And so we (almost) wrap up another year in anime on LiA. It was a fairly solid year on the whole. Not as good as 2023, which was probably the best in four or five years, but at least average I’d say. Especially given the strength of the #11-20 list, which was on the whole …
RJ Writing Ink’s Recap of Season 1 of The 100 Girlfriends Who Really, Really, Really, Really, Really Love You, Pt 2 Welcome back to our three-part recapping of the first season of 100 Girlfriends. In the first part, we met our protagonist, Rentaro Aijo, a boy who just wants to find love only to be …
The demon lord revives in the future and becomes a streamer. This was way better than I expected given the concept. Has the ridiculousness, imagination and absurdity which are what make me like anime in the first place. My main complaints are that the shift to the second arc did not work as well as …
Isekai where the main character’s overpowered ability is evaluating other people’s talents. I do enjoy the central concept of this, where it turns the idea of isekai with overpowered abilities on its head a bit by pointing out it’s actually much more effective to lead a team of multiple people with various talents than to …
Girl dates a nutjob. The thing I like the most about this show is how crazy it is. It’s basically shoujo romance meets its logical conclusion: normal girl dates someone she definitely shouldn’t and the audience has the expectation that he’ll grow and mature and they’ll be happy together. But then what makes this show …
Since at least 2001 I’ve deliberately tried to sample as many of the new anime TV and web titles released in Japan each year as I could access. I like knowing about anime. And I find that first-hand experience is useful because occasionally new series surprise me by being vastly different from my expectations. A …
