Anime Blog Tracker

Anime Orbit Weekly [4/24/22]

This week: the sincerity of Ya Boy Kongming! and the expert eeriness of Summertime Rendering. Plus: Estab-Life gets a dub and it’s actually pretty good.

The Magic Planet

Apr 24, 2022 • Subscribe

The Demon Girl Next Door, Summer Time Rendering, Ya Boy Kongming!

Anime Orbit Weekly [5/22/22]

Anime Orbit Weekly 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 ma…

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May 22, 2022 • Subscribe

ESTAB LIFE: Great Escape

The Weekly Orbit [4/22/24]

This week; strange developments in Shuumatsu Train, a surprising and moody Precure episode, plus the premieres of The Grimm Variations and Unnamed Memory

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Apr 22, 2024 • Subscribe

The Grimm Variations, Mysterious Disappearances, Delicious in Dungeon, Girls Band Cry, Himitsu no AiPri

Anime Orbit Weekly [6/19/22]

This week: a springtime of thrills draws towards its end. Plus; Birdie Wing prepares for its last round.

The Magic Planet

Jun 19, 2022 • Subscribe

The Executioner and Her Way of Life, Summer Time Rendering

Anime Orbit Weekly [5/1/22]

This week on Anime Orbit Weekly; Birdie Wing cannot stop topping itself, Nijigasaki stumbles into a low point, and the low-key merits of Shikimori Isn’t Just a Cutie!

The Magic Planet

May 1, 2022 • Subscribe

The Executioner and Her Way of Life

Anime Orbit Weekly [6/5/22]

This week; the emotional core of Nijigasaki High School Idol Club, a farewell to Estab Life, a brief visit with Birdie Wing, and a shockingly strong episode from…

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Jun 5, 2022 • Subscribe

ESTAB LIFE: Great Escape

Anime Orbit Weekly [5/15/22]

This week; I am a sucker for pop idols with sad backstories. Plus; Executioner, Estab-Life, and…is Birdie Wing based?

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May 15, 2022 • Subscribe

ESTAB LIFE: Great Escape, The Executioner and Her Way of Life

The Weekly Orbit [6/17/24]

This week is all about the gay girl band arms race. Girls Band Cry delivers the single best episode of the season, and Jellyfish Can’t Swim in The…

The Magic Planet

Jun 17, 2024 • Subscribe

The Grimm Variations, Jellyfish Can’t Swim in the Night, Delicious in Dungeon, Girls Band Cry, Mysterious Disappearances

The Weekly Orbit [7/22/24]

The Weekly Orbit is a weekly column collecting and refining my more casual anime- and manga-related thoughts from the previous week. Mostly, these are taken from my tumblr blog, and…

The Magic Planet

Jul 22, 2024 • Subscribe

2.5 Dimensional Seduction, Alya Sometimes Hides Her Feelings in Russian, Code Geass: Rozé of the Recapture, MAYONAKA PUNCH, My Deer Friend Nokotan

The Weekly Orbit [4/7/24]

This week, in The Weekly Orbit, one season ends and another begins. Finale writeups for Bang Bravern, The Wrong Way to Use Healing Magic, and Metallic Rouge. Dungeon…

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Apr 8, 2024 • Subscribe

Metallic Rouge, Sengoku Youko, The Wrong Way to Use Healing Magic, Train to the End of the World, A Salad Bowl of Eccentrics

The Weekly Orbit [3/4/25]

This week: Ave Mujica, Gundam GQuuuuuuX, and yuri manga.

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a month ago • Subscribe

Mobile Suit Gundam, Mobile Suit Gundam GQuuuuuuX

The Weekly Orbit [4/15/24]

Things are mostly smooth sailing as we move into the second week of the new season.

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Apr 15, 2024 • Subscribe

A Salad Bowl of Eccentrics, Bucchigiri, Delicious in Dungeon, Himitsu no AiPri, Mysterious Disappearances

The Weekly Orbit [4/29/24]

Despite a solid week of anime featuring standout episodes from the likes of Dungeon Meshi, this week’s column is largely about an anime that aired nearly 20 years…

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Apr 29, 2024 • Subscribe

A Salad Bowl of Eccentrics, Delicious in Dungeon, Mysterious Disappearances

Weekly Orbit Archive

Here you’ll find an archive of every series I’ve written about in the Weekly Orbit. These are listed alphabetically—by the English title if available, by the most common…

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Jun 13, 2024 • Subscribe

The Weekly Orbit [7/1/24]

This week, in the inter-season doldrums, we take a look at the second Rozé of the Recapture episode and a particularly great Pokémon Horizons episode. Plus, Mysterious Disappearances,…

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Jul 1, 2024 • Subscribe

Code Geass: Rozé of the Recapture, Mysterious Disappearances, Pokémon

The Weekly Orbit [5/20/24]

In this probably too-long edition of The Weekly Orbit; what the hell is going on in Train to The End of The World? Plus, seasonal highlights, coverage of…

The Magic Planet

May 20, 2024 • Subscribe

Asura, Asura Cryin', Gabriel DropOut

The Weekly Orbit [8/5/24]

This week, emotions run high with vampire tragedies, theater kids at each other’s throats, and shot-down love confessions.

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Aug 5, 2024 • Subscribe

Makeine: Too Many Losing Heroines!, MAYONAKA PUNCH, The Elusive Samurai, BanG Dream!

The Weekly Orbit [5/27/24]

It’s the week of no regrets here on the Weekly Orbit, with gripping, emotionally intense episodes from Girls Band Cry and….Wonderful Precure? Plus, Jellyfish Can’t Swim in the…

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May 27, 2024 • Subscribe

Girls Band Cry, Pokémon, Pretty Cure

The Weekly Orbit [5/6/24]

This week on the Weekly Orbit; surprising developments in Jellyfish Can’t Swim in The Night, a disappointing turn from Salad Bowl, and some great Pretty Cure episodes.

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May 6, 2024 • Subscribe

Pretty Cure, Train to the End of the World, Delicious in Dungeon

The Weekly Orbit [7/15/24]

This week on a late-night edition of the Weekly Orbit; isekai new and old, rejected scripts, and a cameo that threw me for a complete loop.

The Magic Planet

Jul 16, 2024 • Subscribe

Alya Sometimes Hides Her Feelings in Russian, Code Geass: Rozé of the Recapture, Magic Knight Rayearth, Quality Assurance in Another World

The Weekly Orbit [6/10/24]

The Weekly Orbit is a weekly column collecting and refining my more casual anime- and manga-related thoughts from the previous week. Mostly, these are taken from my tumblr blog, and…

The Magic Planet

Jun 10, 2024 • Subscribe

Rozen Maiden, Train to the End of the World, Delicious in Dungeon, Mysterious Disappearances, Pokémon

The Weekly Orbit [2/11/25]

On this week’s Weekly Orbit: The return of Flower and Asura. Plus: more toxic yuri than you can shake a spider lily at.

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Feb 11, 2025 • Subscribe

Asura, Flower and Asura

The Weekly Orbit [2/2/2025]

In the first Weekly Orbit column in a few months, we dive into the warped world of Ave Mujica. Plus: horse girls and (even more) toxic yuri.

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Feb 2, 2025 • Subscribe

BanG Dream!

The Weekly Orbit [6/24/24]

Three anime end as the season starts winding down. Which had the best finale between Jellyfish Can’t Swim in the Night, A Salad Bowl of Eccentrics, and Shuumatsu…

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Jun 24, 2024 • Subscribe

Girls Band Cry, Mysterious Disappearances, Pokémon, Ruin Explorers, Train to the End of the World

The Weekly Orbit [7/29/24]

This week; a weird amount of talking about anime EDs.

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Jul 29, 2024 • Subscribe

Alya Sometimes Hides Her Feelings in Russian, Quality Assurance in Another World, The Elusive Samurai

The Weekly Orbit [5/13/24]

This week on a light Weekly Orbit: Dungeon Meshi, the Girl Band Wars rage on with a new dark horse candidate. Plus; what the hell is the Mysterious…

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May 13, 2024 • Subscribe

Delicious in Dungeon, Girls Band Cry, Mysterious Disappearances, Pokémon, A Salad Bowl of Eccentrics

The Weekly Orbit [6/3/24]

In this week’s Weekly Orbit, the anime girl band wars heat back up, and Train to The End of The World gets back on track. Plus, retrospective coverage…

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Jun 3, 2024 • Subscribe

Train to the End of the World, Jellyfish Can’t Swim in the Night, A Salad Bowl of Eccentrics, Asura, Asura Cryin'

The Weekly Orbit [2/24/25]

Things are finally looking the slightest bit up for Ave Mujica, but is that the light at the end of the tunnel we see, or the headlights of…

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Feb 24, 2025 • Subscribe

Asura, Flower and Asura

The Weekly Orbit [8/11/24]

This week: band girls, giant robots, theater kids, and demonic samurai.

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Aug 12, 2024 • Subscribe

Code Geass: Rozé of the Recapture, The Elusive Samurai, BanG Dream!

Anime Orbit Archive

Here you’ll find a simple list of every Anime Orbit article, from most to least recent, top to bottom. 2022 FallSeasonal Check-in: Hell is Other Vampires in CALL…

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Aug 31, 2022 • Subscribe

SHINEPOST

Site Update: The End of Anime Orbit Weekly & Other Future Plans

As one door closes, another opens.

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Jun 28, 2022 • Subscribe

Kingdom 4 – 17

Every so often Kingdom - which is really good all the time - has one of those episodes. Read more

Lost in Anime

Jul 31, 2022 • Subscribe

Kingdom Season 4

Kingdom 4 – 22

A truly great story is often many great stories, and Kingdom is one such example. Read more

Lost in Anime

Sep 4, 2022 • Subscribe

Kingdom Season 4

Bookshelf Briefs 4/4/22

Falling Drowning, Vol. 1 | By Yuko Inari | Kodansha Comics (digital only) – On the surface, Falling Drowning looks like cookie-cutter shoujo. Our protagonist, a high school…

Manga Bookshelf

Apr 4, 2022 • Subscribe

The Manga Review, 4/22/22

Back in the roaring aughts–when earnest manga fans posted reviews on LiveJournal and Blogger–link posts were a simple, effective way to connect with like-minded readers. The widespread adoption…

Manga Bookshelf

Apr 22, 2022 • Subscribe

Bi-Weekly Anime Mini-Reviews #4

It’s time for another of Tabibito’s Anime Mini-Reviews. As I said in my last mini-review post, I changed my weekly anime mini-reviews to bi-weekly. Unfortunately, I had a…

Tabibito's AniStory and Beyond

May 26, 2022 • Subscribe

The Manga Review, 6/17/22

Big news from Yen Press: the publisher is launching IZE Press, a new imprint dedicated to Korean webnovels and webtoons. The imprint will debut this fall with three…

Manga Bookshelf

Jun 17, 2022 • Subscribe

Weekly Review — Plunderer Episode 17

My review of the sixteenth episode of Plunderer is up over on Anime News Network.

Biggest In Japan

May 8, 2020 • Subscribe

Weekly Review — Plunderer Episode 22

My review of the twenty-second episode of Plunderer is up over on Anime News Network.

Biggest In Japan

Jun 11, 2020 • Subscribe

Plunderer

Manga the Week of 8/17/22

SEAN: We’re having a heat wave, a tropical heat wave… the temperature’s rising, it isn’t surprising, she certainly can Can-Can. Yen On has three debuts, though one has…

Manga Bookshelf

Aug 11, 2022 • Subscribe

Higehiro: After Being Rejected, I Shaved and Took in a High School Runaway, High School Girls

Dump a Week, 22/4 – 28/4

Intro paragraph after midnight? Psh.

Inflating the Tokidoki Balloon

Apr 28, 2013 • Subscribe

Flowers of Evil, Gargantia on the Verdurous Planet, Karneval, Karneval, Majestic Prince

Weekly Chapter Update: July 22, 2021

We’ve got an action-packed update this week with some wild catalog titles and great simulpubs! Action, Horror, and Pro Wrestling?! Air Gear: Ikki is determined to use Air…

Azuki

Jul 22, 2021 • Subscribe

Air Gear

Bookshelf Briefs 5/4/22

Minami Nanami Wants to Shine, Vol. 1 | By Bana Yoshida and Yuki Yaku | Yen Press – For most of the volume, this feels like a typical…

Manga Bookshelf

May 4, 2022 • Subscribe

Bottom-Tier Character Tomozaki

Bookshelf Briefs 11/4/22

Artist | By Yeong-shin Ma | Drawn & Quarterly – Two years after Yeong-shin Ma’s critically acclaimed manhwa Moms was released in English comes a second major work,…

Manga Bookshelf

Nov 5, 2022 • Subscribe

Bookshelf Briefs 1/4/22

F | By Imai Arata | Glacier Bay Books – Japan’s triple disaster of 2011 has understandably influenced the creative output of the country’s artists, both directly and…

Manga Bookshelf

Jan 5, 2022 • Subscribe

Bookshelf Briefs 4/21/22

Catch These Hands!, Vol. 1 | By murata | Yen Press – I’ve been enjoying the recent upswing in yuri manga starring actual adults and aimed at adults.…

Manga Bookshelf

Apr 21, 2022 • Subscribe

Weekly Seasonal Anime Watches: Fall 2024 Week 4

Table of Contents Yakuza Fiancé: Raise wa Tanin ga IiNatsume’s Book of Friends Season 7Love Live! Superstar!! Season 3GUNDAM: Requiem for VengeanceBlue BoxDan Da DanMecha Ude: Mechanical Arms…

Mechanical Anime Reviews

Oct 28, 2024 • Subscribe

Love Live! Superstar!!, Love Live! Superstar!! Season 3, Yakuza Fiancé: Raise wa Tanin ga Ii, Blue Box, GUNDAM: Requiem for Vengeance

Weekly Seasonal Anime Watches: Summer 2024 Week 4

I was threatening to do it last week, but Nokotan has been dropped now. I think the joke around it has just died for me. Otherwise, I am…

Mechanical Anime Reviews

Jul 29, 2024 • Subscribe

NORA’S WEEKLY ANIME DIGEST — WINTER 2022, WEEK 4

Greetings everyone! An IRL fujoshi friend of mine had traveled to the city I live in, so meeting her and spending time together was my priority, hence the…

IT'S YOUR FAULT THAT I'M NOT POPULAR!

Feb 2, 2022 • Subscribe

Weekly Seasonal Anime Watches: Spring 2024 Week 4

I’ve been thinking about what to do with Captain Tsubasa Junior Youth Arc. After thinking about writing a quick catch-up post during the week, I didn’t have enough…

Mechanical Anime Reviews

Apr 29, 2024 • Subscribe

Captain Tsubasa, Captain Tsubasa, Captain Tsubasa J