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Anime 2022 In Review
Another year, another list of “Top 5 Anime”. While I had wanted to make this list a sort of tradition like other blogs, the last list I made…
Year in Review 2022
Can you believe this will be the fifth time I get to write this post? Technically the blog is just over 6 years old at this point, but…
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In The Distance (2022) review [Japannual 2022]
“A very pleasant slice-of-life narrative that elegantly shows that bonds between subjects are that much more genuine if they are grounded in the acceptance of the other’s radical…
2022 in Review: Part 1
2022 is almost over. And while it has been a less stressful year overall than the last couple, as the world adjusts to its new normal, shakeups are…
Spring 2022 Anime In Review
Man, is it really that time again? Another season has ended with more shows being completed and this was such a good time. I didn’t even watch all…
Fall 2022 Anime In Review
Yeah, I am writing this a lot later into next year then I do usually. I blame G-Witch getting delayed every other week due to special programming in…
Winter 2022 Anime In Review
So yeah, another anime season has come to pass. Kind of crazy to think about isn’t it? The seasonal cycle just keeps going and its kind of stunning…
2022 in Review: Part 2
This is Part II of the 2022 year-in-review. Let’s finish up 2022 and look forward to 2023! Seven Seas Workers Make Waves Negotiations started in October, and a…
2022 Gunpla Year in Review
It gets quicker to make this list every year, and that’s not necessarily a good thing. In 2022, by my count, we got 30 new Gunpla this year.…
Lesson In Murder (2022) review
In Shiraishi’s talented hands the narrative transforms into a visual elegant and compelling examination of the desire that drives us all.
2022 Year in Review - Part 1
Technically this is Episode 50 as well as the 1-year anniversary of Manga Musings. Hope 2023 is just as crazy and weird as 2022 was!Part 2 will be…
Summer 2022 – Week 10 in Review
Hello folks, and welcome on back to Wrong Every Time. Today I am in recovery mode, having just spent four and a half hours leading my players through…
Winter 2022 in Review Part 2
Most of the Winter 2022 times have now concluded, so it’s time for the second part of the season-ending wrap-up. The first part featured a review of In…
Winter 2022 – Week 8 in Review
Hello everyone, and welcome back to Wrong Every Time. I think we’re over the hump now – February has nearly ended, the skies are clearing, and we’re even…
Winter 2022 – Week 10 in Review
Hello everyone, and welcome back to Wrong Every Time. I come to you today directly from the Elden Ring mines, having been laboring on FromSoftware’s latest since literally…
Winter 2022 – Week 11 in Review
Hello everyone, and welcome back to Wrong Every Time. How are you all doing this week? Personally, I just got back from my first jog of the season,…
Review: Someone in the Room (2022)
Someone in the Room 屋内有人 China, 2022, colour, 2.35:1, 89 mins. Director: Bian Yuan 边原. Rating: 6/10. Low-budget horror/thriller is inventive and meticulously plotted, and doesn’t go in…
Fall 2022 – Week 8 in Review
Hello everyone, and welcome the heck back to Wrong Every Time. We’re actually nearing the end of the year at this point, which means it’s time again for…
Winter 2022 – Week 1 in Review
Alright folks, pile in, pile in. It’s technically the new year from where you’re standing, but I’m currently starting this article on 12/28, and doing my best to…
Summer 2022 – Week 9 in Review
Hello everyone, and welcome back to Wrong Every Time. Alas, we have reached that point in the summer season where it still being “summer” feels like a cruel…
Summer 2022 – Week 3 in Review
Hello folks, and welcome back to Wrong Every Time. You all bearing this absurd heatwave okay? I’m currently spending my time migrating between a pair of temperature-controlled rooms,…
Spring 2022 – Week 11 in Review
Hey folks, and welcome to Wrong Every Time. How’s everyone doing today? I’m currently attempting to will myself into writing up another article after this one, because goddamnit,…
Winter 2022 – Week 7 in Review
Hello everyone, and welcome back to Wrong Every Time. This week, my housemates and I have been reveling in the delayed bounty of the 2021 holiday release schedule,…
Summer 2022 – Week 5 in Review
Hello folks, and welcome the heck back to Wrong Every Time. How are you all enjoying the advent of August? Though I’m certainly not happy about the speed…
Night Warriors: Darkstalkers' Revenge, Vampire Hunter D, Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust
Spring 2022 – Week 8 in Review
Hello folks, and welcome back to my small slice of the internet. Summer arrived in force this week, heralding ninety degree afternoons and a whole lot of general…
Fall 2022 – Week 5 in Review
Hey folks, and welcome the heck back to Wrong Every Time. Today I come to you equipped with ghouls, goblins, and tales of rapturous fantasy, as is only…
Winter 2022 – Week 12 in Review
Hey folks, and welcome the heck back to Wrong Every Time. My housemates and I are pushing towards the endgame of Elden Ring at this point, which has…
Summer 2022 – Week 7 in Review
Hello everyone, and welcome back to Wrong Every Time. This week I’ve got an unusually timely selection of films for you all, having checked out some of the…
Fall 2022 – Week 10 in Review
Hello folks, and welcome on back to Wrong Every Time. Surveying the takeaways of this last week in films, I am forced to admit that this is indeed…
Spring 2022 – Week 3 in Review
Hello everyone, and welcome on back to Wrong Every Time. Are you all enjoying the spring weather? It’s finally gotten warm enough to allow for regular weekly jogs,…
Summer 2022 – Week 12 in Review
Hello everyone, and welcome back to Wrong Every Time. Today I have got some real seedy, stinky trash for you all, as I rummage through the refuge of…
2022: Tiger and Hibiscus in Review
Hey everyone, I hope you have been having a good end of year. I flew back to my childhood home and spent time with some family. I ate…
Fall 2022 – Week 6 in Review
Hello folks, and welcome back to Wrong Every Time. It seems we’ve reached the halfway point of the fall season, though to be honest, most of the anime…
Fall 2022 – Week 1 in Review
Hey folks, and welcome back to Wrong Every Time. The fall season has officially begun, and we’re already being treated to a deluge of genuinely intriguing seasonal contenders.…
Spring 2022 – Week 9 in Review
Hello everyone, and welcome on back to Wrong Every Time. You all doing okay? I’m frankly feeling a bit lethargic at the moment, but fortunately, my current tasks…
Spring 2022 – Week 12 in Review
Hello folks, and welcome on back to Wrong Every Time. Summer’s in full swing at this point, but predictably, I’m spending the better part of my free time…
Winter 2022 – Week 9 in Review
Hello everyone, and welcome back to Wrong Every Time. This week, I thought I’d take a break from our usual film medley, as the past month has clearly…
Spring 2022 – Week 4 in Review
Well folks, it happened. I’ve taken every possible precaution, I still only leave the house rarely and fully masked, but I still caught goddamn Covid. As a result,…
Summer 2022 – Week 6 in Review
Hello folks, and welcome the heck back to Wrong Every Time. You all doing okay this week? As for me, the water has currently been turned off in…
Fall 2022 – Week 3 in Review
Hello folks, and welcome back to Wrong Every Time. I’m delighted to announce that this week I actually did the goddamn thing, and checked out around half a…
Bleach, Chainsaw Man, Do It Yourself!!, Mob Psycho 100, Mobile Suit Gundam
Spring 2022 – Week 10 in Review
Hello everyone, and welcome back to Wrong Every Time. You all doing okay this week? I’m personally feeling fan-fucking-tastic, having knocked out a couple of anxiety-provoking appointments late…
Spring 2022 – Week 5 in Review
Hello folks, and welcome back to Wrong Every Time. I’ve currently got a post-Covid spring in my step, as well as a quiet sense of embarrassment about how…
Spring 2022 – Week 1 in Review
Hey everyone, and welcome back to Wrong Every Time. It’s been a very Dungeons & Dragons-themed week at my house, as I continued to munch through episodes of…
Fall 2022 – Week 12 in Review
Hello folks, and welcome back to Wrong Every Time. It seems we’ve arrived at the year’s penultimate Week in Review, and I’m still hard at work catching up…
Winter 2022 – Week 6 in Review
I have a confession to make: I have no idea what days or weeks are anymore. Initially, as a replacement for the original reflection on weekly anime episodes,…
Summer 2022 – Week 8 in Review
Hello everyone, and welcome back to Wrong Every Time. Though this article title claims there’s somehow still a third of the summer season to go, it certainly doesn’t…
Winter 2022 – Week 3 in Review
Whew, it has been a week. I finally got my COVID booster, which had me basically incapacitated for forty-eight hours. That, of course, invoked a rolling cascade of delayed…
Review: Someone in the Room (2022)
Someone in the Room 屋内有人 China, 2022, colour, 2.35:1, 89 mins. Director: Bian Yuan 边原. Rating: 6/10. Low-budget horror/thriller is inventive and meticulously plotted, and doesn’t go in…
2022 Year in Review - Part 2
Part 2 of our 2022 year in review, in which we cover series that began in or near last year, as well as a commemoration of series we…
Fall 2022 – Week 4 in Review
Hey folks, and welcome on back to Wrong Every Time. Today I’ve got a somewhat lopsided collection of thoughts for you all, with plenty of the requisite horror…