Looking Forward to Winter 2020 (1st Day of Anime 2019)

"Kanye for President" jokes aside...can you believe it? We're almost at 2020! The roadtrip I kept mentioning? It got suddenly cancelled. It was far too hazardous on part of the planned route and one of the motels my dad had tried booking into was uncontactable (presumably) because of the same hazards, so...that's why you're (unexpectedly)...

A Magical 2019 Pt. II: The Spellbook Awards (3rd Day of Anime 2019)

By popular demand...or maybe just Derek's...the Awards are back (and harder to nominate for than ever, considering the AniList end-of-season forum posts have essentially died off due to lack of people keeping them alive). There are less joke awards than 2017's, but regardless, have fun with them... ...oh, and if you didn't figure it out...

A Magical 2019 Pt. I (4th Day of Anime 2019)

This is the yearly rankings post. Just to make it faster for myself, I've left the month that I finished at the end of each entry of these non-simulcast commentary lists. Top (?) 10 Worst Dropped Anime According to My AniList Rating Due to the fact an anime needs a rating to be eligible in...

2 Years of the Spellbook! (5th Day of Anime 2019)

Another delayed milestone. Part 1 of the saga here. After suddenly having to write most of the 12 Days of Aniblogging in advance, Aria was pretty tired of writing...but there was still work to do. Specifically, a skipped milestone last month meant that she had to look at the Spellbook's stats for the new year....

5 Years of Simulcasts (6th Day of Anime 2019)

I've been hyping this milestone up for a while, haven't I? Anime that are eligible here are the ones I watched as they were airing. Ths means everything on the "Anime by Season" sheet of my simulcast commentary document, including the TV short series. Meta context: I finished writing up the absolutely huge A Magical...

I Properly Delved Into the World of Boys’ Love/Yaoi (7th Day of Anime 2019)

After hitting pause on DakaIchi last year, I made some better efforts to look into the genre and ended up consuming some surprisingly decent works. The fact I have enough works to write about in 2019 in a post like this is already enough of a miracle, considering how I didn't even bother with romance stories...

I’m Not Suited to the Speed-Watching Life (8th Day of Anime 2019)

I started playing Chibi Tamago earlier this year, but all it's done is make me that little bit less sane... At one point, I discovered the MyAnimeList watching challenges and thought that maybe it would be cool to participate in them (but that was out of the question since I would rather not get an...

Predictions for 2020 – 2029 in Anime (9th Day of Anime 2019)

The predictions are partially inspired by sdshamsel of Ogiue Maniax. This is the first time I'm going to try and predict the future (well, moreso than when I was trying to guess future episodes of Boueibu on Tumblr). So, I predict: Zenonzard isn't going to go down well... I want to hope that isekai will...

9 Years of Manga (10th Day of Anime 2019)

Okay, here's the scenario. I was young - far too young - in late 2010 and borrowed a volume of manga, after having been introduced around that time to the Wii game which brought me back to anime. (Well, there might still be records from 2009, but 2010 is the date of the earliest records...

A Cynic’s Outlook on Christmas, Plus a Late 1st Year of OWLS (12th Day of Anime 2019)

OWLS is fun, exactly as I thought it would be, but it was also pretty clear when I bent prompts to things I wanted to write about... Here's the drill - I'll open with the more usual OWLS content and then cap it off with the first list of the 12 Days. Basically, all you...