Anime roundup 4/2/2020: There’s Always a Catch
In this week’s viewing: The winter season all wraps up, for a nice tidy transition to spring.
Anime roundup 3/26/2020: The Soul of a New Machine
In this week’s viewing: ID: Invaded tries to put a genie back in the bottle, Toilet-Bound Hanako-kun transplants a legend, and more!
Anime roundup 3/19/2020: The Other Side
In this week’s viewing: ID: Invaded shows the villain’s hidden side, Toilet-Bound Hanako-kun and Magia Record have fun with mirrors, and more!
Anime roundup 3/12/2020: The Ties That Bind
In this week’s viewing: Welcome to Demon School leaves on a high note, Magia Record forms a family, and more!
Anime roundup 3/5/2020: The Invisible Man
In this week’s viewing: ID: Invaded displays a vanishing act, Magia Record and Hanako-kun try reappearing ones, and more!
Anime roundup 2/28/2020: Radio, What’s New?
In this week’s viewing: Magia Record says you shouldn’t trust the radio, Hanako-kun and Welcome to Demon School extend that to the radio club, and more!
Anime roundup 2/20/2020: What Could Possibly Go Wrong?
In this week’s viewing: ID: Invaded assumes two heads are better than one, Magia Record reveals a plot bound to go wrong, and more!
Anime roundup 2/13/2020: Word of Mouth
In this week’s viewing: Hanako-kun, Magia Record, and In/Spectre converge on a unified theory of urban legends, and more!
Anime roundup 2/6/2020: The Smart Set
In this week’s viewing: Deductions happen with impressive but not unrealistic speed in In/Spectre and ID: Invaded, and more!
Anime roundup 1/31/2020: Stairway to Hell
In this week’s viewing: Magia Record isn’t the only story haunted by an evil staircase, and more!
Anime roundup 1/23/2020: So Long, and Thanks For All the Fish
In this week’s viewing: It’s time to set the season lineup, which means something has to be crossed off the list. Luckily we have a volunteer…
Anime roundup 1/16/2020: You Can’t Even Quit the Game
In this weeks viewing: All the winter premieres fit to watch! (…and one or two that aren’t.)
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.
Winter 2020 SF Anime Preview
Anime never rests, so get ready for a new serving of shows coming soon!
Anime roundup 12/11/2014: Give the Gift of Anime
In lieu of this week’s viewing, a filler episode of recommendations of recent short anime series.
The Fallen Magical Girl and the Crisis of Adolescence
The Fallen Magical Girl is a trope as endemic to the mahou shoujo genre as the transformation sequence. Though she once swore fealty to ideals of love and justice, now she obeys only herself, or perhaps the whims of some dark master. Her altruism has been gouged out, her idealistic nature soured. She is bitter […]
