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Heaven or Hell: Bastard!! -Heavy Metal, Dark Fantasy-
Heaven or Hell: Bastard!! -Heavy Metal, Dark Fantasy-
Bastard!! -Heavy Metal, Dark Fantasy- — which will hereby be referred to as Bastard!! because like hell I’m typing this out each time! — is…
Dark Aether
Aug 18
AniTAY Podcast S7 E13: Don’t Put Poop In Your Pizza
AniTAY Podcast S7 E13: Don’t Put Poop In Your Pizza
We were trying to talk about something appealing this week, but for some reason it didn’t go that way!
Kevin Mai - Reikaze
Aug 17
Fortune Favors Lady Nikuko: Review
Fortune Favors Lady Nikuko: Review
Morbid obesity (classified as a Body Mass Index (BMI) of above 40, where normal is below 25) is a growing health emergency in Western…
DoctorKev
Aug 14
Recovering from a Bad Beginning: Knights of the Zodiac: Battle for Sanctuary (Season 2) First…
Recovering from a Bad Beginning: Knights of the Zodiac: Battle for Sanctuary (Season 2) First…
Knights of the Zodiac: Battle for Sanctuary is the second season of the original net animation series produced by Netflix based on a 1980s…
Alistair Hyde
Aug 13
Doctorkev’s Thoughts on the Summer 2022 Anime Season: New Shows
Doctorkev’s Thoughts on the Summer 2022 Anime Season: New Shows
Although Summer is somewhat quieter on the anime front compared to the previous Spring 2022 season, that doesn’t mean there aren’t plenty…
DoctorKev
Aug 11
AniTAY Podcast S7 E12: Roasting our Taste in Anime Protagonists
AniTAY Podcast S7 E12: Roasting our Taste in Anime Protagonists
It’s a good idea to retread old topics. This week, AniTAY revisits its favorite and least favorite anime protagonists. Much roasting ensues
thatsma pizza
Aug 6
Bye Bye, All of Monogatari
Bye Bye, All of Monogatari
More than three years along, and twenty separate blu-ray/DVD sets down, in June 2022 I finally reviewed Zoku Owarimonogatari, the…
DoctorKev
Aug 6
AniTAY’s Summer 2022 Sequel Guide To Make You Cry
AniTAY’s Summer 2022 Sequel Guide To Make You Cry
2022 has been the Year of Sequels, and this season is no exception.
Arcane
Aug 1
The Music of Monogatari Final Season
The Music of Monogatari Final Season
Since I recently finished my lengthy review tour through the entire animated Monogatari canon, in my previous two articles I looked back at…
DoctorKev
Jul 21
AniTAY Podcast S7 E11: Isekai Is a Disease and We Are the Cure
AniTAY Podcast S7 E11: Isekai Is a Disease and We Are the Cure
The seasonal anime scene is infected with an isekai bug. At AniTAY, we have an actual doctor and some masochists to watch them all for you.
thatsma pizza
Jul 20
Stínolez’s Seasonal Roundup [Spring 2022]
Stínolez’s Seasonal Roundup [Spring 2022]
Greetings, and welcome to my seasonal roundup, an article I do at the end of (almost) every season to summarize my thoughts on the shows I…
Stinolez
Jul 19
The Music of Monogatari Second Season
The Music of Monogatari Second Season
Last time, I looked at all twelve opening and ending songs from the thirty episodes of Monogatari’s first season. This time, we have ten…
DoctorKev
Jul 17
The Music of Monogatari Season One
The Music of Monogatari Season One
Recently I finally finished reviewing all twenty blu-ray volumes of Shaft’s Monogatari anime. You’d think I’d want to move on, but no…
DoctorKev
Jul 7
Doctorkev’s Spring 2022 Anime Postmortem: Crunchyroll
Doctorkev’s Spring 2022 Anime Postmortem: Crunchyroll
What a great anime season it’s been! Winter 2022 was comparatively quiet, but Spring 2022 has brought both quantity and quality. Mostly…
DoctorKev
Jul 3
Doctorkev’s Spring 2022 Anime Postmortem: Netflix and HIDIVE
Doctorkev’s Spring 2022 Anime Postmortem: Netflix and HIDIVE
It’s been another packed anime season, and as always, I’ve watched far too much of it to be healthy…
DoctorKev
Jul 1
AniTAY Podcast Season 7 Episode 10.5: Summer 2022 Seasonal Preview
AniTAY Podcast Season 7 Episode 10.5: Summer 2022 Seasonal Preview
Is there a better way to use 2 hours of your life than to listen to people talk out of their ass about new anime this season? Nope.
Kevin Mai - Reikaze
Jun 29
Katsuhiro Otomo Retrospective: Akira
Katsuhiro Otomo Retrospective: Akira
It’s taken a while, but I’ve finally watched and written about every animated production (available in English) contributed to by Katsuhiro…
DoctorKev
Jun 28
Katsuhiro Otomo Retrospective: Spriggan
Katsuhiro Otomo Retrospective: Spriggan
Just in time for the new Netflix series, we’re getting to the more tenuously-associated parts of Katsuhiro Otomo’s filmography, with 1998’s…
DoctorKev
Jun 27
Monogatari Final Season: Zoku Owarimonogatari Review: In Which Doctorkev Doesn’t Want to Regret…
Monogatari Final Season: Zoku Owarimonogatari Review: In Which Doctorkev Doesn’t Want to Regret…
And after three years we finally we reach the end! No — the end, continued! Last time, I covered the final volume of Owarimonogatari, and…
DoctorKev
Jun 24
AniTAY Podcast S7 E10: You Won’t Believe It’s Almost Summer
AniTAY Podcast S7 E10: You Won’t Believe It’s Almost Summer
Between all the anime this season and killing time with games, Spring is at a close! Here’s AniTAY’s final discussion of the Spring anime!
thatsma pizza
Jun 22
Monogatari Final Season: Owarimonogatari Part 3 Review: In Which Doctorkev Embraces His…
Monogatari Final Season: Owarimonogatari Part 3 Review: In Which Doctorkev Embraces His…
Finally, we’ve reached the end of Monogatari Final Season’s twenty-episode Owarimonogatari (End Tale), with the seven-episode volume three…
DoctorKev
Jun 19
Monogatari Final Season: Koyomimonogatari Review: In Which Doctorkev Finds That Good Things Don’t…
Monogatari Final Season: Koyomimonogatari Review: In Which Doctorkev Finds That Good Things Don’t…
We’re now halfway into Monogatari’s final season, following Tsukimonogatari and the first thirteen episodes of Owarimonogatari. Before we…
DoctorKev
Jun 15
Monogatari Final Season: Owarimonogatari Part 2 Review: In Which Doctorkev is Glad Never to Have…
Monogatari Final Season: Owarimonogatari Part 2 Review: In Which Doctorkev is Glad Never to Have…
Last time, I re-boarded the Monogatari train after a lengthy interregnum, and now we’re well down the tracks to wherever it is…
DoctorKev
Jun 12
Monogatari Final Season: Owarimonogatari Part 1 Review: In Which Doctorkev Learns That Even…
Monogatari Final Season: Owarimonogatari Part 1 Review: In Which Doctorkev Learns That Even…
It’s funny how good intentions can be easily waylaid. Around three years ago, I began a journey through the intimidatingly unapproachable…
DoctorKev
Jun 9
AniTAY Podcast S7 E9: A Wild Protonstorm Appears!
AniTAY Podcast S7 E9: A Wild Protonstorm Appears!
Trapped inside a hotel in Taiwan, we have the grand return of Protonstorm! and an Umrguy! to talk about Japan and maybe a bit of anime, too.
Kevin Mai - Reikaze
Jun 8
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