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(REVIEW) A Tiny Little Life in The Woods with HAKUMEI AND MIKOCHI
Take a walk outside, see what we can find.
Your Anime Orbit: OSHI NO KO – Season 2, Episode 9
Guys, I don't think "the good Oshi no Ko" is coming back :(
Brief Thoughts on: IKOKU NIKKI – Episode 10
On notebooks, Asa's and others', in Ikoku Nikki.
Your Anime Orbit: OSHI NO KO – Season 3, Episode 8
Is this where Oshi no Ko falls apart and never recovers? It's looking more likely than not, that's for certain.
Magic Planet Arcade: Somewhere Above The Earth in the CICADAMATA Demo Disc
Follow the White Rabbit
Your Anime Orbit: OSHI NO KO – Season 3, Episode 6
Arima Kana is the best thing about Oshi no Ko. I will not be taking questions at this time.
Brief Thoughts on: FATE/STRANGE FAKE – Episode 6
How much can you convey about two characters just with how they fight? Quite a bit, actually.
Brief Thoughts on: SHIBOYUGI: PLAYING DEATH GAMES TO PUT FOOD ON THE TABLE – Episode 4
The second game comes to a close as Shiboyugi finds new ways to unnerve and disorient.
Brief Thoughts on: IKOKU NIKKI – Episode 3
“Brief” articles are copied directly from my tumblr, with only minor changes, and are shorter and more off-the-cuff than their full length counterparts. One of my favorite things…
Brief Thoughts on: OSHI NO KO – Season 3, Episode 2
In which Ruby learns to play the fool to get people to like her, and we're introduced to put-upon TV guy Yoshizumi Shun.
Let’s Watch: UMA MUSUME – CINDERELLA GRAY Episode 5 – “What’s Best For Her”
Oguri Cap is running as well as ever, but is the newfound attention from her racing success necessarily a good thing?
The Shambolic Anime Podcast Presents: Discussing ALIEN NINE
Today on the rarely-seen, once-in-a-while when we feel up to it Shambolic Anime podcast, my co-host Julian M. and I discuss seminal 2000s miniseries Alien Nine, and the…
Let’s Watch: UMA MUSUME – CINDERELLA GRAY Episode 4 – “The Junior Crown”
Oguri Cap faces her first true challenge in the Junior Crown. Can she defeat her rival Fujimasa March, or is she doomed to be just a stepping stone…
Seasonal First Impressions: Be Aware of MONO
The camera club comedy from the mind behind YuruCamp is an easy seasonal highlight, charming, funny, and full of life.
Seasonal First Impressions: Checking in to the APOCALYPSE HOTEL
Beyond the end of the world, with humanity long gone, a small group of robots do all they can to preserve one last oasis of hospitality. Is their…
Seasonal First Impressions: This City Knows Your Name – Remembering and Forgetting in KOWLOON GENERIC ROMANCE
A drifting mix of signifiers meant to rouse our interest without answering too many questions upfront. Kowloon certainly, Romance, more or less. Generic, I’m not so sure.
Seasonal Anime First Impressions: LAZARUS is Dead on Arrival
Tedious, dry, lacking charm or compelling drama, the latest product of the Neo-Toonami Industrial Complex simply feels replaceable.
Seasonal Anime First Impressions: UMA MUSUME CINDERELLA GREY at the Starting Gate
Being first out of the gate and winning the race are not the same thing.
Seasonal Anime First Impressions: The Thorny Debut of ROCK IS A LADY’S MODESTY
The Girl Band Renaissance rolls on, but can Rock is a Lady’s Modesty stand out from the crowd or is it doomed to get lost in the shuffle?
copy of AVE MUJICA at the Edge of the World
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AVE MUJICA at the Edge of the World
On “Ave Mujica,” and on not having much to say about “Ave Mujica.”
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The Weekly Orbit [3/4/25]
This week: Ave Mujica, Gundam GQuuuuuuX, and yuri manga.
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The Weekly Orbit [2/24/25]
Things are finally looking the slightest bit up for Ave Mujica, but is that the light at the end of the tunnel we see, or the headlights of…
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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-