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The Weekly Orbit [2/24/25]

Things are finally looking the slightest bit up for Ave Mujica, but is that the light at the end of the tunnel we see, or the headlights of…

The Magic Planet

Feb 24, 2025 • Subscribe

Asura, Flower and Asura

The Weekly Orbit [3/4/25]

This week: Ave Mujica, Gundam GQuuuuuuX, and yuri manga.

The Magic Planet

Mar 4, 2025 • Subscribe

Mobile Suit Gundam, Mobile Suit Gundam GQuuuuuuX

The Weekly Orbit [2/2/2025]

In the first Weekly Orbit column in a few months, we dive into the warped world of Ave Mujica. Plus: horse girls and (even more) toxic yuri.

The Magic Planet

Feb 2, 2025 • Subscribe

BanG Dream!

The Weekly Orbit [8/11/24]

This week: band girls, giant robots, theater kids, and demonic samurai.

The Magic Planet

Aug 12, 2024 • Subscribe

Code Geass: Rozé of the Recapture, The Elusive Samurai, BanG Dream!

Weekly Orbit Archive

Here you’ll find an archive of every series I’ve written about in the Weekly Orbit. These are listed alphabetically—by the English title if available, by the most common…

The Magic Planet

Jun 13, 2024 • Subscribe

The Weekly Orbit [5/6/24]

This week on the Weekly Orbit; surprising developments in Jellyfish Can’t Swim in The Night, a disappointing turn from Salad Bowl, and some great Pretty Cure episodes.

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May 6, 2024 • Subscribe

Pretty Cure, Train to the End of the World, Delicious in Dungeon

The Weekly Orbit [5/20/24]

In this probably too-long edition of The Weekly Orbit; what the hell is going on in Train to The End of The World? Plus, seasonal highlights, coverage of…

The Magic Planet

May 20, 2024 • Subscribe

Asura, Asura Cryin', Gabriel DropOut

The Weekly Orbit [7/22/24]

The Weekly Orbit is a weekly column collecting and refining my more casual anime- and manga-related thoughts from the previous week. Mostly, these are taken from my tumblr blog, and…

The Magic Planet

Jul 22, 2024 • Subscribe

2.5 Dimensional Seduction, Alya Sometimes Hides Her Feelings in Russian, Code Geass: Rozé of the Recapture, MAYONAKA PUNCH, My Deer Friend Nokotan

The Weekly Orbit [7/29/24]

This week; a weird amount of talking about anime EDs.

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Jul 29, 2024 • Subscribe

Alya Sometimes Hides Her Feelings in Russian, Quality Assurance in Another World, The Elusive Samurai

The Weekly Orbit [5/27/24]

It’s the week of no regrets here on the Weekly Orbit, with gripping, emotionally intense episodes from Girls Band Cry and….Wonderful Precure? Plus, Jellyfish Can’t Swim in the…

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May 27, 2024 • Subscribe

Girls Band Cry, Pokémon, Pretty Cure

The Weekly Orbit [6/17/24]

This week is all about the gay girl band arms race. Girls Band Cry delivers the single best episode of the season, and Jellyfish Can’t Swim in The…

The Magic Planet

Jun 17, 2024 • Subscribe

The Grimm Variations, Jellyfish Can’t Swim in the Night, Delicious in Dungeon, Girls Band Cry, Mysterious Disappearances

The Weekly Orbit [6/3/24]

In this week’s Weekly Orbit, the anime girl band wars heat back up, and Train to The End of The World gets back on track. Plus, retrospective coverage…

The Magic Planet

Jun 3, 2024 • Subscribe

Train to the End of the World, Jellyfish Can’t Swim in the Night, A Salad Bowl of Eccentrics, Asura, Asura Cryin'

The Weekly Orbit [4/7/24]

This week, in The Weekly Orbit, one season ends and another begins. Finale writeups for Bang Bravern, The Wrong Way to Use Healing Magic, and Metallic Rouge. Dungeon…

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Apr 8, 2024 • Subscribe

Metallic Rouge, Sengoku Youko, The Wrong Way to Use Healing Magic, Train to the End of the World, A Salad Bowl of Eccentrics

The Weekly Orbit [6/24/24]

Three anime end as the season starts winding down. Which had the best finale between Jellyfish Can’t Swim in the Night, A Salad Bowl of Eccentrics, and Shuumatsu…

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Jun 24, 2024 • Subscribe

Girls Band Cry, Mysterious Disappearances, Pokémon, Ruin Explorers, Train to the End of the World

The Weekly Orbit [8/5/24]

This week, emotions run high with vampire tragedies, theater kids at each other’s throats, and shot-down love confessions.

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Aug 5, 2024 • Subscribe

Makeine: Too Many Losing Heroines!, MAYONAKA PUNCH, The Elusive Samurai, BanG Dream!

The Weekly Orbit [5/13/24]

This week on a light Weekly Orbit: Dungeon Meshi, the Girl Band Wars rage on with a new dark horse candidate. Plus; what the hell is the Mysterious…

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May 13, 2024 • Subscribe

Delicious in Dungeon, Girls Band Cry, Mysterious Disappearances, Pokémon, A Salad Bowl of Eccentrics

The Weekly Orbit [4/15/24]

Things are mostly smooth sailing as we move into the second week of the new season.

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Apr 15, 2024 • Subscribe

A Salad Bowl of Eccentrics, Bucchigiri, Delicious in Dungeon, Himitsu no AiPri, Mysterious Disappearances

The Weekly Orbit [7/1/24]

This week, in the inter-season doldrums, we take a look at the second Rozé of the Recapture episode and a particularly great Pokémon Horizons episode. Plus, Mysterious Disappearances,…

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Jul 1, 2024 • Subscribe

Code Geass: Rozé of the Recapture, Mysterious Disappearances, Pokémon

The Weekly Orbit [6/10/24]

The Weekly Orbit is a weekly column collecting and refining my more casual anime- and manga-related thoughts from the previous week. Mostly, these are taken from my tumblr blog, and…

The Magic Planet

Jun 10, 2024 • Subscribe

Rozen Maiden, Train to the End of the World, Delicious in Dungeon, Mysterious Disappearances, Pokémon

The Weekly Orbit [4/29/24]

Despite a solid week of anime featuring standout episodes from the likes of Dungeon Meshi, this week’s column is largely about an anime that aired nearly 20 years…

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Apr 29, 2024 • Subscribe

A Salad Bowl of Eccentrics, Delicious in Dungeon, Mysterious Disappearances

The Weekly Orbit [7/15/24]

This week on a late-night edition of the Weekly Orbit; isekai new and old, rejected scripts, and a cameo that threw me for a complete loop.

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Jul 16, 2024 • Subscribe

Alya Sometimes Hides Her Feelings in Russian, Code Geass: Rozé of the Recapture, Magic Knight Rayearth, Quality Assurance in Another World

The Weekly Orbit [4/22/24]

This week; strange developments in Shuumatsu Train, a surprising and moody Precure episode, plus the premieres of The Grimm Variations and Unnamed Memory

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Apr 22, 2024 • Subscribe

The Grimm Variations, Mysterious Disappearances, Delicious in Dungeon, Girls Band Cry, Himitsu no AiPri

Anime Orbit Weekly [4/17/22]

This week: Birdie Wing gets surprisingly sane, Estab-Life gets pervy, and Executioner keeps it on the level. Also; some non-seasonal anime for once.

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Apr 17, 2022 • Subscribe

Witch Craft Works, The Executioner and Her Way of Life

Anime Orbit Weekly [4/24/22]

This week: the sincerity of Ya Boy Kongming! and the expert eeriness of Summertime Rendering. Plus: Estab-Life gets a dub and it’s actually pretty good.

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Apr 24, 2022 • Subscribe

The Demon Girl Next Door, Summer Time Rendering, Ya Boy Kongming!

Anime Orbit Weekly [6/5/22]

This week; the emotional core of Nijigasaki High School Idol Club, a farewell to Estab Life, a brief visit with Birdie Wing, and a shockingly strong episode from…

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Jun 5, 2022 • Subscribe

ESTAB LIFE: Great Escape

Anime Orbit Weekly [5/15/22]

This week; I am a sucker for pop idols with sad backstories. Plus; Executioner, Estab-Life, and…is Birdie Wing based?

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May 15, 2022 • Subscribe

ESTAB LIFE: Great Escape, The Executioner and Her Way of Life

Anime Orbit Weekly [6/19/22]

This week: a springtime of thrills draws towards its end. Plus; Birdie Wing prepares for its last round.

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Jun 19, 2022 • Subscribe

The Executioner and Her Way of Life, Summer Time Rendering

Anime Orbit Weekly [5/1/22]

This week on Anime Orbit Weekly; Birdie Wing cannot stop topping itself, Nijigasaki stumbles into a low point, and the low-key merits of Shikimori Isn’t Just a Cutie!

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May 1, 2022 • Subscribe

The Executioner and Her Way of Life

Anime Orbit Weekly [5/22/22]

Anime Orbit Weekly is a weekly column where I summarize my journey through anime, manga, and the related spheres of popular culture over the past week. Expect spoilers for covered ma…

The Magic Planet

May 22, 2022 • Subscribe

ESTAB LIFE: Great Escape

Site Update: The End of Anime Orbit Weekly & Other Future Plans

As one door closes, another opens.

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Jun 28, 2022 • Subscribe

Manga the Week of 11/25/20

SEAN: Happy Thanksgiving! Please be safe when you celebrate it! Cross Infinite World gives us the 2nd volume of Another World’s Zombie Apocalypse Is Not My Problem!, which…

Manga Bookshelf

Nov 19, 2020 • Subscribe

Hellsing, Yuuna and the Haunted Hot Springs, Berserk, Berserk, Hells

Japanese Horror Weekly Wrap-up 2024/2/11

We are back! Missed some of the cool things that were released in the Japanese horror and Kowabana worlds this The post Japanese Horror Weekly Wrap-up 2024/2/11 first…

Kowabana

Feb 11, 2024 • Subscribe

Ranking summary for the weeks of 2019 11/04, 11/11, 11/18, 11/25

Ranking summary for the weeks of 2019 11/04, 11/11, 11/18, 11/25 The following rankings have been updated to reflect the available data through the weeks mentioned above. »…

Anime DVD/BD Sales in Japan

Dec 8, 2019 • Subscribe

Japan Top 11 Weekly Light Novel Sales Ranking: September 25 – October 1, 2023

There have been some changes to the reporting style here on the Blog. Please refer to the post here for further information. It is thanks to the amazing…

Erzat

Oct 6, 2023 • Subscribe

KONOSUBA -God's blessing on this wonderful world!, The Apothecary Diaries, Re:ZERO -Starting Life in Another World-, Saga of Tanya the Evil, Horimiya

Weekly Digest 2/11/24 – Bucchigiri?!, Yubisaki to Renren

I wouldn't call what he and Yuki have the romance of the century but it's progressing in a pretty believable way.

Lost in Anime

Feb 11, 2024 • Subscribe

A Sign of Affection, Bucchigiri

Weekly Review — Princess Connect! Re:Dive Season 2 Episode 11

My review of Princess Connect! Re:Dive Season 2 episode 11 is up over on Anime News Network.

Biggest In Japan

Mar 24, 2022 • Subscribe

Princess Connect! Re:Dive, Princess Connect! Re:Dive Season 2

Anime Orbit Archive

Here you’ll find a simple list of every Anime Orbit article, from most to least recent, top to bottom. 2022 FallSeasonal Check-in: Hell is Other Vampires in CALL…

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Aug 31, 2022 • Subscribe

SHINEPOST

Weebsday Q+A | 11/25/2020

It is Weebsday, my dudes! This week’s question is all about Bush-era political commentary in anime. I guess it’s what the 2020 holiday season deserves. I recently rewatched…

Weebservations

Nov 25, 2020 • Subscribe

What I Watched This Week – 11/19 – 11/25

Reborn! Ep. 1-25 – I’m enjoying the currently airing Ron Kamonohashi series, so I figured I might as well pick up her previous series, which apparently had a…

The Romantic Goldfish

Nov 27, 2023 • Subscribe

Reborn!

Manga the Week of 2/26/25

SEAN: February’s end, and it brings us (well, me) snow, ice, and manga. ASH: Take comfort in knowing you are not alone. SEAN: Airship, in print, has Failure…

Manga Bookshelf

Feb 20, 2025 • Subscribe

Black Cat, Classroom of the Elite, Trigun

Manga the Week of 2/12/25

SEAN: It’s the week of Valentine’s Day, and a reminder that you should be very careful what manga you give your partner. Check their tastes! Three print volumes…

Manga Bookshelf

Feb 6, 2025 • Subscribe

Adachi and Shimamura, Loner Life in Another World

Manga the Week of 4/2/25

SEAN: Ah, time to begin April, the best month. MICHELLE: Indeed. SEAN: Yen On has some leftover titles from March, as we see I’ve Been Killing Slimes for…

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Mar 27, 2025 • Subscribe

Anemone, Kirara, Princess Knight

Manga the Week of 2/5/25

SEAN: The shortest month is here, but don’t expect less manga. Yen still has a few stragglers from January. Yen On has a 6th volume of The Eminence…

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Jan 30, 2025 • Subscribe

DAN DA DAN, Rainbow Days, The Elusive Samurai, The Eminence in Shadow, World Trigger

Manga the Week of 2/19/25

SEAN: Is it Yen week? (checks, sighs) Yup. ASH: Here we go! SEAN: In fact, we start with THIS week, as I missed Yen On’s one title in…

Manga Bookshelf

Feb 13, 2025 • Subscribe

Lycoris Recoil

HAIKYU!! TO THE TOP — WEEKLY REVIEW 11

I had no idea what to write about this episode apart from just typing the word ‘marvelous’ and that would be the whole review. If I was an…

IT'S YOUR FAULT THAT I'M NOT POPULAR!

Dec 18, 2020 • Subscribe

HAIKYU!!

Tiger & Bunny 2 14-25

The last set of episodes for the much anticipated Tiger & Bunny sequel will bring you closure, but it fails to connect its shiny new characters with its…

Anime News Network - Views

Nov 19, 2022 • Subscribe

Tiger & Bunny

Bookshelf Briefs 2/19/25

Komi Can’t Communicate, Vol. 32 | By Tomohito Oda | Viz Media – This is a “between arcs” volume of Komi, but it does send us into what…

Manga Bookshelf

Feb 20, 2025 • Subscribe

Ep. 25: AKIRA Vol. 2

Mangasplaining tackles AKIRA Vol. 2, in our continuing examination of Katsuhiro Otomo's famous manga! We talk about the AKIRA film, manga assistants, and more!

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Aug 3, 2021 • Subscribe

Bookshelf Briefs 2/25/20

DAYS, Vol. 16 | By Tsuyoshi Yasuda | Kodansha Comics (digital only) – Usually with sports manga I can find some emotional beat to highlight, but this volume…

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Feb 26, 2020 • Subscribe

Weekly Review — Plunderer Episode 11

Click to ReadWeekly Review — <i>Plunderer</i> Episode 11

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Mar 22, 2020 • Subscribe