As of mid-2024, a good majority of the games Key/Visual Arts have put out are legally available in English, with the exceptions of Air, Kud Wafter, their Prima Doll kinetic novels, the Rewrite fan disc, and Summer Pockets: Reflection Blue. Before 2015, it was nigh impossible to procure their games outside of fan translations, but …
So Many Best Girls in 2024!
RJ Writing Ink’s Picks for Best Waifus for 2024 With the year 2024 ending, the time has come for anime fans to look back on what they liked about this year and what they didn’t. One of the topics that will inevitably come up is who we think qualifies for the status of best girls …
Twilight Hotel #01 — Go, Do Crimes
Anime, you really need to learn what a mystery is. Impressions: When your introductory mystery as to a character’s identity and name is solved by them randomly finding a piece of paper with all that information on it, expectations for the mysteries to come is set pretty damn low. I’m probably also just traumatized …
Extremely Loud Teenagers #01 — Against a Red Background
My mind was pretty cemented about three minutes in and there was still so much left to go. Impressions: Boy, I really screwed the pooch calling the golf show loud. Now the calibration is completely off for when we come to this show that is 100% screaming and making the same couple stupid faces, …
Sky Blue Utility #01 — Loud Girls Making Faces
Golf? What’s golf? Impressions: You know, this might’ve actually been a little more interesting if it dropped the supposed golf angle entirely and just had it overtly been her having a crush on the random golfing lady dressed like a Hooters waitress who immediately starts rubbing herself all over her and whispering in her …
First (and Second) Impressions – Ameku Takao no Suiri Karte (Ameku M.D.: Doctor Detective)
A new year, a new anime season – the wheel turns as ever, and we kick off Winter 2025. Double premieres have become something of a fad in anime recently (and stuff like Vinland Saga and Oshi no Ko had four). On balance it’s probably not a bad way to make a stronger case right …