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Anime Taste Testing: Blue Period
This is one of those shows that I quite want to like, but am still in the process of working out if I actually do.
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Anime Taste Testing: Given and Bem
Last but not least, two shows that immediately popped up on my radar for very different reasons. Given My expectations going into this were decidedly low – not…
Anime Taste Testing: Gokushufudou and Bakuten!!
Money matters.
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Anime Taste Testing: Ooku and Horimiya
The summer 2023 anime season might not stand out in terms of quantity (yes, I realize that’s a pretty big understatement given the line-up), but it does dish…
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Anime Taste Testing: Blue Orchestra, Raeliana, Insomniacs After School
I mean… they’re all okay?
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Anime Like Bocchi the Rock!
Having social anxiety but still wishing to make friends, Hitori Gotou started learning the guitar to help lure people into talking to her. Years later, she
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Anime Taste Testing: Listeners
So Liverpool and Manchester finally united, and then the apocalypse happened. Sounds about right. I’ll get this out of the way right off the bat: I’m an unapologetic…
Anime Taste Testing: Noblesse
I just realized I still don’t know if these guys are meant to be vampires. However, they do seem to drink plenty of tea – maybe there’s blood…
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Anime Taste Testing: ID:Invaded
Finally, the detective anime we didn’t know we needed (but that we definitely deserved). You’d be forgiven for wanting to give up on the anime detective/mystery genre entirely…
Anime Taste Testing: Horimiya
Aside from the creepy teacher, this series is actually pretty okay.
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Anime Taste Testing: Dorohedoro
Strap yourself in, this is one wild trip. And a trip Dorehedoro most certainly is. Whether it’s one you can stomach or not largely depends on your tolerance…
Anime Taste Testing: Gibiate
This one’s gonna be quick and dirty, because to be honest, I didn’t even make it through the whole first episode.
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Anime Taste Testing: Gibiate
This one’s gonna be quick and dirty, because to be honest, I didn’t even make it through the whole first episode.
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Anime Taste Testing: Noblesse
I just realized I still don’t know if these guys are meant to be vampires. However, they do seem to drink plenty of tea – maybe there’s blood…
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Anime Taste Testing: Kakushigoto
Yes, I genuinely like the pun. Given the synopsis, I was fully ready to experience something… well, pervy, for lack of a better term. What I wasn’t ready…
Anime Taste Testing: Pet
An adult anime for teenage edgelords. It seems that nearly every time I see a psychological genre anime marketed explicitly towards the seinen crowd, it feels exactly like…
Anime Taste Testing: Arte
I’d say I love period pieces, but that would be a lie. I love accurate period pieces. I wish to god this title had just been set in…
Bocchi made Bocchi the Rock
The author behind Bocchi the Rock Aki Hamaji is literally Bocchi Bocchi the Rock, featuring Gotou Hitori (Bocchi), Ijichi Nijika, Yamada Ryo, Kita Ikuya, and others, is a light…
Bocchi The Rock
After all these years, we never got a third season of K-ON! Yeah, feeling pretty old now after realizing it came out back in 2009 and the sequel…
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Bocchi the Rock!
Bocchi the Rock! teems with experimental animation that captures the social anxiety and catastrophizing the anime’s namesake character experiences. It’s a fun ride. Bocchi the Rock! follows the…
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Bocchi the Rock!
Bocchi the Rock! is currently streaming on Crunchyroll....
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Bocchi the Rock
Bocchi the Rock! is the new entry in the girl's rock band category. It's more of comedy to K-On!'s relaxing iyashekei. Bocchi's more succinct, with 12 episodes to…
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Anime Taste Testing: The Witch and the Beast, Bucchigiri
Probably the final two premieres I’ll be checking out this winter. Anime ‘Hell Week’ is over for another season.
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Anime Taste Testing: Deaimon and Tomodachi Game
For me at least, this anime season is continuing its weirdly rocky start.
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Anime Review #122: Bocchi The Rock
Ah, Bocchi The Rock. I have a lot of people on Twitter who really like KyoAni’s slice-of-life music product K-On!. And I mean, REALLY LIKE IT. Whether it…
10 Anime Like Bocchi The Rock
There are many promising new shows released in the Fall of 2022. One of them is a sweet and funny Slice of Life named Bocchi the Rock. Bocchi…
Anime Taste Testing: Jujutsu Kaisen
And the new anime season finally kicks off with… a less-than-stellar shounen work populated by characters that seem like they’re built less around their personalities and more around…
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Anime Taste Testing: Kitsutsuki Tanteidokoro
The lesser of the two mystery shows airing the season, but probably still the best period piece. I imagine the setting is what will first strike viewers about…
Anime Taste Testing: Back Arrow
So it’s mecha but with backwater villagers dressed as old-west cowboys and the more tech-advanced folk looking like something out of a Chinese-inspired historical-fantasy. Cool cool.
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Anime Taste Testing: Taisou Zamurai
Being a sports anime, a dad anime, and a surrealist comedy all in one is a tough sell, that’s for sure.
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Anime Taste Testing: Appare-Ranman!
I mean… where do I even start? Well, at the very beginning, I guess, because the opening scene (set one year after the events of the first episode…
Anime Taste Testing: Urusei Yatsura
Some anime do genuinely deserve a reboot. Others should probably never again see the light of day, no matter how historically important.
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Anime Taste Testing: Platinum End
If Madoka Magica was a (bad) battle royale instead of magical-girl.
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Anime Taste Testing: Bibliophile Princess
The only way to explain this is if people literally went out of their way to create something generic.
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Anime Taste Testing: Uramichi Oniisan
There always seems to be one show every season that I want to like more than I actually do. This time around, that’s Uramichi Oniisan.
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Anime Taste Testing: Chainsaw Man
Probably the perfect anime series for Tarantino fans.
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Anime Taste Testing: Akudama Drive
I don’t know what I just watched, but I know I want more of it.
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Anime Taste Testing: Jujutsu Kaisen
And the new anime season finally kicks off with… a less-than-stellar shounen work populated by characters that seem like they’re built less around their personalities and more around…
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Anime Taste Testing: Akudama Drive
I don’t know what I just watched, but I know I want more of it.
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Anime Taste Testing: Kyokou Suiri
What do you get when you combine an anime from the same guy responsible for the creation of Zetsuen no Tempest with the man behind the writing for…
Anime Taste Testing: Taisou Zamurai
Being a sports anime, a dad anime, and a surrealist comedy all in one is a tough sell, that’s for sure.
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Anime Taste Testing: Urasekai Picnic
I think I would have enjoyed this one a lot more had I not felt like it was trying so hard to be purposefully enigmatic – with the…
Anime Taste Testing: Darwin’s Game
Too generic to stand out, too trashy even by trash standards to be funny. At first glance, this seemed to be one of those shows that are so…
Anime Taste Testing: Deca-Dence
The show Shingeki no Kyojin might have been if the titans were mostly giant bug-dinosaur-like creatures, if the tone was happily far less self-serious, and if the characters…
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Anime Taste Testing: Deca-Dence
The show Shingeki no Kyojin might have been if the titans were mostly giant bug-dinosaur-like creatures, if the tone was happily far less self-serious, and if the characters…
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Anime Taste Testing: Kemono Jihen
While quite possibly the series I was least looking forward to giving a watch, this ended up being surprisingly alright.
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