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Winter 2020 End of Season Rankings
Before my fading memories of this Winter’s anime are all overwritten by new Spring first episodes, here are my thoughts on their endings. For the first time ever,…
Summer 2020 End of Season Rankings
Time for my final thoughts on the anime of Summer 2020… plus a few that technically started in Spring. This year has been a mess. Still, the small…
Autumn 2020 End of Season Rankings
Happy New Year, blog readers! Normally I’d make a dedicated post on the subject, but I’ve got so many overdue posts to finish already, unfinished business from 2020.…
Spring 2020 End of Season Rankings
The last three months were no doubt the weirdest of my life so far, so I feel more thankful than ever to the creators of these series for…
Fall 2020: The end of the rest…
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2021… The end of the Season!
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End of the Year Awards for 2020
This year was pretty unpredictable, but in terms of the anime I watched it was actually perhaps the most consistent year of watching anime that I’ve had thus…
Log Time Seasonal Podcast | End of Winter 2020 — My Favorite Anime Made It to the End of the Season!
The Winter 2020 season ended on quite a lot of strong notes! There were a lot of contenders for what we would talk about on this wrap-up cast,…
The First Third of the Season Draws to an End | Winter 2020 Anime TKO
This is it! The last round of the Winter 2020 Anime TKO before the first culling! Where is everyone finishing for this first third of the season? See…
State of the Season – Fall 2020
Mario: With 3 house-moving among the staff and everyone rushing to get their whatchamacallit done before Christmas, this Fall season (and Spring here!) has undeniably been…
State of the Season – Spring 2020
Amun: Welcome to this lost spring of anime 2020. I hope everyone is staying safe and watching this B-team of a season. While we didn’t get the heavy…
State of the Season – Winter 2020
Wooper: Give yourselves a round of applause for making it to mid-February, everyone! Your reward is our third ever State of the Season post, where our regular contributors…
State of the Season – Summer 2020
Armitage: With the entire world slowly returning to order after being kicked in the shin and knocked around in 19 ways, it’s only fitting that we check-in to…
End of Summer 2020 Lucky Boxes!
I need to do a doujinshi clean up, and to do that, I need to make room to do a doujinshi cleanup, so once again, it’s Lucky Box…
Train To The End of The World, Season Finale
Of the several, Yuri, Yuri-adjacent and Yuri-adjacent-adjacent series (which I differentiate internally from “Cute Girls Doing Cute Things Cutely’ series, which is why I keep using phrases as…
Spring 2023 End of Season Rankings
Here are my final thoughts on last season’s anime; quite a few changes to the rankings this time, and a couple of new entries too! Nothing here is…
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Spring 2021 End of Season Rankings
We’re only a few days into the Summer anime season, and I’m already missing the Spring – the new lineup looks so small and mediocre in comparison, with…
Autumn 2023 End of Season Rankings
Pretty much all the winter anime have now aired, and (I think) I’ve got a lineup I’m happy with! But that can wait for a future post, this…
Spring 2018 End of Season Overview
Whew. Sorry for the long break from blogging but we’re back to wrap up last season and then shortly to move on to Summer. So lets see how…
Dragon Pilot: Hisone & Masotan, Hugtto! Precure, Katana Maidens ~ Toji No Miko, Comic Girls, Flip Flappers
Autumn 2024 End of Season Rankings
Right, enough slacking, let’s get this published before I fully forget what happened at the end of these anime! Especially the ones that are still ongoing, it’s harder…
Winter 2024 End of Season Rankings
With the exception of a few standouts, winter 2024 was a very mediocre anime season. That, or I made poor choices when deciding what to skip, who knows?…
Winter 2023 End of Season Rankings
Enough procrastinating, here are my very belated final thoughts on this Winter’s anime. A lot of great series, but it’s amazing how quickly I start to forget things…
Winter 2022 End of Season Rankings
Time to wrap up the Winter season, though so far Spring has me wrapping up far more than the last few months did in order to keep warm!…
Autumn 2021 End of Season Rankings
10 days into the new year already! I’ve already picked up half my lineup for the Winter 2022 season, but first, let’s wrap up last year’s series lists…
Winter 2021 End of Season Rankings
Here are my thoughts on all the anime series I picked up last season – lineup is exactly the same as for my mid-season thoughts, except that I…
Winter 2018 End of Season Overview
Well, the first season of the new year has come to a close, and what a season it was! With two shows that are easy contenders for best…
Ms. Koizumi Loves Ramen Noodles, A Place Further Than the Universe, Katana Maidens ~ Toji No Miko, Citrus, Hakumei and Mikochi
Summer 2023 End of Season Rankings
I thought this season was never going to end – who gave Nanatsu no Maken ga Shihai suru permission to be 15 episodes long!? :razz: I’m not waiting…
Summer 2022 End of Season Rankings
Apologies if this one seems rushed and sparce; not only are my memories of these series being quickly overwritten by Autumn’s far better lineup, but also my original…
Summer 2018 End of Season Overview
Well, I never did a mid-season review this season, mostly because I’m not watching much and I was really busy around that time. But now that the season…
Revue Starlight, Encouragement of Climb, Happy Sugar Life, Harukana Receive, Cells at Work!
Autumn 2019 End of Season Rankings
Before I share my thoughts on the year as a whole (let alone the past decade), here’s what I ended up watching to completion this season! As usual,…
Winter 2025 End of Season Rankings
It’s official: 2025 sucks. But as ever, anime provides a welcome escape and distraction from the real world. Here’s what got me through the first quarter~
Summer 2021 End of Season Rankings
Despite my initial pessimism about the Summer season, there ended up being quite a few good shows, though none that really stood out. Despite this, I’m going to…
Spring 2024 End of Season Rankings
Now with an actual intro! A bit later than I’d have liked, but last week was super busy (in a very good way). Hopefully the extra time will…
Summer 2024 End of Season Rankings
Wow, this one got late! I’m glad I managed to get it done before the end of October at least, otherwise my autumn mid-season post might have gone…
Birdie Wing, End of Season Review
“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness,…
Autumn 2025 End of Season Rankings
Okay, I’ve put this post off for long enough… did everyone else find the autumn season anime really underwhelming on average, or did I just skip the good…
Spring 2025 End of Season Rankings
What an amazing anime season that was! It does help that there are so many to choose from these days, and that I’m no longer forcing myself to…
Black Butler, The Apothecary Diaries, Apocalypse Hotel, Once Upon a Witch's Death
Summer 2025 End of Season Rankings
Temperatures are plummeting, clocks have turned back, and it’s getting very dark very early. Yep, summer sure has ended. Here are my thoughts on all the anime I…
DAN DA DAN, Grand Blue Dreaming, The Summer Hikaru Died, Nyaight of the Living Cat, Turkey!-Time to Strike-
Spring 2022 End of Season Rankings
Spring 2022 was a great season for anime. There were several series that I wanted to pick up, but didn’t have time to follow weekly, which I’m determined…
Natsume’s Book of Friends – Season Seven End of Season Thoughts
So this post is coming out a bit later then I initially anticipated. I had faithfully followed Natsume on a weekly basis when it first started airing last…
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End-of-the-Year Season 2 Rapid Fire Round
Well it’s the last Monday in 2021, and while normally this is a day for a full series review, I’ve decided that right at the end here, I…
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Episode 15: The End of The End of Evangelion
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Winter 2020 Week 2 Roundup: The State of the Season
With the season kicking off, how does each show stack up?
Fall 2020 Season Preview and State of the Blog
With summer coming to an end soon, the fall season is finally here. It’s time to focus on what I plan to watch this season. Also, I want…
Log Time Seasonal Podcast | End of Summer 2020 — Summer of Suffering
Get your band-aids and tissues ready, because the end of the Summer 2020 anime season has come out swinging. And good god, is it swinging hard. Thankfully, we’re…
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The End of Teppu
Teppu, the female-centric MMA manga by OOTA Moare-sensei, will end in the August issue (July 7) of good! Afternoon. Or so various sources tell me.
The End of Evangelion
If you, like me, finished the main series thinking “Well, I’m not really sure what happened, but there’s another movie to wrap up those loose ends” then this…
Seraph of the End
By Andrew Osmond This time it’s vampires. In recent years, we’ve seen civilisation ended umpteen times over, often by zombie apocalypses, but now the bloodsuckers get a turn.…
End of the Line
It’s been bugging me that I haven’t officially closed the blog for a while now. Perhaps I thought I’d eventually dive back in head first and resurrect like …
