoko, Tasuketsu -Fate of the Majority-


Seasonal First Impressions: Back to the Bottom in TOWER OF GOD SEASON 2
In which I write a short article that is as much about myself as it is about Tower of God.


Seasonal First Impressions: Dead or Alive 1333 – In Search of THE ELUSIVE SAMURAI
The highly-anticipated shonen adaptation is a fireworks show of explosive, splintering potential. But is the story it’s telling with all of this worthwhile?


Seasonal First Impressions: Fierce Invaders From Beyond Your Stars in GRENDIZER U
Grendizer U reboots the 70s suber robot show for the modern day. Should you tune in? Well, that depends on how you feel about an anime with all…


Seasonal First Impressions: 404 Blog Post Title Not Found – What The Hell is Going On in QUALITY ASSURANCE IN ANOTHER WORLD?
A title like ‘Quality Assurance in Another World’ might make one assume that this is a breezy fantasy comedy. KonoFuka here is a lot of things, but it’s…


Seasonal First Impressions: Otaku Hot Girl Summer in 2.5 DIMENSIONAL SEDUCTION
I stayed up until 6am to write 12 paragraphs about a romcom anime again, and YOU all have to live with it.


Seasonal First Impressions: Being There For Roshidere in ALYA SOMETIMES HIDES HER FEELINGS IN RUSSIAN
Is this season’s requisite girl-with-a-gimmick romcom any good? To be honest, I’m not sure if I’m the person to ask.


Seasonal First Impressions: The Plastic Love of MY WIFE HAS NO EMOTION
Beneath a setup familiar to generations of sci-fi romcoms, something sinister and offputting lurks under the surface. Does My Wife Has No Emotion itself know that?
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The Weekly Orbit [7/1/24]
This week, in the inter-season doldrums, we take a look at the second Rozé of the Recapture episode and a particularly great Pokémon Horizons episode. Plus, Mysterious Disappearances,…
Code Geass: Rozé of the Recapture, Mysterious Disappearances, Pokémon


(REVIEW) Rock Will Never Die, But You Will – Youth, Guitars, Emptiness, and Catharsis in GIRLS BAND CRY
An instantly iconic addition to the classic rock anime canon. Electric, passionate, and essential, Girls Band Cry is easily the best anime of the year so far, and…


(REVIEW) Pop Music is an Ocean: JELLYFISH CAN’T SWIM IN THE NIGHT and the Rough Waters of The Girl Band Genre
Stylish, expressive, and deeply frustrating, the girls-do-music original escapes a simple, straightforward summation.


Seasonal First Impressions: The Revolution Never Ended for CODE GEASS: ROZÉ OF THE RECAPTURE
In the season’s first premiere, the mid-’00s camp mecha juggernaut returns like no time has passed at all. This new series, with a new cast of characters, expertly…
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The Weekly Orbit [6/24/24]
Three anime end as the season starts winding down. Which had the best finale between Jellyfish Can’t Swim in the Night, A Salad Bowl of Eccentrics, and Shuumatsu…
Girls Band Cry, Mysterious Disappearances, Pokémon, Ruin Explorers, Train to the End of the World
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The Weekly Orbit [6/17/24]
This week is all about the gay girl band arms race. Girls Band Cry delivers the single best episode of the season, and Jellyfish Can’t Swim in The…
The Grimm Variations, Jellyfish Can’t Swim in the Night, Delicious in Dungeon, Girls Band Cry, Mysterious Disappearances


Weekly Orbit Archive
Here you’ll find an archive of every series I’ve written about in the Weekly Orbit. These are listed alphabetically—by the English title if available, by the most common…
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The Weekly Orbit [6/10/24]
The Weekly Orbit is a weekly column collecting and refining my more casual anime- and manga-related thoughts from the previous week. Mostly, these are taken from my tumblr blog, and…
Rozen Maiden, Train to the End of the World, Delicious in Dungeon, Mysterious Disappearances, Pokémon
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The Weekly Orbit [6/3/24]
In this week’s Weekly Orbit, the anime girl band wars heat back up, and Train to The End of The World gets back on track. Plus, retrospective coverage…
Train to the End of the World, Jellyfish Can’t Swim in the Night, A Salad Bowl of Eccentrics, Asura, Asura Cryin'
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The Weekly Orbit [5/27/24]
It’s the week of no regrets here on the Weekly Orbit, with gripping, emotionally intense episodes from Girls Band Cry and….Wonderful Precure? Plus, Jellyfish Can’t Swim in the…
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The Weekly Orbit [5/20/24]
In this probably too-long edition of The Weekly Orbit; what the hell is going on in Train to The End of The World? Plus, seasonal highlights, coverage of…


New Manga First Impressions: The Iron Eyes and Human Heart of DEEP RAPUTA
The new MangaPlus serial bills itself as a “state-of-the-art bildungsroman” for the present day, but is this just a romcom with a sci-fi twist, or is there more…
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The Weekly Orbit [5/13/24]
This week on a light Weekly Orbit: Dungeon Meshi, the Girl Band Wars rage on with a new dark horse candidate. Plus; what the hell is the Mysterious…
Delicious in Dungeon, Girls Band Cry, Mysterious Disappearances, Pokémon, A Salad Bowl of Eccentrics
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The Weekly Orbit [5/6/24]
This week on the Weekly Orbit; surprising developments in Jellyfish Can’t Swim in The Night, a disappointing turn from Salad Bowl, and some great Pretty Cure episodes.
Pretty Cure, Train to the End of the World, Delicious in Dungeon


(REVIEW) A Strange Dream About the Sky – The Weight of AIR
(This Is) The Dream of Misuzu and Kanna.
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The Weekly Orbit [4/29/24]
Despite a solid week of anime featuring standout episodes from the likes of Dungeon Meshi, this week’s column is largely about an anime that aired nearly 20 years…
A Salad Bowl of Eccentrics, Delicious in Dungeon, Mysterious Disappearances