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Doctorkev’s Anime Review Digest: 4
It’s been a while since I last did this. As part of the AniTAY writing collective, I regularly contribute to seasonal collaboration…
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 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…
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…
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…
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 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 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 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 Autumn 2021 Anime Postmortem Part 1
What better time to take stock of the finished season’s stacked selection of anime?
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 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 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 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 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 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…
Weekly Digest 5/1/21 – Bakuten!!, Shakunetsu Kabaddi
The mystery of Azemichi's head deepens. Read more
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 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 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 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 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 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 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…
Anime Digest: Let’s Go to Hell Together
In which I talk about storytellers, conspirators, chessmasters, hellish creatures, and a family of idiots.
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…
Doctorkev’s Thoughts on the Spring 2022 Anime Season: Crunchyroll
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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 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…
Anime Review 5 Slayers (Redux)
This review will cover three seasons of the Slayers, aka Slayers Season 1, Slayers Nexy and Slayers Try. If you know anything about me or if you have…
NORA’S WEEKLY ANIME DIGEST — WINTER 2022, WEEK 12
Hello everyone. We’ve finally reached the inevitable that is the season finale. Almost all of the series are wrapping themselves up and a surge of new series await…
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 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…
NORA’S WEEKLY ANIME DIGEST — WINTER 2022, WEEK 1
Greetings blogosphere, and whoever is reading this post right now! Even after a period of great agony and deep introspection, I couldn’t decide on a series that I…
NORA’S WEEKLY ANIME DIGEST — WINTER 2022, WEEK 10
*in Morgan Freeman voice* So we meet again. Hope everyone’s doing well. This week, apart from the weekly series, I finally started watching Part 2 of Attack on Titan’s…
NORA’S WEEKLY ANIME DIGEST — WINTER 2022, WEEK 11
Greetings! Another week, another set of hot takes, fresh out of the oven. This week’s episodes sent me on quite a roller coaster of emotions; I felt nostalgic,…
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 2
Greetings! This week was rather weak when it came to anime watching or manga reading because, as I mentioned before, I was away from home. I came back…
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…
NORA’S WEEKLY ANIME DIGEST — WINTER 2022, WEEK 9
Hi everyone! Hope your first half of the week passed by without a hitch and the seasonal anime you’re keeping up with is making you happy. Nothing too…
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…
Weekly Digest 5/19/20 – Fruits Basket 2nd Season, Kitsutsuki Tanteidokoro
Things are already interesting even before Akito arrives to spoil everybody's fun, because it's with this core group of characters that the strength of Furuba lies. Read more
Weekly Digest 5/8/23 – My Home Hero, Ao no Orchestra
I'm pretty much a captive audience here in the almost literal sense. Read more
Weekly Digest 5/26/20 – Fruits Basket 2nd Season, Kitsutsuki Tanteidokoro
What is it about Japanese mysteries and two-sen copper coins? Read more