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New feature: Trending anime
Hello! On Friday, I dropped a new feature… Trending anime. It’s just a nice way to see, at a glance, which (new) anime series are proving popular with…
Anime Feature: Hakata Tonkatsu Ramens
During the holiday break, I decided to drown myself in a lot of shows and movies. One of them was Hakata Tonkatsu Ramens.
What would your ideal anime double-feature be?
Your picks for a “Barbenheimer” or My Neighbor Totoro+Grave of the Fireflies-type billing? What theme would you structure a screening around? Worst/most agonizing combo choice?
Seiyuu Feature: Mariya Ise
Next on our list is a Seiyuu with versatility. And I mean it. You don’t see her name often as she has made her mark in the voice…
Seiyuu Feature: Katsuyuki Konishi
What is the first thing when you hear his name? A leader? A hero? A mecha pilot? A brother? A Pokémon? If you guess them all, then you…
New feature: My subscriptions
I’ve got rather an exciting new feature to announce for Anime Blog Tracker today: subscription feeds! You should now be able to subscribe to your favourite blogs and…
Underrated Manga Double Feature
Today I cover both Run With Your New Legs and Parham Itan. discovered these two manga back in May and 'm surprise we don't talk about them more!
Ishiro Honda Double Feature
by Jeremy Clarke. Out now on Blu-ray alongside the standalone release of Mothra (1961) comes a double bill of two more Toho science fiction movies, The H Man…
Seiyuu Feature: Kenjiro Tsuda
Seiyuu (声優)A person who provides voice-overs for characters and narration for various types of media. Includes anime, video games, audio dramas, radio, live-action stints, and dubbing for non-Japan…
Anime short double feature: Are You Lost? / Magical Sempai
It’s more anime, though not what I actually had on my list next to watch. A couple of series I’ve been watching have been emotionally taxing (but good…
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[Recommended Read] Crunchyroll – How Anime Is Made Feature Series
Source: By:Peggy Sue Wood In March, Crunchyroll created a series of articles breaking down how anime is made, from pre-production to localization. I waited to recommend this series…
New feature: Individual post pages
Anime Blog Tracker is now hosting an individual page for every post. You can get to them by clicking the ‘x ago’ text that’s displayed beneath each post’s…
Books: 100 Animated Feature Films
By Jonathan Clements. Twelve years after its first publication, the British Film Institute’s 100 Animated Feature Films gets burnished and buffed up by its original author, Andrew Osmond,…
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[Recommended Read] Crunchyroll – How Anime Is Made Feature Series
Source: https://www.crunchyroll.com/anime-feature/2023/03/20-1/feature-how-is-anime-made?lid=ue8m23hh6t5d&utm_source=email&utm_medium=lifecycle_cr&utm_campaign=2023_03_23_US_EN_Newsletter_SpringSeason&...
What anime and manga feature nuanced explorations of mental health?
Series with an optimistic or normalizing discussion of mental health? Series with a raw or cathartic exploration of mental health? What topic would you like to see tackled…
Anime Feature: Rikei ga Koi ni Ochita no de Shoumei shitemita
I wasn't planning on watching an anime from last year's line up, but I recently got a BD copy of this series I'm about to review, so I…
Anime short triple feature: Piacevole / Miss Bernard said. / Ganbare Douki-chan
The anime short review feature returns, and as a triple feature this time instead of just a double! However, I’m not actually doing more work here, because this…
What Anime Will We Feature This Time? Season 4 Preview | Bulletoon
What anime will the girls be covering in Season 4? Stay Toon'd to find out!
Feature: A painter behind the curtain
I came for a romance story and A painter behind the curtain gave me even more than that.
Double Feature: Death Parade 10+11
Oh god it’s winking at me! Time for conflicts to come to a head. Time for the veil surrounding Kurokami to come undone. Will you care about her…
Double Feature: Death Parade 8+9
If I ran the toll booth at the River Styx… I am dreading how long this review will get. Because we still have a lot of unfinished business…
Vote on a Hiroshima-themed Anime for our Double Feature Live Tweet
You may noticed an extra kick of personality lately on our Twitter account. That’s because Joshua Knighten has joined our team and among other things, is assisting with…
My Anime & Manga Collection - A Feature-Length Tour (2024 Update) | Andre's Shelf
It’s time I put my money where my mouth (channel name) is. Here’s an update on what the actual “Andre’s Shelf” looks like now! Follow me on Twitter (X):…
Kill la Kill, My Hero Academia, Nisekoi, Chainsaw Man, Chihayafuru
Podcast recap: Kaiju Con-Line double-feature
Hi all, Apologies for the lack of blog posts during all the lockdown. A lot of steam was let out of the weekly news recaps due to all…
Yuri Studio Season 4 & A New Feature!
Welcome to a whole new year of me making videos! This year, Season 4 of Yuri Studio, we’ve got two sets of features on tap. One, we’ll be…
Double Feature Memories, Part 2: The 1970s
In an earlier post this year, I recounted some of the great double bills I got to see in the 1960s in New York theaters. For Part 2,…
Double Feature Memories, Part 1: The 1960s
Turner Classic Movies has an eight-minute interstitial called “Two for One: The Tradition of the Double Feature,” and features Martin Scorsese and Steven Spielberg recalling the great double…
FEATURE: My Top Five Favorite GODZILLA Movies!
Celebrating nearly 70 years of the Big G
I Hate Anime
This is rather embarrassing to admit, but I've finally come to the same realization that pretty much everyone must have had the first time...
3D Anime on VHD "Double Feature": Man, Anime Really Does Come Out on EVERYTHING, Doesn't It?
Being a form of visual media, it's only natural that anime has seen some sort of release on just about any type of medium that you can think...
5 Anime I Watched Before I Knew What Anime Was
Hello and welcome back to Otaku Thursday! First of all, sorry for this extremely late post. I know I aim for an early-night post, not a late-night post,…
Rifle Is Beautiful doesn't actually feature any rifles
This is quite the difference in shooting attire. The stiff outfits in Rifle Is Beautiful are designed to restrict excess movement. Mikaze, however, just wears a t-shirt and ass-pants to…
[Feature] “Queering” Heteronormativity: Biological essentialism in genderbending manga
The framework of “[cis character] must pretend to be [“opposite” gender] before restoring their [femininity or masculinity]” invites biological determinism by making the plot’s stakes dependent on the…
FEATURE: Shuji Terayama's Notes from the Japanese Underground
The revolutionary cinema of 'Throw Away Your Books, Rally in the Streets' and 'Pastoral: To Die in the Country'
How do you feel about feature-length premieres?
For or against? What kind of series benefit from that treatment? Would you want a longer opening if it meant a shorter season? Is there an older series…
Disney’s REAL Edgiest Animated Feature: Treasure Planet Retrospective
The turn of the 21st Century wasn’t the worst era of the Walt Disney Company’s history, but it sure was one of the strangest. Following their Renaissance Era…
FEATURE: Lolita in Wonderland - The RinRin Doll Interview!
A few words about post-pandemic Harajuku, Vtubers, and music with a fashion icon
Nijigasaki Special Feature – Hayashi Coco’s First Extended Interview
T/N: Happy Birthday Coco-chan! Hope everyone’s been enjoying her stellar performances throughout the Nijitabi sessions so far. Here’s an interview with her from the June 2023 edition of…
HOT ONES to feature BLACKPINK’s Lisa this February
BLACKPINK’s Lisa is ready to take on the ultimate spice challenge! The global superstar will appear on Hot Ones on February 27.
This Week in Anime - Is Gundam 00's Craziness a Bug or a Feature?
Following the announcement of a new CG entry in the Gundam 00 universe, Jean-Karlo and Nick revisit the first arc of the anime series and all of its…
Anime 101: Everything I Wish I Knew Before I Started
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Anime I Keep Revisiting
Some stories continue to resonate years after you first watch them. I revisit few anime. Fewer still do I watch again and again. Every so many years, I…
Anime I Keep Revisiting
Some stories continue to resonate years after you first watch them. I revisit few anime. Fewer still do I watch again and again. Every so many years, I…
Anime I Stopped Watching
Sometimes you just need to know when to drop it like it ain’t hot.
Scrapped Princess, Black Clover, Citrus, Lucifer and the Biscuit Hammer
Anime I Rage-Quit
According to the Oxford Dictionary to “rage-quite” is to angrily abandon an activity or pursuit that has become frustrating, especially the playing of a video game. And though…
Anime Tropes I Love!
Hello and welcome back to another video today we will be going over some tropes from anime that I love. Honestly, I think I have a good few…
Anime short double feature: Skull-face Bookseller Honda-san / Today’s Menu for the Emiya Family
I’m back sooner than expected, and with more anime shorts! This time, I’m taking up another set of half-length-episode one-cour series — 12 to 13 minutes times 12…
[Feature] Women in the Kitchen: The unequal treatment of professional chefs in anime and beyond
Despite a broad range of titles, when looking at Japanese media about cooking at large, I’ve noticed a frustrating gender imbalance between stories about professional male and female…
Chaotically Queer Podcast Ep. 11 - "A Whiplash Double Feature"
WE'RE NOT DEAD WE PROMISE! And to prove that, in this edition of the Chaotically Queer Podcast, we talk about Grave of the Fireflies & My Neighbor Totoro in…