The first impressions of the first episodes of winter 2025 seasonal anime; the article where I agonizingly cover mediocre anime so that you don’t have to burn your hands on that stove. In truth, it’s always a fun exercise to evaluate anime you would typically never watch (for better and worse), though it’s been aContinue reading “Winter 2025 First Impressions – Part 1”
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Winter 2025 Seasonals Preview – Anime I’m looking forward to
Another season, another overabundance of television series hastily trying to match the industry’s unsustainable pace. Nevertheless, I’m going to try to keep up with 2025 anime and its trends, its up-and-coming staff members, and its success stories. For better and worse, there is no better window in contemporary anime but to participate in the seasonalsContinue reading “Winter 2025 Seasonals Preview – Anime I’m looking forward to”
MAYWATCH – October 2024
This inaugaral Maywatch edition features Gurren Lagann’s otaku delight, a reminiscence upon key Kyoto Animation figure Yoshiji Kigami, the Utena-isms in Ouran Koukou Host Club’s first episode, a deep dive into star animator Naoki Yoshibe and his contributions on ZUTOMAYO’s music videos, 2008 Hatsune Miku fanmade music videos, the slow decline towards insanity in Aku no Hana, and delinquent camaraderie in Kyou Kara ore Wa!!
Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt review
BITCH GIRLS 2 BITCH: Dead serious when it comes to screwing around.
Kakegurui Review
Becoming entangled in each other / Stealing from each other / Deceiving each other / Exposing each other / Wanting from each other / Going mad with each other
JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure: Diamond is Unbreakable Review
You have the power to do the world a kindness nobody else can.
Summer 2024: Seasonal Anime First Impressions Part 2
Second part of the Summer 2024 Seasonal First Impressions, including premieres of the life-affirming Elusive Samurai, the quietly storming Shoushimin Series, the sleeper hit Sakuna of Rice and Ruin, the sweet sugar rush of The Lieutenant and Magical Girl Used to be Archenemies, as well as coverage on the nice Dahlia in Bloom, confusing yet interesting Nanare Hananare, and more!
Summer 2024: Seasonal Anime First Impressions Part 1
First impressions include the middling Isekai Suicide Squad, the unsettling wish fulfillment of My Wife Has No Emotion, and the genre shortcomings of Twilight Out of Focus.
Ghost in the Shell (1995): Motoko Kusanagi’s Identity in the Information Age
“When the advent of computers made the externalization of memories possible, you should have taken its meaning more seriously.”
Alice in Deadly School (2021)
“Either way, we die,”; 2021’s anime of the year is Shigeyasu Yamauchi’s already forgotten anti-establishment coming-of-age tragedy.
MEGAWATCH 