Fall 2025 Preview Guide

Last Update: 3:32 p.m. 10/14/25 Welcome to my seasonal Guide! (The debut schedule can be found here once it’s been posted, which I hope to have done by Friday 9/26.) I expect to cover every full-episode series that will be debuting this season and is available in streaming form, including many of the sequels/returning series.Continue reading “Fall 2025 Preview Guide”

Apocalypse Bringer Mynoghra episode 12

Rating: B This episode may not have the action elements that the previous two episodes (especially episode 11) had, but it nonetheless delivers a far greater and sharper punch, partly by solving two mysteries and delivering tantalizing hints of a new and much bigger one. The first (and more short-term) of the two mysteries isContinue reading “Apocalypse Bringer Mynoghra episode 12”

Apocalypse Bringer Mynoghra episode 8

Rating: B- Since Mynoghra is a specifically-evil nation in a fantasy setting, its Medic units naturally were not going to be anything ordinary. Because of that, it makes sense that, for all their flaky behavior, these eccentrics turn out to be called Brain Eaters and actually be Frankensteinian monsters with Buffalo Bill-like aspirations. (And yes,Continue reading “Apocalypse Bringer Mynoghra episode 8”

Summer ’25 Mid-Season Report, part 2

See here for part 1 of the report Kaiju No. 8 s2 Rating So Far: B This has, so far, had less feature moments for Kafka, but that doesn’t mean it’s been short on big developments. Quite the contrary, in fact; No. 9 has uppedhis game even further as the main antagonist, and now itContinue reading “Summer ’25 Mid-Season Report, part 2”

Apocalypse Bringer Mynoghra episode 7

Rating: B This episode leaves us with one burning question: how does Atou know enough about a traditional Western marriage ceremony to dream about it when Takuto all but proposes to her at the end of the episode? Granted, this could just be the production staff being cute and playing off a common stereotype forContinue reading “Apocalypse Bringer Mynoghra episode 7”

Summer ’25 Mid-Season Wrap-Up, part 1

With the Summer 2025 season entering its seventh week, it’s time to take a look at how some of the season’s titles are doing so far. Even with a couple of series which I held on through four episodes falling to the side (The Summer Hikaru Died, Tougen Anki), I have still wound up stayingContinue reading “Summer ’25 Mid-Season Wrap-Up, part 1”

Apocalypse Bringer Mynoghra episode 6

Rating: B After a couple of episode with a large chunk of the content focused outward, the series turns almost entirely insular as it formally introduces two new (presumably) regular cast members. Twins Maria (left above) and Caria (right above) Elfuur are the exclusive foci of the series’ closer and also make appearances in itsContinue reading “Apocalypse Bringer Mynoghra episode 6”

The Apothecary Diaries, episode 48 (series 2 finale)

Rating: A- Note: My apologies for this being so late. This episode did have the misfortune of hitting on the front end of a ridiculously-heavy weekend of Summer 2025 season debuts, but past a certain point I also just forgot that I hadn’t done this review yet. With this episode, the franchise concludes its adaptationContinue reading “The Apothecary Diaries, episode 48 (series 2 finale)”

Spring 2025 Wrap-Up

Except for The Apothecary Diaries, all Spring 2025 series which aren’t continuing into the summer season are complete at this point, so it’s time to do an update on what was and wasn’t working over the course of the second half of the season. Because of the high volume of titles I followed, covering everyContinue reading “Spring 2025 Wrap-Up”

Summer 2025 Preview Guide

Final Update: 4:17 p.m. EDT 7/24/25 Welcome to my seasonal Guide! (The debut schedule can be found here.) I expect to cover every full-episode series that will be debuting this season and is available in streaming form, including many of the sequels/returning series. The ones I will NOT be covering (because I’m not caught upContinue reading “Summer 2025 Preview Guide”