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What I Watched This Week – 1/22-1/28
Record of Lodoss War (1998) – I liked, but didn’t love, the original Lodoss War OVA, and this is pretty much a step down from that series all…
What I Watched This Week – 1/15-1/21
Good Luck Girl – Considering the way this shounen comedy about an extremely fortunate girl hounded by a poverty god is 25% boob jokes by volume, I should…
What I Watched This Week – 1/8-1/14
Vinland Saga S1 – Given that I love anime like Kingdom and LoGH, and play games like Civilization and Crusader Kings, by all rights I should have watched…
What I Watched This Week – 1/1-1/7
Chio’s School Road – This was a rather frustrating watch. 90% of it is genuinely funny, clever little skits involving the ridiculous people Chio and her best friend…
What I Watched This Week – 12/18-12/31
Chimimo – I asked for people’s picks for underwatched gems from 2022, and this was one of them, so I decided to give it a go. I initially…
Fall 2022 Anime Roundup
Somehow yet another season has completed, and this one was a doozy. Not only were there multiple sequels to major franchises like Mob Psycho and My Hero Academia,…
What I Watched This Week – 12/11-12/17
Heat Guy J – As Crunchyroll keeps adding Funimation content and/or adding dubs to their shows, I keep browsing their “new” tab to see what catches my eye.…
What I Watched This Week – 12/4-12/10
Lycoris Recoil – Being a veteran of the great 2021 Wonder Egg Priority debacle, I was hesitant to watch this original featuring cute girls doing violent things while…
What I Watched This Week – 11/27-12/3
Legend of the Forest – The YouTube account for Tezuka Productions has posted a number of short, experimental animated works by Osamu Tezuka for free to celebrate his…
What I Watched This Week – 11/20-11/26
Giant Gorg – This week’s classic anime selection throws it all the way back to 1984 with a fun little two cour original anime about a boy and…
What I Watched This Week – 11/13-11/19
Blue Seed – By all rights, I should have turned this off in the middle of the first episode when the plant vine tentacle monster ripped off the…
What I Watched This Week – 11/6-11/12
Wolf’s Rain – This is kind of a hard one to talk about since I haven’t actually seen the whole series. I put on the series that’s on…
What I Watched This Week – 10/30-11/5
Junjo Romantica S3 – I know I don’t really like this series, so don’t ask me why I watched all three seasons, because I don’t have a good…
What I Watched This Week – 10/23-10/29
Nabari no Ou – More and more of the older shows on Funimation have been moved over to Crunchroll, and this one caught my eye when I was…
What I Watched This Week – 10/9-10/22
Jujitsu Kaisen + movie – For whatever reason, I just really felt like rewatching this series, so I did. I feel a little ridiculous about giving it a…
Summer 2022 Anime Roundup
This was a slow season for me for sure. I usually watch around 20 shows each season, but I wasn’t interested in many of the sequels, and only…
What I Watched This Week – 10/2-10/8
All Purpose Cultural Cat Girl Nuku Nuku – I went into this six-episode OVA about an android with the brain of a housecat expecting a story about her…
What I Watched This Week – 9/25-10/1
Trapped in a Dating Sim: The World of Otome Games is Tough for Mobs – I skipped this while it was airing because it looked kind of mean-spirited,…
What I Watched This Week – 9/18-9/24
Azumanga Daioh – This is one of the first anime series I watched in its entirety, and while I have re-watched it many times over the years, I…
What I Watched This Week – 9/11-9/17
Yona of the Dawn – Early last week, I watched a YouTube video that played the opening bars of this anime’s first opening song, and that meant I…
What I Watched This Week – 9/4-9/10
Cute High Earth Defense Club Happy Kiss! – I really enjoyed the first two seasons of this show, and held this season aside as a break glass in…
What I Watched This Week – 8/21-9/3
Space Pirate Captain Harlock – After watching all of One Piece, it was time to watch the other anime pirate classic, released all the way back in 1978.…
What I Watched This Week – 8/14-8/20
When Supernatural Battles Became Commonplace – When the anime adaptation of Delicious in Dungeon was announced, I saw someone mention that it would be only the second time…
What I Watched This Week – 7/31-8/6
Mob Psycho 100 – Somebody posted a clip from one of the fight scenes, and hearing the iconic fight music made me drop everything and rewatch the series…
Yaoi Day BL Anime Roundup
Because one of the readings for 8 in Japanese is ya, and 01 looks like an oi, August 1st, or 8/01, is a bit of an informal holiday…
What I Watched This Week – 7/17-7/23
Nanbaka – This show was one half silly comedy about colorful characters repeatedly breaking out of prison, and one half action drama about prisoners pursued by shadowy figures.…
Spring 2022 Anime Roundup
Kaguya-sama: Love is War – Ultra Romantic – Call me a basic bitch, but I loved the first two seasons, and this gave me more of the same…
What I Watched This Week – 7/3-7/9
Tiger & Bunny S1 + movies – I’ve been meaning to watch this for a long time, and I’m not really sure what the holdup was, because it’s…
What I Watched This Week – 6/19-6/25
Fusé: Memoirs of a Huntress – This was an odd little movie that I can’t decide if I liked or not. On the plus side, I thought the…
What I Watched This Week – 6/12-6/18
Konosuba S1 – This is one those shows I put on not because I thought I was going to like it, but because I wanted to see why…
What I Watched This Week – 6/5-6/11
Denki-Gai – This workplace comedy about seven oddballs working at a pop-culture bookstore is written by the same person that does Aharen-san, so if you’re enjoying that show,…
What I Watched This Week – 5/15-5/21
Kiznaiver – I need to sit down and make a list of every original anime Mari Okada has written the script for and commit it to memory so…
What I Watched This Week – 4/18-4/23
The Garden of Sinners 6-10 – Despite having the same writer and being produced by the same studio, it is absolutely wild how this series of movies swung…
What I Watched This Week – 4/10-4/17
Kotaro Lives Alone – I have a real soft spot for media about people raising children they’re not technically the parent of, so a story about a kindergartener…
Winter 2022 Anime Roundup
Completed Sasaki and Miyano – A sweet and funny romance with a fun cast of supporting characters. Easily my AOTS. 9/10 My Dress-Up Darling – A really fun…
What I Watched This Week – 3/27-4/2
Kids on the Slope – Not that there are a ton of them, but so far Showa-era-set josei anime about two guys and a girl involved in a…
What I Watched This Week – 3/20-3/26
Alice and Zoroku – This was an interesting little series in that the first half was an action-heavy sci-fi thriller about a girl with psychic powers trying to…
What I Watched This Week – 3/13-3/19
Muhyo & Roji’s Bureau of Supernatural Investigation S1&2 – Despite being an adaptation of a Shonen Jump title, I don’t think I have ever seen anyone mention this…
What I Watched This Week – 3/6-3/12
IDOLiSH7 – I’m not generally a fan of idols or idol anime, but I’ve seen lots of different people sing this show’s praises, so I figured I’d give…
What I Watched This Week – 2/27-3/5
Polar Bear Café – I really enjoyed this episodic slice-of-life comedy about a café run by a polar bear in a town with a mix of humans and…
What I Watched This Week – 2/20-2/26
Super Lovers S1&2 – In any given discussion about BL, someone inevitably brings up this show as the reason the genre is irredeemably problematic and not worth…
What I Watched This Week – 2/13-2/19
Demon Slayer: Entertainment District Arc – For whatever reason, I just didn’t feel like watching this while it was airing, and decided to binge it after it finished.…
What I Watched This Week – 2/6-2/12
Emma: A Victorian Romance S1&2 – As February is the unofficial month of romance, I decided it was time to watch this show that has sat on my…
What I Watched This Week – 1/30-2/5
Yuri!!! On Ice – When I first tried watching this a few years ago, I dropped it after two episodes because I really didn’t like the way Victor…
What I Watched This Week – 1/23-1/29
The Fantastic Adventures Of Unico & Unico in the Island of Magic – Way, way back in the whens, this was on TV, on Nickelodeon I believe, my…
What I Watched This Week – 1/16-1/22
Room Mate – I resurrected an old video game and just didn’t feel like watching anime off my backlist this week, but I threw on this series of…
What I Watched This Week – 1/9-1/15
How to Raise a Mummy – I have to say I’m honestly surprised I’ve never seen anyone talk about this show, because it might be one of the…
What I Watched This Week – 1/2-1/8
Robot Carnival – I picked up a Blu-ray of this movie-length anthology during a holiday sale, and I can’t understand how so many people look at the old-style…
What I Watched This Week – 12/26-1/1
Beastars S2 – This was the week for watching all the 2021 anime in my backlist, and I’m honestly not sure why this was still unwatched because I…
2021 Anime Roundup
It’s that time of year where everyone posts their best of lists, and while I want to play too, I’ve watched at least 3 episodes of close to…