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2025 Animation Book Preview
Compiled for your perusing pleasure, a dozen of this year’s (and one from last year) animation books that are ready to be added to your animation library.
Winter 2025 Preview
With the changing of the leaves out and snow and chill in you'd think we'd be gearing up for a lazy season, but anime has other intentions. New…
Aquarion, Welcome to Japan, Ms. Elf!, Übel Blatt, Ameku M.D.: Doctor Detective, Blue Box
Winter 2025 Season Preview
Wooper: Thanks for clicking on what may be Star Crossed Anime’s shortest season preview ever! We’ve got just one author handling things this time, and he is looking…
Winter 2025 Preview Guide
Last Update: Welcome to my seasonal Guide! (The debut schedule will be posted here, although it hasn’t been updated yet if you’re seeing this note.) This season has…
Komi Can’t Communicate part 2 – Komi’s Book of Friends
Komi Can't Communicate part 2 is a lot like part 1, but better! They really toned down the things that annoyed me in this part.
A Preview of Nippon Connection 2021: Animation
A Preview of the Animated Films at Nippon Connection 2021: On-Gaku: Our Sound, Seven Days War, Sumikkogurashii: Good to Be in the Corner
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Winter 2025 Mid-Season Report, part 2
This half deals with titles which hit either their 6th or 7th episodes during the week of 2/17/25-2/23/25. It also includes the remainder of season 3 of Arifureta,…
ISHURA, Magic Maker: How to Make Magic in Another World, My Happy Marriage, The Red Ranger Becomes an Adventurer in Another World, Unnamed Memory
OtakuGeneration (Show #320) Summer Preview, Part 2
Shownotes :: (show 320) :: (website) :: (podcast feed) :: (direct download) :: (direct iTunes link) With the Summer Preview (part 2), recorded live July 24th, 2011. This week…
Fist of the North Star, Fullmetal Alchemist, Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood, Mars, Soul Eater
OtakuGeneration (Show #305) Spring Preview, Part 2
Shownotes :: (show 305) :: (website) :: (podcast feed) :: (direct download) :: (direct iTunes link) With Spring Preview, recorded live April 10th, 2011. This week we continued our…
The Asylum Session, Dragon Ball, The Girl Who Leapt Through Space, Clannad, Clannad: After Story
OtakuGeneration (Show #294) Winter Preview (part 2)
Shownotes :: (show 294) :: () :: () :: () :: () With the Winter Preview, recorded live January 24th, 2011. This week we watched more anime from…
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Anivision’s Winter 2025 Anime Preview
This week the Anivision hosts gather to discuss the latest Anime from the Winter 2025 Anime Season. Including Solo Leveling, Sakamoto Days, Ameku M.D., Welcome to Japan, Ms.…
Winter Anime 2025 Season Preview
Happy Holiday and New Year everyone! It’s time for the Winter 2025 Season Preview!
Asura, Flower and Asura, SAKAMOTO DAYS, The Apothecary Diaries Season 2, UniteUp!
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!…
A Preview of Osaka Asian Film Festival 2025
A preview of the films at Osaka Asian Film Festival 2025!
Sadao Tsukioka Interview (Part 2/2): Chinese Animation & CG
This is the second part of an interview that was originally published on Autodesk.jp on September 16th, 2016. Click here for part 1. Thanks to @frog_kun for providing…
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Spiraken Book Club: May 2014 Part 2- The Grapes of Wrath
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winter 2018 season preview part 2 Friday Fantasy
anime blog with series series overviews editorials and other interesting bits of writing.
Interview: Tonari Animation CEO Jarrett Martin, Part 2
American-run studio in Japan rides the waves of the anime industry with new business model and foreign talent
Interview: Tonari Animation CEO Jarrett Martin, Part 2
American-run studio in Japan rides the waves of the anime industry with new business model and foreign talent
Interview: Tonari Animation CEO Jarrett Martin, Part 2
American-run studio in Japan rides the waves of the anime industry with new business model and foreign talent
Fullmetal Alchemist: Sacred Star of Milos Key Animation Book.
I received the key animation book for FMA: Sacred Star of Milos a few days ago and I’d thought I’d post a few pics on the blog. The…
Fullmetal Alchemist, Fullmetal Alchemist: The Sacred Star of Milos
Winter 2025 Preview Patreon Early Release
With tha changing of the leaves out and snow and chill in you'd think we'd be gearing up for a lazy season, but anime has other intentions. New…
Welcome to Japan, Ms. Elf!, ZENSHU, Ameku M.D.: Doctor Detective, Aquarion, The 100 Girlfriends Who Really, Really, Really, Really, REALLY Love You
The Winter 2025 Anime Preview Guide
It's a brand-new anime season to keep you warm this winter! Read our daily reviews as we cover nearly 50 new anime from the January 2025 season!
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----- There're some Mamoru Oshii book lists on the Internet, but they don't have detailed explanations about the contents. My Mamoru Oshii book collection is far from complete,…
Spiraken Book Club January 2014: Part 2- Bloody Jack
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Spiraken Book Review: July 2014 Part 2- Raising Steam
Welcome to the another installment of THE SPIRAKEN BOOK CLUB. In this episode, Xan gets a little wacky as he reviews that comical fantasy book "Raising Steam" by Terry…
February 2025 Manga / Light Novel / Book Releases
Here are the February 2025 manga, light novel, manhwa, webtoon, and book releases from 14+ publishers, such as Yen Press, Seven Seas, VIZ Media, Kodansha, and Azuki!
January 2025 Manga / Light Novel / Book releases
January 2025 manga, manhwa, light novel, and book releases from 14+ publishers, such as Yen Press, Seven Seas, VIZ Media, Kodansha, and Azuki!
Winter 2025 Season Preview and Video Companion
YouTube preview is here! Nowhere to go but up from here (hopefully)… No sugarcoating it – Winter 2025 looks pretty barren for my tastes. There are a couple…
The Most Important Animation Book Ever Written
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●BOOK● OTOMO THE COMPLETE WORKS 24: Animation AKIRA Layouts & Key Frames 2
Katsuhiro Otomo, Akira, Bibliography, Otomo, Animation, Manga, Steamboy, Japanimation,
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MAMORU OSHII book review [fiction] Part 19, ZOMBIE DIARY 2
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Welcome to the another installment of THE SPIRAKEN BOOK CLUB. In this episode of the new podcast, Xan peruses a paranormal Romance Series from 2011 edited by Mitzi Szereto,…
Mini Book Reviews Part 8
Man, I havent done these in a long while. I really need to get back to reading. Oh well. Heres some more mini reviews for whatever I read…
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Spiraken Book Club March 2014: Part 2- How I Became Stupid
Welcome to the another installment of THE SPIRAKEN BOOK CLUB. In this episode of the new podcast, Xan gets a little existential as he reviews "How I Became…
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We start this post with Okinawa de Suki ni Natta Ko ga Hougen Sugite Tsura Sugiru, where we meet Teru, a high school boy who just transferred to…
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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.
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The show I ended up loving the most was the show I almost didn’t watch… All that and more in the first batch of Winter 2025 premieres. Hit…
Winter 2025 First Impressions – Part 1
The first impressions of the first episodes of winter 2025 seasonal anime; the article where I agonizingly cover mediocre anime so that you don’t have to burn your…
Winter 2025 – First Impressions – Part II
Man… Flower and Asura comes in like thunder. The best of a mixed bag of premieres. Probably the best of this season. Hit the jump and see the…
Winter 2025 Seasonals Preview – Anime I’m looking forward to
Another season, another overabundance of television series hastily trying to match the industry’s unsustainable pace. Nevertheless, I’m going to try to keep up with 2025 anime and its…
Winter 2025 Seasonals Preview – Anime I’m looking forward to
Another season, another overabundance of television series hastily trying to match the industry’s unsustainable pace. Nevertheless, I’m going to try to keep up with 2025 anime and its…
Kaiseki Anime Podcast Ep. 159 — Winter 2025 Seasonal Preview
Some much better anime than last season! What did you all think?
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