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March 2023 ANN Interest Article Round-Up
I've been writing some of Anime News Network's Interest articles as of late. Here they all are for your perusal!
May 2023 ANN Interest Article Round-Up
I've been writing some of Anime News Network's Interest articles as of late. Here they all are for your perusal!
Monthly Round-up: April
Not much in the way of anime again this month, but a decent amount of manga. Anime I've Watched:Bleach - Still not finished this yet. Really should as…
Fairy Tail, Silver Spoon, Recorder to Randoseru, Blue Exorcist, Ayakashi
ANN Guest article: Osamu Kobayashi
I had the honor of writing about the career of Osamu Kobayashi's career for ANN recently, though tragically due to the fact that he passed...
AnimeJapan 2023 Round-Up
I went to AnimeJapan 2023 this past weekend. Here are the articles I wrote about it.
Summer 2023 Supernatural Round-Up
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Dark Gathering, My Happy Marriage, Undead Murder Farce, Zom 100: Bucket List of the Dead, Ayakashi
ANN Guest Article: Interview with Hiroshi Nagahama
I am incredibly honored to have gotten to interview Hiroshi Nagahama ( Revolutionary Girl Utena, Mushi-shi, The Flowers of Evil ) about hi...
ANN Guest Article: Interview with Samuel Sattin
To go along with this month's podcast episode about the new Unico: Awakening manga, I also interviewed Samuel for Anime News Network! Yo...
Summer 2023 Anime Review Round Up
New anime seasons don’t always interest me. I usually look through the new releases on various streaming platforms, but I don’t follow the release schedule. I don’t use…
Summer 2023 Non-Isekai Fantasy Round-Up
Posted: Last week, I did a run-through on the various isekai titles for the Summer 2023 season. Despite isekai tending to dominate the fantasy genre these days, this…
Bleach, Classroom for Heroes, Helck, Reign of the Seven Spellblades
The Manga Review: SDCC 2023 Round-Up
Over the last 20 years, SDCC has morphed from a comics-focused show to a pop-cultural behemoth dominated by movie studios and television stars. The ongoing SAG-AFTRA and WGA…
Summer 2023 Mid-Season Isekai Round-Up
Published: 8/21/2023 The Summer season features seven isekai titles and one reverse-isekai title. I have followed six of these beyond the first episode (the exceptions being Sweet Reincarnation…
Female Intimacy and Slice of Life Anime Article on ANN
You may remember that this past spring I was extremely ill with Long COVID. During my recovery I turned towards slice-of-life anime in an attempt to feel engaged…
Weekly Round-Up, 5-11 April 2023: Shoujo Boys, Pokémon GO Accessibility, and TMS Pay Raise
AniFem Round-Up KamiKatsu: Working for God in a Godless World – Episode 1 Downright mesmerizing in its badness. The Legendary Hero is Dead! – Episode 1 Saddled with…
KamiKatsu: Working for God in a Godless World, Pokémon, The Legendary Hero is Dead!, Yuri Is My Job!
Weekly round-up
Isn’t it great when you go back to certain anime or manga and find something more to love? We had that this week with our feature on pacifism…
Weekly round-up
Hello, happy New Year, and welcome back. We’re excited to hear from you all again as we blog our way into this new decade! January can be a…
Weekly round-up
We’ve been in a Harry Potter kind of mood lately – must be all that festive spirit in the air. So we captured that and fed a little…
Weekly round-up
We were so happy to let you lot see our reviews for both Garden of Sinners and the 2019 Fruits Basket this week. It never stops being exciting…
Weekly round-up
Hello again friends and fellow bloggers! This busy month seems to have come to a height for us. There’s so much anime (and Star Wars!) to be watching…
Weekly round-up
Here we are gathering together for the last weekly round-up of 2019. I know, we can’t believe it either! After a busy year or so focusing on family…
Weekly round-up
It’s a good week as an aniblogger-slash-reviewer when you can get excited over the giant haul of discs coming in for the New Year’s slate. One Punch Man,…
Weekly Round-Up, 19-25 April 2023: The Apothecary Diaries, Sailor Moon Manga Chat, and Shinkai Makoto Interview
AniFem Round-Up Love, Power, and Safety in The Ancient Magus’ Bride Jessica Engelbrecht examines how the series’ strong character writing complicates the fraught premise for its probable central…
Weekly Round-Up, 26 April – 2 May 2023: Fire! Re-release, Soaring Sky PreCure, and Asexuality in Yuri
AniFem Round-Up Anime Feminist Recommendations of Winter 2023 This season had plenty of shows we liked, but only a handful that stood head and shoulders above the rest.…
Weekly Round-Up, 19-25 April 2023: The Apothecary Diaries, Sailor Moon Manga Chat, and Shinkai Makoto Interview
AniFem Round-Up Love, Power, and Safety in The Ancient Magus’ Bride Jessica Engelbrecht examines how the series’ strong character writing complicates the fraught premise for its probable central…
Weekly Round-Up, 21-27 April 2021: Free Otome Games, Yasuke, and Grown-Up Magical Girls
AniFem Round-Up The Mazinger Problem: On “different times,” “lost in translation,” and the role of translators Kara Dennison shares her approach to the ethical dilemmas translators face when…
Round-Up Pride Post
In case some of you wanted to read LGBTQ posts during this pride month, I did a round-up!
Shounen Jump Round-Up
I re-subscribed to Weekly Shounen Jump for some reason. I think I was feeling guilty because I read so much pirated material. Paying a dollar something a month…
Monthly Round-up: February
Well, I've been a bit more prolific this month with any anime watching, and am slowly getting back into the swing of things. Anime I've Watched:Working'!! -Along with…
Ben-To, Chihayafuru, Nichijou - My Ordinary Life, Chi's Sweet Home, Fairy Tail
Monthly Round-up: March
March was a fairly busy month for me real life wise, so anime was a little thin on the ground in the end. Apart from all the Bleach…
Bleach, Silver Spoon, Hanamaru Kindergarten, Naruto, Nichijou - My Ordinary Life
Monthly Round-up: January
First up I have an apology to make for the severe lack of posts this month. There's little good excuse and I've certainly failed hardcore at the "Blog…
Mononoke, Nichijou - My Ordinary Life, Blue Exorcist, Beelzebub, Fairy Tail
Elegies (詩, Ann Hui, 2023)
Ann Hui considers the role of poetry in an age of resistance while interviewing some of the island’s most revered poets.
Weekly Round-Up, 12-18 April 2023: AroAce Spectrum in Japan, Influential Women Authors, and Genderless Writer Arai Shou
AniFem Round-Up Oshi No Ko – Episode 1 Beneath an unpleasant narrative gimmick is a sharp critique of how the entertainment industry exploits young women. 2023 Spring Premiere…
ANN Guest Article: All I Want For Christmas Is More Classic Shojo Anime!
To celebrate Discotek's upcoming release of Lady Georgie on SD-blu ray, I got to write an article about what other classic shojo anime I...
April 2023 Monthly Favorites
Welcome back to the Monthly Favorites! This month I actually did a fair amount of behind-the-scenes work. I’m not quite ready to official announce most of it, yet.…
Newsletter for April 2023
Learn more about Third Window Films and Asian cinema here!
The ANN Aftershow - Solo Leveling Levels Up!
Finally out of the hospital, Jinwoo encounters his first boss battle one-on-one, and the animation team at A-1 Pictures didn't hold back! Plus, we rate the newest dish…
Spring ’23 Isekai Round-Up
Posted: Tuesday May 9, 2023 With some series hitting their sixth episodes this week, we’re now approaching the midway point of the Spring 2023 season. That means it’s…
October (2020) Monthly Round-Up
Hello again blog-o-sphere viewers! It is once again, time for the staple feature of my blog, my monthly round-up! It’s the best of the best, and me briefly…
Doujinshi Round-up: Plague Edition
Once upon a time, people gathered in great numbers in large halls in odd corners of cities around the world to browse the fine wares of many a…
Shinigami One-Shot Round-up
I haven’t done one of my round-ups in awhile and after reading the most recent shinigami story, I thought I might see what might be out there. I…
ANN's Most-Read News and Interest Articles of 2023
These are the stories that captivated our readers last year, from Naruto to...doing your taxes?
Weekly Round-Up, 6-12 April 2022: Ryukyuan Tattoos, Etsy Strike, and Voice Actor Rights
AniFem Round-Up BIRDIE WING – Golf Girls Story – Episode 1 It hits the ground running and just never stops. The Greatest Demon Lord is Reborn as a…
Weekly Round-Up, 3-9 April 2024: Shoujo Sci-Fi, Aerith, and Early Bias Training
AniFem Round-Up I Was Reincarnated as the 7th Prince so I Can Take My Time Perfecting My Magical Skill – Episode 1 Starts cute before an uncomfortable camera…
Weekly Round-Up, 10-16 April 2024: Supporting Animators, Simulcasting Woes, and Controller Layout Presets
AniFem Round-Up Grandpa and Grandma Turn Young Again – Episode 1 Sometimes, it’s good to remember that humor is cultural….but boy, was this still a dull slog. Mysterious…
Mysterious Disappearances, Unnamed Memory, Grandpa and Grandma Turn Young Again
Weekly Round-Up, 29 March – 4 April 2023: Feminist Scholar Ueno Chizuko, Good Smile’s Right-Wing Connections, and Disability in Sports Manga
AniFem Round-Up My Love Story with Yamada-kun at Lv999 – Episode 1 Most of the episode rushes through establishing the premise, but there are some very promising names…
Hell’s Paradise, My Love Story with Yamada-kun at Lv999, The Dangers in My Heart
Author Journey (April 24, 2023)
Well, I’m just glad I kept my goal on the lower side of things for last week. I think I lost about three days in total once all…
Author Journey (April 10, 2023)
Well, I completely overestimated how much time I would have and foolishly assumed that because I had a schedule real-life family event that it would be the only…
[Editorials Update] January-April 2023
Hello and welcome. It has been a while since my last batch of editorials. The delay was mainly caused by the fact that I have been too busy…
NEWSWIRE: April 2023 Pre-Orders
It might not quite be time to break out the t-shirt and sunscreen, but spring is certainly… well, springing, which also means we’re now on the verge of…
Author Journey (April 17, 2023)
Last week was all about cleaning up the unfinished goals from the previous week. I even threw in a couple of new things to do, because, well, I’m…