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Doctorkev’s Thoughts on the Autumn 2023 Anime Season: New Shows
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Doctorkev’s Thoughts on the Winter 2021 Anime Season Part 2: Funimation
Yesterday I examined Crunchyroll’s packed seasonal slate, and today we’ll look at Funimation’s. This season, Funimation has most of the new…


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…


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 Thoughts on the Autumn 2022 Anime Season: Netflix, HIDIVE and Disney+
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Doctorkev’s Thoughts on the Autumn 2023 Anime Season: Sequels and Ongoing Shows
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Doctorkev’s Thoughts on the Winter 2024 Anime Season — New Shows
Yesterday, I covered this unexpectedly heavy anime season’s returning shows and sequels. This time, it’s the turn of a surprisingly strong…


Doctorkev’s Thoughts on the Summer 2024 Anime Season: New Shows
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Doctorkev’s Autumn 2023 Anime Postmortem — Crunchyroll Part 2
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Doctorkev’s Thoughts on the Spring 2024 Anime Season Part 1: Sequels and Ongoing Shows
Once upon a time it seemed like few TV anime — even popular shows — got sequels. Each season maybe one or two shows would be sequels, but…


Doctorkev’s Thoughts on the Winter 2021 Anime Season Part 1: Crunchyroll
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Doctorkev’s Thoughts on the Winter 2022 Anime Season
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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…


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Doctorkev’s Thoughts on the Winter 2024 Anime Season — Sequels and Ongoing Shows
And here I was thinking that Winter 2024 looked to be a quieter season. Mind you, following the unbelievably stacked Autum 2023 season was…


Doctorkev’s Thoughts on the Summer 2024 Anime Season: Sequels and Ongoing Shows
Having recently covered this anime season’s middling selection of new shows, it’s now time for me to look at a far more exciting selection…


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 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…
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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 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 Autumn 2021 Anime Postmortem Part 1
What better time to take stock of the finished season’s stacked selection of anime?


Doctorkev’s Thoughts on the Winter 2023 Anime Season: New Shows
Somehow we’re already halfway through 2023’s first anime season, and although there aren’t as many big shows as the unbelievably…


Doctorkev’s Thoughts on the Spring 2023 Anime Season: New Shows
Last week I wrote about this very busy Spring anime season’s sequels and ongoing shows. Now it’s the turn of the shiny new things! At the…


Doctorkev’s Thoughts on the Summer 2022 Anime Season: New Shows
Although Summer is somewhat quieter on the anime front compared to the previous Spring 2022 season, that doesn’t mean there aren’t plenty…


Doctorkev’s Thoughts on the Summer 2023 Anime Season: New Shows
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Doctorkev’s Autumn 2023 Anime Postmortem — Crunchyroll Part 1
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Doctorkev’s Thoughts on the Summer 2023 Anime Season: Sequels/Ongoing Shows
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What with an unprecedented surge of patient demand assailing the UK health service latterly, I’ve barely had time to think — let alone…


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Doctorkev’s Thoughts on the Summer 2022 Anime Season: Sequels and Ongoing Shows
It’s a little later into the season than I’d normally like to write this, but I’ve recently been distracted by anime movies and sci-fi…


Doctorkev’s Thoughts on the Winter 2023 Anime Season: Sequels and Ongoing Shows
After I covered this season’s new shows earlier in the week, it’s now the turn of the multitudes of sequels and ongoing shows to get the…


Doctorkev’s Thoughts on the Spring 2023 Anime Season: Sequels and Ongoing Shows
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Doctorkev’s Spring 2023 Anime Postmortem Part 2 — Best of the Season
Yesterday I wrote about the Spring 2023 anime shows I graded from “meh” to “ok” to “good”. This time it’s the turn of the shows I found…


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 Summer 2024 Anime Postmortem Part 1
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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 Summer 2023 Anime Postmortem Part 2
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Doctorkev’s Autumn 2023 Anime Postmortem Part 3: Netflix/HIDIVE/Hulu/Disney+
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Doctorkev’s Winter 2024 Anime Postmortem — Rest of the Season
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