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 [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 [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 [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 [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 [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 [10/24/21]

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

The Magic Planet

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.

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 [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 [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 [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 [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 [1/30/22]

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 [1/3/22]

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 [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 [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 [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 [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 [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 [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 13: September 1978

The month following the incredible box office success of Farewell to Yamato was both a victory lap and the beginning of a marathon. As new media coverage and…

CosmoDNA

May 28, 2023 • Subscribe

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

Space Battleship Yamato 2205 Report 13

Activity ticked up slightly in July with the arrival of a new pachinko game, a live-action TV appearance, and the first large-scale hobby show in QUITE a while,…

CosmoDNA

Aug 5, 2022 • Subscribe

Space Battleship Yamato

Vintage Report 12: August 1978

This was the month when all the suspense finally broke. Farewell to Yamato destroyed all previous box office records for anime films (including that of Yamato itself) with…

CosmoDNA

May 5, 2023 • Subscribe

Manga the Week of 1/13/21

SEAN: Next week is a very quiet week. I’ll take it! ASH: A chance to at least pretend I can catch up on my reading! SEAN: Cross Infinite…

Manga Bookshelf

Jan 7, 2021 • Subscribe

Orphen, Sorcerous Stabber Orphen

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

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

Doll’s Frontline – Episode 12 (END) – The Sacrifice to Defeat Sangvis

Episode impressions of Doll’s Frontline Episode 12 as AR15 kidnapping M4, what does she intend to do with her?

Chikorita157's Anime Blog

Mar 27, 2022 • Subscribe

Girls’ Frontline, R-15

Space Battleship Yamato 2205 Report 12

Conditions conspired to give us another slow month in Yamato world, but this is a temporary situation as we all know by now. And really, there is no…

CosmoDNA

Jul 11, 2022 • Subscribe

Space Battleship Yamato

Manga the Week of 12/22/21

SEAN: If you buy these books they probably WON’T get there by Christmas. Santa is sad. Yen On has one title: Kingdom Hearts: The Complete Novel Collector’s Edition.…

Manga Bookshelf

Dec 16, 2021 • Subscribe

Manga the Week of 12/21/22

SEAN: We’re in the last few days before Christmas, who’s coming down the chimney? Yen On has an 11th volume of The Saga of Tanya the Evil. I…

Manga Bookshelf

Dec 15, 2022 • Subscribe

One Piece, Saga of Tanya the Evil, Yashahime: Princess Half-Demon, Alice in Borderland, Devil May Cry

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…

Manga Bookshelf

Dec 2, 2021 • Subscribe

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

Manga the Week of 12/15/21

SEAN: If you buy these manga, they should still arrive by Christmas! Denpa Books has Gambling Apocalypse: KAIJI 3. ASH: Looking forward to this one coming out after…

Manga Bookshelf

Dec 9, 2021 • Subscribe

Manga the Week of 5/12/21

SEAN: Happy Mother’s Day! Let’s look for some manga that you can safely show to Mom. Airship has two early digital releases, Adachi & Shimamura 5 and Failure…

Manga Bookshelf

May 6, 2021 • Subscribe

Gantz

Manga the Week of 12/29/21

SEAN: It’s the last week of 2021, what are publishers squeezing out the door? Airship gives us How a Realist Hero Rebuilt the Kingdom 13 in print and…

Manga Bookshelf

Dec 23, 2021 • Subscribe

Peach Boy Riverside, Pretty Boy Detective Club, Rent-a-Girlfriend, Attack on Titan, How a Realist Hero Rebuilt the Kingdom

Manga the Week of 12/1/21

SEAN: If there’s turkey hog dogs and turkey burgers, is there turkey manga? ASH: I have no doubt. SEAN: Airship, in print, has Grimgar of Fantasy and Ash…

Manga Bookshelf

Nov 25, 2021 • Subscribe

Grimgar of Fantasy and Ash

Blogger Recognition Award! (02-13-21)

Hey Anime Gang! Wow, I guess it’s been about 5 years since I started this blog…though I’ve been writing anime reviews (not very good ones LOL) a few…

KiritoNarukami

Feb 14, 2021 • Subscribe

Gintama, Blue Exorcist

Girls' Frontline - Episode 12 [END] - AR-15 Faces Mastermind

AR-15 went as far as she could to accomplish her personal mission of protecting M4A1 from Sangvis. Girls' Frontline - Episode 12 [END].

Joeschmo's Gears and Grounds

Mar 26, 2022 • Subscribe

Girls’ Frontline, R-15

Bookshelf Briefs 12/16/21

In which Sean valiantly goes it alone yet again. Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End, Vol. 1 | By Kanehito Yamada and Tsukasa Abe | Viz Media – This is…

Manga Bookshelf

Dec 16, 2021 • Subscribe

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

Manga the Week of 12/13/23

SEAN: It's a bit early, but this is Yen Press week, because of the holidays. That said, they're at the end this time around. Two print books from…

Manga Bookshelf

Dec 7, 2023 • Subscribe

Infinite Dendrogram, She Professed Herself Pupil of the Wise Man

The Apothecary Diaries Episodes 12 and 13

You've read the manga now watch the anime! Wait you haven't? The follow along with me to get my take on The Apothecary Diaries adaption!

I drink and watch anime

Jan 13, 2024 • Subscribe

The Apothecary Diaries