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 1/4/2018: Best of 2017
In this week’s viewing: Hozuki wraps up (for now), and a look back at the best and most memorable shows of 2017.
Anime roundup 6/29/2017: All Good Things
In this week’s viewing: The Eccentric Family 2 and Alice and Zoroku sign off, and more!
Anime roundup 6/22/2017: Time Out of Joint
In this week’s viewing: Attack on Titan is ending too early, The Eccentric Family and Alice & Zoroku have a weird chronological coincidence, and more!
Anime roundup 6/15/2017: The Reality Dysfunction
In this week’s viewing: Alice & Zoroku breaks the real world, Kado explains what the universe is about, and more!
Anime roundup 6/8/2017: It’s the End of the World As We Know It
In this week’s viewing: Attack on Titan keeps making with the big revelations, Alice & Zoroku finally visit Wonderland, and more!
Anime roundup 6/1/2017: I’m Going Slightly Mad
In this week’s viewing: Attack on Titan turns the screws on heroes and villains alike, Alice & Zoroku just can’t stop being dark, and more!
Anime roundup 5/25/2017: In Vino Veritas
In this week’s viewing: Rage of Bahamut and Attack on Titan explore the wisdom of drunkards, and more!
Anime roundup 5/18/2017: Ready to Rumble
In this week’s viewing: Attack on Titan goes wrestling, The Eccentric Family 2 goes to Hell, and more!
Anime roundup 5/11/2017: These Are the Droids You’re Looking For
In this week’s viewing: Attack on Titan tries to set a record for the most causal bombshell ever, Alice & Zoroku has replaced itself with an entirely different show, and more!
Anime roundup 5/4/2017: May the Farce Be With You
In this week’s viewing: The Eccentric Family 2 goes nuts, Kado spins its situation out of control, and more!
Anime roundup 4/27/2017: The Strong Survive
In this week’s viewing: The final lineup for this season, and it’s looking outstanding!
Anime roundup 4/13/2017: The Long Tail
In this week’s viewing: From obscure shorts to massive franchises, premieres for every taste! Including bad taste!
Spring 2017 SF Anime Preview
The upcoming anime season is going to be titanic… in more than one sense.
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. […]
Anime roundup 7/12/2013: The World Is Illusion
It’s season premiere time, so let’s set aside the continuing shows for a week to look at new stuff. (Space Brothers is taking the week off, anyway.) Day Break Illusion premiere – Akari Taiyō is an […]
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