Looking at how Kyoto Animation’s first seasonal anime series since the 2019 arson attack turned out. — In the Winter season of 2017, Kyoto Animation, arguably one of, if not the, top anime studios in Japan, released their adaptation of Miss Kobayashi’s Dragon Maid, based on the manga by “Coolkyousinnjya”, the creator of I Can’t Understand What My Husband Is Saying, a cute little romantic comedy that…

In which I revisit my four “Early Impressions” shows of the year, to see how those impressions held up and how the shows turned out. — Over the course of this year, I began helping my fellow writers over at Anitay with producing articles for their “Early Impressions” series for each of the four anime seasons. Amongst the various year-end reviews, I thought it would be good to go back and revisit the four shows I…

Will Police in a Pod go ahead and make our day, or is it simply a puff piece on the tough job of being a cop? — In Machiyama’s war on crime, the worst criminal offenders are pursued by the detectives of the Criminal Affairs Division. These are not their stories. In America for some years now, a popular epithet has been “ACAB” — “All Cops Are Bastards,” in reference to a growing, or at least more…

It’s Christmas again, senpai! Roll out the Padoru, Padoru! — It’s Christmas again, senpai! Roll out the Padoru, Padoru!

How have my anime watching and manga reading habits changed over the last few years? Well, let’s take a look… — How have my anime watching and manga reading habits changed over the last few years? Well, let’s take a look… Welcome to “12 Days of Anime 2021”, a writing challenge in which I look to have an article a day for 12 days leading up to Christmas, all centered in…

Reviewing MyAnimeList to see what shows coming up in the first half of 2022 sound like they might be possibilities for watching. — This may be confirmation bias, but especially the second half of 2021 felt like it was filled with sequel series. While several of these were for shows that I did want to watch, this in part contributed to my “lighter” watchload this year. …

Ahh, the old “Favorite Anime Themes” post. A tried-and-true classic returns for 2021. — Ahh, the old “Favorite Anime Themes” post. A tried-and-true classic, although last year, I didn’t have enough “competition” or so for the yearly post, prompting my “all-time” lists. Still not a lot of choices this year, but I thought I’d look back and see what ones I definitely liked and…

Discussing my reactions to watching Shirobako and Non Non Biyori this past year. — In addition to seasonal anime, I sometimes even get a chance to try and catch up on parts of my backlog. …

In which our intrepid hero finishes his reviews of the shows he watched this year, and gives each a grade. — For today’s article, I’ll finish up my reviews of the shows I’ve watched this year, and giving each a grade. As a reminder, all opinions here are my own, and they’re not all going to be super in-depth. …