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What I Watched This Week – 11/19 – 11/25

Reborn! Ep. 1-25 – I’m enjoying the currently airing Ron Kamonohashi series, so I figured I might as well pick up her previous series, which apparently had a…

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What I Watched This Week – 11/12 – 11/18

Chrono Crusade – I’ve been vaguely aware of this series basically since it came out in the US, and just had never gotten around to watching it. Now…

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Summer 2023 Anime Roundup

Anime of the Season – My Happy Marriage I had been looking forward to this supernatural-tinged romance set in Taisho-era Japan ever since it was announced in 2022,…

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What I Watched This Week – 11/5 – 11/11

Pluto – I came to this without ever reading or watching any Astro Boy or other Tezuka manga, and I’ve never read or watched anything by Naoki Urasawa,…

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What I Watched This Week – 10/29- 11/4

Vampire Princess Miyu (TV) – My last spooky season anime was this shoujo horror series about a vampire who looks like a teenage girl and is charged with…

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What I Watched This Week – 10/22- 10/28

Witch Hunter Robin – I put this on for spooky season, but the witches they hunted were not really the sort of witches I was thinking of, as…

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What I Watched This Week – 10/15- 10/21

Hellsing – I didn’t look this up before I started it, so I didn’t realize Hellsing Ultimate was a reboot instead of a sequel, and I kind of…

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What I Watched This Week – 10/8- 10/14

BanG Dream! It’s MyGO!!!!! – I generally avoid girl idol shows, but I kept seeing a ton of praise for this installment in the series, and the curiosity…

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What I Watched This Week – 10/1- 10/7

Zombieland Saga Revenge – I’ve held this aside for months because it seemed like the perfect show to kick off spooky season with. It opens shortly after the…

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Spring 2023 Anime Roundup

Anime of the Season – Skip and Loafer It’s rare enough for a manga I read and love to get an anime adaptation, and to have a top-tier…

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What I Watched This Week – 9/17- 9/30

Space Adventure Cobra – RetroCrush added this to their streaming catalog just as everyone was posting their remembrances after the mangaka passed away, so I figured I should…

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What I Watched This Week – 9/10- 9/16

Future Boy Conan – I bought this TV series directed by Miyazaki and other Ghibli staff on Blu-Ray a while ago, and thought I should probably put it…

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What I Watched This Week – 9/3- 9/9

Hypnosis Mic: Division Rap Battle – I’ve been on the fence about watching this series ever since it aired, as I really enjoy when anime takes an absurd…

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What I Watched This Week – 8/27- 9/2

Cyborg 009: The Cyborg Soldier, Ep. 1-25 – Amusingly, I am watching this sci-fi series about a group of nine cyborg soldiers who’ve escaped from an evil organization…

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What I Watched This Week – 8/20-8/26

Redline – It’s a shame this movie is not widely available on streaming or Blu-ray, because they absolutely animated their faces off with this one. The plot is…

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What I Watched This Week – 8/13-8/19

Black Butler S1 – This is one of those fujoshi-friendly shows that maintains a healthy fandom even fifteen years later, and seeing my Tumblr dashboard erupt in fangirl…

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What I Watched This Week 8/6 – 8/12

Bungo Stray Dogs S2 – I watched season 1 of this way back in 2020 and wasn’t terribly impressed, but I kept seeing people say that season 1…

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What I Watched This Week 7/30 – 8/5

Mobile Suit Gundam ZZ Ep.1-25 – The way everyone talks about this series as some kind of garbage had me hesitant to start watching it, but I really…

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What I Watched This Week 7/23 – 7/29

Concrete Revolutio – I saw this called out in the sidebar on Reddit, and figured I might as well give it a try despite its sub-7.00 rating on…

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What I Watched This Week 7/16 – 7/22

Sgt. Frog Ep. 1-25 – Crunchyroll was acting up for me this week, so I popped in the Blu-ray of this that a friend randomly sent me, not…

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What I Watched This Week – 7/9-7/15

Initial D First Stage – I am not very knowledgeable about cars or particularly interested in racing, so I really only added this to my watchlist because one…

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What I Watched This Week – 6/25-7/8

The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya – There are multiple ways to watch this series, and I went with the chronological order because that was how Crunchyroll had the…

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What I Watched This Week – 6/18-6/24

Michiko & Hatchin – This is another show that I had mixed up in my head with a completely different show and didn’t watch because I thought I’d…

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What I Watched This Week – 6/11-6/17

Sayonara Zetsubou-Sensei S2 – It’s fascinating how this series that is jam-packed with references to a whole range of Japanese media and culture still manages to be consistently…

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What I Watched This Week – 6/4-6/10

Dear Brother Ep.1-20 – I’ve wanted to watch this classic shoujo yuri for a long time, but the only place it was streaming was Retro Crush and their…

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What I Watched This Week – 5/28-6/3

Psycho-Pass S1 – Cyberpunk stories where the protagonists are the police are a challenging thing to pull off, and while I enjoyed this story while I was watching…

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What I Watched This Week – 5/14-5/27

School Rumble S1&2 – I’ve avoided this series for the longest time because I had it mixed up in my crumbling old brain with Rumbling Hearts, which looks…

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What I Watched This Week – 5/7-5/13

The Rose of Versailles – I initially planned to watch the first 20 episodes this week, then watch the second half next week, but the story got its…

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What I Watched This Week – 4/30-5/6

Aim for the Ace! – When Discotek put this out on Blu-ray, I picked it up on principle, as I absolutely want licensors to make older shoujo more…

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What I Watched This Week – 4/23-4/29

Technoroid: Overmind – I saw that Anime Feminist chose this as one of their five recommended titles from the winter 2023 season, and decided to give it a…

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What I Watched This Week – 4/16-4/22

WWW.Wagnaria!! – This took a bit to get started for me, as the beginning leaned a bit too heavily into how wacky the cast of characters was before…

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What I Watched This Week – 4/9-4/15

Cardcaptor Sakura Ep. 1-25 – Of all the 90s shoujo I’ve watched, I’m enjoying this the most, but I continue to not understand the hold these series have…

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Winter 2023 Anime Roundup

Anime of the Season – Tsurune S2 I hadn’t watched season one, so I did not plan to watch this show this season, but all the gorgeous screenshots…

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What I Watched This Week – 4/2-4/8

Uncle From Another World – It’s a shame this show had so many production issues, because it was an entirely delightful take on isekai and nostalgia for late…

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What I Watched This Week – 3/26-4/1

After the Rain – While, yes, people are correct that this series is not really a romance, if anyone tries to convince you that it’s not creepy or…

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What I Watched This Week – 3/12-3/25

Galaxy Express 999 Ep.1-40 – I watched Captain Harlock a few months ago, and I figured it was about time to get started on the other widely available…

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What I Watched This Week – 3/5-3/11

Penguindrum – While I haven’t seen everything Ikuhara has done, of the four I’ve seen, this is far and away my favorite. I was enthralled with it pretty…

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What I Watched This Week – 2/26-3/4

Love Flops – I passed on this while it was airing because it looked like an ecchi harem romcom, and those aren’t my thing. Since it ended, and…

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What I Watched This Week – 2/19-2/25

Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam Ep.1-25 – I watched the original Gundam two years ago and really enjoyed it, but I got distracted watching One Piece and then Gintama,…

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What I Watched This Week – 2/12-2/18

Martian Successor Nadesico – I started watching this about a year and a half ago and walked away about halfway through because I got distracted or something. When…

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What I Watched This Week – 2/5-2/11

GoShogun – It’s been a little while since I watched an 80s anime, so I decided to watch this show I added to my watch list a while…

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What I Watched This Week – 1/29-2/4

Shonen Maid – I generally only buy physical copies of anime I’ve already seen and know I love, but every once in a while I’ll pick up something…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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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,…

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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.…

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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…

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