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Anime Orbit Weekly [6/5/22]
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ESTAB LIFE: Great Escape, The Executioner and Her Way of Life
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Anime Orbit Weekly [6/19/22]
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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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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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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.
The Demon Girl Next Door, Summer Time Rendering, Ya Boy Kongming!
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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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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
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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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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…
2.5 Dimensional Seduction, Alya Sometimes Hides Her Feelings in Russian, Code Geass: Rozé of the Recapture, MAYONAKA PUNCH, My Deer Friend Nokotan
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The Weekly Orbit [7/29/24]
This week; a weird amount of talking about anime EDs.
Alya Sometimes Hides Her Feelings in Russian, Quality Assurance in Another World, The Elusive Samurai
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The Weekly Orbit [3/4/25]
This week: Ave Mujica, Gundam GQuuuuuuX, and yuri manga.
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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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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…
The Grimm Variations, Jellyfish Can’t Swim in the Night, Delicious in Dungeon, Girls Band Cry, Mysterious Disappearances
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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…
Train to the End of the World, Jellyfish Can’t Swim in the Night, A Salad Bowl of Eccentrics, Asura, Asura Cryin'
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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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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…
Girls Band Cry, Mysterious Disappearances, Pokémon, Ruin Explorers, Train to the End of the World
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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.
Makeine: Too Many Losing Heroines!, MAYONAKA PUNCH, The Elusive Samurai, BanG Dream!
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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
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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
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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,…
Code Geass: Rozé of the Recapture, Mysterious Disappearances, Pokémon
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The Weekly Orbit [8/11/24]
This week: band girls, giant robots, theater kids, and demonic samurai.
Code Geass: Rozé of the Recapture, The Elusive Samurai, BanG Dream!
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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
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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.
Alya Sometimes Hides Her Feelings in Russian, Code Geass: Rozé of the Recapture, Magic Knight Rayearth, Quality Assurance in Another World
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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
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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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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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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…