Anime Blog Tracker

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.

The Magic Planet

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

The Magic Planet

Sep 5, 2021 • Subscribe

Blue Reflection Ray, Puella Magi Madoka Magica, Sonny Boy

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.

The Magic Planet

Sep 26, 2021 • Subscribe

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

The Frontline Report [8/8/21]

This week: What’s up with Kageki Shoujo!!, seeing yourself in manga, and the best episode of Eureka Seven.

The Magic Planet

Aug 9, 2021 • Subscribe

Eureka Seven, Kageki Shojo!!

The Frontline Report [11/15/21]

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

The Magic Planet

Nov 15, 2021 • Subscribe

RUMBLE GARANNDOLL, Mieruko-chan

The Frontline Report [10/24/21]

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

The Magic Planet

Oct 24, 2021 • Subscribe

Mieruko-chan

The Frontline Report [12/6/21]

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

The Magic Planet

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.

The Magic Planet

Oct 3, 2021 • Subscribe

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

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

The Magic Planet

Aug 2, 2021 • Subscribe

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

The Frontline Report [10/14/21]

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

The Magic Planet

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?

The Magic Planet

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

The Magic Planet

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

The Magic Planet

Dec 13, 2021 • Subscribe

RUMBLE GARANNDOLL

The Frontline Report [7/25/21]

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

The Magic Planet

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.

The Magic Planet

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.

The Magic Planet

Nov 29, 2021 • Subscribe

The Heike Story, Ranking of Kings

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.

The Magic Planet

Aug 29, 2021 • Subscribe

Puella Magi Madoka Magica

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 …

The Magic Planet

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

The Magic Planet

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 …

The Magic Planet

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.

The Magic Planet

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!

The Magic Planet

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

The Magic Planet

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

The Magic Planet

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

The Magic Planet

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

The Magic Planet

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.

The Magic Planet

Feb 6, 2022 • Subscribe

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

Dolls’ Frontline – Episode 9 – The Expendability of Sangvis

Episode impressions of Dolls’ Frontline Episode 9 as hordes of Sangvis dolls attacked the Griffin’s secret base. While the AR Team found the location where Destroyer is hiding,…

Chikorita157's Anime Blog

Mar 6, 2022 • Subscribe

Girls’ Frontline

Vintage Report 19, March/April 1979

The spring months of 1979 saw the first slowdown in Yamato activity since the previous summer, which was inevitable given that the intervening period was the busiest in…

CosmoDNA

Nov 22, 2023 • Subscribe

Space Battleship Yamato 2205 Report 19

Activity held steady as one of our annual digits changed again, and the world inched closer to the year 3199. Despite continued silence from the home office, music…

CosmoDNA

Feb 8, 2023 • Subscribe

Space Battleship Yamato

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,…

CosmoDNA

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…

CosmoDNA

Jan 23, 2024 • Subscribe

Girls' Frontline - Episode 9 - Gentiane Headpats SOPII

SOPII likes Gentiane because she's a commander who cares about her T-Dolls. That means letting them shoot who they want. Girls' Frontline - Episode 9.

Joeschmo's Gears and Grounds

Mar 6, 2022 • Subscribe

Girls’ Frontline, R-15

Manga the Week of 5/19/21

SEAN: As the days get warmer, why not try some manga to cool you off? Airship debuts a new release, out next week digitally and in print next…

Manga Bookshelf

May 13, 2021 • Subscribe

I Want to Eat Your Pancreas, Kuma Kuma Kuma Bear

Bookshelf Briefs 12/21/19

Daytime Shooting Star, Vol. 3 | By Mika Yamamori | Viz Media – There’s less humor and more romantic drama in this volume, but that’s OK as the…

Manga Bookshelf

Dec 22, 2019 • Subscribe

Mushoku Tensei – 19, 20, 21

「ルート選択 / 妹侍女の生まれた日 / ターニングポイント２」 (Ruuto Sentaku / Imouto Jijo no Umareta Hi / Taaningu Pointo Ni) "Route Selection / The Birth of My Little Sister, the Maid /…

Random Curiosity

Dec 17, 2021 • Subscribe

The Apothecary Diaries: Episodes 19 to 21 Reviews

As the clever and quirky protagonist of The Apothecary Diaries, Maomao is a great example of a well-written female character in anime. She has rapidly risen in the…

Anime Rants

Mar 11, 2024 • Subscribe

The Apothecary Diaries

Vintage Report 9: 1978, Part 1

As the new year began, the Yamato movie was still raking in box office profits after an incredible five months. After a slowdown in December, the New Year’s…

CosmoDNA

Jan 4, 2023 • Subscribe

Space Battleship Yamato 2205 Report 9

Activity dropped back to pre-2205 levels in March, reminding us how lucky we are to be fans when a lot of news drops. But even a little is…

CosmoDNA

Apr 4, 2022 • Subscribe

Space Battleship Yamato

Kamen Rider Saber Episodes 19-21

This week on Saber, my patience with this cursed show finally runs out.

The Glorio Blog

Feb 13, 2021 • Subscribe

Manga the Week of 9/1/21

SEAN: Wake me when August ends or September begins, because this is technically manga from the last week of August. The theme for this week is “it got…

Manga Bookshelf

Aug 26, 2021 • Subscribe

Manga the Week of 9/15/21

SEAN: Gonna start reversing the list more often as, no offense to Seven Seas, I am tired of Airship getting the first image every week. So we start…

Manga Bookshelf

Sep 9, 2021 • Subscribe

Book Girl

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…

Manga Bookshelf

Sep 2, 2021 • Subscribe

Manga the Week of 9/21/22

SEAN: OK, now it’s the first week of Autumn, and there’s even rain! A good week to read some manga! ASH: Truly! SEAN: Airship starts us off with…

Manga Bookshelf

Sep 15, 2022 • Subscribe

Monster Girl Doctor, Classroom of the Elite

Manga the Week of 9/22/21

SEAN: Even the Delta variant cannot stop the flow of manga coming through. ASH: Which is impressive, really. SEAN: Airship, in print, gives us the third volume of…

Manga Bookshelf

Sep 16, 2021 • Subscribe

Manga the Week of 9/29/21

SEAN: The end of September brings some nice books, but also a long-awaited new volume of a beloved series, so let’s start with that. Yen Press has Yotsuba&!…

Manga Bookshelf

Sep 23, 2021 • Subscribe

A Certain Magical Index, Combatants Will Be Dispatched!, Magia Record: Puella Magi Madoka Magica Side Story, Puella Magi Madoka Magica

Manga the Week of 6/9/21

SEAN: 2nd June 2nd Furious. MICHELLE: Snerk. SEAN: Airship has an early digital debut. Reborn as a Space Mercenary: I Woke Up Piloting the Strongest Starship! (Mezametara Saikyou…

Manga Bookshelf

Jun 3, 2021 • Subscribe

Berserk, Berserk, Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken!

Bookshelf Briefs 9/13/21

A Certain Scientific Railgun: Astral Buddy, Vol. 4 | By Kazuma Kamachi and Yasuhito Nogi |Seven Seas – Despite the cliffhanger from the last book, Junko and Gunha…

Manga Bookshelf

Sep 13, 2021 • Subscribe

A Certain Scientific Railgun

Be Forever Yamato REBEL 3199 Report 9

August 2024 was a textbook followup to the enormous premiere month of July; Chapter 1 closed its first – and very successful – theatrical run, a new concert…

CosmoDNA

Sep 14, 2024 • Subscribe

Be Forever Yamato

Twelve Kingdoms – 19/20/21 – Throwback Thursday

This is an important week for Twelve Kingdoms. It marks the completion of an arc and the (almost) halfway point of this watch. We have lies, deceit and…

Star Crossed Anime

Nov 12, 2020 • Subscribe