Catarina is on great terms with Maria—better even than any of the conquerable guys—and yet the heroine still feels…distant. Cat’s inner council determines the best way to keep the doom …
May 7, 2020 • Subscribe
More like this
Gleipnir – 04 – A Place Where She Belongs
Immediately after Elena’s Bad Side rips Shuuichi’s head off, Elena’s Meek Side comes out and apologizes for doing something so rash. Claire, her head now exposed, rushes Elena…
New Maple Town Stories Palm Town Edition 05
NYAA ANIDEX MEGA ULOZ.TO BITCHUTE (shiteater) New Maple Town Stories – Palm Town Edition 05 [B55CEDA4] shiteatersubs presents New Maple Town Stories – Palm Town Edition episode 05…
Summertime Render – 05 – Now She Rises
The bespectacled lady with the shotgun manages to save Shinpei’s life (and her own) not by shooting Shadow Mio, but by shooting her shadow, which is its true…
Urusei Yatsura 05 (2022)(Isn’t She Lovely? #UruseiYatsura)
AstroNerdBoy reviews Urusei Yatsura 05 (2022). Ataru gets a pair of cursed boxing gloves. Lum saves Ataru from humiliation.
A Film That Lives Forever
The Oscar nominee 'Windy Day,' plus animation news.
Hamefura – 07 – A Dream of Long Ago
Sasaki Atsuko was a shy, quiet transfer student who suddenly found herself under a girl who’ fallen on her from a tree. We never learn this tree climber’s…
I’m Standing on a Million Lives
I honestly watched this show this year because I knew Chiwa Saito was playing Kahabell (the sadistic knight if you’re not super familiar with the names yet). I…
Hamefura – 06 – Pax Catarina
As it turns out, there are no negative repercussions resulting from the confrontation with Catarina’s mom. Instead, this episode is all about her Summer Break, split into seven…
Hamefura – 11 – Waking Bakarina
That was a goddamn tearjerker.—Steve Zissou That was…that was outstanding. This episode left me speechless, so I’ll simply type what I want to shout from the mountaintops. It’s…
Hamefura – 10 – Judgment Day
When Catarina is confronted with a litany of her horrible crimes by a bunch of random resentful NPCs, both she and I knew something was very wrong. This…
Hamefura – 09 – Anna Bakanina
Ever since bonking her head, Catarina has been possessed by the soul of a middle-class modern Japanese high school student, which means she’s a lot more likely to…
There's a new Setsuna in town
I wonder if there will be an update to the Setsuna Scarlet Storm.
Love Live! Nijigasaki High School Idol Club, NIJIYON ANIMATION
Prospera Mercury, She Is a Char
“Char clone” is a fan term to describe a certain character archetype in Gundam. It references Char Aznable from the original Mobile Suit Gundam, and is typically used…
It lives!
Losing Internet for a few months is a painful experience. Specifically, the kind of painful that makes you want to crucify the company that changed the contract on…
Spiraken Manga Review Ep 147: Translucent (or Where Did She Go? That Invisibo)
In this episode of the Spiraken Manga Review, Xan reviews the on hiatus dark horse shonen slice of life manga, Translucent by Kazuhiro Okamoto ----more---- He also discusses gunpla, medical…
Around Town
We’ve made it safely back to Tokyo for the first time in 4 years. I’d say about 35-40% of folks are masked and of course we are, but…
Boku dake ga Inai Machi episode 11: The Town Where Only Satoru is Missing
Not as meaningful since not only did we not actually get to learn much of what happened in the 15 year gap, Satoru also appears immediately after this OP.…
Tens: Kakushigoto, Tower, Nami, Hamefura
They want the truth. Kakushigoto 10 doesn’t have much theme-play this week. The closes thing we get is Hime being a bad girl for eating the cookies and…
Hamefura – 12 (Fin) – Doom Averted!
Hamefura borrows the dark, bleak tone of Re:Zero, swapping its usual pansexual harem desert gorging party and fake-snake R&D for a look back at “Sirius Dieke’s” inky-black pas…
Finales, Tower, Kakushigoto, Nami, Hamefura
Tower of God 12 turns out to be a typical penultimate episode, with the good side rallying, the bad side dying or retreating, and a seeming betrayal at…
Hamefura – 08 – Pages of Desire
All Mary Hunt wants is to study alone with her one true love Catarina. Unfortunately, the object of her affection is also the object of everyone else’s, so…
Elevens: Hamefura, Kakushigoto, ToG, Nami
Hamefura 11 spends the first half of the episode or thereabouts in a static mode, with each character (save Maria, who is still captured) talking about the comatose…
Moyashimon – Little Lives
Moyashimon is one of the mot unique premises I have come across combined with classic anime slice of life.
Kotaro Lives Alone
I have to say, though, that I'm really glad that I went back and gave Kotaro Lives Alone another shot, because it turned out to be a surprisingly…
How to Cook a Series: Kotaro Lives Alone
Isn’t Kotaro Lives Alone so cute you just can’t stand it? That brave little boy, living alone, living up the ideals of the noble knight, making all the…
I’m Standing on a Million Lives – Episode 4
Visit the post for more.
I’m Standing on a Million Lives – Episode 1
I cannot tell you how refreshing it is just to come across a video game isekai that’s willing to let its newbie heroes suck at their job rather…
I’m Standing on a Million Lives – Episode 11
Visit the post for more.
I’m Standing on a Million Lives Review — B
If you die in the other world, you don’t die in real life. But if you fail the quest you die in real life.
First Impression: I’m Standing on a Million Lives
One day after class, Yotsuya Yuusuke finds himself in a game-like fantasy world, along with the popular Shindou Yuu and shy Hakozaki Kusue. Shindou was actually the first…
I’m Standing on a Million Lives – Episode 5
Visit the post for more.
New Maple Town Stories Palm Town Edition 06
NYAA ANIDEX MEGA ULOZ.TO BITCHUTE (shiteater) New Maple Town Stories – Palm Town Edition 06 [6B5CA053] shiteatersubs presents New Maple Town Stories – Palm Town Edition episode 06…
New Maple Town Stories Palm Town Edition 08
NYAA ANIDEX MEGA ULOZ.TO BITCHUTE (shiteater) New Maple Town Stories – Palm Town Edition 08 [674C4CC6] shiteatersubs presents New Maple Town Stories – Palm Town Edition episode 08…
New Maple Town Stories Palm Town Edition 04
NYAA ANIDEX MEGA ULOZ.TO BITCHUTE (shiteater) New Maple Town Stories – Palm Town Edition 04 [0C344316] shiteatersubs presents New Maple Town Stories – Palm Town Edition episode 04…
New Maple Town Stories Palm Town Edition 07
NYAA ANIDEX MEGA ULOZ.TO BITCHUTE (shiteater) New Maple Town Stories – Palm Town Edition 07 [654993D5] shiteatersubs presents New Maple Town Stories – Palm Town Edition episode 07…
15 Town Management Anime About Building a Kingdom
While not all town management anime about building and managing a kingdom is set the “medieval-style” fantasy world that is so common in anime right now, town
Amagi Brilliant Park, Farming Life in Another World, How a Realist Hero Rebuilt the Kingdom, Log Horizon, Overlord
Couples everywhere–She-Ra Reboot a series review
Hey y’all I’m here with another rare American cartoon review. But it’s so popular in the cosplay community how could I not. I want to start off by…
2-3 Peachboy, Hamefura, Genjitsu, Tantei
Both choices suck for different reasons. Peachboy Riverside 2 and 3 takes the setup and hops around a little, so that it’s confusing. In ep2 we meet Mikoto,…
Hamefura – 02 – Friend of the Dregs
There’s an undeniable pattern emerging in this new-and-improved Catarina Claes: more and more, she’s siding with and befriending those in the “game” who got the short end of…
Murder, She Spoke
detective fiction, 推理小説、games, mystery, murder, locked room, Japanese, translations,
“How dare she?”
I was recently quoted in a Rolling Stone article about Belle Delphine, an Instagram model who takes a lot of inspiration from kawaii culture and Japanese style aesthetics.…
Young Delinquent Finds Out He Lives in a Simulation
Megazone 23 is an OVA from 1985-1989. It tells the story of Shougo Yahagi, a young biker who finds himself in possession of a futuristic motorcycle that leads…
I’m Standing On a Million Lives #01 — Self-Parody
Oh boy, status screens. Sooooooooo, the initial Tokyo MX broadcast of this was… a thing, and I consider it to be an amusing enough thing that…
I’m Standing on a Million Lives Review (Spoiler Free)
Let’s take a look at another recent fantasy / isekai anime. This one has it’s own unique twist, just like the rest of them! Again, this will be…
The Wandering Witch is Standing on a Million Lives
Welcome, all, again–and happy holidays(!), of whatever flavor you prefer. This time around, we’ll be looking at I’m Standing on a Million Lives, a show that has me…
Kotaro Lives Alone: Context For A DARK Adult Anime
Kotaro Lives Alone is a strange anime about a strange boy in a strange circumstance. A newer series to Netflix, this adaptation of a seinan manga of the…
Anime Series Like I’m Standing on a Million Lives
Bored with the world that surrounds him, loner Yotsuya Yusuke is one day transported to a new world with two girls from his class. There he finds out…
Gantz, GOBLIN SLAYER, Grimgar of Fantasy and Ash, Made in Abyss, Saga of Tanya the Evil
She Loves to Cook, and She Loves to Eat
And they're both adorable dorks! 0:42 - She Loves to Cook and She Loves to Eat 19:17 - My Hero Academia 384 27:55 - Undead Unluck 153 34:45 - Chainsaw Man 125 41:00…
Black Clover, Chainsaw Man, Cipher, My Hero Academia, Undead Unluck
Review: She Loves to Cook, She Loves to Eat
Eat, Pray, Love Back in February, I caught a nasty cold and had to stay at home. Sometimes being sick is great because you get the whole day…
Where I Went, Where I'm At, and Where I'm Going
social media ! @animebackwhen https://www.patreon.com/animebackwhen