Welcome to the sixth consecutive year of the AAA – the one-woman award ceremony where the dress code doesn’t matter, the tickets are free, and the results are guaranteed to be 100% objective. Continue reading “AAA2018: The Artemis Anime Awards”
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Anime Taste Testing: Winter 2019 Mid-Season Roundup
We’re now exactly halfway through the season for the majority of new shows airing, while those titles that began airing in the previous season have about 6 episodes to go as well. Let’s check in to see how they’re all faring. (Boogiepop wa Warawanai, Meiji Tokyo Renka, Revisions, and Grimms Notes were all dropped after the first episode.) Continue reading “Anime Taste Testing: Winter 2019 Mid-Season Roundup”
Anime Taste Testing: Irozuku Sekai no Ashita kara, Sword Art Online Alicization
I love me some fantasy, but the more a genre appeals to me, the pickier I tend to be about it. Let’s see how these next two shows fared in that regard. Continue reading “Anime Taste Testing: Irozuku Sekai no Ashita kara, Sword Art Online Alicization”
Anime Taste Testing: Spring 2018 (Part III)
Now that we’re around the halfway mark for the season, with most shows having recently aired either their fifth or sixth episode, let’s check in to see how they’ve been faring since their respective premieres. Continue reading “Anime Taste Testing: Spring 2018 (Part III)”
Anime Taste Testing: Spring 2018 (Part II)
As I noted last week, my usual first impressions post covering the premiere episodes of the new anime season was split into two this season, as I ended up checking out around 20 titles – double my usual number. This second post covers all titles released from April 8th onwards, while everything released before that can be found here. Continue reading “Anime Taste Testing: Spring 2018 (Part II)”
Anime Taste Testing: Summer 2014 (Part II)
Welp, already around the halfway point for most of these titles? Time really flies when you’re having fun following way too many shows for comfort. Nonetheless, I’m pretty satisfied with the line-up I now have – and if I’m still slightly unsure about a couple of them, the fact that all but two of these anime are set to be 12 episodes or less makes things a lot easier to juggle. (For people reading this who don’t know which anime I picked up to begin with, you can check out part one of this post here.) Continue reading “Anime Taste Testing: Summer 2014 (Part II)”
Anime Taste Testing: Summer 2014
Ladies and gentlemen, summer is officially upon us. RUN, DON’T WALK. (Actually, you should probably walk because it’s really damn hot out there.) But the point is, summer has finally made it and apart from the arrival of all the fun things about the season you all know and love, like gross insects and back sweat, there’s also a whooole lot of new anime I’ve got on my to-watch list. Significantly more than in any other season to date, in fact – in part because there are so many sequels/remakes that I’m actually watching for a change, and in part because there’s a far larger spread of female-targeted titles than normal. Continue reading “Anime Taste Testing: Summer 2014”
Anime Taste Testing: Winter 2013/14
You know, I really didn’t anticipate such a solid winter line-up. Based purely on the first versions of the charts that came out, I imagined something of a snooze-fest – and to be honest, I don’t think we have any truly ground-breaking shows here. However, there are also very few shows that I’m dropping. Normally I pick 10 or so titles and end up either disliking or losing interest in at least half of them, whereas this time around I picked fewer titles but am happy with nearly all of them so far. Perhaps it’s not a season of standouts so much as it is a season of surprising consistency. Continue reading “Anime Taste Testing: Winter 2013/14”
Review: Sword Art Online
I’ll admit that I only first started watching Sword Art Online because so many of the kids I’m teaching here in Japan were into it. Sure, I had viewed the trailer with mild curiosity, but for whatever reason it just didn’t seem all that appealing at the time. In the end, after several earnest recommendations from junior high school students and fellow anime fans alike, I caved and gave it a go. And despite much of the negative attention this series has garnered, I’m really, really glad I did. Continue reading “Review: Sword Art Online”
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