You’ve heard of peaking in high school, but what about peaking in grade school? Transfer student Arajin Tomoshibi is just that: a kid who once held aspirations towards greatness, boldly forgi…
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Winter 2024 Taste Test: Metallic Rouge
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Winter 2024 Taste Test: Chained Soldier
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Winter 2024 Taste Test: Solo Leveling
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Winter 2024 Taste Test: Snack Basue
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Winter 2024 Taste Test: Fluffy Paradise
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Winter 2024 Taste Test: Brave Bang Bravern!
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Winter 2024 Taste Test: Delicious in Dungeon
Ah, finally, a show that I will not be dropping. Even better, Delicious in Dungeon is now one of my most highly anticipated shows of the winter. The…
Winter 2024 Taste Test: Delusional Monthly Magazine
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Winter 2024 Taste Test: Meiji Gekken: 1874
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Winter 2024 Taste Test: Sasaki and Peeps
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Winter 2024 Taste Test: Tales of Wedding Rings
One ring to rule them all, one ring to bind them…only in this case, there are five, and when you double those, you end up with one guy…
Winter 2024 Taste Test: Mr. Villain’s Day Off
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Winter 2024 Taste Test: A Sign of Affection
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Winter 2024 Taste Test: The Unwanted Undead Adventurer
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Winter 2024 Taste Test: The Fire Hunter Season 2
Well, well, well, this I did not expect, a sequel to The Fire Hunter exactly one year later. It’s not that I didn’t enjoy the writing of that…
Winter 2024 Taste Test: Hokkaido Gals Are Super Adorable!
Hokkaido gals are super adorable, and so are Tokyo boys like Tsubasa Shiki. Keep in mind, however, that this anime is unquestionably ecchi. You will be treated to…
Winter 2024 Taste Test: The Witch and the Beast
Queue MAJOR EXCITEMENT. I didn’t know anything about this anime prior to starting the first episode, but after watching it, I’m here for it. I’ve been pro-witch for…
Winter 2024 Taste Test: Blue Exorcist -Shimane Illuminati Saga-
I had to watch a recap video on YouTube to remember what had happened in the two previous seasons because, after all these years, I’d completely forgotten what…
Winter 2024 Taste Test: ‘Tis Time for “Torture,” Princess
Enter the conqueror, Hime! Well, only at the start, because shortly after, our girl is prisoner in the demon castle with little hope of being rescued with only…
Winter 2024 Taste Test: The Demon Prince of Momochi House
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Winter 2024 Taste Test: Classroom of the Elite Season 3
Here we are, back again, with our not-so-inconspicuous protagonist, Kiyotaka Ayanokouji, and the rest of Class D. Only now they’re Class C, with new enemies and rivals eager…
Winter 2024 Taste Test: My Instant Death Ability is Overpowered
I’m still on the fence regarding this isekai, because my overall feeling toward the first episode is decidedly unimpressed. As it is, Instant Death Ability is here for…
Winter 2024 Taste Test: Bottom-Tier Character Tomozaki 2nd Stage
I soooo thought I was in the clear for winter 2024 anime, but then Draggle had to go and remind me that I had watched the previous seasons…
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Winter 2024 Taste Test: The Foolish Angel Dances with the Devil
Have previous seasons always been this heavy on the sadism? Because yet again, in a place I didn’t expect it, is another instance of chains and collars. Only,…
Winter 2024 Taste Test: The Wrong Way to Use Healing Magic
We have finally arrived: the first isekai that Marina will be keeping on her watch list…for now. Because, truth be told, as interesting as the mystery is behind…
Winter 2024 Taste Test: Doctor Elise: The Royal Lady with the Lamp
Oooooh, a double isekai with time travel included! How can I not gobble this up? If Elise’s modern life wasn’t a thing and we only had her spoiled…
Winter 2024 Taste Test: The Weakest Tamer Began a Journey to Pick Up Trash
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Winter 2024 Taste Test: Cherry Magic! Thirty Years of Virginity Can Make You a Wizard?!
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Winter 2024 Impressions: BUCCHIGIRI?!, Snack Basue, Meiji Gekken: 1874
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Every year that I’ve been in Japan – as far as I can recall anyway – my local chain of supermarkets has brought out a load of Okinawan…
318.5 – Halloween Bonus Candy Taste Test
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Taste Test: A Couple of Cuckoos
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Winter 2024 Taste Test: 7th Time Loop: The Villainess Enjoys a Carefree Life Married to Her Worst Enemy!
I’m telling you, villainess anime can do no wrong. No matter the amount we get, or the women involved, they all end up being, at the very least,…
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Winter 2024 Taste Test: Villainess Level 99: I May Be the Hidden Boss but I’m Not the Demon Lord
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Winter 2024 Taste Test: Banished from the Hero’s Party, I Decided to Live a Quiet Life in the Countryside Season 2
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Winter 2024 Preview
Winter is here again at last. From subzero days and snowy weather (or blazing summer heat for our southern brethren) to the realization that, oh yes, it’s also…
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