Regardless of what’s happening in one’s personal life, the unstoppable juggernaut that is seasonal anime lumbers on, unimpeded. While I’ve…
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Doctorkev’s Thoughts on the Winter 2022 Anime Season
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Doctorkev’s Thoughts on the Winter 2021 Anime Season Part 2: Funimation
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Doctorkev’s Thoughts on the Winter 2021 Anime Season Part 1: Crunchyroll
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Doctorkev’s Thoughts on the Summer 2021 Anime Season
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Doctorkev’s Thoughts on the Winter 2024 Anime Season — Sequels and Ongoing Shows
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Doctorkev’s Winter 2025 Anime Postmortem — Crunchyroll
Winter has passed us by, and believe it or not we’re already in Spring, with a whole new season of anime looming over our heads. As I’ve…


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…
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Doctorkev’s Thoughts on the Autumn 2022 Anime Season: Crunchyroll
As 2022 crawls to a dark, cold, and wet end (at least in Scotland), what better way to keep warm in these depressing fuel-conserving months…


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 Thoughts on the Autumn 2023 Anime Season: New Shows
It’s that time in the anime season where I take stock, and let you know which new shows I think are worth recommending, and which are…


Doctorkev’s Thoughts on the Autumn 2024 Anime Season Part 2
Autumn 2024 brings with it a swathe of excellent new anime (and a few that aren’t quite so good). I’m mostly happy with my choices of shows…


Doctorkev’s Thoughts on the Summer 2023 Anime Season: New Shows
That’s us at the halfway point of the Summer anime season, and my overall impression is that it’s been mostly lacklustre, however there are…


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 2024 Anime Season: New Shows
It’s been a while since I last wrote about anime — partly because I took a month or so off writing mainly for health reasons (a…


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 Autumn 2024 Anime Season Part 1
Somehow, it’s already halfway through November, which means we’re halfway through the Autumn 2024 anime season. And what a season it is…


Doctorkev’s Thoughts on the Summer 2023 Anime Season: Sequels/Ongoing Shows
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A quite reasonable reason to get back into watching anime more regularly, I’d say. As you may remember, back in January I said that I was going to…


Doctorkev’s Thoughts on the Autumn 2021 Season: Part 1
2021’s onslaught of incredible anime continues into the year’s final season. No breaks allowed for poor anime-obsessives like me…


Doctorkev’s Thoughts on the Autumn 2021 Season: Part 2
Truly this has been The Year Of Anime Overindulgence. If anime was food, I’d be morbidly, corpulently obese and requiring life support…


Doctorkev’s Thoughts on the Autumn 2022 Anime Season: Netflix, HIDIVE and Disney+
It’s been a very busy season, with some incredibly high quality anime split across multiple streaming services. Last time, I covered…


Doctorkev’s Thoughts on the Summer 2022 Anime Season: Sequels and Ongoing Shows
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Doctorkev’s Thoughts on the Autumn 2023 Anime Season: Sequels and Ongoing Shows
Earlier in the week, I covered this heavily-packed anime season’s new shows. Now it’s the turn of the voluminous number of sequels and…


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 Thoughts on the Spring 2023 Anime Season: Sequels and Ongoing Shows
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Doctorkev’s Thoughts on the Spring 2024 Anime Season Part 2: New Shows
Yesterday, I covered this season’s heavy weighting of sequels and ongoing shows, but now it’s the turn of new, shiny anime! Apart from the…


Doctorkev’s Winter 2025 Anime Postmortem — HIDIVE, Netflix, Amazon Prime
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Winter 2025 Anime: Thoughts So Far
Oh look, it’s that time again. That time being around the halfway point of the winter season of anime for this year. I shall be sharing my thoughts…
Sorairo Utility, Dragon Ball, Dragon Ball DAIMA, Momentary Lily, One Piece


Doctorkev’s Winter 2024 Anime Postmortem — Best of the Season
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Doctorkev’s Winter 2024 Anime Postmortem — Rest of the Season
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2025 Winter Anime Season Ranked
Ever since I started this blog two years ago, the Winter anime season has been the weakest. Thus, I’m not excited about this seasonal update, since I dropped…
Possibly the Greatest Alchemist of All Time, Solo Leveling, Asura, Dragon Ball, Flower and Asura


Winter 2025 Anime Season Preview
(Whoops, I actually wrote this a while back on 12/19, but forgot to post it. Well here it is!) It’s time to preview the first season of 2025!…


Winter Anime 2025 Season Preview
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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 Winter 2021 Anime Postmortem 1: Worst of the Season
Sturgeon’s law states that “90% of everything is crap”. Does this law hold true for anime? In this insanely packed season, where so many…


Doctorkev’s Winter 2021 Anime Postmortem 2: Best of the Season
What an epic season that was. Never before have I felt compelled to watch so many currently streaming anime episodes. At a final count I…


My Thoughts on Reddit’s Winter 2025 Survey Results + More Thoughts on Guild Receptionist
Survey Reactions I am here to react to all three anime I’ve picked up for Winter 2025 and see if I made the right choice committing to the…


Doctorkev’s Winter 2022 Anime Postmortem
Thus endeth the lightest anime season since the pandemic-inflicted days of 2020. Not that we’re currently pandemic-free, but the anime…


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Quick Summary Of The Winter 2025 Anime Season
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2021 Winter Anime Season: Final Thoughts
It’s that time of the year again, so enjoy our Final Thoughts of the winter anime season that just came to an end~ JUJUTSU KAISEN Hands down, Jujutsu…
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Winter 2025 Season Preview
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Thoughts on Spring 2025 Anime Week 1
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~SPOILER FREE~ FINAL THOUGHTS: WINTER 2025
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Love is in the Air (Winter 2025 Anime Season)
It’s that time of year again. New year, new romance anime to enjoy.
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Here are the new shows I’m most excited about watching this winter, along with a list of sequels that made the cut (not all of them did). Let…
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