First Look: Fastest Finger First
There are some very smart students entering an inter-school quiz competition and I already feel stupid.
There are some very smart students entering an inter-school quiz competition and I already feel stupid.
After his high school accommodation burns down, Inaba Yuushi is left scrambling for a new apartment to avoid commuting to school from home. Fortunately he manages to find a place at a good price, but he’ll have to get used to some regular visitors.
For most of the week Nakoya operates as a regular restaurant, but every Saturday a portal to a fantasy world opens for customers of all kinds. On one of these days a down-on-her-luck demon girl wanders in and the owner offers her a job.
The darts landed on ‘OCD’ and ‘soccer’, so here we are.
In a world where everyone is assigned a predetermined marriage partner at the age of 16, one bland protagonist plans to defy the system and live with the girl of his dreams.
A gunpla nerd and programmer extraordinaire is killed in a traffic accident then reincarnated into a fantasy world. Despite being reborn, he still remembers his past life and his love of robots inspires him to become a Knight Runner – pilots of giant magical armor that look a lot like anime mecha.
There is a high school for girls in which they do battle.
The evil forces of the Time Revisionist’s army are deploying through medieval Japan in an attempt to change history. A great sage from the future has assembled a team of anthropomorphized mythological weapons to stop them.
Hyakkaou Academy is a private school for the ultra rich with a big secret: after school hours the student body fights for social supremacy through high stakes games of chance. A new transfer student, obsessed with the thrill of gambling, arrives to shake things up.
It’s another Holy Grail War, but now it’s 7-on-7 team-based multiplayer!
For our fifth anniversary Zigg returns to the very first show he wrote about on the blog, and goes one more round with Eureka Seven AO
On a fateful day in July 2012, we created our first post. Shoujo Hitler was bad, but much worse was our first impressions of the anime adaptation of Kingdom that went up shortly thereafter. It’s five years later and anime is still bad, but somehow someway we are still here, carrying out our solemn duty to warn…
Saving the worst for last.
On a fateful day in July 2012, we created our first post. To commemorate this special occasion, we decided to relive our favorite part of forcing ourselves to watch every anime that ever comes out: the surprises. Just about every season a show or two pops up out of nowhere and turns out to be pretty good, and we wanted to give a shout out to a few you might of missed. In today’s post we’re looking at 2016, which was such a good year for anime that it almost takes up a post of its own.
If you go about doing a season preview, it is only obvious you also close off on a season review. In The Wrap-Up, all of our contributors get to shine a spotlight on the show they thought to be the very best of the past few weeks, as well as reflect back on the preview to see which…
In 2013, Trigger dared to save anime and bring joy into our cold dead hearts with the original Little Witch Academia OVA. In 2015, they threatened us with smiles and magic yet again with Little Witch Academia: The Enchanted Parade. In 2017, could they make lightning strike thrice? We share our closing thoughts on Trigger’s latest original anime TV series.
To commemorate our fifth anniversary, we’re reliving our favorite part of forcing ourselves to watch every anime that ever comes out: the surprises. Just about every season a show or two pops up out of nowhere and turns out to be pretty good, and we wanted to give a shout out to a few you might of missed. In today’s post, we’re taking a look at 2014 and 2015.
To celebrate our 5th anniversary, we decided to relive our favorite part of forcing ourselves to watch every anime that ever comes out: the surprises. Just about every season a show or two pops up out of nowhere and turns out to be pretty good, and we wanted to give a shout out to a few you might of missed. To start, we’ll be taking a look at 2012 and 2013.
In which both Marlin and Jel conclude by saying “burn it with fire”.
It’s the last Roundup of the season and we say goodbye to… not much actually. Sakura Quest and Bahamut are continuing into summer and thanks to some delays Tsukigakirei and Atom: The Beginning will be ending after the start of next season. So… farewell, Little Witch Academia, we’ll see you when you finally get officially released on Netflix.