Hot on the heels of the Battle of Knossos and the dealings with the Xenos, Bell is now Level 4, and Hestia Familia is kind of a big deal. As such, they’re being given an official mission to b…
Jul 22, 2022 • Subscribe
More like this
The kids are all right
The world’s falling apart. Can fandom save us?
Are All Anime Characters Right-Handed?
Approximately 10% of people are left-handed. That’s 1 in 10 people! But does this 10% translate over into anime? Well, it certainly is easier to stick to characters…
DanMachi IV – 07 – Cassandra Tries to Explain It All
Cassandra has another horrible premonition of doom: all the members of their party dead, Bell struggling, and Ryuu Lion looming like an angel of death. She awakes to…
DanMachi IV – 08 – Elfhunt
Bell joins Bors’ party as they descend to the 27th floor, and proves his Level 4 mettle by making quick work of both a lead merman and laser-shooting…
The Shiunje Family Children #01 — All About the Incest
Not really trying very hard here, are we? Impressions: If you long for the ancient days of obnoxious sister-based harems, then good news. It's exactly as it…
DanMachi IV – 11 – The Banquet Continues
When we last saw Bell he looked…pretty dead! Fortunately, Ryuu soon finds a pulse—the Goliath Scarf Lili and Welf gave him saved his life. Ryuu keeps him alive…
DanMachi IV – 14 – Towards the Sunrise
As she and Bell take turns keeping watch, Ryuu begins to experience flashbacks to when she met Alise and was part of Astraea Familia. It’s a reminder of…
That Beautiful Child: Kids Are All Right
In a first for ANIWIRE, we're tackling a Korean webcomic: Kids Are All Right, a nostalgic and occasionally cruel story of childhood.
DanMachi IV – 15 – Hope Reforged
As Ryuu sleeps and dreams of the past, DanMachi is content to gradually inch us along a tale of unfathomable woe. Ryuu can only watch as her comrades—her family—decide…
DanMachi IV – 20 – Her Justice
A week of absolutely sterling anime continues with this, the long-awaited (and feared) definitive depiction of the demise of Astrea Familia and Ryuu’s subsequent fall from grace. Jura…
DanMachi IV – 13 – Hello Despair
Bell runs into two spots of good luck: he’s able to cause a cave-in with his Fire Bolt before the Juggernaut can kill them, and Ryuu wakes up.…
DanMachi IV – 04 – The Seaweed’s Always Greener
When Bell first lays eyes on the mermaid who applauded his performance against the Iguazu, his first thought is probably that he really shouldn’t stare at her for…
NIGHT HEAD 2041 – 04 – The Kids Are Not All Right
NIGHT HEAD 2041 is all about making connections between people on very different ends of the struggle for freedom of thought and creativity, which is really the struggle for…
DanMachi IV – 17 – An Convenient Ideal
Ryuu not only once believed she could save everyone without sacrificing anyone, but that doing so was the will of their familia’s goddess, Lady Astrea. She believed this…
DanMachi IV – 10 – Game Over, Man
When Marie hears the shouts of agony from the Dungeon itself, all she can do is stay below the water and cover her ears; later, she wishes she…
DanMachi IV – 12 – In Too Deep
It doesn’t matter why it spawned two weeks early; the Floor Boss Amphisbaena is here, and once it blocks their only exit, a Hestia Familia without Bell has…
Overlord IV – 01
「アインズ・ウール・ゴウン魔導国」 (Ainzu Uuru Goun Madou Kuni) "Sorcerous Nation of Ainz Ooal Gown" Kingdom building one lap cuddle at a time.
Ippon Again #01 — Judo is All Doing Flips, Right?
The apple heads are a little unsettling. Impressions: The sole sports show of the season, and it could not be more generic if it tried. I guess…
Danmachi is Fun Fantasy Done Right
I did not intend for this to become a series. If I’m being perfectly honest, Dororo: Dark Fantasy Done Right was a title I devised simply because it…
DanMachi IV – 03 – Meeting Their Mossy Match
Whelp, the fun and swagger didn’t last long, did it? Cassandra tries in vain to heal Chigusa and Luvis, but the parasitic plant that has infected them is…
DanMachi IV – 16 – What Must Be Done
After another Astrea Familia flashback where Alise sparks a spirited discussion of what justice is, we’re back in the White Palace with Bell and Ryuu, who has recovered…
DanMachi IV – 21 – So Warm, So Sweet
While it was surely nice to get a bath in the healing waters, those waters weren’t what you’d call warm, so Ryuu and Bell have to strip off their…
DanMachi IV – 19 – No Time to Die
This week starts with a flashback chat between Ryuu and her diminutive colleague Lyra (a prum like Lili). Lyra warns Ryuu not to try to create the answer…
DanMachi IV – 09 – Somebody Set Us Up the Bomb
Will Bell have to fight his friend in order to stop her from murdering Jura? Well…no, because after Ryuu insists she didn’t kill Jean, it only takes a…
The Kids Are All Right—Batman and Superman: Battle of the Super Sons
Recently, I did something I haven’t done in a long time: I watched an in-flight movie. I used to love using my time traveling to check out the…
DanMachi IV – 22 (Fin) – More Beautiful than Before
DanMachi didn’t seem like the kind of show that would kill off one of its more endearing characters, but in the final episode of its fourth season, anything could…
DanMachi IV – 06 – Mister Popular and Miss Opportunities
DanMachi IV’s sixth episode serves as an epilogue that bridges the Moss Huge mini-arc and the mini-arc to come. What it lacks in excitement and stakes it more…
DanMachi IV – 05 – Gong of Ice and Fire
Without Bell, the party finds itself well and truly against the wall, to the point both Lili and Aisha decide it’s time to bring out their fox in…
DanMachi IV – 02 – Not-So-Laid-Back Camp
On the verdant final floor of the middle floors, Bell’s awesome mega-party makes camp. Haruhime was initially worried about whether Bell could still fight and kill monsters after…
Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon?, Laid-Back Camp
DanMachi III – 01 – Monster in the Family
Cranel Bell and the Hestia Familia are riding high after their recent victories, but all that could be threatened by one chance meeting in the woods of the…
Finding Queerness in All The Right Places
We spent the last couple of days running from one section of town to another. This was a manhole cover not too far from the Animate main store.…
Kowloon Generic Romance – 01 – The Right Prescription
Kowloon Generic Romance starts off pleasingly lo-fi, with its protagonist Kujirai Reiko waking up and starting the day with a breakfast of watermelon and cigarettes on her balcony,…
Deca-Dence – 10 – Not All Right At All
When Kaburagi tries to tell Natsume the truth in a masterfully-directed scene in which we feel her disorientation, Natsume passes out, much like Neo when Morpheus first tells…
Ultraman Rising – Kaiju Children Are Cute!
As we all know by now, I’ve gotten into Ultraman a while ago. I’ve written about a few of them and have a monthly update post for Ultraman…
DanMachi V – 01 – Syring Is Believing
Syr Flover has always been around as a potential love interest for Bell, but the fact she’s a non-combatant has precluded her participation in Dungeon raids, and thus limited…
DanMachi 3 – 01 [Wiene (Dragon’s Daughter)]
Einstein’s oft-quoted definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result. On that note, here we are with a new season…
Metallic Rouge – 01 (First Impressions) – The Colors, Children!
On a terraformed, cosmopolitan Mars of the distant future, there are still nightclubs with sultry singers in gowns and long gloves. One such singer is Sarah Fitzgerald, and…
medorē #35 – All About Idols IV
featuring Saishu Mirai Shoujo, DIALOGUE+, RAY (and more!)
Shaman King #01 — Screaming Hydrocephalic Children
Boy, those character designs sure are… what they are. Oops. First actual terrestrial broadcast of the season. Season preview is officially late. Let me just get through…
Shin no Nakama – S2 07 – Children Are the Future
Red, Rit, and Ruti overhear the voices of a bunch of cute kids practicing their spearwork for their Blessings, and decide to help out. The three of the…
![Featured image for DanMachi 4 – 01 [Prelude (Night Before Departure)]](https://cdn.aniblogtracker.com/live/20220725/1658777340.40444.70226.jpg)
DanMachi 4 – 01 [Prelude (Night Before Departure)]
DanMachi is back! And that heralds the awakening of Amun from his anime slumber. Too long have I suffered through mediocre isekai or romcoms. Too long have I…
Are All Shoujo Animanga the Same?!
There was so much love on my second video 'The Decline of Shoujo Anime' but also a lot of people saying "shoujo lacks variety". So let's discuss. Are…
Übel Blatt #01 — Abusing Children For Fun
That frame at top right is sending me for some reason. Impressions: The good news it that this is apparently skipping the entire first prelude volume of…
177: The Sickos are Out of Touch, and Right
Folks, your Sickos are old and dumb and don't know what's hip now. When we watched the Game Awards it was like we got clockwork oranged. Music is…
Problem Children Are Coming From Another World, Aren’t They? – They Are…
Problem Problem Children Are Coming From Another World, Aren't They? was a surprisingly fun if forgettable isekai.
Problem Children Are Coming From Another World, Aren't They?
Problem Children Are Coming From Another World, Aren’t They? – They Are…
Problem Problem Children Are Coming From Another World, Aren't They? was a surprisingly fun if forgettable isekai.
Problem Children Are Coming From Another World, Aren't They?
Episode 914: Children of the Greatest Sea of All Time
This week on Anime Pulse we got beta males, the best wingmen in anime, and chicken of the woods. Up first Joseph took the Omegaverse test to learn…
Children of the Sea, Possibly the Greatest Alchemist of All Time
Kakushigoto – All Right, Then. Keep Your Secrets.
”What’s your secret?” Kakushigoto does a fantastic job at walking a daunting tightrope between a hilarious situational…
The Orbital Children – Well, They Are For Now At Least
It is so interesting to write about this one after finishing Dennou-Coil. (Yes, that series will get its own post very soonish by Mechanical Anime Review standards so…
TRAILS FANS ARE EATING GOOD RIGHT NOW
TRAILS BEYOND THE HORIZON. FALL 2025. LETS GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Become a member! - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC4xIqX93EXRtB4z58AbCarg/join Discord - https://discord.gg/enRG5QR Twitch - https://www.twitch.tv/thekingofrecons Facebook Page - https://www.facebook.com/OuterHeavenRecon/ Twitter - https://twitter.com/YoshidaShoyou Click here to Subscribe - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC4xIqX93EXRtB4z58AbCarg One Piece…