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The Elusive Samurai, I: Tokiyuki and the Baptism of Fire
Time is a funny thing: There is a certain vertigo to it. Sometimes, a carved stone older than civilization pops up in the river of my city—a city with a…
WMR^2 November 2025
0:00:00 - Intro 0:02:44 - One Piece 0:07:45 - Chainsaw Man 0:11:08 - Spy x Family 0:15:15 - The Elusive Samurai 0:21:10 - Witch Watch 0:26:24 - Dandadan 0:29:31 - Blue Box 0:35:47 - Akane-banashi 0:40:01 -…
WMR^2 October 2025 (Pilot)
0:00:00 - Intro 0:08:26 - One Piece 0:11:10 - World Trigger 0:13:19 - Black Clover 0:16:32 - Chainsaw Man 0:19:28 - Spy x Family 0:20:13 - Me and Roboco 0:23:46 - The Elusive Samurai 0:28:46 -…
Blue Box, Chainsaw Man, DAN DA DAN, One Piece, World Trigger
2025 Summer Figure Haul From Japan - Guild Receptionish, Sakamoto Days, and Golden Kamuy
Sometimes you see a figure that is beautiful or so well crafted that you really want it. These days, I can't bring myself to spend to bucks for…
I May Be a Guild Receptionist, but I’ll Solo Any Boss to Clock Out on Time, Macross, Macross Frontier, The Elusive Samurai, Golden Kamuy
TSUTAYA Weekly Manga Sales Ranking: April 28 – May 4, 2025
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Blue Exorcist, Blue Box, My Hero Academia, Fermat no Ryouri, mono
Clearing My Anime Backlog: My 31-Day Anime March Madness Challenge
My anime backlog is out of control, so this March, I’m tackling 31 unfinished series in 31 days! It’s all part of the Anime March Madness Challenge 2025—a…
A Sign of Affection, Chained Soldier, Nina the Starry Bride, No Longer Allowed in Another World, Record of Lodoss War
Winter 2025 Anime and The Elusive Samurai + Bunny Girl Sempai February 2025 Figure Haul
The 2025 winter anime season has been kind of underwhelming. I think the isekai genre (where the protagonist from our world is transported t...
The Red Ranger Becomes an Adventurer in Another World, Aquarion, Shangri-La, Shangri-La Frontier, The Apothecary Diaries
TSUTAYA Weekly Manga Sales Ranking: February 3 – February 9, 2025
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Onmyoji, Ramen Akaneko, Undead Unluck, Tawawa on Monday, Blood Blockade Battlefront
Manga the Week of 2/5/25
SEAN: The shortest month is here, but don’t expect less manga. Yen still has a few stragglers from January. Yen On has a 6th volume of The Eminence…
DAN DA DAN, Rainbow Days, The Elusive Samurai, The Eminence in Shadow, World Trigger
Yuuka Nanri - Unchanging Wish
Rating : 82/100 Hey, remember when I reviewed that Japanese autobiography called Totto-chan: The Little Girl At The Window about 9 years ago? Guess what, in 2023 it…
Anime Feminist’s Top Picks for 2024
It's that time of year where the staff puts their heads together to pick the shows that made them think, imagined better futures, or provided a breath of…
Makeine: Too Many Losing Heroines!, Natsume's Book of Friends, Negative Positive Angler, The Apothecary Diaries, The Elusive Samurai
2024 Retrospective
Ringing in the new year by taking one last look at the old one. Here's to 2025! 5:42 - 2024 Recommendations 5:48 - The 100 Girlfriends Who Really, Really, Really,…
Chainsaw Man, The Elusive Samurai, Black Clover, Green Green, My Hero Academia
2024 DanielSonic Awards
This is an award ceremony for everything I got to experience in 2024. This was a lot easier to write than I expected. The “Griffith was WRONG actually”…
DAN DA DAN, Delicious in Dungeon, LOOK BACK, One Piece, The Elusive Samurai
What Was the Best Anime of 2024? The Answer Might Surprise You!
RJ Writing Ink’s Picks for Best Anime of 2024 By the time you’re reading this, the year 2024 will either be over or about to be over, but…
Solo Leveling, The Elusive Samurai, Dragon Ball, My Hero Academia, One Piece
Best Anime of 2024 That Anime Fans Need to Watch
If you are looking to watch the best anime of 2024, then you definitely need to check out there anime recommendations.
Girls Band Cry, Gushing Over Magical Girls, The Apothecary Diaries, DAN DA DAN, Delicious in Dungeon
Ranking Every 2024 Anime (That I Actually Finished) From Worst to Best
In this gargantuan article, I rank all 27 anime from 2024 that I completed from the very worst to the absolute best.
ISHURA, MAYONAKA PUNCH, Metallic Rouge, The Elusive Samurai, A Salad Bowl of Eccentrics
TSUTAYA Weekly Manga Sales Ranking: December 2 – December 8, 2024
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Blue Box, School Babysitters, The Summer Hikaru Died, The Elusive Samurai, Mission: Yozakura Family
Kaiseki Anime Podcast Episode 154 – Summer 2024 Season Review
00:00 Intro Dropped/Trash 00:40 Failure Frame: I Became the Strongest and Annihilated Everything with Low-Level Spells 01:27 I Parry Everything 01:44 SHY Season 2 02:35 Spice and Wolf:…
Why Does Nobody Remember Me in This World?, MAYONAKA PUNCH, Quality Assurance in Another World, That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime, The Fable
DanielSonic Anime Awards: Summer 2024
I’m going to be honest; I didn’t watch a whole lot this anime season. Luckily, the show’s I did watch were good, so no complaining here. Here are…
Your Anime Rankings - Best of Summer 2024
NieR recovers from its mid-season drop while The Elusive Samurai pays the price of slacking off in its last few episodes. Discover all the other last-minute surprises in…
The Elusive Samurai Review — B
A kid is a samurai who’s good at running away.
Nige Jouzu no Wakagimi – Episode 12 Review (END)
「がんばれ時行、鎌倉奪還のその日まで」 (Ganbare Tokiyuki, Kamakura Dakkan no Sono Hi Made) "Hang in There, Tokiyuki, Until the Day You Retake Kamakura" I get by with a little help from my…
Nige Jouzu no Wakagimi (The Elusive Samurai) – 12 (End) and Series Review
Anime has generally been unkind to Matsui Yuuseii, and while CloverWorks certainly did a wonderful cour, that doesn't seem to have changed.
Firechick's Anime Reviews: The Elusive Samurai
Rating : 61/100 Comedy is purely subjective by its very nature, and different people have their own preferences in regards to what makes them laugh. Some people like…
Assassination Classroom, Belladonna of Sadness, The Elusive Samurai, Tsukigakirei
The Elusive Samurai #12 — General Concerns
Ha ha. Puns. Impressions: I like the idea more than the actual execution. It was largely focused on Kojirou and him learning the Valuable Lesson™ about being…
Anime Like The Elusive Samurai
In the year 1333, the Kamakura shogunate government is toppled after the betrayal of Ashikaga Takauji, a once-trusted retainer who was responsible for
Golden Kamuy, Hells, Rurouni Kenshin, The Elusive Samurai, The Heike Story
Nige Jouzu no Wakagimi – Episode 11 Review
「死にたがりと逃げ上手」 (Shinitagari to Nige Jōzu) "Samurais Who Are Eager to Die and an Elusive Samurai" Kiyohara is ready to raise some eyebrows
The Elusive Samurai #11 — Casual Cannibalism
Was this the dumping ground for excess side characters that couldn't be worked in to the main plot? Impressions: This episode was a bit weird on a…
Nige Jouzu no Wakagimi – Episode 10 Review
「変態稚児と神力騒動」 (Hentai Chigo to Shinriki Sōdō) "A Perverted Kid and Disturbances of Holy Power" While we live in an era where "wonders cease to be wonders", one thing…
Nige Jouzu no Wakagimi – 10
Matsui Yuusei is a genius but a very peculiar one, and this series needed an adaptation that conveyed that as well as this one does.
The Elusive Samurai #10 — Dutch Wives
So much for any kind of ending arc. Impressions: So, the annoying yelly dude lost his mojo, so they do various schtick about it, but then it's…
Top Five Anime Openings (OPs) of the Summer 2024 Season
The summer 2024 has been on fire—at least when it comes to the music. While it lacks the big splashes of last season, like YUNGLUD’s “Abyss,” summer 2024…
The Elusive Samurai, Alya Sometimes Hides Her Feelings in Russian, Makeine: Too Many Losing Heroines!, My Hero Academia
TSUTAYA Weekly Manga Sales Ranking: September 2 – September 8, 2024
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Hunter x Hunter, Welcome to Demon School! Iruma-kun, Natsume's Book of Friends, The Elusive Samurai, Onmyoji
Nige Jouzu no Wakagimi (The Elusive Samurai) – 09
When The Elusive Samurai is on top of its game -as it certainly was this week - it's a truly formidable beast.
The Elusive Samurai #09 — Rope-a-Dope
Whole lotta blood splatter this week. Impressions: This episode definitely blew its load in the first half. The animation was at least on one of CloverWorks highs…
4 Summer 2024 Anime Worth Watching This Fall
The Summer 2024 anime season had a lot of different stuff being thrown at the wall, and not a lot of it stuck. However, by throwing enough rom-coms…
Nige Jouzu no Wakagimi (The Elusive Samurai) – 08
The evidence of how good a job this adaptation is doing is the way it's depicting Shoukan.
Episode 324 - The Elusive Samurai
This week, Shaun wants to make it up to Remington after their… incident last week, and he figured what better way than to show him 5 episodes of…
The Elusive Samurai #08 — Squaring Up Very, Very Gradually
The mid-season doldrums are striking hard. Impressions: The battle starts, after all the setup, and then the entire rest ofthe episode is spent on even more setup.…
‘The Elusive Samurai’ is an Amazing New Shonen Series
The Elusive Samurai Initial Series Review Earlier in the summer, I made a list of the anime I looked forward to watching during the season. But now that…
Final Summer Anime Check-Up: What are we, some kind of Suicide Squad?
This was supposed to be posted at the start of the month, but I decided to wait until Suicide Squad Isekai finished airing before I posted. This is…
Pseudo Harem, Suicide Squad ISEKAI, The Elusive Samurai, Dragon Ball, Fullmetal Alchemist
Nige Jouzu no Wakagimi – Episode 07 Review
「冬の子供たち」 (Fuyu no Kodomotachi) "Children in Winter" The times they are a'changing and with it, the way of war
Nige Jouzu no Wakagimi (The Elusive Samurai) – 07
Darkness and screwball comedy and mild ecchi are always cheek by jowl with Matsui Yuusei.
The Elusive Samurai #07 — Ant Man
At least it wasn't full body horror… yet. Impressions: This episode definitely lost all of what little steam it had in the middle when the last of…
Summer 2024 Is A Divisive Anime Season
Also huge proof that anime fans mostly watch shonen and nothing but shonen.
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The Weekly Orbit [8/11/24]
This week: band girls, giant robots, theater kids, and demonic samurai.
Code Geass: Rozé of the Recapture, The Elusive Samurai, BanG Dream!
Nige Jouzu no Wakagimi (The Elusive Samurai) – 06
CloverWorks was back on their A game this week.
The Elusive Samurai #06 — Inner Ear Dental Problems
Okay, please stop trying to do metaphor or I won't be able to sleep. Impressions: This show is definitely going to give some poor kid nightmares. It…
A Raven for All Seasons and The Elusive Samurai
The Chicago White Sox have fired their fail-manager Pedro Grifol, who was hired by their previous fail-regime,...
Your Anime Rankings - Best of Summer 2024, Jul 29-Aug 4
The cumulative gets all shaken up as Oshi no Ko topples NieR, and Makeine surges 5 spots to overtake The Elusive Samurai. Find out where your favorites rank…