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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!
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?
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…
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.
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 Demon Girl Next Door, Summer Time Rendering, Ya Boy Kongming!
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 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 Grimm Variations, Mysterious Disappearances, Delicious in Dungeon, Girls Band Cry, Himitsu no AiPri
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…
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 [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…
Delicious in Dungeon, Girls Band Cry, Mysterious Disappearances, Pokémon, A Salad Bowl of Eccentrics
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 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.
Pretty Cure, Train to the End of the World, Delicious in Dungeon
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 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.
Makeine: Too Many Losing Heroines!, MAYONAKA PUNCH, 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 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…
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 [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,…
Code Geass: Rozé of the Recapture, Mysterious Disappearances, Pokémon
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 Grimm Variations, Jellyfish Can’t Swim in the Night, Delicious in Dungeon, Girls Band Cry, Mysterious Disappearances
The Weekly Orbit [4/15/24]
Things are mostly smooth sailing as we move into the second week of the new season.
A Salad Bowl of Eccentrics, Bucchigiri, Delicious in Dungeon, Himitsu no AiPri, Mysterious Disappearances
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.
Alya Sometimes Hides Her Feelings in Russian, Code Geass: Rozé of the Recapture, Magic Knight Rayearth, Quality Assurance in Another World
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…
A Salad Bowl of Eccentrics, Delicious in Dungeon, Mysterious Disappearances
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…
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.
Alya Sometimes Hides Her Feelings in Russian, Quality Assurance in Another World, The Elusive Samurai
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…
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 [8/11/24]
This week: band girls, giant robots, theater kids, and demonic samurai.
Code Geass: Rozé of the Recapture, The Elusive Samurai, 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…
Girls Band Cry, Mysterious Disappearances, Pokémon, Ruin Explorers, Train to the End of the World
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Site Update: The End of Anime Orbit Weekly & Other Future Plans
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Week 5 of Anime Weekly Watch!!! January just ended and its the start of the love month, February. Just like … More Anime Weekly Watch – Winter 2020…
Anime Weekly Watch – Winter 2020 #5
Week 5 of Anime Weekly Watch!!! January just ended and its the start of the love month, February. Just like … More Anime Weekly Watch – Winter 2020…
Bi-Weekly Anime Mini-Reviews #5
It’s time for Tabibito’s anime mini-reviews! For the past two weeks, I’ve just been trying to catch up with the latest anime episode that I missed for this…
Weekly Review — Plunderer Episode 22
My review of the twenty-second episode of Plunderer is up over on Anime News Network.
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…
KADOKAWA’s Weekly Top 5 Manga and Light Novel: October 16 – October 22, 2024
Please note that from the looks of it, the rankings provided by KADOKAWA are limited to that of Japan only. The methodology is not provided, however, it is…
KADOKAWA’s Weekly Top 5 Manga and Light Novel: May 22 – May 28, 2024
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Japan Top Weekly Video Game Ranking: April 22 – May 5, 2024 (Two-week)
The two-week sales saw Switch maintaining its strong hold on the market share in Japan at 64.5% with total sales for all three of its brands slightly above…
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5 Favorite Anime Blog Posts from 2024 Week 22: Celebrating posts from Anime Evo, Confessions of an Overage Otaku, D&A Anime Blog, and more!
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5 Favorite Anime Blog Posts from 2022 Week 22: Celebrating posts from Anime B&B, At a Glance Anime, The Con Artists, and more!
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…
Bookshelf Briefs 5/25/22
In which Sean solos yet again. HIRAETH -The End of the Journey-, Vol. 1 | By Yuhki Kamatani | Kodansha Manga (digital only) – This does not end…
Weekly Seasonal Anime Watches: Fall 2024 Week 5
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Love Live! Superstar!!, Love Live! Superstar!! Season 3, Yakuza Fiancé: Raise wa Tanin ga Ii, Blue Box, GUNDAM: Requiem for Vengeance
NORA’S WEEKLY ANIME DIGEST — WINTER 2022, WEEK 5
Greetings everyone! Glad you accepted your first mission to read this week’s hot takes. I’m greatly enjoying this season and the series I’m keeping up with always bring…
Weekly Seasonal Anime Watches: Summer 2024 Week 5
I got hit with COVID again last week and boy did that hurt quite a bit. Is that an excuse to watch the new media that came out…
Weekly Seasonal Anime Watches: Spring 2024 Week 5
Such a heavy week of anime. So many good bits of character drama, conspiracies, tales of acceptance, figuring each other out, and so many other things. It’s kind…
Weekly Seasonal Watches: Spring 2020 Anime Week 5
I feel sad about this season because I am not enjoying shows as much as I want to AND there is this constant look up to see which…
Anime Orbit: The Fancy Footwork of IPPON! AGAIN
Judo anime Ippon! Again powers through a fairly limited production to put the focus where it really matters; on the judo itself.
Anime Orbit Seasonal Check-in: BOCCHI THE ROCK!
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Weekly Seasonal Watches: Summer 2021 Anime Season Week 5
Sonny Boy Episode 4 You now, I thought I would be use to Sonny Boy’s strangeness by now. Clearly, I am not. Also, this episode was definitely the…