Anime roundup 3/24/2016: No Good Deed Goes Unpunished
In this week’s viewing: BBK/BRNK gets fuzzy about heroism and villainy, ERASED turns the screws again, and more!
Anime roundup 3/17/2016: Players at the Game of People
In this week’s viewing: master manipulators on display in Erased, Active Raid, and Gundam, and more!
Anime roundup 3/7/2016: Pass the Idiot Ball
In this week’s viewing: Active Raid gets a lot of entertainment out of a stupid villain, ERASED gets it from a less-than-intelligent hero, and more!
Anime roundup 3/3/2016: X Marks the Plot
In this week’s viewing: ERASED and Iron-Blooded Orphans are in a race to see who can give away the plot first, and more!
Anime roundup 2/25/2016: Suspicious
In this week’s viewing: ERASED ratchets up the mystery and tension, Active Raid develops a worrying pattern, and more!
Anime roundup 2/18/2016: Taking a Level In Awesome
In this week’s viewing: Iron-Blooded Orphans announces that it’s officially time to be awesome, BBK/BRNK and Active Raid agree, and more!
Anime roundup 2/11/2016: Don’t Trust Anyone Over 30
In this week’s viewing: BBK/BRNK and ERASED join Gundam in showing that adults are a bunch of double-crossing creeps, and more!
Anime roundup 2/4/2016: To Each Their Own
In this week’s viewing: A lot of variety, from an infodump in Utawarerumono to an epic battle in Iron-Blooded Orphans, and more!
Anime roundup 1/28/2016: Full House
In this week’s viewing: Three of the new shows are good enough to be followed for the rest of the season, and one… is not.
Anime roundup 1/21/2016: The Undercard
In this week’s viewing: The remainder of premiere week makes its case; should you bother paying attention?
Anime roundup 1/14/2016: Next Sunday, A.D.
In this week’s viewing: The first batch of premieres has something of a theme…
Anime roundup 1/7/2016: Best of 2015
As the anime world takes its end-of-year holiday, it’s time to look back on the best that 2015 brought us.
Anime Roundup 12/31/2015: Shadow Play
In this week’s viewing: Kagewani has a suitably horrifying ending, Concrete Revolutio drops a huge bomb, and more!
Anime roundup 12/24/2015: Sad Tidings
In this week’s viewing: Gundam kills people off, Concrete Revolutio digs up wartime atrocities, and more! Merry Christmas, everyone!
Winter 2016 SF Anime Preview
A winter blast of new anime series is coming your way in January!
Anime roundup 12/17/2015: About Time
In this week’s viewing: Catching up means a double dose of flashbacks, a sudden improvement in Utawarerumono, and more!
Anime roundup 12/10/2015: Shirobako (White Box)
In this week’s viewing: While your correspondent is travelling, a special look at show every anime fan should watch.
Anime roundup 12/3/2015: Family Ties
In this week’s viewing: Gundam says family is a necessity, Utawarerumono says it’s embarrassing, and more!
Anime roundup 11/26/2015: Getting Warmer
In this week’s viewing: Concrete Revolutio fills in more puzzle pieces, Utawarerumono finds its way back to a plot, and more!
Anime roundup 11/19/2015: Same Ol’ Same Ol’
In this week’s viewing: Kagewani is still scary, Gundam is still fighty, and more!
Anime roundup 11/13/2015: Free As a Bird
In this week’s viewing: Concrete Revolutio uncovers the marvelous truth about the Beatles, and more!
Anime roundup 11/6/2015: The Color Out Of Space
In this week’s viewing: Concrete Revolutio mixes it up further with Martian monsters, Iron-Blooded Orphans makes it into orbit, and more!
Anime roundup 10/29/2015: Misfits of Science
In this week’s viewing: Kagewani gets down to business, Concrete Revolutio has barely begun to complicate, and more!
Anime roundup 10/22/2015: Military-Entertainment Complex
In this week’s viewing: The final commentary lineup for the season is whittled down, but not by much!
Anime roundup 10/15/2015: Tragicomedy
In this week’s viewing: The remainder of premiere week serves up attempted humor, unintentional humor, and Garo. And a dancing android.
Anime roundup 10/9/2015: I Need a Hero
In this week’s viewing: The start of fall premiere week runs the usual gamut from tired formulas to fascinating experiments.
Anime roundup 10/1/2015: Pomp and Circumstance
In this week’s viewing: Three terrific shows come to a close.
Fall 2015 SF Anime Preview
If there’s one trend that really has me smiling this season, it’s the unusually high number of anime-original shows.
Anime roundup 9/25/2015: At Loose Ends
In this week’s viewing: Rokka sort of ends, and more!

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