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The Weekly Orbit [2/11/25]

On this week’s Weekly Orbit: The return of Flower and Asura. Plus: more toxic yuri than you can shake a spider lily at.

The Magic Planet

Feb 11, 2025 • Subscribe

Asura, Flower and Asura

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 [3/4/25]

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

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8 days ago • Subscribe

Mobile Suit Gundam, Mobile Suit Gundam GQuuuuuuX

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…

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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 [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…

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Jun 10, 2024 • Subscribe

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

The Weekly Orbit [8/11/24]

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

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Aug 12, 2024 • Subscribe

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

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 [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 [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 [4/7/24]

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 [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 [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 [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…

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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 [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…

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May 20, 2024 • Subscribe

Asura, Asura Cryin', Gabriel DropOut

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 [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 [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 [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

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 [4/29/24]

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 [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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Feb 2, 2025 • Subscribe

BanG Dream!

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!

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…

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Jun 13, 2024 • Subscribe

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…

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May 22, 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 [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 [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 [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

Weekly Digest 1/25/24 – Metallic Rouge, Majo to Yajuu

As much as I try to muster interest in Metallic Rouge and/or Majo to Yajuu, it seems to be a losing battle.

Lost in Anime

Jan 26, 2024 • Subscribe

The Witch and the Beast, Metallic Rouge

Kingdom 4 – 24-25

There's no disguising what this dream of Zheng's really is no matter how noble its supposed aim. Read more

Lost in Anime

Sep 25, 2022 • Subscribe

Kingdom Season 4

Manga the Week of 12/25/24

SEAN: Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays, and Best wishes from Manga Bookshelf!... wait, there's manga out this week? ASH: As if there was any doubt! SEAN: Yen On has…

Manga Bookshelf

Dec 19, 2024 • Subscribe

Legend of the Crystals: Final Fantasy

Manga the Week of 9/25/24

SEAN: As September sinks slowly in the west, and our adorable children bring us all the fresh new colds they caught at school, what's coming out? ASH: Fresh…

Manga Bookshelf

Sep 19, 2024 • Subscribe

The Most Heretical Last Boss Queen: From Villainess to Savior

Anime Orbit: The Immaculate Vibes of PlutoTV’s 24/7 SAILOR MOON Channel

Fighting evil by moonlight, on a loop ’til the end of time. —

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Jun 16, 2023 • Subscribe

Sailor Moon

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

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

TSUTAYA Weekly Manga Sales Ranking: February 24 – March 2, 2025

There have been some changes to the reporting style here on the Blog. Please refer to the post here for further information. All of the data you find…

Erzat

10 days ago • Subscribe

Mobile Suit Gundam Thunderbolt, mono, Ansatsusha de Aru Ore no Status ga Yuusha yori mo Akiraka ni Tsuyoi no da ga, Blue Giant, GOBLIN SLAYER

Yu-Gi-Oh SEVENS Episode 24 & 25

Visit the post for more.

AngryAnimeBitches Anime Blog

Nov 25, 2020 • Subscribe

Yu-Gi-Oh!, Yu-Gi-Oh!

Visual Novel Translation Status (25/8/24)

Welcome to the Fuwanovel VNTS, where we share the latest translation updates.

Fuwanovel

Aug 29, 2024 • Subscribe

Japan Top Weekly Video Game Ranking: February 24 – March 2, 2025

The overall hardware sales charts for consoles tracked and listed by Famitsu via their latest posting showed a significant increase in total units sold with PlayStation 5 leading…

Erzat

6 days ago • Subscribe

Yu-Gi-Oh!, Yu-Gi-Oh!, mono, Utawarerumono, Wizardry

What I watched: 2/5/24 – 2/11/24

Hi everyone, I’ve decided to try out a new column on my blog where I go back and recap what I watched during a week. I think its…

Tiger and Hibiscus

Feb 12, 2024 • Subscribe

What I Watched: 2/12/24 – 2/18/24

Somehow, we’re already in the middle of February. Wow how time flies. Welcome to week 2 of my weekly “What I Watched” column (I should probably come up…

Tiger and Hibiscus

Feb 19, 2024 • Subscribe

Here Are My Stuff From 12/18/24 to 12/25/24

6 weeks in and I already finished posting all of my extremely old Pokemon gijinka drawings.

Arum Journal

Dec 30, 2024 • Subscribe

Bookshelf Briefs 2/2/24

Bakemonogatari, Vol. 20 | By NISIOISIN and Oh!Great | Kodansha Manga - This continues to take all the remaining arcs that Oh!Great wasn't going to have time to…

Manga Bookshelf

Feb 3, 2024 • Subscribe

Bakemonogatari

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

My Hero Academia Season 6 Episode 24 & 25

The final two episode of My Hero Academia close out the the Dark Hero Arc and introduce the Star and Stripe Arc.

Otaku Orbit

Mar 29, 2023 • Subscribe

My Hero Academia Season 6, My Hero Academia

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

a month ago • Subscribe

Lycoris Recoil

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

20 days ago • Subscribe

Black Cat, Classroom of the Elite, Trigun

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…

Manga Bookshelf

Jan 30, 2025 • Subscribe

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

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