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A Knight’s Tale — The Shining Courage of Radiant’s Ocoho
A Knight’s Tale — The Shining Courage of Radiant’s Ocoho
From historical legend to modern day fiction, there are few figures more commonly associated with heroism than the knight. A steadfast…
Dark Aether
May 23
Makoto Shinkai Retrospective: Weathering With You
Makoto Shinkai Retrospective: Weathering With You
With this, I finally come to the end of my detailed retrospective on the anime film-directing career of famed creator Makoto Shinkai. The…
DoctorKev
May 21
AniTAY Podcast S8 E7: Horse Girls are on the To Do list
AniTAY Podcast S8 E7: Horse Girls are on the To Do list
Ever watch something from a genre you dislike but end up loving the show anyways? Join DocKev’s horse girl related awakening along with…
Kevin Mai - Reikaze
May 19
Doctorkev’s Thoughts on the Spring 2023 Anime Season: New Shows
Doctorkev’s Thoughts on the Spring 2023 Anime Season: New Shows
Last week I wrote about this very busy Spring anime season’s sequels and ongoing shows. Now it’s the turn of the shiny new things! At the…
DoctorKev
May 15
Doctorkev’s Thoughts on the Spring 2023 Anime Season: Sequels and Ongoing Shows
Doctorkev’s Thoughts on the Spring 2023 Anime Season: Sequels and Ongoing Shows
Wow. Is it just me or has the halfway point of this season jumped up from nowhere and bit us all in the arse? No? It’s just me, then? Oh…
DoctorKev
May 10
AniTAY Podcast S8 E6: G(ynecologist) Gundam
AniTAY Podcast S8 E6: G(ynecologist) Gundam
Spring 2023 anime season has finally begun! AniTAY discusses the birds, the bees and the gundams in its first reaction to this new season.
thatsma pizza
May 3
AniTAY Podcast S8 E5: Postcoital Breakfast In Another World With My Smarthphone
AniTAY Podcast S8 E5: Postcoital Breakfast In Another World With My Smarthphone
Join the gang as they talk about shows from last season, all the isekai in the world and the best characters from the worst anime they’ve…
Kevin Mai - Reikaze
Apr 22
Makoto Shinkai’s Suzume Review: Messy and Unfocused Yet Compelling and Beautiful
Makoto Shinkai’s Suzume Review: Messy and Unfocused Yet Compelling and Beautiful
For the past couple of months, I’ve been writing a retrospective series of articles respectively focusing on each of the previous short…
DoctorKev
Apr 16
Makoto Shinkai Retrospective: your name.
Makoto Shinkai Retrospective: your name.
Finally. With Makoto Shinkai’s newest movie Suzume now on general release in the UK and North America (I saw it last night, review incoming…
DoctorKev
Apr 15
Makoto Shinkai Retrospective: The Garden of Words
Makoto Shinkai Retrospective: The Garden of Words
For some reason, up until now, this was the only Makoto Shinkai film I hadn’t seen. Maybe it was due to the bad taste that his earlier 5…
DoctorKev
Apr 12
Makoto Shinkai Retrospective: Children Who Chase Lost Voices
Makoto Shinkai Retrospective: Children Who Chase Lost Voices
Makoto Shinkai’s follow-up to 2007’s divisive 5 Centimeters per Second was perhaps his most deliberately mainstream movie yet…
DoctorKev
Apr 11
The World of Radiant, Explained
The World of Radiant, Explained
So, you’re thinking about seeking Radiant, but don’t know where to start? Maybe you started at some point and lost track of a few…
Dark Aether
Apr 10
Makoto Shinkai Retrospective: 5 Centimeters per Second
Makoto Shinkai Retrospective: 5 Centimeters per Second
I’ve been dreading writing about this one, because when I first watched it twelve years ago, I went into it completely blind and hated it…
DoctorKev
Apr 8
The Spring 2023 AniTAY Sequel Guide, Featuring Demon Slayer
The Spring 2023 AniTAY Sequel Guide, Featuring Demon Slayer
Another season has begun, as tends to happen several times a year, and with it brings a brand-old crop of continuations and surprise…
Arcane
Apr 5
Doctorkev’s Winter 2023 Anime Postmortem Part 2
Doctorkev’s Winter 2023 Anime Postmortem Part 2
Would you believe that after a little over four years, this is my 200th article? At an average of around 2000 words each, that’s enough to…
DoctorKev
Apr 2
Ranking Princess Connect! Re:Dive Characters By Smell!!! FINAL US LIST
Ranking Princess Connect! Re:Dive Characters By Smell!!! FINAL US LIST
With one of the worst enablers of my hentai addiction shutting its servers down at the end of April, it is “now or never” with PriConne…
Naruto Johnson
Apr 1
AniTAY Podcast Spring 2023 Seasonal Preview
AniTAY Podcast Spring 2023 Seasonal Preview
Spring is finally here along with a gamut of new anime. I also have too much fun editing this podcast.
thatsma pizza
Mar 29
Doctorkev’s Winter 2023 Anime Postmortem Part 1
Doctorkev’s Winter 2023 Anime Postmortem Part 1
Already we’ve reached the end of 2023’s first anime season, so it’s time again for me to offer opinions on the stuff I watched. Overall…
DoctorKev
Mar 29
Change is the only constant in life — Babymetal — The Other One — Album Review.
Change is the only constant in life — Babymetal — The Other One — Album Review.
Japanese metal sensation, Babymetal released their fourth full-length studio album called The Other One, an album that focuses on a…
Alistair Hyde
Mar 28
The King is Dead. Long Live the King.
The King is Dead. Long Live the King.
TheMamaLuigi takes a break from anime to talk about his relationship with the 3DS family of systems amidst the closure of the eShop.
Reid Braaten - TheMamaLuigi
Mar 27
The Fullmetal Alchemist (2003) Anime is a Masterpiece of Adaptation
The Fullmetal Alchemist (2003) Anime is a Masterpiece of Adaptation
Although it’s long been overshadowed by fully manga-faithful 2009 successor Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood (much-famed #1 rated anime on…
DoctorKev
Mar 26
Enter the World of Japanese Comedy with Documental — Who is Funny?
Enter the World of Japanese Comedy with Documental — Who is Funny?
This is Matsumoto Hitoshi, one of the most famous comedians in Japan. He is part of a manzai duo known as Downtown, and is a regular on…
Yohan Berry
Mar 25
Makoto Shinkai Retrospective: The Place Promised in Our Early Days
Makoto Shinkai Retrospective: The Place Promised in Our Early Days
Makoto Shinkai’s third anime production was 2004’s ambitious full-length ninety-minute movie…
DoctorKev
Mar 22
Ranking Anime RomComs & Discussing the Genre
Ranking Anime RomComs & Discussing the Genre
After a lively discussion with some friends, I jokingly said I have watched enough anime romcoms to write a comprehensive list ranking this…
Naruto Johnson
Mar 21
AniTAY Podcast S8 E4: Attack on Titan Season 40 Final Mix Championship Edition Part 2 Section A
AniTAY Podcast S8 E4: Attack on Titan Season 40 Final Mix Championship Edition Part 2 Section A
It’s anime awards season and the AniTAY crew discusses the award winners along with some seasonal anime.
thatsma pizza
Mar 14
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