I love to read. Especially Japanese and English novels with good stories. Here are my favourite books of 2023.
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My Favourite Books of 2023
I love to read. Especially Japanese and English novels with good stories. Here are my favourite books of 2023.


My Favourite (and Least Favourite) Books of 2024
I read a lot of books in 2024 and decided to share my top favourite books of 2024 along with some dishonourable mentions.


My Favourite Anitubers 2023
Hny besties ٩(^‿^)۶ Some of the creators that I was feeling through 2023. Forneverworld 00:20 Domo Senpai 03:05 Animebackwhen 04:20 Manga Crash 05:15 Shaybs 05:50 Joey 06:21 Inakyu 07:25 Doofy 08:32 Trentinart 09:31 Weeb Jail 10:23 Johnny Star 10:58 Chibi…
Some of my favourite openings!
I’ve probably mentioned it before, but in case you didn’t know, I don’t generally give much attention to openings. I know there are all sorts, and some are…


My Favourite Quote
“Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend to them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster,…


My Favourite Anime Of The Decade
This is basically just a list post. However for posterity, I’m going to link the top few posts of the End Of Year retrospectives I do every year…
January 2023 Backlog Books
Here's the books on my backlog that I finished in January 2023!


February 2023 Backlog Books
Time for another backlog round! I tried out a new-to-me series, a stand-alone volume, and two series that I know from their anime adaptations.


March 2023 Backlog Books
Let the backlogging continue! This month I finished a series and tried out two more titles that I know from their anime adaptations.


5 Of My Favourite English Voice Actors
This will be for another post but couldn’t help stick it here! I thought I had written a list about my favourite voice actors but apparently not.


My Favourite Anitubers 2022
Happy new year bb's. I got lit New Year's Eve and made a list of my favourite creators within the anime/gaming community and some of the content they…


My New Favourite Yuri
I enjoy a good webcomic and I enjoy a fun yuri. Isn't it great that I found something that is both and I want to tell you about…


My Favourite Baki Characters!
Hey there! Didn’t think you’d hear from me so soon? well… I recently just finished the third series Hanma Baki: Son of Ogre and I absolutely loved it!…


My FAVOURITE Manga Scene
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Dusk Maiden of Amnesia – My New Halloween Favourite
I think I'm the last person to hear about Dusk Maiden of Amnesia but I'm glad I did. Be warned, this show is best enjoyed going in blind.


What is my favourite season?
Summer isn’t my favourite season, so which is it?


Roasting my Audience's Favourite Anime
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My 5 Favourite JRPG Franchises
Lately I have really been in the mood to play a classic JRPG series. Here are some of my favourites from years past.
My Favourite Anime “Box Art”
I don’t actually know what the proper name for it would be. Promo art? Cover art? Thumbnail? With everything being increasingly digital we don’t have that many DVD…


My Favourite Jujutsu Kaisen Theories
MANGA SPOILERS AHEAD I love a good theory as much as the next person. Jujutsu Kaisen has risen in popularity by tenfold since the anime aired and with…


Toradora Wasn’t My Favourite Romcom
This is what people will want to do to me when I’ve spoken my words. haha So Yo, Toradora is not a favourite romantic comedy of mine.


My favourite SGT — Majestic Japan
Here to entice you to book your next trip, is our expert, Chantel. She’s led countless tours and has developed a real love for Majestic Japan.
Square Enix Manga & Books Reveals New Books Coming Spring 2023
The good folks from Square Enix Manga & Books have sent us their upcoming release slate for spring 2023. Headlining their releases is the Ch...
Books: I Surrendered My Sword
By Shelley Pallis. He was the greatest swordsman in the world. He advanced through every stage, mastered every trick, and learned every technique. He reached the highest possible…


My 5 Least Favourite Anime Tropes
These are my top 5 Least Favourite Anime Tropes. I guess bottom 5 really. Let's see if we have the same tastes?


My Favourite Anime: Bungou Stray Dogs
Leshy from Raving Otaku gives us the lowdown on why Bungou Stray Dogs is their favourite anime. If you’re not already a fan, you probably will be after…


My favourite manga reads in 2016
2016. What a year. It’s been a tough year for many of us and personally, it was a challenging one. I was so busy with the last…


My Favourite Plot Twist in Anime
Plot twists are always fun when they’re done right. One of my favourite plot twists I’ve seen in an anime is from Yuri on Ice!!! I wasn’t expecting…


My New Favourite Anime Opening Style
Bit of a break since the last post, but here’s something I can write about, and that’s anime openings. I’ve written about this before, but may as well…
My 5 Least Favourite Anime Tropes
These are my top 5 Least Favourite Anime Tropes. I guess bottom 5 really. Let's see if we have the same tastes?
My Favourite 5 Character Design Elements
I thought we could all use a nice light post that’s just a general excuse for thinking about anime characters we like. And while I was thinking about…


Is Akira still one of my favourite anime of all time?
Akira is the anime I’ve seen the most, albeit not intentionally. I first saw it as a young teenager since my dad owned it on VHS. My parents…


Is Arrietty still one of my favourite anime of all time
I love Arrietty to bits. It might be my favourite Ghibli movie ever, or at least it was up there tied with Porco Rosso. I’d always figured it…


Is Redline still one of my favourite anime of all time
Redliiiine! I saw Redline in the cinema when it first came out. I then went and watched it again in another cinema. Then I went and watched it…


Is Baccano still one of my favourite anime of all time?
Baccano aired in 2007, right when the home video market crashed, the world as a whole was about to crash, legal streaming hadn’t taken off yet, and Crunchyroll…


Is Berserk still one of my favourite anime of all time?
Berserk was the subject of one of my most effervescent, breathless, glowing reviews I’ve ever written, way back in 2010. I didn’t just enjoy Berserk. I thought it…


My favourite AMV’s of 2021 – that I found via Reddit
Happy 2022 everyone! Last year I made a list of all the AMV’s I enjoyed that I found via Reddit in 2020 and posted it to the org…
Books: Holmes of Kyoto
By Jeannette Ng. Now also an anime, as the title aptly implies, Holmes of Kyoto by Mai Mochizuki began a light novel series about a pair of amateur…
Books: World of Ghibli
By Zoe Crombie. A gorgeously illustrated guide to stories, characters, and cultures of the films of the beloved studio, An Unofficial Guide to the World of Studio Ghibli…


Is Steins;Gate still one of my favourite anime of all time
Visual novel adaptations used to be way more of a thing. I hated basically all of them, since they tended to fall into one of two categories: Dating…


Is Cowboy Bebop still one of my favourite anime of all time?
Everyone loves Cowboy Bebop. The anime version of Cowboy Bebop that is. The live action version got pretty bad reviews as it missed a lot of what made…


Is Death Note still one of my favourite anime of all time
My very first post announcing the start of the Favourite Anime Project lead with a picture from Death Note. The idea behind starting this project was that I…


Is Princess Jellyfish still one of my favourite anime of all time
I do not think Princess Jellyfish will have aged well. Let’s just put that out there right now. It was one of the josei anime made back during…


Is Black Lagoon still one of my favourite anime of all time?
Madhouse was killing it in the late 2000’s. Death Note, Nana, Kaiji, Dennou Coil, One Outs, Kaiba. One of their most highly regarded anime from the that period…


Is Porco Rosso still one of my favourite anime of all time?
I’m a bit of a Ghibli hipster. When other people are listing their favourite Ghibli movies with Spirited Away, Princess Mononoke or My Neighbour Totoro, I’m out here…


Is Bunny Drop still one of my favourite anime of all time?
Bunny Drop is an infamous josei manga. Why it’s infamous we won’t get into here since if you have somehow kept your soul clean from sin, we don’t…


Is Millennium Actress still one of my favourite anime of all time
Millennium Actress is a movie I would consider perfect. For as much as Perfect Blue is a traumatic horror without peer, and as much as Tokyo Godfathers is…


Is Nodame Cantabile still one of my favourite anime of all time?
Remember Noitamina? The late night TV timeslot is still an ongoing concern and still airs good anime, so it might be confusing to younger fans why us oldies…


Is Roujin Z still one of my favourite anime of all time
Roujin Z was an absolute gem of a find for me when going through old anime OVAs. Here was something written by the author of Akira, as well…


Is Space Dandy still one of my favourite anime of all time
The level to which Space Dandy ended up being forgotten by time remains shocking to me. It launched with such fanfare. Here was the director of Cowboy Bebop…