As I mentioned in my Fall 2025 Mid-Season Report, I deeply regret not doing episode reviews for Touring After the Apocalypse. Rather than do those fully, I’ve decided to take an alternate approach and explore all the little visual details which provide clues in each episode about how the apocalypse happened. This installment focuses onContinue reading “The Apocalypse Files #1”
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Summer 2025 Wrap-Up
Now that the Summer 2025 season is fully over and all of the series I’ve been following are either ending or going on hiatus, it’s time to look at how the series I followed finished out. Because of the high volume of titles, covering every one of them here would make this post cumbersome. HenceContinue reading “Summer 2025 Wrap-Up”
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 9
Rating: B After how, ahem, “eccentric” the Brain Eaters proved to be, I wasn’t sure what to expect from Isla, Queen of Bugs, once she finally got summoned. Would she be similarly twisted by the evil alignment of Mynoghra? I’m pretty sure I wasn’t expecting her to be everyone’s kindly grandmother, however. Isla having anContinue reading “Apocalypse Bringer Mynoghra episode 9”
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”
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”
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”
Spring 2025 Mid-Season Report, part 2
See here for part 1. This half of the report covers the rest of the titles I’m following that didn’t make part 1. All of these titles have hit either episode 6 or (in most cases) episode 7 since part 1 was posted. Additionally, a look at one title which debuted too late to makeContinue reading “Spring 2025 Mid-Season Report, part 2”
Spring 2025 Mid-Season Report, part 1
With the Spring 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. While I’ve taken a conscious effort to be a bit more conservative on my viewing list for this season, I still wound up following 20 series which debuted orContinue reading “Spring 2025 Mid-Season Report, part 1”
Review: The Rose of Versailles (2025 movie)
No list of the most important and influential of all manga titles would be complete without including The Rose of Versailles. Its 1972-73 publication transformed the shojo genre by introducing fully-rounded characters, complex plotting, deep exploration of sexuality and gender roles, and permanent deaths, thus elevating the genre from being just kiddie fare. It inspiredContinue reading “Review: The Rose of Versailles (2025 movie)”
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