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Doctorkev’s Anime Review Digest: 5
While I continue to take a little break from writing new full articles, here’s another collection of short pieces I submitted to past…
Doctorkev’s Anime Review Digest: 6
My short sabbatical from new articles continues, so to tide things over, here’s another collection of short reviews published previously as…
NORA’S WEEKLY ANIME DIGEST — WINTER 2022, WEEK 4
Greetings everyone! An IRL fujoshi friend of mine had traveled to the city I live in, so meeting her and spending time together was my priority, hence the…
Doctorkev’s Autumn 2020 Anime Postmortem
What with an unprecedented surge of patient demand assailing the UK health service latterly, I’ve barely had time to think — let alone…
Doctorkev’s Winter 2022 Anime Postmortem
Thus endeth the lightest anime season since the pandemic-inflicted days of 2020. Not that we’re currently pandemic-free, but the anime…
Anime Digest: Late Spring
I ended up watching 7 shows from this season, so we’ll make this a Spring Exclusive.
Attack on Titan, Natsume's Book of Friends, The Eccentric Family
Doctorkev’s Autumn 2022 Anime Postmortem: Crunchyroll
2022’s final anime season has seen fit to bless us with an embarrassment of riches. At least as far as Crunchyroll’s offerings go, this may…
Doctorkev’s Spring 2022 Anime Postmortem: Crunchyroll
What a great anime season it’s been! Winter 2022 was comparatively quiet, but Spring 2022 has brought both quantity and quality. Mostly…
Doctorkev’s Fate and Nasuverse Review Marathon
Over the past few years, I’ve dipped my feet into reviewing various aspects of writer Kinoko Nasu and his company TYPE-MOON’s expansive…
Doctorkev’s Winter 2023 Anime Postmortem Part 1
Already we’ve reached the end of 2023’s first anime season, so it’s time again for me to offer opinions on the stuff I watched. Overall…
Doctorkev’s Summer 2024 Anime Postmortem Part 1
It’s that time in the season where things are starting to wind down. Although quite a few shows still have one or two episodes left, at…
Doctorkev’s Summer 2024 Anime Postmortem Part 2
The Autumn 2024 season already started a week ago, even though a handful of Summer 2024 shows either haven’t finished yet, or have only…
Doctorkev’s Autumn 2021 Anime Postmortem Part 1
What better time to take stock of the finished season’s stacked selection of anime?
Doctorkev’s Spring 2021 Anime Postmortem: Part 1
The Spring 2021 anime season is almost over, and I can say with confidence that this has been the strongest season in a long time. It will…
Doctorkev’s Spring 2024 Anime Postmortem: Part 2
Some of this season’s anime really left the conclusion of their runs right up to the wire, only ending today on the last day of June! Some…
Doctorkev’s 2023 Anime Postmortem — A Year Deconstructed
Happy new year, everyone! The Winter 2024 anime season hasn’t really begun yet in any meaningful sense, so let’s pause to have a look back…
Doctorkev’s Summer 2023 Anime Postmortem Part 2
As the Autumn 2023 anime season started yesterday with a handful of early shows (including the rightly-hyped Frieren — I’m excited about…
Doctorkev’s Spring 2023 Anime Postmortem Part 1
It’s been another packed anime season, and as usual I’ve watched far too many shows to fit into one reasonable-length article. This time…
Doctorkev’s Autumn 2024 Anime Postmortem Part 2
As the end of 2024 approaches, it’s time to round off my look at the year’s final season. I’ve been really busy over the festive period so…
Doctorkev’s Winter 2023 Anime Postmortem Part 2
Would you believe that after a little over four years, this is my 200th article? At an average of around 2000 words each, that’s enough to…
Doctorkev’s Spring 2024 Anime Postmortem: Part 1
It’s that time of the season where I look back with regret that once again I was unable to contain myself and ended up watching far too…
Doctorkev’s Autumn 2021 Anime Postmortem Part 2
18 shows in a season is too much for a working adult to cope with, but Autumn 2021 contained so many good shows I was only able to…
Doctorkev’s Summer 2023 Anime Postmortem Part 1
We come to the end of yet another anime season, and I think I’m not alone in my sentiments that this was probably the weakest overall…
Doctorkev’s Spring 2021 Anime Postmortem: Part 2
What a tumultuous week this was, with the release of multiple highly-anticipated conclusions to some very prominent anime shows. With…
Doctorkev’s Autumn 2024 Anime Postmortem Part 1
It’s almost Christmas, which means the Autumn 2024 anime season approaches its conclusion. Once again, I’ve watched over 20 shows, and this…
Weekly Digest 4/25/21 – Shadows House, Shakunetsu Kabaddi
Anime giveth with one hand, and taketh with the other. Read more
Doctorkev’s Autumn 2022 Anime Postmortem: HIDIVE and Netflix
Last time, halfway through this ridiculously packed anime season, I covered some Netflix shows that I don’t have room to include again here…
Doctorkev’s 2024 Postmortem — A Year in Anime Disembodied
Happy 2025, anime enjoyers! This annual look at the past year in the anime industry comes to you later than planned, courtesy of a…
Doctorkev’s 2022 Postmortem — A Year in Anime Discombobulated
Already we’re deep into the Winter 2023 anime season, and most of the new shows have already premiered. Obviously I’m now committed to…
Doctorkev’s 2020 Postmortem: A Year in Anime Dismembered
Here’s a fateful quote from my 10-month old My Hero Academia: Heroes Rising review: “The first part of 2020 has certainly been great so…
Doctorkev’s Thoughts on the Winter 2022 Anime Season
Although it’s a quieter, weaker season than any from 2021, I’ve still somehow found plenty of anime to watch. It’s a weird season, with a…
Doctorkev’s Autumn 2023 Anime Postmortem — Crunchyroll Part 2
Previously, I covered a bunch of Crunchyroll shows from Autumn 2023 that although were decent, but didn’t think were exceptional. It’s a…
Doctorkev’s Spring 2022 Anime Postmortem: Netflix and HIDIVE
It’s been another packed anime season, and as always, I’ve watched far too much of it to be healthy…
Doctorkev’s Autumn 2023 Anime Postmortem — Crunchyroll Part 1
It’s been one hell of a heavy season for anime, with such a high concentration of fantastic shows crammed into the last three months of…
Doctorkev’s Thoughts on the Summer 2021 Anime Season
After the previous two seasons’ unrelenting barrage of high quality, unmissable anime, I have to admit I was feeling a bit burned out…
Doctorkev’s Thoughts on the Winter 2025 Anime Season
Regardless of what’s happening in one’s personal life, the unstoppable juggernaut that is seasonal anime lumbers on, unimpeded. While I’ve…
Doctorkev’s Thoughts on the Spring 2022 Anime Season: Crunchyroll
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Doctorkev’s Thoughts on the Autumn 2022 Anime Season: Crunchyroll
As 2022 crawls to a dark, cold, and wet end (at least in Scotland), what better way to keep warm in these depressing fuel-conserving months…
Doctorkev’s Thoughts on the Spring 2021 Anime Season: Crunchyroll
Spring 2021’s anime continues to overwhelm not just in terms of sheer quantity, but also unprecedented quality. There’s such a variety of…
Doctorkev’s Winter 2024 Anime Postmortem — Best of the Season
I’ve finally managed to drag myself away from my other writing obligations to spend a little time reflecting on the anime season that’s…
Doctorkev’s Summer 2021 Anime Postmortem Part 2 — New Shows
Last time, I covered nine of the summer season’s continuing or sequel shows, now it’s time to appraise nine of the shiniest of shiny new…
Doctorkev’s Winter 2024 Anime Postmortem — Rest of the Season
After yesterday’s look at what I felt were the very best anime of the Winter 2024 season (a top 10 of the total 21 shows I finished), now…
Doctorkev’s Thoughts on the Spring 2021 Anime Season: Funimation
After last season’s insanely packed roster, I swore that this time I’d reduce my anime burden significantly for Spring. That… didn’t…
Weekly Digest 4/25/23 – My Home Hero, Ao no Orchestra
Nothing takes you out of the moment like bad CGI, and that was some seriously bad CGI. Read more
Persona 4: The Animation(Anime Review)
Synopsis: Yuu Narukami moves to Inaba, a seemingly quiet and ordinary town, where he quickly befriends the clumsy transfer student Yousuke Hanamura, the energetic Chie Satonaka, and the…
NORA’S WEEKLY ANIME DIGEST — WINTER 2022, WEEK 8
Hello friends! Not to dampen the mood right from the first paragraph, but I haven’t been my best these days. I didn’t even have the energy to watch…
NORA’S WEEKLY ANIME DIGEST — WINTER 2022, WEEK 3
Greetings fellow comrades! Hopefully the week is treating you well and life is going according to keikaku. Things are as alright as they can be at this part…
NORA’S WEEKLY ANIME DIGEST — WINTER 2022, WEEK 5
Greetings everyone! Glad you accepted your first mission to read this week’s hot takes. I’m greatly enjoying this season and the series I’m keeping up with always bring…
NORA’S WEEKLY ANIME DIGEST — WINTER 2022, WEEK 6
I’m writing today’s review piece with rage. Yes, that’s right, rage. None of the recipes I’ve been trying nowadays go the way they are supposed to and my…
NORA’S WEEKLY ANIME DIGEST — WINTER 2022, WEEK 7
This week I had somewhat limited time and attention span to focus on the weekly episodes. And as if the last week’s blunders weren’t enough, I watched the…