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The Weekly Orbit [2/11/25]

On this week’s Weekly Orbit: The return of Flower and Asura. Plus: more toxic yuri than you can shake a spider lily at.

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Feb 11, 2025 • Subscribe

Asura, Flower and Asura

The Weekly Orbit [2/24/25]

Things are finally looking the slightest bit up for Ave Mujica, but is that the light at the end of the tunnel we see, or the headlights of…

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Feb 24, 2025 • Subscribe

Asura, Flower and Asura

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…

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Apr 8, 2024 • Subscribe

Metallic Rouge, Sengoku Youko, The Wrong Way to Use Healing Magic, Train to the End of the World, A Salad Bowl of Eccentrics

The Weekly Orbit [4/15/24]

Things are mostly smooth sailing as we move into the second week of the new season.

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Apr 15, 2024 • Subscribe

A Salad Bowl of Eccentrics, Bucchigiri, Delicious in Dungeon, Himitsu no AiPri, Mysterious Disappearances

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…

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Apr 29, 2024 • Subscribe

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

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Apr 22, 2024 • Subscribe

The Grimm Variations, Mysterious Disappearances, Delicious in Dungeon, Girls Band Cry, Himitsu no AiPri

The Weekly Orbit [6/3/24]

In this week’s Weekly Orbit, the anime girl band wars heat back up, and Train to The End of The World gets back on track. Plus, retrospective coverage…

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Jun 3, 2024 • Subscribe

Train to the End of the World, Jellyfish Can’t Swim in the Night, A Salad Bowl of Eccentrics, Asura, Asura Cryin'

Anime Orbit Weekly [4/24/22]

This week: the sincerity of Ya Boy Kongming! and the expert eeriness of Summertime Rendering. Plus: Estab-Life gets a dub and it’s actually pretty good.

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Apr 24, 2022 • Subscribe

The Demon Girl Next Door, Summer Time Rendering, Ya Boy Kongming!

Anime Orbit Weekly [4/17/22]

This week: Birdie Wing gets surprisingly sane, Estab-Life gets pervy, and Executioner keeps it on the level. Also; some non-seasonal anime for once.

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Apr 17, 2022 • Subscribe

Witch Craft Works, The Executioner and Her Way of Life

Weekly Orbit Archive

Here you’ll find an archive of every series I’ve written about in the Weekly Orbit. These are listed alphabetically—by the English title if available, by the most common…

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Jun 13, 2024 • Subscribe

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.

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May 6, 2024 • Subscribe

Pretty Cure, Train to the End of the World, Delicious in Dungeon

The Weekly Orbit [5/20/24]

In this probably too-long edition of The Weekly Orbit; what the hell is going on in Train to The End of The World? Plus, seasonal highlights, coverage of…

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May 20, 2024 • Subscribe

Asura, Asura Cryin', Gabriel DropOut

The Weekly Orbit [7/22/24]

The Weekly Orbit is a weekly column collecting and refining my more casual anime- and manga-related thoughts from the previous week. Mostly, these are taken from my tumblr blog, and…

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Jul 22, 2024 • Subscribe

2.5 Dimensional Seduction, Alya Sometimes Hides Her Feelings in Russian, Code Geass: Rozé of the Recapture, MAYONAKA PUNCH, My Deer Friend Nokotan

The Weekly Orbit [7/29/24]

This week; a weird amount of talking about anime EDs.

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Jul 29, 2024 • Subscribe

Alya Sometimes Hides Her Feelings in Russian, Quality Assurance in Another World, The Elusive Samurai

The Weekly Orbit [5/27/24]

It’s the week of no regrets here on the Weekly Orbit, with gripping, emotionally intense episodes from Girls Band Cry and….Wonderful Precure? Plus, Jellyfish Can’t Swim in the…

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May 27, 2024 • Subscribe

Girls Band Cry, Pokémon, Pretty Cure

The Weekly Orbit [6/17/24]

This week is all about the gay girl band arms race. Girls Band Cry delivers the single best episode of the season, and Jellyfish Can’t Swim in The…

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Jun 17, 2024 • Subscribe

The Grimm Variations, Jellyfish Can’t Swim in the Night, Delicious in Dungeon, Girls Band Cry, Mysterious Disappearances

The Weekly Orbit [6/24/24]

Three anime end as the season starts winding down. Which had the best finale between Jellyfish Can’t Swim in the Night, A Salad Bowl of Eccentrics, and Shuumatsu…

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Jun 24, 2024 • Subscribe

Girls Band Cry, Mysterious Disappearances, Pokémon, Ruin Explorers, Train to the End of the World

The Weekly Orbit [8/5/24]

This week, emotions run high with vampire tragedies, theater kids at each other’s throats, and shot-down love confessions.

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Aug 5, 2024 • Subscribe

Makeine: Too Many Losing Heroines!, MAYONAKA PUNCH, The Elusive Samurai, BanG Dream!

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…

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May 13, 2024 • Subscribe

Delicious in Dungeon, Girls Band Cry, Mysterious Disappearances, Pokémon, A Salad Bowl of Eccentrics

The Weekly Orbit [7/1/24]

This week, in the inter-season doldrums, we take a look at the second Rozé of the Recapture episode and a particularly great Pokémon Horizons episode. Plus, Mysterious Disappearances,…

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Jul 1, 2024 • Subscribe

Code Geass: Rozé of the Recapture, Mysterious Disappearances, Pokémon

The Weekly Orbit [8/11/24]

This week: band girls, giant robots, theater kids, and demonic samurai.

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Aug 12, 2024 • Subscribe

Code Geass: Rozé of the Recapture, The Elusive Samurai, BanG Dream!

The Weekly Orbit [7/15/24]

This week on a late-night edition of the Weekly Orbit; isekai new and old, rejected scripts, and a cameo that threw me for a complete loop.

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Jul 16, 2024 • Subscribe

Alya Sometimes Hides Her Feelings in Russian, Code Geass: Rozé of the Recapture, Magic Knight Rayearth, Quality Assurance in Another World

The Weekly Orbit [2/2/2025]

In the first Weekly Orbit column in a few months, we dive into the warped world of Ave Mujica. Plus: horse girls and (even more) toxic yuri.

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Feb 2, 2025 • Subscribe

BanG Dream!

The Weekly Orbit [6/10/24]

The Weekly Orbit is a weekly column collecting and refining my more casual anime- and manga-related thoughts from the previous week. Mostly, these are taken from my tumblr blog, and…

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Jun 10, 2024 • Subscribe

Rozen Maiden, Train to the End of the World, Delicious in Dungeon, Mysterious Disappearances, Pokémon

Anime Orbit Weekly [6/5/22]

This week; the emotional core of Nijigasaki High School Idol Club, a farewell to Estab Life, a brief visit with Birdie Wing, and a shockingly strong episode from…

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Jun 5, 2022 • Subscribe

ESTAB LIFE: Great Escape

Anime Orbit Weekly [5/15/22]

This week; I am a sucker for pop idols with sad backstories. Plus; Executioner, Estab-Life, and…is Birdie Wing based?

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May 15, 2022 • Subscribe

ESTAB LIFE: Great Escape, The Executioner and Her Way of Life

Anime Orbit Weekly [5/1/22]

This week on Anime Orbit Weekly; Birdie Wing cannot stop topping itself, Nijigasaki stumbles into a low point, and the low-key merits of Shikimori Isn’t Just a Cutie!

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May 1, 2022 • Subscribe

The Executioner and Her Way of Life

Anime Orbit Weekly [5/22/22]

Anime Orbit Weekly is a weekly column where I summarize my journey through anime, manga, and the related spheres of popular culture over the past week. Expect spoilers for covered ma…

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May 22, 2022 • Subscribe

ESTAB LIFE: Great Escape

Anime Orbit Weekly [6/19/22]

This week: a springtime of thrills draws towards its end. Plus; Birdie Wing prepares for its last round.

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Jun 19, 2022 • Subscribe

The Executioner and Her Way of Life, Summer Time Rendering

Weekly Digest 4/25/21 – Shadows House, Shakunetsu Kabaddi

Anime giveth with one hand, and taketh with the other. Read more

Lost in Anime

Apr 25, 2021 • Subscribe

SHADOWS HOUSE, Burning Kabaddi

Weekly Review — Psycho Pass 3 Episode 4

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Biggest In Japan

Nov 19, 2019 • Subscribe

Kingdom 3 – 25

Kingdom has really come a long way. Read more

Lost in Anime

Oct 11, 2021 • Subscribe

Kingdom Season 3

Site Update: The End of Anime Orbit Weekly & Other Future Plans

As one door closes, another opens.

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Jun 28, 2022 • Subscribe

Weekly Digest 4/25/23 – My Home Hero, Ao no Orchestra

Nothing takes you out of the moment like bad CGI, and that was some seriously bad CGI. Read more

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Apr 26, 2023 • Subscribe

Ao no Orchestra, My Home Hero

Kingdom 4 – 24-25

There's no disguising what this dream of Zheng's really is no matter how noble its supposed aim. Read more

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Sep 25, 2022 • Subscribe

Kingdom Season 4

Manga the Week of 4/16/25

SEAN: Yen’s April has already started to slip into May, but fear not, there’s plenty here for your Easter week. Yen On has three debuts. Bye Bye Earth…

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Apr 10, 2025 • Subscribe

maboroshi

Manga the Week of 4/9/25

SEAN: The Easter Rabbit is busy hiding manga all around the area for children to find. Let’s see what they might be… Seven Seas is having a quiet…

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Apr 3, 2025 • Subscribe

Black Summoner, Chivalry of a Failed Knight, Girl from Phantasia

Manga the Week of 4/23/25

SEAN: It’s still April, and there’s still manga. A lot of it. ASH: Time is really weird these days; I could have sworn April was almost over. ANNA:…

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Apr 18, 2025 • Subscribe

They Were 11, Hells, Hellsing, She Professed Herself Pupil of the Wise Man, The Case Files of Jeweler Richard

Manga the Week of 4/2/25

SEAN: Ah, time to begin April, the best month. MICHELLE: Indeed. SEAN: Yen On has some leftover titles from March, as we see I’ve Been Killing Slimes for…

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Mar 27, 2025 • Subscribe

Anemone, Kirara, Princess Knight

Manga the Week of 4/30/25

SEAN: As April becomes May, we have a week equally divided into both. Yen has some stragglers. From Yen On we get Bottom-Tier Character Tomozaki 11 and Wolf…

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Apr 24, 2025 • Subscribe

Bottom-Tier Character Tomozaki, mono

Bookshelf Briefs 4/25/20

Caste Heaven, Vol. 1 | By Chise Ogawa | SuBLime – I have to wonder why I read this. The warning signs are right there on the back…

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Apr 26, 2020 • Subscribe

Bookshelf Briefs 1/4/25

Bocchi the Rock!, Vol. 5 | By Aki Hamazi | Yen Press – A book of two halves, the first half is the usual 4-koma stuff, as the…

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Jan 4, 2025 • Subscribe

BOCCHI THE ROCK!

Bookshelf Briefs 5/4/25

Assassin & Cinderella, Vol. 1 | By Yuzo Natsuno | Square Enix Manga – I was honestly expecting this to be a lot more smutty than it ended…

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May 4, 2025 • Subscribe

Bookshelf Briefs 4/14/25

Blue Box, Vol. 14 | By Kouji Miura | Viz Media – At last, this sports manga has returned to being a sports manga. Not that romance is…

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Apr 15, 2025 • Subscribe

Blue Box

Manga the Week of 3/25/20

SEAN: It’s getting near the end of March. Are you getting some manga delivered to you? Dark Horse debuts the Dangan Ronpa 2: Goodbye Despair manga, which I…

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Mar 19, 2020 • Subscribe

Manga the Week of 3/26/25

SEAN: The end of March, so let’s calm down and be less windy, shall we? ASH: It has been a little ridiculous at times. SEAN: Airship has print…

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Mar 20, 2025 • Subscribe

Hellsing, Classroom of the Elite, Hells

Manga the Week of 3/19/25

SEAN: March was just warming up, now it’s really getting down to business. ASH: As it should. SEAN: Yen On has one debut, a one-shot. Did You Think…

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Mar 13, 2025 • Subscribe

Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon?

Manga the Week of 3/12/25

SEAN: March blows ever onward, and so does the pile of manga. Airship has print releases for Easygoing Territory Defense by the Optimistic Lord 4 and Loner Life…

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Mar 7, 2025 • Subscribe

Ayakashi Triangle, Hells, Hellsing, Loner Life in Another World, Ayakashi

Manga the Week of 3/5/25

SEAN: It’s March! The time when all the AO3 writers get out their Lion/Lamb omegaverse stories. MICHELLE: It had not occurred to me that this existed, but surely…

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Feb 27, 2025 • Subscribe

Lycoris Recoil, Uncle from Another World

Manga the Week of 3/25/26

SEAN: The end of March is nearing, and will it be a lion or a lamb? ASH: Seems pretty lion-ish of late. SEAN: Yen On has two spinoff…

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6 days ago • Subscribe

Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End