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My Summer 2023 Anime Mid-Season Report Card
We’re halfway through August and through the summer 2023 anime season. Can you believe it? I’ll be honest, though—it’s right around this time each season that I start…
2023 Season: 2nd Half!
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Summer 2023 Anime Season Preview
Just reminding everyone how goddamn amazing the Jujutsu Kaisen ED is. Somehow this season they’ve managed to not pack in a single sequel I actually want to watch,…
Summer 2023 Anime Season Preview
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Summer Anime 2023 Season Preview
It's time for the Summer 2023 Season Preview!
Sugar Apple Fairy Tale Season 2, Synduality Noir, Undead Murder Farce, JUJUTSU KAISEN Season 2, Masamune-kun's Revenge
Summer 2023 Anime Season Preview
Just reminding everyone how goddamn amazing the Jujutsu Kaisen ED is. Somehow this season they’ve managed to not pack in a single sequel I actually want to watch,…
Summer 2023 Anime Season Reflections
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Malevolent Spirits: Mononogatari, Spy Classroom, Ayakashi Triangle, The Most Heretical Last Boss Queen: From Villainess to Savior, Sweet Reincarnation
Progress Report 04 – Princess Connect! Re:Dive
AstroNerdBoy makes his forth progress report for the mobile video game, Princess Connect! Re:Dive. He'll do a review video in the future.
Chainsaw Man Volume 3: Progress Report
Spoiler Warning: I will be discussing major spoilers for this volume. Since volume two ended with this devil that trapped them in the hotel saying that it wants…
Progress Report 06 – Princess Connect! Re:Dive
Progress Report 06 – Princess Connect! Re:Dive Hey gang! It has been over a month since I did a progress report video for Princess Connect! Re:Dive. In addition…
Blue Period Volume 3: Progress Report
Now that Yatora is feeling more comfortable in the art world, has made more friends, and is learning what kind of works he likes, time is starting to…
Progress Report 05 – Princess Connect! Re:Dive
AstroNerdBoy drops episode 5 of my Princess Connect! Re:Dive game progress series. I'm currently at level 142 (cap) and doing pretty well.
Progress Report 03 – Princess Connect! Re:Dive
AstroNerdBoy makes his third progress report for the mobile video game, Princess Connect! Re:Dive. He'll do a review video in the future.
Chainsaw Man Volume 4: Progress Report
Warning: This review contains spoilers for the volume I don’t know how each volume of Chainsaw Man manages to outdo the last one. With the series now being…
New 2023 Gender Gap Report Shows Women’s Progress Slipping in Japan
The latest Gender Gap report from the World Economic Forum shows Japan sliding even further in its support for gender equality.
New 2023 Gender Gap Report Shows Women’s Progress Slipping in Japan
The latest Gender Gap report from the World Economic Forum shows Japan sliding even further in its support for gender equality.
New 2023 Gender Gap Report Shows Women’s Progress Slipping in Japan
The latest Gender Gap report from the World Economic Forum shows Japan sliding even further in its support for gender equality.
Summer ’24 Mid-Season Report, part 1
The week of 8/11 marked the official halfway point of the Summer 2024 season, so it’s time to take a look at how various series have been faring.…
2.5 Dimensional Seduction, Alya Sometimes Hides Her Feelings in Russian, Quality Assurance in Another World
Summer 2016 Mid(Late)-Season Status Report
Time may fly when you’re having fun, but it doesn’t really get up to speed until you try keeping up with a packed anime season.
Summer ’24 Mid-Season Report, part 2
This part of the report is for series which are hitting their seventh (or, in one case, sixth) episode during the week of 8/18. Plus, I’m adding in…
Dungeon People, Mission: Yozakura Family, Plus-Sized Elf, Why Does Nobody Remember Me in This World?
NEWS: Crunchyroll’s Summer 2023 Anime Season Calendar
The Summer 2023 Anime Season is a few weeks ago and Crunchyroll has released their Summer calendar with over 40 titles, new and continuing.
Summer 2023 Season Preview
Lenlo: It’s here folks, another season is on the horizon! You might notice something different about this one. It’s just me! Don’t worry, I just assume everyone is…
Princess Connect! Re:Dive Game Progress Report 01
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Princess Connect! Re:Dive Game Progress Report #2
AstroNerdBoy gives his second progress report for the mobile game Princess Connect! Re:Dive. He's only playing casual, but making progress.
Short Summer 2023 Anime Season Picks and Plans
You might be wondering, where is the Summer season preview? Shouldn’t it be out by now? This summer is probably the worst anime season ever in recent years,…
Spiraken Convention Report: Anime Boston 2023
In this episode of the Spiraken Con Review, Xan talks about his experience and adventures attending Anime Boston 2023 Anime Boston took place April 7th - 9th 2023 at…
Summer 2023 Mid-Season Rankings
As July approached, all the weekly anime I had been watching ended at once, leaving me with a completely empty schedule. I looked at the charts giving details…
Summer 2020 Anime At The Half Way Point
Ok, this post is going to be interesting considering that I am watching both seasonal and non-seasonal shows like seasonal shows at the same time. You know, because…
Summer 2023 Anime Awards
There was not a lot going on during the summer 2023 season of anime, so there’s not all that much to look back on. Still, I’ll guess I’ll…
Spy Classroom Season 2, YOHANE THE PARHELION -SUNSHINE in the MIRROR-, One Piece, Pretty Cure, Soaring Sky! Precure
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,…
Weekly Seasonal Watches: Summer 2023 Anime Season Week 2
The final count of show I am watching this season including Ooku is now 11 and that is where I will stop on this count. That’s all I…
Weekly Seasonal Watches: Summer 2023 Anime Season Week 9
If you are reading this, I am currently on vacation and I am not sure that I will be posting one of these next Monday. I opened up…
Weekly Seasonal Watches: Summer 2023 Anime Season Week 7
All those delays keep happening for one reason or another, I’m glad that all these shows are really good and entertaining by being themselves. I worry about Zom…
Weekly Seasonal Watches: Summer 2023 Anime Season Week 8
This watch list continues to change as my watch through Ooku is concluding with episode two and JJK and Zom 100 are returning (again for Zom 100) this…
Summer 2023 Anime Season Check-Up: Rare MAPPA W
This last month has been busy, both with me going to Comic-Con and taking care of my pets after surgery. Still, I took the time to catch up…
My Happy Marriage, The Masterful Cat is Depressed Again Today, Black Clover, Bungo Stray Dogs, JUJUTSU KAISEN
Weekly Seasonal Watches: Summer 2023 Anime Season Week 4
This week was an another one with such great episodes of all different varieties again. Maybe that is the same thing I wrote a while ago, but it’s…
Kaiseki Anime Podcast Episode 128 – Summer 2023 Season Overview
00:00 Intro 02:13 Atelier Ryza: Ever Darkness & the Secret Hideout The Animation 03:55 CLASSROOM FOR HEROES 05:06 The Devil is a Part Timer!! Season 2 06:02 My…
OneRoom, The Gene of AI, Undead Murder Farce, AYAKA, Ōoku: The Inner Chambers
Weekly Seasonal Watches: Summer 2023 Anime Season Week 11
Still getting used to having a normal life after returning from vacation, but anime is always here for me to return to. Even with this season ending soon…
Weekly Seasonal Watches: Summer 2023 Anime Season Week 12
One week, according to my schedule, of this season back. Some people say other things about but my perspective seasons begin and end on even months periods. But…
Weekly Seasonal Watches: Summer 2023 Anime Season Week 10
I’m writing this and scheduling it very late yesterday after being on vacation for a week and having wifi down at home since returning. I was somehow able…
8 Spring 2023 Season Anime Worth Watching This Summer
The usual rule is that the longer these lists are, the more middling the season was. Nothing was too bad, but nothing was overwhelmingly good either. Not this
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Weekly Seasonal Watches: Summer 2023 Anime Season Week 3
Yeah, at every turn this episode turned out to be something really good. Possibly much better then last season because it isn’t as weighed down by boring and/or…
Weekly Seasonal Watches: Summer 2023 Anime Season Week 6
Zom goes on another hiatus after this and I wish I could say that there is some positivity there but maybe this latest version of studio shaft on…
Weekly Seasonal Watches: Summer 2023 Anime Season Week 5
This is going to be weird because Jujutsu Kaisen isn’t going to have new episodes for an entire month. I don’t mind because it gives Mappa time to…
Weekly Seasonal Watches: Summer 2023 Anime Season Week 13
Well, the new season started and it did just throw 4 episodes of Frieren and some other shows at us. So yeah, I did watch all of Frieren…
Weekly Seasonal Watches: Summer 2023 Anime Season Week 1
I don’t know how it happened, but I ended up with 9 shows to watch this season with number 10 on its way on Tuesday. That one mecha…
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Summer 2023 Anime Week 13: Summer 2023 Anime Awards Part 2
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2022 Season: 2nd Half!
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