The Frontline Report [8/8/21] by The Magic Planet / Anime Blog Tracker

The Frontline Report [8/1/21]

This week: MADOKA MAGICA IS BACK, BABY!! As well as thoughts on Sonny Boy, Blue Reflection Ray, and The Detective is Already Dead

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Aug 2, 2021 • Subscribe

The aquatope on white sand, Sonny Boy, Blue Reflection Ray, Puella Magi Madoka Magica

The Frontline Report [8/29/21]

This week on The Frontline Report: is Magia Record the best anime of the season? Plus: the subtle romance of Kageki Shoujo.

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Aug 29, 2021 • Subscribe

Puella Magi Madoka Magica

The Frontline Report [9/13/21]

This week: Dragon Maid flies, Sonny Boy confounds, and The Detective is invalidating the title of her own show.

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Sep 13, 2021 • Subscribe

Sonny Boy, Puella Magi Madoka Magica

The Frontline Report [9/5/21]

More thoughts on Magia Record and Sonny Boy, and the final days of Blue Reflection Ray

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Sep 5, 2021 • Subscribe

Blue Reflection Ray, Puella Magi Madoka Magica, Sonny Boy

The Frontline Report [11/15/21]

This week: Mieruko-chan picks up steam and Rumble Garanndoll gets political. Yes, really.

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Nov 15, 2021 • Subscribe

RUMBLE GARANNDOLL, Mieruko-chan

The Frontline Report [10/24/21]

This week; mostly just Mieruko-chan to be quite honest.

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Oct 24, 2021 • Subscribe

Mieruko-chan

The Frontline Report [9/26/21]

This week; the girls are alright. Final thoughts on Kageki Shoujo!!, Magia Record, Blue Reflection Ray. Plus Tropical Rouge Precure and The Detective is Already Dead.

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Sep 26, 2021 • Subscribe

Pretty Cure, Puella Magi Madoka Magica, Blue Reflection Ray, Kageki Shojo!!

The Frontline Report [12/6/21]

This week: Mieruko-chan, Ousama Ranking, and what in the world is Waccha PriMagi?

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Dec 6, 2021 • Subscribe

Mieruko-chan, Ranking of Kings, Waccha PriMagi!

The Frontline Report [10/3/21]

This week: thoughts on the Heike Story, farewells to Sonny Boy & Dragon Maid, and the season gets off to a shrug of a start.

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Oct 3, 2021 • Subscribe

The Heike Story, Selection Project, Sonny Boy, Windy Tales

The Frontline Report [10/14/21]

This week on the Frontline Report: thoughts on Heike Monogatari, Rumble Garanndoll, Platinum End, and more.

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Oct 18, 2021 • Subscribe

The Heike Story, Platinum End

The Frontline Report [10/31/21]

This week; things get komplicated in Komi Can’t Communicate. Plus: does Rumble Garanndoll know what it’s doing?

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Oct 31, 2021 • Subscribe

The Heike Story

The Frontline Report [7/18/21]

This week on The Frontline Report: The Detective is Already Dead, The aquatope on white sands, final thoughts on Fate/Zero

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Jul 18, 2021 • Subscribe

Fate/Zero, The aquatope on white sand

The Frontline Report [12/13/21]

This week: the long-awaited(?) return of Komi Can’t Communicate and Rumble Garanndoll

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Dec 13, 2021 • Subscribe

RUMBLE GARANNDOLL

The Frontline Report [9/19/21]

This week: Heike Monogatari is struck with prophetic visions, Kageki Shoujo enters its tense final act, and the girls of Love Live Superstar put on a show.

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Sep 19, 2021 • Subscribe

The Heike Story, Words Bubble Up Like Soda Pop

The Frontline Report [7/25/21]

Weekly thoughts on Blue Reflection Ray, Sonny Boy, and Kageki Shojo!!

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Jul 26, 2021 • Subscribe

Blue Reflection Ray, Kageki Shojo!!, Sonny Boy

The Frontline Report [10/10/21]

This week; thoughts on The Heike Story and premieres, premieres, premieres.

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Oct 10, 2021 • Subscribe

The Heike Story

The Frontline Report [11/29/21]

This week, The Heike Story comes to an end. Plus: please watch Ranking of Kings.

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Nov 29, 2021 • Subscribe

The Heike Story, Ranking of Kings

The Frontline Report [2/27/22]

The Frontline Report 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 …

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Feb 28, 2022 • Subscribe

My Dress-Up Darling, Sabikui Bisco

The Frontline Report [1/23/22]

This week: CUE! and Tokyo 24th Ward writeups. Plus Pompo The Cinephile, Gakkou Gurashi, Sabikui Bisco, and My Dress-Up Darling

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Jan 23, 2022 • Subscribe

CUE!, Pompo: The Cinéphile, My Dress-Up Darling, Sabikui Bisco, Tokyo 24th Ward

The Frontline Report [3/20/22]

The Frontline Report 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 …

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Mar 20, 2022 • Subscribe

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

The Frontline Report [4/2/22]

This week: premieres premieres premieres! Plus, the Princess Connect finale, and a HUGE announcement.

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Apr 2, 2022 • Subscribe

The Executioner and Her Way of Life

The Frontline Report [1/16/22]

This week: Ousama Ranking, Tokyo 24th Ward, My Dress-Up Darling, CUE!, and Artiswitch!

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Jan 16, 2022 • Subscribe

Artiswitch, CUE!, My Dress-Up Darling, Ranking of Kings, Tokyo 24th Ward

The Frontline Report [3/6/22]

This week on the Frontline Report; Princess Connect does it again, plus, a short writeup on the zany toku office comedy Miss Kuroitsu From The Monster Development Department

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Mar 6, 2022 • Subscribe

Miss KUROITSU from the Monster Development Department

The Frontline Report [3/27/22]

This week: The finales of Ousama Ranking and My Dress-Up Darling. Plus, Princess Connect Just Really Really Rules

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Mar 27, 2022 • Subscribe

My Dress-Up Darling, Ranking of Kings

The Frontline Report [1/3/22]

This week: we finish up the 2021 stragglers Rumble Garanndoll and Mieruko-chan

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Jan 3, 2022 • Subscribe

RUMBLE GARANNDOLL, Mieruko-chan

The Frontline Report [1/30/22]

This week: Writeups on Princess Connect and Tokyo 24th Ward. Plus, a fond farewell to Tropical-Rouge! Pretty Cure

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Jan 30, 2022 • Subscribe

Pretty Cure, Tokyo 24th Ward, Tropical-Rouge! Precure

The Frontline Report [2/6/22]

This week; There’s a new Precure in town! Plus; CUE! makes a surprise recovery, Princess Connect goes absolutely wild, and Tokyo 24th muddles the message.

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Feb 6, 2022 • Subscribe

CUE!, My Dress-Up Darling, Pretty Cure, Sabikui Bisco, Tokyo 24th Ward

Girls' Frontline - Episode 8 - Destroyer

The elite Sangvis doll Destroyer attacked Griffin-Kryuger's secret headquarters. She surprised the commanders! Girls' Frontline - Episode 8.

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Feb 27, 2022 • Subscribe

Girls’ Frontline

Space Battleship Yamato 2205 Report 21

Activity in March 2023 dropped a bit compared February, but that didn’t make it any less interesting. Any month that gives us online publishing, three major live events,…

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Apr 10, 2023 • Subscribe

Space Battleship Yamato

Vintage Report 21: July/August 1979

For a two-month period that didn’t actually see a large amount of activity, this was a huge moment for Yamato fans. July in particular delivered a big one-two…

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Jan 23, 2024 • Subscribe

Dolls’ Frontline – Episode 8 – Sangvis Surprise Attack

Episode impressions of Dolls' Frontline Episode 8 as just as M16 finally reunites with the AR team, there is no time for them to celebrate. As expected, Sangvis…

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Feb 27, 2022 • Subscribe

Girls’ Frontline

Space Battleship Yamato 2205 Report 8

2205 activity got a huge boost with the Chapter 2 premiere as a dramatic new turning point was added to the remake universe, giving us a lot to…

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Mar 13, 2022 • Subscribe

Space Battleship Yamato

Vintage Report 8: November/December 1977

If we were to name this specific stretch of Yamato history, the appropriate word would probably be “Afterglow.” The feature film was still burning up the box office…

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Dec 9, 2022 • Subscribe

Manga the Week of 12/8/21

SEAN: Busy busy busy! Almost forgot to type this up this week! What do we see? ASH: Oh, do I know the feeling! SEAN: Yen On has the…

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Dec 2, 2021 • Subscribe

Toilet-bound Hanako-kun, Legend of the Crystals: Final Fantasy, Saga of Tanya the Evil

Manga the Week of 9/8/21

SEAN: It’s ALWAYS September, somewhere in manga land. Airship has two digital first debuts. I’m the Evil Lord of an Intergalactic Empire! (Ore wa Seikan Kokka no Akutoku…

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Sep 2, 2021 • Subscribe

Manga the Week of 8/4/21

SEAN: August! Is there any dog manga? MICHELLE: Guru Guru Pon-chan? SEAN: Airship has two print debuts of light novels we’ve talked about before when the early digital…

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Jul 29, 2021 • Subscribe

Neon Genesis Evangelion

Manga the Week of 8/18/21

SEAN: Mid-August, and I cannot confirm this, but I imagine it’s hot. At least here in North America. Australia might be saying something different. Airship, in print, gives…

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Aug 12, 2021 • Subscribe

Adachi and Shimamura, The Hidden Dungeon Only I Can Enter

Manga the Week of 8/11/21

SEAN: August continues. It’s still 2021, you know. Not 2022 yet, I promise. ASH: I do sometimes wonder at what year it is, so I appreciate the clarification.…

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Aug 5, 2021 • Subscribe

Manga the Week of 8/21/24

SEAN: Next week is Anime NYC and also Yen Press week. Yikes! ASH: Here we go! SEAN: Several debuts for Yen On. Hell Is Dark with No Flowers…

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Aug 15, 2024 • Subscribe

Adachi and Shimamura

Manga the Week of 8/25/21

SEAN: It’s time to do the list backwards again! Which I do because I enjoy changing things up once in a while, and absolutely not just because I…

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Aug 19, 2021 • Subscribe

Bungo Stray Dogs, GOBLIN SLAYER

Bookshelf Briefs 8/26/21

Captivated, By You | By Yama Wayama | Yen Press – A collection of short stories that originally ran in the magazine Comic Beam, they all take place…

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Aug 27, 2021 • Subscribe

Bookshelf Briefs 8/21/23

Blue Box, Vol. 5 | By Kouji Miura | Viz Media - Sometimes trying to be kind can just look like mixed signals. That's what Taiki's having to…

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Aug 22, 2023 • Subscribe

Bookshelf Briefs 8/11/21

Sean is our hero as he shoulders the burden of this column solo. D-Frag!, Vol. 15 | By Tomoya Haruno | Seven Seas – This manga is here…

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Aug 12, 2021 • Subscribe

D-Frag!

Be Forever Yamato REBEL 3199 Report 8

Now THAT was a Yamato month! You have to go back over two years to the release of 2205 Chapter 2 to find this much action. The launch…

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Aug 11, 2024 • Subscribe

Be Forever Yamato

Twitch Streaming Schedule: Week of 8/21 – 8/27

Hey Blerdy Tribe! It’s a new week and with it comes the promise of new streams over on Twitch! If you haven’t already come through for a stream,…

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Aug 21, 2022 • Subscribe

What I Watched This Week – 8/15-8/21

Sarazanmai – I first tried watching this shortly after it aired, and couldn’t finish the first episode on account of it being so damn weird. After watching people…

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Aug 23, 2021 • Subscribe

Sarazanmai

Dolls’ Frontline – 01

「THE SEED (タネ)」 (Tane) "The Seed" My M4 SOPMOD II brings all the boys to the yard.

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Jan 8, 2022 • Subscribe

Dolls’ Frontline (TV)

Oh. I see they decided to make a proper TV series out of Dolls’ Frontline. Because after the funny and light-hearted chibified ONA episodes, it is time to…

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