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New Manga First Impressions: The Iron Eyes and Human Heart of DEEP RAPUTA
The new MangaPlus serial bills itself as a “state-of-the-art bildungsroman” for the present day, but is this just a romcom with a sci-fi twist, or is there more…
The Weekly Orbit [5/13/24]
This week on a light Weekly Orbit: Dungeon Meshi, the Girl Band Wars rage on with a new dark horse candidate. Plus; what the hell is the Mysterious…
Delicious in Dungeon, Girls Band Cry, Mysterious Disappearances, Pokémon, A Salad Bowl of Eccentrics
The Weekly Orbit [5/6/24]
This week on the Weekly Orbit; surprising developments in Jellyfish Can’t Swim in The Night, a disappointing turn from Salad Bowl, and some great Pretty Cure episodes.
Pretty Cure, Train to the End of the World, Delicious in Dungeon
(REVIEW) A Strange Dream About the Sky – The Weight of AIR
(This Is) The Dream of Misuzu and Kanna.
The Weekly Orbit [4/29/24]
Despite a solid week of anime featuring standout episodes from the likes of Dungeon Meshi, this week’s column is largely about an anime that aired nearly 20 years…
A Salad Bowl of Eccentrics, Delicious in Dungeon, Mysterious Disappearances
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
The Manga Shelf: Your Planet is Doomed – The End of Romance and the Alienation of Humanity in UCHUUJIN NO KAKUSHIGOTO
Filled with a profound anti-romance and alienation, Uchuujin no Kakushigoto uses the extraterrestrial to explore the holes in the human condition.
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
Seasonal First Impressions: Flipping The Haters Off in GIRLS BAND CRY
The season’s second big girls-make-music swing is as much of a hit as its first. Full of an earnest, rebellious spirit. The future of rocker girl anime starts…
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
Seasonal First Impressions: JELLYFISH CAN’T SWIM IN THE NIGHT, But With The Moon on Them, They Can Shine
The year’s strongest premiere to date is an anime about the gaps between who we are and who we want to be, the clash between self-doubt and passion.…
Seasonal First Impressions: ASTRO NOTE Isn’t Quite Out of This World
Astro Note promises a wacky housemate comedy that’s also a romcom with sci-fi elements. It may deliver later on, but its first episode is a mixed bag.
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…
Remembering Akira Toriyama
What can be said about one of the greatest and most influential figures in anime and manga?
The Manga Shelf: Year of the Dragon – RURIDRAGON’s Triumphant Return
You’re as beautiful as the day we lost you.
Seasonal First Impressions: Under Cover of Darkness, Enters NINJA KAMUI
Seasonal First Impressions is a column where I detail my thoughts, however brief or long, about a currently-airing anime’s first episode or so. There are a handful of interesting…
Anime Orbit Seasonal Check-in: No, Seriously, What The Hell is Going on in ISHURA?
The isekai battle royale’s ups and downs have made it an uneven watching experience, to say the least.
Anime Orbit Seasonal Check-in: METALLIC ROUGE and The Nightmare of Fabrication
After four episodes of political themes and robot-fighting action, Metallic Rouge decides to take things in a different, very strange direction.
The Manga Shelf: So Long, CIPHER ACADEMY
The Manga Shelf is a column where I go over whatever I’ve been reading recently in the world of manga. Ongoing or complete, good or bad. These articles contain spoilers. Yes,…
Seasonal First Impressions: WONDERFUL PRECURE is Doggone Great
With a largely character-driven and astonishingly charming first episode, the 21st Precure season gets off to a wonderful start.
Seasonal First Impressions: Breaking Down the Madness of BRAVE BANG BRAVERN!
Bizarre, ambitious, and fitting easily into no single genre, Bang Brave Bravern provides a seasonal highlight off of entertainment value alone.
Let’s Watch DELICIOUS IN DUNGEON Episode 3 – “Living Armor”
In this, the third episode of “Dungeon Meshi,” the gang run into some animated suits of armor, but when their usual tactics fail, it’s clear that there’s something…
(REVIEW) Feminism, Football, and FAREWELL, MY DEAR CRAMER: FIRST TOUCH
Farewell, My Dear Cramer: First Touch is a solid, emotionally satisfying soccer film about overcoming sexism in the sport, but does it fulfill its more ambitious goals or…
Farewell, My Dear Cramer: First Touch, Farewell, My Dear Cramer
Seasonal First Impressions: Mysteries on Mars in METALLIC ROUGE
The hotly anticipated action-yuri opens with a decidedly esoteric first episode, but will its obscure storytelling reel in viewers, or push them away?
Seasonal First Impressions: SENGOKU YOUKO is Good, Thank God
The second Satoshi Mizukami manga to get an anime in two years thankfully fares much better than its older sibling The Lucifer & Biscuit Hammer.
Seasonal First Impressions: The Puzzle of PON NO MICHI
Pon no Michi is a mahjong-themed slice of life comedy rife with light-hearted laughs, but you won’t find this anime on your local streaming service.
The Shambolic Anime Podcast Presents – The Week in Isekai, Pt. 1 & 2
Today on the rarely-seen, super-casual Shambolic Anime Podcast, Julian M. and I talk about two very different isekai anime that have premiered in the past week; the absolutely…
Seasonal First Impressions: Munch Squad for Monsters in DELICIOUS IN DUNGEON
In its first episode, Delicious in Dungeon whips up a hot dish of fantasy, comedy, adventure, and of course, cooking.
Seasonal First Impressions: Dragons, Tigers, and Isekai in FLUFFY PARADISE
The year starts off in decidedly so-so fashion with this cotton-light “cozy” isekai.
The Year in Magic: Looking Back on the Anime, and Beyond, of 2023
A ramble; the anime, manga, and more that got me through 2023.
Soaring Sky! Precure, Tengoku Daimakyo, Undead Murder Farce, Magical Destroyers, Scott Pilgrim Takes Off
(REVIEW) The Miracle of Being: EARTH MAIDEN ARJUNA, Saving The Planet, and You
Spiritual, environmentally-conscious, and sometimes frustrating, this early aughts magical girl series is truly one of a kind.
The Manga Shelf: Toxic Yuri, Tragedy, and Catharsis in DESTROY IT ALL AND LOVE ME IN HELL!
A love so acid it burns your hands.
First Impressions: Hell is Other People in KAMIERABI GOD.APP
KamiErabi God.app is this season’s stylish and cynical entry into the storied death game genre, but does it have any real promise or is this one strictly for…
Seasonal First Impressions: A Lullaby For You To Come Back Home – Endings and Beginnings in FRIEREN: BEYOND JOURNEY’S END
The days of our lives are as comets in the sky.
New Manga First Impressions: Forging a Myth in KAGURABACHI
The swordplay and sorcery manga has picked up a half-jokey cult following with just one chapter published, but is there more to the story or is this just…
Anime Orbit Seasonal Check-in: The Strange Transformation of LEVEL 1 DEMON LORD AND ONE-ROOM HERO
“Level 1 Demon Lord & One-Room Hero”, a screwball fantasy comedy anime with a light novel-y title befitting its tone, has taken some odd turns over the first…
I’m Burned Out, and I Want to Talk About It
We need to talk, oomfies.
The Shambolic Anime Podcast [7/17/23] – “Liar, Liar”
Today, on our inagural episode of this decidedly off-the-cuff, super-casual anime podcast, myself and Julian M. (of THEM Anime Reviews, previously also co-host of KeyFrames Forgotten and Revisiting…
(REVIEW) Exorcising THE DEVIL LADY
This ain’t Gotham City.
Seasonal First Impressions: The Apocalypse as Liberation – ZOM 100: BUCKET LIST OF THE DEAD is the Season’s First Must-Watch
The best premiere of the year to date, Zom 100 explores the end of the world as a source of joy and liberation via the medium of high-energy…
Seasonal First Impressions: Does REIGN OF THE SEVEN SPELLBLADES Pass the Entrance Exam?
Spellblades strikes me as incredibly basic from this first episode. But, given some developments in its final few minutes, there is a non-zero chance that it’s Doing Something…
Seasonal First Impressions: THE GENE OF AI
Part medical procedural, part one man’s quest to clear his mother’s name.
Seasonal First Impressions: Searching for the Real Monsters in UNDEAD MURDER FARCE
Undead Murder Farce’s first episode gives few clues as to what the show might become, but for now, it’s gothic and wonderfully theatrical. Maybe that’s all it needs…
Anime Orbit: The Empathy of Invitation in Episode 3 of BANG DREAM! IT’S MYGO!!!!!
One of the year’s most remarkably successful exercises in compassion, BanG Dream! MyGO!!!!! invites you into the shoes of autistic singer Tomori.
Seasonal First Impressions: What The Hell is Going in With THE GIRL I LIKE FORGOT HER GLASSES?
Listen to me, Studio GoHands. I am speaking directly into your ear right now….
Seasonal First Impressions: The Radiant Magic of YOHANE THE PARAHELION -SUNSHINE IN THE MIRROR-
The third fantasy idol fusion anime in just four years gets off to a strong, brilliantly-produced start in this delightfully sunny premiere episode.
YOHANE THE PARHELION -SUNSHINE in the MIRROR-, Love Live! Sunshine!!, RADIANT
(REVIEW) MAGICAL DESTROYERS Flames Out Forever
Here they sang about tomorrow, but tomorrow never came.
The Manga Shelf: KINDERGARTEN WARS and The Struggle to be Loved
Today on The Manga Shelf, a new shonen title, the struggle to transcend your influences, and the root cause of it all.
Anime Orbit: The Immaculate Vibes of PlutoTV’s 24/7 SAILOR MOON Channel
Fighting evil by moonlight, on a loop ’til the end of time. —
Cessation of Coverage for OSHI NO KO, Effective Immediately
Hello, friends. Sorry for the lack of communication recently. I want to keep this very short and to the point, since my intention is not to moralize at…