Breaking Down the Visions in Mashiro no Oto

By “visions”, I mean two things – mental images and dreams. Mashiro no Oto does what all good series about obscure topics do – it sucks you in, begging you to google the things it’s going on about. However, that effect has to be created by a strong framework. In Piano no Mori, this is...

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...

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...

Looking Back on Summer 2019

Yikes...I almost forgot to wrap up the season again. I've finished all the shows bar Dr Stone, so here's the last impressions of summer 2019. Previous impressions on the season: Summer 2019 First Impressions: One Demon Lord Too Many Summer 2019 First Impressions: The Final Stretch Random Musings on Given’s First Episode Summer 2019 Mid-Season...

Animanga Festival #5 – Taking a Journey through the Anime and Manga Worlds

Yes, I'm part of the Animanga Festival. Meta context: I skipped #2 because in 2015 - that is, before I made the jump to WordPress - I made a Tumblr post on this very topic and it reflects both my naivete and its rather fillery nature in the context of the blog it's hosted on. I'm not...

Summer 2019 Mid-Season Check-In

Normally I wouldn't do a mid-season check-in, but I've come to realise I don't really know what I love this season anymore since I just watched a few weeks' worth of anime over the past few days... After all my lamenting of being behind in this Demon Slayer collab post, the side effects are starting to...

Random Musings on Given’s First Episode

Is Given going to be like Orange, where you discover why the anime is called what it is at the end...? After reading a comment from Prattle that said he didn't find much coverage of Given and really liking the first episode (even if it is coming in at the lower end of my rankings -...

Summer 2019 First Impressions: The Final Stretch

I don't think I have any snarky puns for the post title anymore.Previously, I watched Sacred Beasts, Astra, Maou-sama Retry! and UchiMusume. The post after that had Fire Force, Dr Stone, Granbelm and Ensemble Stars. I'll be skipping the recap of DanMachi (I saw s1 at the start of the Spellbook's existence!), so then it's Arifureta, Cop Craft, DanMachi,...

Hyping Up Summer 2019

It feels like an eternity since I did the last one... The Usual Spiel If a show doesn’t appear here, it may show up if it gets favourable ratings before I begin the summer 2019 season. Bold is Crunchyroll, underlined is Funimation (or my local sublicensor) and strikethrough is locked behind the paywall at Sentai/HiDive...