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.
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Anime roundup 10/4/2018: The Neverending Story
In this week’s viewing: Between bad weather and bad production decisions, it’s surprisingly difficult to wrap up the season!
Anime roundup 9/27/2018: Social Engineering
In this week’s viewing: Persona 5 goes for a level in social commentary, The Journey Home gets dystopian, and more!
Anime roundup 9/20/2018: All Our Yesterdays
In this week’s viewing: Attack on Titan, We Rent Tsukumogami, and Steins;Gate 0 all confront the past in various senses of the phrase, and more!
Anime roundup 9/13/2018: Captain Obvious
In this week’s viewing: Steins;Gate 0 gets darker than ever, while everyone else competes to spoil plot twists.
Anime roundup 8/30/2018: Double Time
In this week’s viewing: Back from Worldcon, it’s two weeks for the price of one!
Anime roundup 8/16/2018: A Level in Badass
In this week’s viewing: The quiet ones in Steins;Gate and Attack on Titan have finally had it, and more!
Anime roundup 8/9/2018: A Glitch in the Matrix
In this week’s viewing: The last of the July premieres is happening in August somehow, and finally the full lineup all at once!
Anime roundup 8/2/2018: Missing Man Formation
In this week’s viewing: Steins;Gate and Attack on Titan leave their protagonists behind, one show has mysteriously disappeared, and more!
Anime roundup 7/26/2018: The End of the Tunnel
In this week’s viewing: Two more premieres, returning candidates, and time to set the lineup.
Anime roundup 7/5/2018: The Heart Wants What It Wants
In this week’s viewing: Hakyu Hoshin Engi turns to boxing, Megalobox turns to love and happiness, Cute High is about wacky fantasy, and more!
Anime roundup 6/28/2018: The Ties That Bind
In this week’s viewing: Megalobox sets up its final face-off, Cute High gets its own going, and more!
Anime roundup 6/21/2018: Suicide Ain’t Painless
In this week’s viewing: Hakyu Hoshin Engi continues to trim the cast, Megalobox reaches a turning point, and more!
Anime roundup 6/14/2018: Vanishing Point
In this week’s viewing: Hakyu Hoshin Engi finally makes good on its promise of massive destruction, Steins;Gate 0 and Megalobox look for witness protection, and more!
Anime roundup 6/7/2018: A Hole With No Bottom
In this week’s viewing: Steins;Gate 0 demonstrates that things can always gets worse, Cute High’s villains get ever more hopeless, and more!
Anime roundup 5/31/2018: Breaking the Rules
In this week’s viewing: Megalobox at least admits it’s being arbitrary, Steins;Gate 0 pulls the rug out from under everything, and more!
Anime roundup 5/24/2018: The More You Know
In this week’s viewing: Japanese folklore, Finnish trolls, part-time priestesses, and, oh yeah, some actual anime discussion.
Anime roundup 5/17/2018: Next In Line
In this week’s viewing: Persona5 and Megalobox line up further antagonists, and more!
Anime roundup 5/10/2018: The Forever War
In this week’s viewing: Hakyu Hoshin Engi keeps up the fight, Steins;Gate 0 is still heading for World War III, even Megalobox has a military angle, and more!
Anime roundup 5/3/2018: Bad Life Choices
In this week’s viewing: Megalobox takes an ever tougher bet, Steins;Gate 0 revisits a less laudable part of its predecessor, and more!
Anime roundup 4/26/2018: A Different Spin
In this week’s viewing: Remakes and sequels don’t necessarily mean the same old same old, and it’s time to make the final cut for what to follow the rest of the season!
Anime roundup 4/19/2018: The End of the Beginning
In this week’s viewing: The last batch of premieres for spring, and a couple of returning faces!
Spring 2018 SF Anime Preview
Did the past season seem lackluster? Well, get ready to be snowed under by more sf options than ever!
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.
CHARACTERS: Rintaro Okabe of Steins;Gate
Just so you all know, I didn’t intend this series to feature so many anime characters. I wanted to talk about the characters from books I’d read, movies I’d seen, and television shows I’d watched. […]
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