Anime roundup 1/9/2020: Best of 2019… and the 2010s
Looking back on not just a year, but a whole decade of great shows.
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 10/1/2015: Pomp and Circumstance
In this week’s viewing: Three terrific shows come to a close.
Anime roundup 9/25/2015: At Loose Ends
In this week’s viewing: Rokka sort of ends, and more!
Anime roundup 9/17/2015: Show Your Hand
In this week’s viewing: Hypotheses fall by the wayside as it’s time to stop hinting and start revealing.
Anime roundup 9/10/2015: No-Labor Day
In this week’s viewing: Writers are taking it easy, except for the ones at Gatchaman Crowds insight which have more things to say!
Anime roundup 9/3/2015: Nonlinear Accelerators
In this week’s viewing: Lots of important flashbacks– try not to get lost!
Anime roundup 8/20/2015: Missing Character Formation
In this week’s viewing: How to develop characters by killing people off, and more!
Anime roundup 8/13/2015: That Which Does Not Kill You
In this week’s viewing: Charlotte has a major plot attack, and more!
Anime roundup 8/6/2015: Grey Matters
In this week’s viewing: You wait and wait for a show that really makes you think, and then three show up all at once.
Anime roundup 7/30/2015: Lay On!
In this week’s viewing: Gatchaman Crowds is ready for an intellectual brawl, Rokka and Charlotte have their full teams assembled for some smackdown, and more!
Anime roundup 7/23/2015: Full House
In this week’s viewing: Six candidates for further viewing means a little pruning to set the lineup for the rest of the season.
Anime Roundup 7/10/2015: A New Leaf
In this week’s viewing: A varied buffet of premieres as summer season kicks off!
Summer 2015 SF Anime Preview
Step up and see what’s going to be invading a simulcast site near you starting in July!
Anime roundup 1/2/2014: Best of 2013
What do you do when there’s nothing to watch? Make Hugo recommendations. And there are a couple more premieres to know about…
Anime roundup 10/4/2013: Judgement Day
It’s time to wrap up the shows we’ve been following this past season and look at the first harbingers of the new one.
Anime roundup 9/27/2013: Chekhov’s Arsenal
In this week’s viewing: The Eccentric Family does a clinic on setup and payoff, Day Break Illusion demonstrates how not to do it, and more!
Anime roundup 8/20/2013: And They Made a Most Agreeable Thump When They Hit the Ground
In this week’s viewing: It’s that late-season moment when the plot cards are all on the table and fisticuffs break out in all directions!
Anime roundup 9/13/2013: Cut Day
In this week’s viewing: The Eccentric Family lays bare a dastardly plot, Gatchaman Crowds creeps out its local viewers, and more!
Anime roundup 9/6/2013: Always Look On the Bright Side of Life
In this week’s viewing: Gatchaman Crowds continues to go to unexpected places, the Shimogamo family tree contains surprises, and more!
Anime roundup 8/30/2013: I Think I’m a Clone Now
In this week’s viewing: Ginka Shirokane meets an evil mirror of herself, Jō Hibiki meets an evil mirror of himself, and one of the Shimogamo clan is his own worst enemy.
Anime roundup 8/23/2013: Your Princess Is In Another Reality
In this week’s viewing: Space Brothers gets drop-kicked, Day Break Illusion causes a lecture on honorifics, and more!
Anime roundup 8/16/2013: Take Heart
In this week’s viewing: Hunter x Hunter lays on the foreshadowing, Space Brothers, of all shows, does something mindbogglingly, cringingly offensive, and more!
Anime roundup 8/9/2013: The Zero’s Journey
Hunter x Hunter #90 – Nodding to old sf tropes once again, the new Chimera Ant king is after both braaaaaaaains and our women. And he demonstrates how mustache-twirlingly evil he is by killing two […]
Anime roundup 8/2/2013: Take a Number
Gatchaman Crowds #3 – This is the first sf work I know of to grapple full-on with the implications of widespread social networking. In any medium. You can point to any number of stories where […]
Anime roundup 7/26/2013: The Safety Dance
Gatchaman Crowds #2 – Gatchaman Crowds has declared its thesis topic, which is the gamification of human interactions as mediated by the Internet. Gamification is, broadly, the application of game-like scoring systems to Internet sites […]
Anime roundup 7/19/2013: Expository Lumps
And now, the rest of your season premieres! For those who were eagerly awaiting Symphogear G or the new Milky Holmes, I regret to inform you that they haven’t been picked up for international streaming. […]
Summer 2013 Anime Preview
So, you heard about that Sailor Moon reboot everyone is all excited about? It’s been pushed back to 2014 at least. Instead, here are the more notable examples of what you’ll have to tide you […]
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