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I caught up on watching That Time I was Reincarnated as a Slime, so now I’m watching The Slime Diaries. The scene that amused me in the episode “The…
Scheduling My Anime Episodes for the rest of 2023
I made a plan for what anime episodes I’m going to watch for the rest of the month. Basically, the Spring 2023 anime season is ending soon, and…
Frieren 22, and 6 for the rest
A well-deserved feast after the first exam. Sousou no Frieren 22 is not particularly eventful even for a series where small acts and words can stand in for…
Sasaki and Peeps, Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End, A Sign of Affection
It’s A GamerGate World, And The Rest Of Us Have To Live In It
In 2014, the “consumer rebellion” called GamerGate began. Using social media to organize and spread their message, a group of self-identified “Gamers” decided to let the who…
Mobseka 10 – No rest for Leon
Apparently due to the aftermath of Leon’s recent accomplishments, some of the girls are starting to be interested in him his social standing. I don’t blame him for…
Trapped in a Dating Sim: The World of Otome Games Is Tough for Mobs
The Best of Us, The Worst of Us, The Lot of Us: Bakugo
My Hero Academia’s latest season has put its characters into a final battle of sorts. A winner takes all scenario where Tomura and All for One are fighting…
The Best of Us, The Worst of Us, The Lot of Us: Saitama
Dicussing Saitama, the bald hero with a dream of…losing?
The Best of Us, The Worst of Us, The Lot of Us: Rikka
The grand adventurer of delusion: Rikka
Fall 2020: The rest of the field…
This post is brought you by Osomatsu-san where it has a movie that premiered at the twilight days of the Heisei Era, specifically March 15, 2019. It’s a…
Fall 2020: The end of the rest…
This episode is brought you by Non Non Biyori as the series have a 1-hour film set in Okinawa. It’s great to see Hotaru Ichijo and her friends…
Anime for the goth in all of us!
Loli, Victorian, vampire, traditional, goth! Maybe it’s the chill in the air. Maybe it’s the shorter, darker days of autumn. Maybe it’s the spooky spell that Halloween casts…
The Best of Us, The Worst of Us, The Lot of Us: Rei Kiriyama
Rei Kiriyama is one of the most overlooked characters in anime. Here’s why.
The Best of Us, The Worst of Us, The Lot of Us: Hidenori Gotou
Samurai Flamenco is a bad anime, but it still has a lot to say about the nature of heroism and trauma.
The Best of Us, The Worst of Us, The Lot of Us: Shouya Ishida
Shouya Ishida is certainly flawed, but not without his dynamic elements.
All Might and the Importance of Rest
We continue our Holy Week series about anime and disability with a guest post by my former editor, Allison Alexander. Her newest work, Super Sick: Making Peace with…
The Best of Us, The Worst of Us, the Lot of Us: Carole and Tuesday
These two soul sisters represent much more than just music.
Anime for the Goth in All of Us, Again!
I recently had a brilliant and completely original, totally unique, definitely never written about this before, idea for a blog post! I was going to write about the…
GOTG3 Is My Finale To The MCU
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The Futility of Gatekeeping in Anime and Criticism of it.
All right, I admit, I’ve read one too many posts complaining about gatekeeping in anime. And so instead of leaving a comment that could be construed as disrespectful…
The Secret of Us
Another day, another Thai yuri “love team.” Today it’s Lingling Sirilak Kwong and Orm Kornnaphat Sethratanapong, better known to fans as “Lingorm.” They star in The Secret of…
Amazoness Kiss (the rest of it): Ishitsuyo Natsuko
I don’t usually come back to a series to write about the end of it when I’ve written about the beginning of it. There are so many other…
Raden, Marry Me! Forget the Rest of ReGLOSS
Dive into the captivating world of VTubers as we uncover the magnetic allure of Juufuutei Raden, a rising star from hololive's DEV_IS branch.
Haikyu has Ended. I will love this series for the rest of my life.
As of yesterday, July 19th–Monday the 20th in Japan–Haikyu’s final chapter was finally published. I love Haikyu so much so, that it was really hard to put into…
48: The Sickos Perfect Games Criticism
For years, games criticism has been lambasted as a wasteland with no structure or discipline, little more than a PR arm of the studios. No more--the Sickos debut…
116: The Sickos Perfect Film Criticism
Become the coolest guy on Letterboxed by using the Sickos' brand new objectively perfect 19-point checklist that determines a movie's quality with scientific precision. We display our incredible…
No Rest for the Wicked: Criminality and justice in Psycho-Pass
Psycho-Pass' villains are heinous in their own right, but they exist to also criticize the larger failure of a deeply flawed justice system.
Bottom Two Anime of 2017, and All the Rest
And good-bye to 2017. Having covered my top shows for the year, it’s time to hit up the worsts and all the rest. Shows marked with an asterisk…
OSMcast! Show #147: Steven Universe, The Rest of It
Sometimes, you just gotta keep talking about cartoons. When we last left Rebecca Sugar’s and Cartoon Network’s Steven Universe, there was one season. Now... there is the rest…
Doctorkev’s Winter 2024 Anime Postmortem — Rest of the Season
After yesterday’s look at what I felt were the very best anime of the Winter 2024 season (a top 10 of the total 21 shows I finished), now…
What Makes The Last of Us Good For Television? #thelastofus #lastofus
I don't think I will ever master making thumbnails, but I do think I am getting closer to making them look nice. In this episode, Moose tries to…
MagicalPower Mako (sings for us)
For those of you who don't follow our twitter... http://twitter.com/otakugeneration ...my new favorite seesmic-er MagicalPower Mako ...sung us a theme...see it here: http://oglink.com/1y4 ..or below...
Milking Dr. STONE Haters yet AGAI-
Milking Dr. STONE Haters yet AGAI- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------] another episode of roasting dr stone haters 0:00 Intro 1:26 The Roasting part 9:12 Outro
What Separates Thorfinn From The Rest.
Vinland Saga Season 2 is out, so I thought it would be a good time to talk about what makes Thorfinn special. editors twitter: magaribiwi Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/maskedasura Twitter: https://mobile.twitter.com/masked_asura Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/the_masked_asura/?igshid=OGQ2MjdiOTE%3D ► "Copyright…
KonoSuba: God’s blessing on this wonderful world! (Episode 30) – Rest for the Master of This Lake!
Kazuma didn’t survive their first attack against the Hydra and that made him less interested in defeating it at all. However, since Darkness wouldn’t give up, Kazuma convinced…
Private Tutor to the Duke’s Daughter: The Savior’s Day of Rest
By Riku Nanano and cura. Released in Japan as “Koujo Denka no Kateikyoushi” by Fujimi Fantasia Bunko. Released in North America by J-Novel Club. Translated by William Varteresian.…
Doll’s Frontline – Episode 4 – Rescuing the Rest of the AR Team
Episode impressions of Doll’s Frontline Episode 4 as M4 is finally rescued, the rest of the AR team is still in danger. M4 wants to find a way…
Final Voting for the Anime Caitlin Glass Will Review for Us!
Last week, we asked you to help decide the anime finalists for a special project we’re doing with voice actress and ADR director, Caitlin Glass. Well, the votes…
If you liked The Last of Us, this ANIME is for you!
Heavenly Delusion / Tengoku Daimakyō is an apocalyptic anime that is kind of similar to The Last of Us, if you liked The Last of Us you will…
Tackling Angel Beats!’ Biggest Criticism
As promised, now that the spoiler-free review is out of the way, I can get to writing some of my more specific thoughts about Angel Beats!, and what…
[#Controversed] Week 4: Managing Criticism
If you have been following the Controversed project since the start of the month, thank you (!!), and congratulations for making it to the final week! For those…
A Much Needed Rest
After a bit of an impromptu hiatus, I am back.
Xan's Xtraordinary Superhero Xamination Ep 001: The MCU Movie Ranking
Since we spend so much time talking about superhero comic book movies, TV shows, games and comics themselves, we have decided to start an all new podcast. Xan's…
November Updates: No AnimeNYC for Us
Hello, all! Kate here. In a strange turn of events, neither Al or I ended up attending AnimeNYC 2022 despite it being our backyard convention. A combination of…
[Links] 25-31 December 2019: Stars Align’s Financial Woes, Game Criticism Across 2019, and Shoujo Manga in the US
AniFem Round-Up Anime Feminist’s Top 25 Anime of the Decade The team got together to vote on their collective top titles of the decade. Anime Feminist’s Bonus Picks…
A note about the rest of the season. I won’t cover it.
I am burned out writing about shows that aren’t worth writing about. Even the beautiful-looking epics Ooyokiumi no Kami and Hikari no Ou, the only shows worth watching…
The Toxicity of “Media Shaming” and Its Effects on Criticism in Anime
“Here we go again.” It’s what I continuously say season after season when another discourse comes to light within the anime community. I don’t think it would necessarily…
Thinking about Anime 102: The Basics of Textual Criticism (Otakon 2023 panel)
This is being given at Otakon 2023 on Friday, July 28th at 8:15 pm. For all of those who are not in DC, here's a pre-recording.
Let’s Go! Anime Criticism in 2021
A few days ago I wrote up a thread on anime criticism I enjoyed reading/watching in 2021. I didn’t want it to be lost to the winds of…
Tips & Tricks for Among Us (Part 1)
Ok so it has been quite a while since I posted my last blog post on gaming. Earlier, I have only posted one post regarding this hyped game,…
D4DJ All Mix – Episode 11 and 12 (END) – The Rest of the Collaborations
Episode impressions of D4DJ All Mix Episode 11 and 12 as while there is not much to say about the final two episodes of D4DJ All Mix, I…