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Update & Future Plans
Hello everyone! It’s been about a year since my last update and I’ve recently decided to make some decisions about this blog that will affect its future content.…
Site Update: Patreon boosts, transcript goals, and future plans
Some of you may have noticed that our monthly Patreon totals saw a, uh, rather sharp uptick the past few months. We try to be as transparent with…
Life Update: Leaving ANN and Future Plans
Last month, I resigned from Anime News Network. I met a lot of great people and learned a lot during my time there, but ultimately I decided earlier…
Future Blog Plans
First things first, I want to repeat what I said at the end of my previous article. Please consider supporting me financially via the PayPal Links above and…
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…
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…
Anime Orbit Weekly [6/19/22]
This week: a springtime of thrills draws towards its end. Plus; Birdie Wing prepares for its last round.
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 [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 [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 [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
Other Weekly Anime Watches
There are always more shows to watch recently, right? Especially when they continue to be off schedule? For instance, something like Fena: Pirate came out months and some…
100 followers + Plans for Future
100 is quite the number huh? I want to say thank you to everyone that follows and reads the blog. Although Jun and I didn’t start this blog…
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 [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 [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 [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 [6/3/24]
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 [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 [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 [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 [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 [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!
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 [7/1/24]
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 [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 [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
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.
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 [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
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Site Update: August 2024
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Site Update: October 2024
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Site Update: December 2024
Check out the latest updates to My Unico Fans. This is the last update for 2024! Wow! 2025 here we come!
Site Update: December 2024
Check out the latest updates to My Unico Fans. This is the last update for 2024! Wow! 2025 here we come!
Site Update: September 2024
Check out the updates on the site! Unico: Awakening information, animation cels, and more!
Site Update: November Reruns
Just a quick announcement for y'all: Like we did last September (2019), we're taking the rest of November off from publishing new contributor pieces and will be running…
Site Update: October 2024
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Site Update: September 2024
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Site Update: January 2025
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Year End Wrapped - 30 Days of OVAs, Japan Update & Future of ABW
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Anime Orbit Seasonal Check-in: Hell is Other Vampires in CALL OF THE NIGHT
Ko finds out that being a vampire might not be all it’s cracked up to be.
End of Summer Update
Hey y’all! After deciding to stop watching anime seriously at the start of the summer, I’d like to give a quick update on what I have been watching.…
End of Year Update
29th of November, 2023.This morning, we had our first snowfall.The previous days had been dark and rainy. My kind of weather.I’ve always liked the rain, much more than…
Life Update and Future of KiritoNarukami
Hello beautiful people! Long time no post! It’s been a while since I’ve made a post here on the blog and I just wanted to let all of…