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Pick of the Week: Oscar, Oscar, Oscar…
SEAN: There’s a veritable buffet of picks this week. I could go with Yona, or Natsume, or Versailles. But let’s face it, I want my Maple! This week’s…


The Strange Adventure of a Broke Mercenary
Information for the series The Strange Adventure of a Broke Mercenary. The light novel series is being officially released in English by Seven Seas.
Review: A TALE OF AN UNKNOWN COUNTRY
It's quite rare to see a shojo maid manga. Maids tend to be there to assist the heroine, not be the focus of the story. I guess that's…
Review: A TALE OF AN UNKNOWN COUNTRY
It's quite rare to see a shojo maid manga. Maids tend to be there to assist the heroine, not be the focus of the story. I guess that's…


Wineries of Yamanashi: A Taste of Japan’s Wine Country
Do you want to see where Japanese wine is produced? Here are five wineries in Yamanashi that show their production and history.


A Year of Podcasting
It started simply enough. I was excited for the premiere of Digimon Adventure Tri and was reminiscing with my friend Chris about the first season. I made a…
2015 Oscar Shorts
I just saw the nominees in the Best Live Action Short Film and Best Animated Short Film for the 87th Academy Awards. I’ve never done this before, but…
2015 Oscar Shorts
I just saw the nominees in the Best Live Action Short Film and Best Animated Short Film...


Year End Wrapped - 30 Days of OVAs, Japan Update & Future of ABW
Happy new year to all and a blessed 2024. It's been a blast https://www.patreon.com/animebackwhen


2020: a year of change
This has been a strange year. In January, my flatmates fled the country to return to their home, obviously sensing just how serious the new virus would become.…


Ascendance of a Bookworm episode 30
Rating: 4.5 (of 5) Because of the series’ nature, true action scenes have been sparse at best; outside of the trombe incident in episode 25, there haven’t been…


Anohana: A Heartbreaking Tale of Lost Friendships
A tale of friends who lost everything. Connect With Me: Linktree (@Juhnime) - https://linktr.ee/Juhnime Instagram (@Juhnime) - https://instagram.com/juhnime/ MyAnimeList (@Juhnime) - https://myanimelist.net/profile/Juhnime Official Discord (Juhnime's Anime Haven) - https://discord.gg/fb7hECUQn5 Reddit (u/koonjang) - https://reddit.com/user/koonjang TikTok (@Juhnime)…


How a Broke Artist Became a Legendary Voice Actor
Akarin is truly a legendary voice actor, I love her so much. Twitter: https://twitter.com/RedJoker0808?s=09 Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/redjoker0808 Business Email: theredjoker0808@gmail.com Music used: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zf3bPhNexKY&list=PL4F4rVWwMat70lxbxV_j5pPGRk88dHq3l&index=4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVW7yYpx8LQ&list=PL4F4rVWwMat70lxbxV_j5pPGRk88dHq3l&index=6 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Igj9rRQPAs&list=PL4F4rVWwMat70lxbxV_j5pPGRk88dHq3l&index=8 #anime #seiyuu


A Man In God’s Country (2020) review
“A visually pleasing narrative that explores, with a refined irony, the very problematic dimensions of nationalism.”


Rent-a-Girlfriend – 30 – Pillar of Support
Kazuya is constantly on the edge of a nervous breakdown thinking going off alone with Chizuru will be some kind of huge disaster, but Chizuru pushes past the…


A Year of Metal Gear: REVENGEANCE
12 Days of Aniblogging 2022, Day 10 By no means should Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance actually be good. It’s a hack-and-slash character action game that emerged without any involvement…


2023: A Year Full of Cartoons
Taking stock is tricky when there's so much of it.


A Year of Springs Game Review
Games offer a wealth of storytelling opportunities, giving players a chance to experience stories and characters far removed from their day to day lives–from supernatural romances to high…


This Week in Anime - Summit of the Gods is a Serious Oscar Contender
The French-animated adaptation of Jiro Taniguchi's manga follows two men obsessed with Mt. Everest. Together they'll face the unrelenting brutality of one of Earth's highest peaks in this…
Pick of the Year: It Was a Very Good Year
MICHELLE: When declaring a pick of the year, I feel some self-induced pressure to choose something highbrow, but the fact is that the the title that I loved…
The Boy and the Oscar
By Andrew Osmond. Hooray, The Boy and the Heron has won! When it snagged the Best Animated Feature Oscar last night (sorry, Spider-Verse fans), it marked only the…


Reviewing The 2025 Oscar Winners
I know a lot of people probably don’t care about my opinion on Oscar winners. So I’m going to make this a bunch of notes.


An Oscar Nomination from Nowhere
The story of 'Doctor De Soto' by Michael Sporn.


How a Japanese Weather Girl Broke The Internet
Someone who looks up to voice actors can't be a bad person. Like Saya Hiyama. She could be a seiyuu. Twitter: https://twitter.com/RedJoker0808?s=09 Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/redjoker0808 Business Email: theredjoker0808@gmail.com 00:00 Saya's Voice Acting…
Murder, Country Style
detective fiction, 推理小説、games, mystery, murder, locked room, Japanese, translations,
A Drink, Hell Of A Year – Join #The25AniCheer
Did someone hear Christmas? We’re on the cusp of festivities, 6 weeks now ya’ll. Are you looking forward to it at least? what Crap year it’s been and…
Rascal Does Not Dream of a Lost Singer
By Hajime Kamoshida and Keji Mizoguchi. Released in Japan as “Seishun Buta Yarou wa Mayoeru Singer no Yume wo Minai” by Dengeki Bunko. Released in North America by…
No Longer Hyped – A Review of Human Lost
The 1948 novel Ningen Shikkaku, known in the west as No Longer Human, is considered a masterpiece of literature in Japan. It is considered autobiographical, as the torment…


Love and lost at sea- two 2019 summer anime movies (half a year later)
I had the fortune to see two anime movies at the cinemas when I visited Tokyo for holidays this summer, which really is the way anime movies should…


Kino’s Journey Episode 11: Country of Adults
Well, it’s about time we got an origin story for Kino!
High Card #16 — A Country For Old Men
Yay. Flashbacks that don't actually accomplish anything whatsoever! Impressions: After lamenting that various main characters still haven't really had their characters/arcs resolved and it keeps introducing new…


A Deluge of Riches: Super Robot Wars 30
When I first began playing Super Robot Wars 30, I wanted to write a review immediately, but I decided against it because I wanted to complete one run…


A Year of Metal Gear - Part 2
12 Days of Aniblogging 2021, Day 5 This is a blog series in which I reflect on every main-series Metal Gear Solid game in release order. Click here for…


A Year of Metal Gear - Part III
12 Days of Aniblogging 2021, Day 6 This is a blog series in which I reflect on every main-series Metal Gear Solid game in release order. Here are links…


A Big 1st Year and a Little 2nd Year
大きい1年生と 小さな2年生 (ookii ichinensei to chiisana ninensei, A Big 1st Year and a Little 2nd Year, 1970) is a children's book by FURUTA Taruhi ( 古...
A Lost Dirty Pair Discovered
The Lovely Angels, a pair of “trouble consultants” employed by the WWWA (World Welfare Works Association) are Kei & Yuri. They’re experts at their job, yet accidents, collateral…


Winning an Oscar, Losing Your Way
Plus: animation news.


The Lost Anime of Renaissance Atlantic (Part 1) - Tales of the Lost
#anime #entertainment #documentary This was a long project in the making, and I'm really happy to be able to unveil the first half. It's a culminating two-part…
The Girl Games of Lost Media (Part 2) | Tales of the Lost
The Girl Games of Lost Media Part 2 Contact/Press: info@raymona.net I still can’t believe part 2 ever even happened...This doesn’t feel real. Thank you so much for sticking around and watching…
Not Episode 30- a Filler
Due to technical problems, episode 30 has been fragmented and will take some time to be reassembled. due to this, I have decided to kinda skip over 30…


Games for broke people: HoloCure
Well here’s a nice surprise from itch.io, though not a surprise that I’m covering it. HoloCure is a Hololive fan game, what else, about a set of VTubers…


Legendborn: This Book Broke Me
I definitely have not hesitated to come down with constructive criticism on stuff that deals with racism. However, I’m only showing one side of the coin. As confidently…
Review: Go for Broke (2024)
Go for Broke 重生 China/Hong Kong, 2024, colour, 2.35:1, 113 mins. Director: Ma Yuke 马浴柯. Rating: 7/10. Another tough, twisty crime drama by Mainland actor-turned-director Ma Yuke, with…


This Youtuber BROKE JAPAN LAWS...
YouTuber Fidias uploaded a video titled "I Travelled Across Japan For Free" by breaking japanese laws, harrassing people for money and profiting online. The same dude that kept…


A Year Of Metal Gear – Part 1
12 Days Of Aniblogging 2021, Day 4 Yes, the Metal Gear franchise is anime. That should be obvious. All the way back in January I persuaded my girlfriend to play…
Towards a Historiography of Gundam’s One Year War
Gundam could be considered reader-hostile considering the lengths it makes fans go to in order to reach its stories.


Looking Back on a Half-Year of Work
Our mid-year recap for 2022.
Towards a Historiography of Gundam’s One Year War
Gundam could be considered reader-hostile considering the lengths it makes fans go to in order to reach its stories.