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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 [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 [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 [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 [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 [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 [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 [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 [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 [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.

The Magic Planet

Sep 19, 2021 • Subscribe

The Heike Story, Words Bubble Up Like Soda Pop

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 [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 [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 [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 [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 [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 [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 [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 [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 [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 [3/6/22]

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 [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 [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

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 [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

Vintage Report 14: October 1978

To understand how significant this month was, here’s a metaphor. Imagine that it’s July 1977, two months after Star Wars exploded into the world. Now, without buying a…

CosmoDNA

Jun 24, 2023 • Subscribe

Space Battleship Yamato 2205 Report 14

August 2022 was about average in terms of activity, but there’s never a dull month in Yamato world. The first full-scale book arrived and Star Blazers Lambda reached…

CosmoDNA

Sep 10, 2022 • 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

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

Manga the Week of 4/14/21

SEAN: There certainly is a lot of manga coming out. Remember years ago when some weeks had three or four titles? ASH: It’s almost unimaginable any more. SEAN:…

Manga Bookshelf

Apr 8, 2021 • Subscribe

Manga the Week of 7/14/21

SEAN: Now that July 4th has come and gone and terrified all our dogs, what manga do we have to soothe us? MICHELLE: My big tabby is also…

Manga Bookshelf

Jul 8, 2021 • Subscribe

Berserk, Berserk, Mushoku Tensei: Jobless Reincarnation

Bookshelf Briefs 11/14/21

Dead Dead Demon’s Dededede Destruction, Vol. 10 | By Inio Asano | Viz Media – The end of this volume states in big, bold letters that there’s twelve…

Manga Bookshelf

Nov 15, 2021 • Subscribe

September 10 2023: The Anime Toronto Report

James returns to the table for the first time since Anime North. So we start by recaping his take on the anime summer 00:06:22 – A thought on…

Anime Roundtable

Jan 10, 2024 • Subscribe

Sailor Moon

Girls' Frontline - Episode 10 - AR-15 Hides

AR-15 broke out of prison to help her Team AR sisters defeat a Sangvis elite doll. Girls' Frontline - Episode 10.

Joeschmo's Gears and Grounds

Mar 12, 2022 • Subscribe

Girls’ Frontline, R-15

The Manga Review, 10/14/22

Historically, New York Comic Con was the event for big licensing announcements, but in recent years manga publishers have focused more on promoting their best-selling series than on unveiling…

Manga Bookshelf

Oct 14, 2022 • Subscribe

Chainsaw Man, veil

The Manga Review, 10/21/22

“Manga won”–that was Heidi MacDonald’s pithy assessment of New York Comic Con 2022, as she noted how much the show was tilting towards Asian comics. “We all know…

Manga Bookshelf

Oct 22, 2022 • Subscribe

Vintage Report 10: 1978, Part 2

As 1978 approached its midpoint, Yamato fever was heating up. The publicity campaign was just starting to ramp up, but production was running at full speed as the…

CosmoDNA

Mar 12, 2023 • Subscribe

Space Battleship Yamato 2205 Report 10

Predictably, April 2022 was one of the slowest months for Yamato news in a long time, since we’re back in the stretch between productions. But any news is…

CosmoDNA

May 8, 2022 • Subscribe

Space Battleship Yamato

Dolls’ Frontline – Episode 10 – Destroyer’s Fate Truth Behind the AR Team

Episode impressions of Dolls’ Frontline Episode 10 as AR-15 is now a fugitive after escaping the secret Griffin base, we finally learn the fate of Destroyer. Is Dreamer…

Chikorita157's Anime Blog

Mar 13, 2022 • Subscribe

Girls’ Frontline, R-15

Manga the Week of 10/14/20

SEAN: October 2020, where you have to bar your doors against trick-or-treaters. This year sucks. Let’s brighten it with manga. Denpa Books says they’re putting out the 3rd…

Manga Bookshelf

Oct 8, 2020 • Subscribe

Orphen, Ragnarok the Animation, Sorcerous Stabber Orphen

Manga the Week of 10/21/20

SEAN: Is this Phase Three of Manga reopening? Cross Infinite World gives us a third volume of I Became the Secretary of a Hero!. J-Novel Club has Ascendance…

Manga Bookshelf

Oct 16, 2020 • Subscribe

Heaven’s Design Team, Ascendance of a Bookworm

Manga the Week of 10/13/21

SEAN: Mid-October and we’re still seeing a lot of great books. ASH: I’m okay with this, although I am terribly behind. SEAN: Yen On has a debut, with…

Manga Bookshelf

Oct 7, 2021 • Subscribe

Our Last Crusade or the Rise of a New World

Manga the Week of 11/10/21

SEAN: It’s so hard to hold a manga in the cold November rain… We start with Yen On, which has a new light novel debut: I Kept Pressing…

Manga Bookshelf

Nov 4, 2021 • Subscribe

Accel World, Sword Art Online, Sword Art Online Alternative: Gun Gale Online, That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime

Manga the Week of 10/20/21

SEAN: As we inch ever closer to Halloween, beware of the manga yokai, which look like Shonen Jump volumes but lure children to their doom. ASH: I absolutely…

Manga Bookshelf

Oct 14, 2021 • Subscribe

Adachi and Shimamura, Monster Girl Doctor

Manga the Week of 10/6/21

SEAN: October! Time for scary manga! ASH: Ooooooo! MICHELLE: Scary manga and super creeps? SEAN: Airship has, in print, Monster Musume The Novel – Monster Girls on the…

Manga Bookshelf

Sep 30, 2021 • Subscribe

Gantz

Manga the Week of 10/27/21

SEAN: BOO! ASH: Aaah! MICHELLE: Ack! ANNA: EEK! MELINDA: … erk? SEAN: We start with Yen On, which has The Detective Is Already Dead 2, the 15th KonoSuba,…

Manga Bookshelf

Oct 21, 2021 • Subscribe

Gabriel DropOut, The Detective Is Already Dead

Manga the Week of 3/10/21

SEAN: Has anyone else run out of time to read things? You’d think I’d be reading MORE in a pandemic, but… MICHELLE: I have run out of brain…

Manga Bookshelf

Mar 4, 2021 • Subscribe

Berserk, Berserk

Manga the Week of 2/10/21

SEAN: Oh the weather outside is frightful, but the manga is so delightful. Airship has an early digital release of Berserk of Gluttony 2 and the print release…

Manga Bookshelf

Feb 4, 2021 • Subscribe

Adachi and Shimamura, Berserk, Berserk

Ranking summary for the weeks of 2020 08/31, 09/07, 09/14, 09/21, 09/28, 10/05, 10/12

Ranking summary for the weeks of 2020 08/31, 09/07, 09/14, 09/21, 09/28, 10/05, 10/12 The following rankings have been updated to reflect the available data through the weeks…

Anime DVD/BD Sales in Japan

Oct 24, 2020 • Subscribe