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KonoSuba 3 – 02 – Guess Who’s Teleporting for Dinner
After a successful sale of pocket lighters at Wiz’s shop, Kazuma & Co. prepare for a formal dinner with Princess Iris. As the only noble among the party,…
Spice and Wolf (2024) – 03 – War of the Coins
Kraft and Holo arrive in the bustling merchant town of Pazzio, which is so big Holo is amazed it’s not ruled by a king. She’s also immediately smitten…
Tsukimichi: Moonlit Fantasy – S2 15 – Out of His Element
Half of this episode is given over to the academy tournament, and while I thought Makoto’s students would face stiffer competition, the fact is no other students are…
Your RABUJOI “Wake the F*** Up” Song of the Day: “Miyuki”
There’s a third … fourth? … season of The Irregular of Magic High School airing this spring, but I stopped watching after its first cour ten years ago, and…
Mushoku Tensei II – 14 – Keeping the Tribe Strong
A triumphant new OP is leans into the show’s new normal: Rudeus and Sylphiette are no longer alone, but an adorable matched pair who will never ever be…
Hibike! Euphonium 3 – 02 – The New Kitauji Trinity
President Kumiko suddenly finds herself with a new euphonium ace (or at least her equal) in Kuroe Mayu, formerly of Seira High. Unlike Kanade, she doesn’t seem the…
Whisper Me a Love Song – 01 (First Impressions) – A Happy Misreading
First-year high schooler Kino Himari joins her longtime friend and classmate Miki to watch her older sister play in a band composed of third-years to welcome the new…
Jellyfish Can’t Swim in the Night – 02 – Friends with My Idol
This week we get a sumptuously well-produced OP that spoils the fact that Mahiru and Kano are only half of the eventual JELEE artistic group. The third member…
TenSura – 50 – This Could Have Been an E-mail
In past seasons TenSura has overindulged in “standing around talking” episodes that serve exclusively as setup. Here we get perhaps the most egregious one yet, and to be honest,…
Urusei Yatsura – 36 – His Own Worst Enemy
Urusei Yatsura’s second season resumes after a week off with fresh OP and ED themes from MAISONdes and the origin story of Mendou Shuutarou’s nyctophobia and claustrophobia. Mendou…
Yuru Camp△ 3 – 02 – How the Sausage Gets Made
This week starts with Nadeshiko’s childhood friend Toki Ayano (Kurosawa Tomoyo) trying out “mini-camping”, riding her moped to a pretty spot to enjoy some hot cocoa. When her…
A Condition Called Love – 02 – That Boy Ain’t Right
Hmm … Well. That’s what I get for giving this bizarre pairing the benefit of the doubt, I guess! Something is very very off with Hananoi Saki, and someone…
KonoSuba 3 – 01 – The Dawning of Our Age
While I love Megumin, the spinoff focusing on her and Yunyun just didn’t do it for me. A True KonoSuba needs the whole team involved: Megumin, Darkness, Aqua,…
Spice and Wolf (2024) – 02 – Exchange Rate Transaction
As he continues to travel with Holo the Wise Wolf of Yoitsu, Kraft learns more and more about her, like her ability to sense when it’s about to…
Tsukimichi: Moonlit Fantasy – S2 14 – A Plethora of Pleasantries
On Day 2 of the academy festival there’s a formal stand-up luncheon filled with foreign dignitaries, and to put it charitably, it’s not Makoto’s scene. For one thing,…
Your RABUJOI “Wake the F*** Up” Song of the Day: “Saturday Night Question”
Nakajima Megumi’s stirring, bittersweet ballad has me wishing we got a second season of 2017’s Net-juu no Susume.
Grandpa and Grandma Turn Young Again – 01 (First Impressions) – It Does What’s On the Tin
Elderly couple Saitou Ine and Saitou Shouzou, both well into their eighties, are tending to their orchard when they find an odd golden apple hanging from the tree…
Vampire Dormitory – 01 (First Impressions) – Needing to Be Needed
Misfortune seems to follow Yamamoto Mito everywhere he goes. He lost his parents in a fire, and his other relatives kicked him onto the streets. Everyone who sees…
Mushoku Tensei II – 13 (Part 2 E01) – Feels Like Home
Rudy’s students all notice an extra pep in his step in his first class back since being cured by Sylphie. He confides in his two male buds Zanoba…
Hibike! Euphonium 3 – 01 – The Last Dance
It’s been eight years—and I mean eight years to the freakin’ day—since I first watched and wrote about Hibike! Euphonium. It comes as no surprise for a top-flite operation like…
Jellyfish Can’t Swim in the Night – 01 (First Impressions) – Waiting to Be Chosen
You could say Kouzuki Mahiru peaked early, and as such is in a state of arrested development. Her grade school-age little sister even notices it. Mahiru was a…
TenSura – 49 (S3 01) – Allies of Us All
reyhe TenSura returns in media res, as Rimuru returns to Tempest from a meeting of the Demon Lords having been officially named a member of Octogram. Once home,…
Yuru Camp△ 3 – 01 – You Can Always Go Again
Yuru Camp was a healing balm during Covid, but it’s no less welcome now that everything’s opened up. In a fun coincidence, I started watching this right after…
A Condition Called Love – 01 (First Impressions) – No Normal Person
All romance series this season will have to compete with the all-timer that was Dangers in My Heart, along with the pretty solid Sign of Affection from Winter. Like Sign, a…
Metallic Rouge – 13 (Fin) – All’s Well that…Ends
I was officially checked out of Metallic Rouge last week, and this finale didn’t offer a whole lot to change that position. Everyone basically stands around in a room for…
Tsukimichi: Moonlit Fantasy – S2 13 – The Thick of It
Having juggled between the separate stories of Makoto, the Demiplane gang, and the heroes Hibiki and Tomoki and their parties, Tsukimichi now aims to continue squishing all of these…
Spice and Wolf: Merchant Meets the Wise Wolf – 01 – A New Harvest
This fleet, efficient first episode serves as both a cozy, nostalgic blanket for fans of the original and a welcoming and earnest introduction for those new to the…
Your RABUJOI “Wake the F*** Up” Song of the Day: “Brave your truth”
We go back fifteen years to wake the f*** up this first day of April. I don’t care what anyone says: Chrome Shelled Regios ruled and so did its…
The Dangers in My Heart – 25 (Fin) – Their Everything
Kyoutarou most definitely ended up in quite the fix last week, but even as girl and love talk ensues, the other girls don’t suspect he’s beneath Anna’s blankets.…
Solo Leveling – 12 (S1 Fin) – Shadow Monarch
Jinwoo has gone and backed himself into a corner. The knights keep coming, his fatigue and HP continue to drop, and he has no way to raise them.…
The Wrong Way to Use Healing Magic – 13 (Fin) – Great Expectations
The best part of Wrong Way was its lovable, adorkable characters and their chemistry with one another, and finale leans into those strengths. Ken and Suzune meet with…
Urusei Yatsura – 35 – What’s at Cake / A Fox’s Tale
Atari spots Ran in the park but loses her, but not before she drops a neatly-packaged cake from her basket. A cake she said would “knock him dead”.…
Metallic Rouge – 12 – Live for Love
Here we are, back to having to hear the Puppetmaster drone on in his insufferably avuncular tone about puppets and plays and performances. I’m at the end of…
Classroom of the Elite – S3 13 (Fin) – Let’s Pray
It’s now spring break, so there’s not a school uniform to be seen. Ayanokouji has a cozy cup of coffee with Shiina, who we haven’t seen in a…
Jaku-Chara Tomozaki-kun 2nd Stage – 13 (Fin) – Stage Clear
Most of this finale is given over to Fuuka’s play, which serves as a proxy for how Fuuka has wrestled with who she is, who she wants or…
Gushing over Magical Girls – 13 (Fin) – Love’s a Game of Give and Take
Vena gives the Enormita girls a much-deserved day off at the beach. Utena rejects the tiny purple micro bikini Kiwi picked out for her, going with a cute…
Synduality: Noir – 24 (Fin) – Forward Together
Noir is the only Magus not shut down by Wiesheit’s order because she’s technically not a Magus, and never was. First inhabiting Mystere’s body and now the late…
Tsukimichi: Moonlit Fantasy – S2 12 – Not Too Late to Apologize
After a bear attacks one of the orcs as a warning, Makoto investigates the deep forest and meets huggable bear, a surprisingly reasonable pack of wolves, and an…
Hokkaido Gals Are Super Adorable! – 12 (Fin) – Cool Like You
This finale starts, somewhat surprisingly, with Tsubasa and Minami sharing a hotel room together. Turned out they missed the last bus home because they read the weekday schedule…
Your RABUJOI “Wake the F*** Up” Song of the Day: “Psychological Warfare”
It’s a slower track, but whenever I heard this in OverLord I knew some scheming was afoot, and that guitar rif is epic, so I can say without qualifications…
Shin no Nakama – S2 12 (Fin) – We Can Be Heroes
In a battle of pure swordsmanship, Red has Van’s number, as demonstrated by the ease with which he’s able to parry and counter Van’s thrusts, but also kind…
7th Time Loop – 12 (Fin) – Even Poison Can Bring Happiness
Called it! Not that I expect any reward, as it was a foregone conclusion that Rishe would show Michel, Kyle, Arnold, and the entire capital the good way to…
Ao no Exorcist: Shimane Illuminati-hen – 12 (Fin) – See No Evil
After all that battling and a tense meeting in Mephisto’s office, everyone’s head is spinning about Shima being a spy and a double agent. Rin thinks everyone still…
The Apothecary Diaries – 24 – Beautiful as Balsam
Having lost to Maomao, Lakan goes to Verdigris House to buy out a courtesan. As he waits for the Madame to show him her girls, Lakan thinks about…
The Dangers in My Heart – 24 – School Trippin’
The class trip to Nara and Kyoto is coming up, but Kyou can tell Anna is preoccupied with something. She shushes away Chi asking whether she got the…
Solo Leveling – 11 – The Red Knight
I’m going to … level with you. I simply do not care about Cha Hae-In, Baek Yoon-ho, or Choi Jongin’s quest to continue a raid on Jeju Island he believes…
A Sign of Affection – 12 (Fin) – Their Time in the Sun
Itsuomi leaves their first official date out together to Yuki, and she picks the most beautiful spot for it: a park absolutely bursting with blooming flowers. She loves…
Tales of Wedding Rings – 12 (Fin) – Upping Their Game
Satou and his wives return to the ruins of Idanokan to find a battle between the imperial and the Abyss King’s armies. Nobody can put a scratch on…
Urusei Yatsura – 34 – The Flowers of Pee-vil
As is the case with most Urusei Yatsura episodes, this one is split into two distinct parts. The first begins in media res with Onsen-sensei castigating Ataru, Lum, Shinobu,…
Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End – 28 (Fin) – Quick Goodbyes
After passing Fern, Serie passes Denken, because while he’s old, he still has a fire burning within. Übel passes too, as does Land, both of whom only need…