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2021 Winter Three-Episode Check-In
This season truly encapsulates the duality of anime: everything made us either really excited or really tired.
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Winter Anime 2021 Week 10 [Check-In]
Horimiya bounces back with an episode of actual substance - anxious relationship drama layered over a spongy cake of insecurity.
Auto-tagged Bottom-Tier Character Tomozaki, WONDER EGG PRIORITY, Horimiya
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Winter Anime 2021 Week 1 [Check-In]
New year, new season of anime, same coverage. Let's rundown a heap of new shows and see how they stack up.
Auto-tagged LBX Girls, Idoly Pride, Scar on the Praeter, BACK ARROW, Bottom-Tier Character Tomozaki
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Winter Anime 2021 Week 6 [Check-In]
This felt like a return to form for Horimiya - decisive in the bigger picture with what it wants to accomplish and competent in executing its moment to…
Auto-tagged Horimiya, Bottom-Tier Character Tomozaki, WONDER EGG PRIORITY
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Winter Anime 2021 Week 2 [Check-In]
Layered, poignant, and elegantly articulated - Wonder Egg Priority had a fantastic debut made even more impressive considering this is Wakabayashi's first time directing a full-length series
Auto-tagged Mushoku Tensei: Jobless Reincarnation, Scar on the Praeter, The Hidden Dungeon Only I Can Enter, Horimiya, Bottom-Tier Character Tomozaki
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Winter Anime 2021 Week 4 [Check-In]
Mushoku Tensei: Isekai Ittara Honki Dasu is back and with a fourth outing that is challenging for a lot of viewers - concerning itself deeply with sexually touchy…
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Winter Anime 2021 Week 12 [Check-In]
Wonder Egg Priority’s expected competence proceeds – a focused, workman-like episode that does its job in demystifying the Accas in a gradually grim way, inevitably fitting in snuggly…
Auto-tagged Horimiya, Bottom-Tier Character Tomozaki, WONDER EGG PRIORITY
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Winter Anime 2021 Week 7 [Check-In]
The positive streak for Wonder Egg Priority continues, extending a favorable combination of grim inquiry, intimacy, and insightful character vignettes for all to enjoy.
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Winter Anime 2021 Week 11 [Check-In]
Jaku-Chara Tomozaki-kun gets ever closer to its conclusion and evidently, is only getting stronger along the way.
Auto-tagged Horimiya, Bottom-Tier Character Tomozaki, WONDER EGG PRIORITY
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Winter Anime 2021 Week 9 [Check-In]
Jaku-Chara Tomozaki-kun thankfully gets back on track as it dedicates its latest episode to resuming the thorough erosion of Tomozaki's social shell – proving to be pretty sweet…
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Winter Anime 2021 Week 8 [Check-In]
Associating with a character's drama naturally demands moving beyond yourself, and understanding someone's own lived experiences and resulting perspective even if it's mostly foreign to you.
Auto-tagged Horimiya, Bottom-Tier Character Tomozaki, WONDER EGG PRIORITY
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Winter Anime 2021 Week 3 [Check-In]
Presented with the opportunity of success or failure, Kumo Desu ga, Nani ka? enthusiastically chooses the latter - offering a third episode that's visually embarrassing and narratively unimpressive…
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Winter Anime 2021 Week 5 [Check-In]
Offering yet another great showing, Wonder Egg Priority pushes out a fourth episode that's in fantastic shape; Crafting a strong personality through thematic subtext that boiled elegantly into…
Auto-tagged Horimiya, Bottom-Tier Character Tomozaki, WONDER EGG PRIORITY
Winter 2021 Check-In, Week of 3/7/2021
Whew, it’s been a while since I’ve felt like writing something about what I’m watching and not about something more abstract (though I enjoy, in my own way, putting my…
Winter 2024 Check-in
Winter 2024 is definitely a one-horse race for the winner’s circle, but “place” and “show” are another matter.
Winter 2020 Check-in
Memo to anime: modeling is more interesting than idols. Read more The post Winter 2020 Check-in appeared first on Lost in Anime.
Winter 2022 Check-in
As to the meal anime in 2022 looks to be, Winter is less an appetizer and more an amuse-bouche. Read more
Winter Simulcast Check-In, Week of 1/17/2021
Hi, all. This post should be significantly shorter than the previous check-in, mostly because I’m just cleaning up a few episodes of shows that hadn’t had second episodes…
Chatty AF 135: 2021 Winter Mid-Season Check-in
Vrai, Peter, and Caitlin check in on the 2021 Winter season, from beefy skate boys to overworked cells.
Winter Simulcast Check-in, Week of 1/10/2021
I thought I’d try something new this season, since I’m watching a lot of anime (by design; I’m seeing how much anime I can watch concurrently and whether…
Fall 2021 Check-in
We're at the point with anime where a lack of big surprises is itself unsurprising. Read more
Summer 2021 Check-in
I've gotten about what I expected out of the season so far, but I wasn't expecting much. Read more
Spring 2021 Check-in
Both anime and I have changed a lot since we last had a season like this. Read more
On my Radar for Winter 2021: The Three Episode Check-in!
Anime Winter 2021 has began in earnest and there is plenty to talk about! Shows have aired, boobs have been seen, feelings have been had, and shows have…
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On my Radar for Winter 2021: The Eight Episode Check-in!
Winter 2021 for anime has been another banger year in a recent trend of banger years. So many great shows, shows that would absolutely be year-end hits if…
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2023 Winter Three-Episode Check-In
The big forerunner this season? Girls in fantasy shows!
Auto-tagged Reborn to Master the Blade: From Hero-King to Extraordinary Squire, Sugar Apple Fairy Tale, Technoroid OVERMIND, The Magical Revolution of the Reincarnated Princess and the Genius Young Lady, Kaina of the Great Snow Sea
2020 Winter Three-Episode Check-In
Did you know there were other worthwhile anime airing this season besides Keep Your Hands of Eizouken? It's true! From ghosts to golems and MMOs to magical girls,…
Winter 2020 Anime Midseason Check-In
“So,” she asks. “You said that you were going to try to do better about watching anime this year. How’s that coming along? After all, we haven’t seen…
2024 Winter Three-Episode Check-In
This has been a season of reversals so far, with strong premieres stumbling and wobbly starts finding their stride. Check out the shows in need of a second…
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2022 Winter Three-Episode Check-In
Welcome to the season of rom-coms and gender feels.
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Mid season gut check! -Winter 2021 – Week 6
I forgot to make notes this week – so it’s all a wing and a prayer from memory. Which is probably a good thing given that it’s mid-season…
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On my Radar for Winter 2021: The (kinda) Eight-Episode Check in!
The final season of anime in 2021 is rapidly coming to a close, which means it is time to once again check on what’s on my radar! Plenty…
2021 Spring Three-Episode Check-In
We may not be sure where some of these shows are going, but we can't look away!
Auto-tagged Burning Kabaddi, JORAN THE PRINCESS OF SNOW AND BLOOD, To Your Eternity, Those Snow White Notes, Tokyo Revengers
2021 Fall Three Episode Check-In
This is a Fall of firsts--including the tentative death of Netflix jail (kinda). Join us as we check in on some hotly anticipated adaptations.
Auto-tagged Taisho Otome Fairy Tale, takt op.Destiny, The Night Beyond the Tricornered Window, Irina: The Vampire Cosmonaut, Ranking of Kings
New Beginnings – Q2 2021 Check In
It’s been nearly two months since my last post on this blog. Sorry for the impromptu hiatus. My dad had spinal surgery and helping him through recovery and…
2021 Summer Three-Episode Check-In
The deluge of spring left us with a light summer, but that doesn't mean there aren't gems worth keeping.
Auto-tagged The Duke of Death and His Maid, How a Realist Hero Rebuilt the Kingdom, Kageki Shojo!!, Peach Boy Riverside, RE-MAIN
2025 Winter Anime Three-Episode Check-In
Happy new year of anime! The stars of this season are stories about girls and women facing down crushing expectations and refusing to let go.
Auto-tagged Momentary Lily, ZENSHU, Asura, Flower and Asura, Honey Lemon Soda
Blog Check-in: Where Life Led Me in 2021
Hey guys, it’s Rand. I wanted to let you know what I’ve been doing while having an unprecedented hiatus. I know it’s needed to take breaks when it…
Winter 2021 Anime in Review
This season was interesting. It’s one of those seasons were some of the stronger and/or experimental shows from the beginning part of the season didn’t end up by…
Looking to the Future – Q1 2021 Check In
I suppose like most people when I started this blog, I wanted it as a place to air my feelings. And over the last two – three years,…
Chatty AF 157: 2022 Winter Mid-Season Check-in
Dee, Mercedez, and Peter check in on the high highs and low lows of the Winter season!
Chatty AF 201: 2024 Winter Mid-Season Check-In
Vrai, Alex, and Peter check-in on the 2024 Winter season, where quite a few titles with a lot of potential have a lot riding on their second halves!
Chatty AF 109: Winter 2020 Mid-Season Check-in
Vrai, Caitlin, and Peter check in on the Winter 2020 season! The post Chatty AF 109: Winter 2020 Mid-Season Check-in appeared first on ANIME FEMINIST.
Chatty AF 180: 2023 Winter Mid-Season Check-In
Cy, Caitlin, and Peter check-in on a season with way too many messy shows to wade into.
Chatty AF 222: 2025 Winter Mid-Season Check-In
Dee, Tony, and Peter team up to check-in on the A to ZENSHU of 2025 Winter anime.
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Winter 2021 – Week 12 in Review
Oh my god, have we got some shit to wade through. My house began this week in film with an awful mistake, as I actually joined my housemates…
Winter 2021 – Week 6 in Review
Hello all, and welcome back to Wrong Every Time. I’ve once again got a pretty varied grab bag of reflections for you all, including a few mismatched movies,…
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Winter 2021 – Week 2 in Review
Hello everyone, and welcome back to the Week in Review. It was a strange and bountiful week in films for my house, as we ran through ‘70s and…