Anime Blog Tracker

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

The Magic Planet

Apr 22, 2024 • Subscribe

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

Anime Orbit Weekly [4/17/22]

This week: Birdie Wing gets surprisingly sane, Estab-Life gets pervy, and Executioner keeps it on the level. Also; some non-seasonal anime for once.

The Magic Planet

Apr 17, 2022 • Subscribe

Witch Craft Works, The Executioner and Her Way of Life

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…

The Magic Planet

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 [4/15/24]

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

The Magic Planet

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…

The Magic Planet

Apr 29, 2024 • Subscribe

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

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…

The Magic Planet

May 22, 2022 • Subscribe

ESTAB LIFE: Great Escape

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 [5/15/22]

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

The Magic Planet

May 15, 2022 • Subscribe

ESTAB LIFE: Great Escape, 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 [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

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…

The Magic Planet

Jun 24, 2024 • Subscribe

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

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…

The Magic Planet

May 13, 2024 • Subscribe

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

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,…

The Magic Planet

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 [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 [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.

The Magic Planet

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 [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 [5/27/24]

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…

The Magic Planet

May 27, 2024 • Subscribe

Girls Band Cry, Pokémon, Pretty Cure

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…

The Magic Planet

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 [8/5/24]

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

The Magic Planet

Aug 5, 2024 • Subscribe

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

The Weekly Orbit [8/11/24]

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

The Magic Planet

Aug 12, 2024 • Subscribe

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

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…

The Magic Planet

Jun 13, 2024 • Subscribe

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

Anime Orbit: The Immaculate Vibes of PlutoTV’s 24/7 SAILOR MOON Channel

Fighting evil by moonlight, on a loop ’til the end of time. —

The Magic Planet

Jun 16, 2023 • Subscribe

Sailor Moon

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

As one door closes, another opens.

The Magic Planet

Jun 28, 2022 • Subscribe

ContAnimeTed October 22-24 1993

  CONTanimeTED 1993 - October 22-24, New Cobden Hotel, Birmingham.  (the secound Anime convention to be held in Birmingham England). Photos ...

The Anime Nostalgia Facility UK

Jun 22, 2023 • Subscribe

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

Anime Weekly Watch – Winter 2020 #4

Week 4 of Anime Weekly Watch!!! Yeeeee!! I’m holding well so far as the animes I’m watching this season are … More Anime Weekly Watch – Winter 2020…

Sirius Writes

Jan 25, 2020 • 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

Anime Weekly Watch – Winter 2020 #4

Week 4 of Anime Weekly Watch!!! Yeeeee!! I’m holding well so far as the animes I’m watching this season are … More Anime Weekly Watch – Winter 2020…

Sirius Writes

Jan 25, 2020 • Subscribe

Anime Weekly Watch – Winter 2020 #4

Week 4 of Anime Weekly Watch!!! Yeeeee!! I’m holding well so far as the animes I’m watching this season are … More Anime Weekly Watch – Winter 2020…

Sirius Writes

Jan 25, 2020 • Subscribe

The Manga Review, 6/24/22

Hi, all! Its been a relatively slow news week manga-wise and a crazy week for me work-wise, so I’m going to dispense with the snappy introduction and get…

Manga Bookshelf

Jun 24, 2022 • Subscribe

Manga the Week of 4/24/24

SEAN: April is lurching towards its conclusion. What can we find? ASH: Hopefully my mind; try as I might, it's convinced that March comes next. SEAN: There's a…

Manga Bookshelf

Apr 18, 2024 • Subscribe

Kokuhaku, She Professed Herself Pupil of the Wise Man, The Most Heretical Last Boss Queen: From Villainess to Savior, The Tunnel to Summer, the Exit of Goodbyes, The Weakest Tamer Began a Journey to Pick Up Trash

Kingdom 4 – 24-25

There's no disguising what this dream of Zheng's really is no matter how noble its supposed aim. Read more

Lost in Anime

Sep 25, 2022 • Subscribe

Kingdom Season 4

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 5/22/24

SEAN: As May starts to dwindle... oh, wait, it's Yen week. No dwindling allowed. But first, Airship. In print, we see Modern Dungeon Capture Starting with Broken Skills…

Manga Bookshelf

May 16, 2024 • Subscribe

Reincarnated as a Sword, Ayakashi, Ayakashi Triangle

Visual Novel Translation Status (22/9/24)

Welcome to the Fuwanovel VNTS, where we shamelessly copy the work of one illustrious 4chan /jp/ member in collating translation progress and add minor dabs of value through…

Fuwanovel

Sep 25, 2024 • Subscribe

Twelve Kingdoms – 22/23/24 – Throwback Thursday

Welcome back to my Twelve Kingdoms watch! This is an important week, as we finally return to Nakajima’s queenly story. This week see’s political intrigue, budding rebellion and……

Star Crossed Anime

Nov 19, 2020 • Subscribe

Manga the Week of 8/24/22

SEAN: As August nears its end, we continue to see manga making its way towards us, zombie-like. No print for Airship this week, but we do get new…

Manga Bookshelf

Aug 18, 2022 • Subscribe

Full Metal Panic!, Kuma Kuma Kuma Bear

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

Bookshelf Briefs 4/18/24

Blue Box, Vol. 9 | By Kouji Miura | Viz Media - This is still a sports-lite volume of the series, which is good news for the reader…

Manga Bookshelf

Apr 18, 2024 • Subscribe

Bookshelf Briefs 4/2/24

Frieren: Beyond Journey's End, Vol. 10 | By Kanehito Yamada and Tsukasa Abe | Viz Media - Ah, Macht. He may be trying to be a demon who…

Manga Bookshelf

Apr 2, 2024 • Subscribe

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 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

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