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Spring 2024 Anime and an Experiment
A total of eleven anime caught my eye from this season. I would not be surprised if I dropped four or five of them before the end. Usually,…
Too Many Good Shows, Really: Ogiue Maniax Status Update for May 2024
The spring 2024 anime season turns out to be absurdly good! There are many highlights among the new shows, but I think chief among them are Train to…
Jellyfish Can’t Swim in the Night, Shinkalion: Change the World, Train to the End of the World
The GLORIO Chat Episode 161: Rolling Thunder
We talk about our Spy x Family CODE White theater experience, classic (?) 1986 video game Rolling Thunder, and, of course, more Drake vs. Kendrick rap beef.
Shuumatsu Train Doko e Iku? – Episode 5 – Overthrowing the Boss to Save Akira
Episode impressions of Shuumatsu Train Doko e Iku? Episode 5 as Remi pulled some mushrooms out of Akira, and she started acting funny. However, Shizuru and Remi get…
Train to the End of the World Episode 4: The Train Goes on and on
I wondered how they’d try to fit most of the stops in a 12-13 episode show unless there are plans for a 2nd cour. This episode answered that…
Shuumatsu Train Doko e Iku? – Episode 4 – Akira’s Embarrassing Secret
Episode impressions of Shuumatsu Train Doko e Iku? Episode 4 as Akira saves Shizuru and her friends from being consumed by mushrooms, they finally leave Higashi-Agano. However, Akira…
The Weekly Orbit [4/22/24]
This week; strange developments in Shuumatsu Train, a surprising and moody Precure episode, plus the premieres of The Grimm Variations and Unnamed Memory
The Grimm Variations, Mysterious Disappearances, Delicious in Dungeon, Girls Band Cry, Himitsu no AiPri
Anivision’s Spring 2024 Anime Preview
The Anivision hosts gather to discuss the latest anime from the Spring 2024 Anime Season. Including Train to the End of the World, Mushoku Tensei, KonoSuba, Jellyfish Can't…
Struggling to keep up: Shuumatsu and SpiceWolf 2-3, Yuru and Yoru 2
I decided not to watch a lot of the shows from opening week, but I still have too many. So I kind of hope that some of the…
Train to the End of the World, Spice and Wolf, Jellyfish Can’t Swim in the Night
Train To The End Of The World Anime
What makes good science fiction? This is a question that I have been asking a lot as I watch Train To The End Of The World, streaming now…
2024 Spring Premiere Digest
Licensing frustrations aside, there are a number of titles to look forward to this season.
Unnamed Memory, Vampire Dormitory, Whisper Me a Love Song, Re:Monster, The Fable
The GLORIO Chat Episode 160: Spring 2024 Anime First Impressions
We talk about the new Spring 2024 shows including the hottest new show of all: Drake vs. Kendrick rap beef.
Every Anime You SHOULD Watch in Spring 2024
The Spring 2024 Anime season is a really stacked anime of this season. Featuring some of the most awaited anime of this year. It's filled amazing Fantasy, Isekai,…
Bartender, Re:Monster, Spice and Wolf, Train to the End of the World, Whisper Me a Love Song
Train to the End of the World Episode 3: Mushroom Town Zone
I can’t be the only one who had the Mushroom Hill Zone Act 1 theme playing in my head watching this episode. Not the whole way through but…
Train to the End of the World – Ep. 3
Not the kind of shrooms I want to take.
Shuumatsu Train Doko e Iku? – Episode 3 – The Suspicious Mushroom People Village
Episode impressions of Shuumatsu Train Doko e Iku? Episode 3 as the girls finally arrive at Higashi-Agano, and the people with mushrooms on their heads greet them. You…
The Weekly Orbit [4/15/24]
Things are mostly smooth sailing as we move into the second week of the new season.
A Salad Bowl of Eccentrics, Bucchigiri, Delicious in Dungeon, Himitsu no AiPri, Mysterious Disappearances
Train to the End of the World
Train to the End of the World is currently streaming on Crunchyroll....
Spring 2024 – Mono’s Extremely Brief Takes – Week 2
Welcome back to Anime Rants. The Spring 2024 season is underway and I’m enjoying the eary episodes of the ten shows I selected to watch. My very short…
Spring 2024 Anime: First Impressions
The spring 2024 season of anime is now in full swing, so here are my initial thoughts on each of the shows I decided to watch. Lots of…
Laid-Back Camp, Tonbo!, Whisper Me a Love Song, NIJIYON ANIMATION 2, The Many Sides of Voice Actor Radio
Train to the End of the World – Ep. 2
And then they all died.
Train to the End of the World Episode 2: Water Tracks
Let’s see how short I can keep this one.
Shuumatsu Train Doko e Iku? – Episode 2 – Unprepared Girls and The Start of the Strange Adventure
Episode impressions for Shuumatsu Train Doko e Iku? Episode 2 as Shizuku obviously decides to leave Agano with her rash decision to find Yoka. Of course, Nadeshiko, Reimi…
The Weekly Orbit [4/7/24]
This week, in The Weekly Orbit, one season ends and another begins. Finale writeups for Bang Bravern, The Wrong Way to Use Healing Magic, and Metallic Rouge. Dungeon…
Metallic Rouge, Sengoku Youko, The Wrong Way to Use Healing Magic, Train to the End of the World, A Salad Bowl of Eccentrics
Spring 2024 Week 1 – Mono’s Extremely Brief Takes
The Spring 2024 season has finally begun. I picked ten different series to watch. Initially, I wasn’t planning on writing any regular episode reviews for this season. I’m…
Spring 2024 series poll closed!
Thank you to all who voted in last week’s poll, which received more votes than any that I’ve previously run! Very much a two horse race, with the…
Absurd Anime! Featuring “Train to the End of the World”
“Absurd” is defined by the Merriam Webster Dictionary as “Ridiculously unreasonable, unsound, or incongruous.” Depending on who you ask, all anime is a little bit weird. But…
Train to the End of the World – Ep. 1 (First Impressions)
Say what you will about dial-up, at least it didn’t warp reality.
New shows Spring 2024 1
Welcome to the new season! I will watch as many first episodes as I can stand … well, I’ll watch shows I might be interested in following. Generally,…
A Condition Called Love, Spice and Wolf, Train to the End of the World
Train to the End of the World Episode 1: Twisted Future
Going into this show I got Girls’ Last Tour vibes from the trailers/PVs. Was I proven right by the premiere?
Train to the End of the World – Episode 1
This is an anime-original project written by Yokote Michiko. With this one sentence, a non-insignificant number of you will be able to make up your minds about whether…
Shuumatsu Train Doko e Iku? – Episode 01 Review
「ちょっと行ってくる」 (Chotto Ittekuru) "Down the Escalator to Dark Nerima" All in on that 7G train baby
Spring 2024 Impressions: One Room, Hi Atari Futsuu, Tenshi Tsuki, Gods’ Games We Play, Shuumatsu Train Doko e Iku?
Welcome all, to the start of the Spring Season! And would you look at that, we have Wooper back to suffer with me help me report on all…
Shuumatsu Train Doko e Iku? – Episode 1 – When 7G Goes Terribly Wrong and Shizuru and Friends Starts an Adventure
Episode impressions of Shuumatsu Train Doko e Iku? Episode 1 as it’s a typical day in Japan in the future. What happens if you get taken to activate…
Seasonal First Impressions: 30 Stops to Ikebukuro – What Even is TRAIN TO THE END OF THE WORLD?
The season’s first major premiere is a bizarre, surreal adventure dramedy where four ordinary girls set out against a backdrop of a world gone to hell to rescue…
First Impression: Train to the End of the World
Nakatomi Youka is a girl in a big city who is just going about her own business, when she’s suddenly plucked from the street to witness the start…
Spring 2024 Anime: What I Will Be Watching
Temperatures are gradually rising outside, so that must mean that spring is almost upon us. A new season brings along with it new anime. As is ever the…
Train to the End of the World, Himitsu no AiPri, Laid-Back Camp, NIJIYON ANIMATION, NIJIYON ANIMATION 2
The GLORIO Chat Episode 158: Spring 2024 Anime Preview
We say a few words on the passing of Akira Toriyama, then dive into our Spring 2024 anime preview.