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2024 Anime Year in Review: The Top 10 – Honorable Mention

These years just keep passing by faster and faster, unfortunately. It’s time for another year-end Top Ten list. These are always an interesting exercise for me for a lot of reasons. What stands out for me this time is that my recollection of how good or poor an anime year 2024 was didn’t align with …

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Patron Pick Fall 2024: Negaposi Angler (Negative Positive Angler) – 12 (End) and Series Review

Truth be told, I had a pretty strong suspicion that Negposi Angler would reel this one in. Original series do have an advantage in a couple of respects, pacing being the most obvious. When you know you have 12 episodes you write 12 episodes worth of material. But that’s also a big edge where endings …

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Crunchyroll to release A Certain Magical Index III, A Returner’s Magic Should Be Special, BUCCHIGIRI?!, JUJUTSU KAISEN & more in the UK during March 2025

New retail listings at Anime-On-Line and Amazon UK have revealed that Crunchyroll (UK) are planning to release A Certain Magical Index III, A Returner’s Magic Should Be Special, BUCCHIGIRI?!, JUJUTSU KAISEN – Hidden Inventory/Premature Death, Tales of Wedding Rings and The irlfriends Who Really, Really, Really, Really, REALLY Love You on Blu-Ray in the UK …

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Rurouni Kenshin: Meiji Kenkaku Romantan – Kyoto Douran – 12

Yes, worlds are definitely colliding here. There are a ton of moving parts in the Kyoto Arc, no doubt about it. It does remind me of Chimera Ant in that way (it’s probably better to say the opposite, actually). The plot is bigger than the screen or any single episode can hold. There are times …