Relive Anime Expo 2025 event with the following photo review of the event, featuring some of the coolest cosplays. Photos by respective X users. Enjoy! @petra__fyed
Hotel Inhumans #01 — A Higher Class of Criminal
Are they serious with this? Impressions: Ah yes, a hotel catering exclusively to noble and upstanding assassins. That lures in unhonorable criminals to murder them, but only at the behest of the good ones. The premise is bonkers, and that extends to the story of the week. A dude and his sister were sold, but the Yakuza guy was …
City #01 — A Brief Aside on Covid’s Effects on Japanese Variety Shows
Yes, I have looked this up in an effort to understand it. Impressions: Big shock here, but man who cannot stand reaction-style humor does not enjoy reaction-style anime comedy. You can no doubt hear most of these screenshots just by looking at them, and while it is exceptionally well animated, with the occasional more visual-oriented gag, such …
Cultural Exchange with an Arcade Girl #01 — Girl Makes Faces
At least she’s good at shooters. Impressions: The whole premise is that she’s English and he’s Japanese, but that also doesn’t matter when he apparently lives in the most ridiculous bubble imaginable. He has zero idea what Valentines is or is about, as if he’s never heard of the holiday at all. There are …
Complete Garbage #01 — Boy Makes Faces
And loudly. Impressions: Loud noise time continues, and it’s taking me a bit to endure these. Both from the overreaction yelling, and the awful writing. They built a giant wall to keep the disgusting trash people out, but also, there are gates everywhere to allow free passage back and forth with nothing but the …
Nyaight of the Living Cat #01 — Cat People
And back to the yelling. Impressions: There’s only one joke here, what if zombie apocalypse, but cats, which is going to be repeated until you vomit with random cat facts yelled. And I do mean yelled. A narrator appears just to scream fun cat facts, as if there isn’t enough yelling already. And it’s …