Wooper: We interrupt your just-begun spring 2026 impressions with some final thoughts on four just-wrapped winter anime, plus one that began an unceremonious pause after a double-length premiere. There are a handful of winter shows I didn’t cover that will require a fair shake before EOY (ShiboYugi chief among them), but this is all I’ve …
Agents of the Four Seasons: Dance of Spring Short Synopsis: A priestess of spring performs a ritual to restore her long-dormant season to a wintery region. Wooper: Agents of the Four Seasons begins with a flashback to the main character’s bodyguard getting shot amidst a hail of automatic gunfire, which hardly reflects its seasonal theme, …
Wooper: Having been pummeled with multiple snowstorms this past winter, I’ve been ready for spring’s arrival for a while now – and not only as a reprieve from the weather, as series after exciting series have converged to make this one of my most anticipated seasons since I began writing for Star Crossed. The headliners …
Wooper: I don’t know why I said I’d write a first impression for Rooster Fighter in the intro to the last check-in post. Maybe I was on drugs – though certainly not as big a dose as I’d need to enjoy the show itself (as befitting an Adult Swim series). It’s just the three regulars …
ToHeart is an interesting beast. It’s considered the second non-Hentai anime adaptation of a visual novel, only beaten out by the very first one, Nightwalker: Midnight Detective, which came out in the summer of 1998. The original game was an 18+ eroge and didn’t have as much of a marketing push as previous VN adaptations, …
Wooper: I know this column is about currently airing anime, but have you all seen the surplus of cool shows set to debut next month? Our spring season preview is going to be packed (by my standards), and that’s without counting mid-March premieres like Steel Ball Run and Rooster Fighter (which should show up in …
