Attack on Titan Season 1, Episodes 8, 9, 10 Musings: Cowardice vs Courage & the Makings of an Anti-Hero

Episode eight focuses on highlighting certain characters’ personal skillsets that they have that shall be honed as the season goes on, such as Armin using scheming strategy to help his team get out of a tricky situation with a hoard of titans. (Murder of titans? School of titans? Tomb of titans? Littre of titans? Toolbox of titans! Okay, I’m done now.) We also learn who the emo-ab-infused titan is!

#AniTwitWatches: Kanon – Episodes 1 to 9 Thoughts & Reactions

Welcome to my super late entry into the Kanon (2006) AniTwitWatches shindig. AniTwitWatches is a community-centric anime watching event that is hosted and ran by Jon Spencer of Jon Spencer Reviews. Kanon (カノン) is a 2006 anime adaptation of a shōnen romance visual novel produced by studio Kyoto Animation with twenty-four total episodes.

Chihayafuru Episode 9: Team Training Theatrics

Watching people train, specifically in anime, is a whole lot of fun to me. It’s one of the main reasons I absolutely fucking love shōnen serials, such as Hunter x Hunter and even Naruto. Working hard to accomplish something is just validating to watch. I think one of the reasons I love it so much…

Chihayafuru Episodes 6, 7, & 8: The New Trio of Teammates

Please note, there shall be spoilers for these episodes. These episodes follow Chihaya and Taichi as they try to round up some members to add to their Karuta club so that it can be recognised as an official school club! Each episode focuses on a specific individual that they try to tempt to their side.…

Chihayafuru Episodes 4 & 5: What Is Life Without Passion?

Please note, these musings shall contain spoilers for Season 1. Read at your own discretion. In these two episodes, we follow Chihaya as she successfully becomes a Class A player of Karuta. She calls Arata to give him the news but is confronted with an icy demeanour. Determined to discover the reason behind Arata’s negative…

Chihayafuru Episodes 2 & 3: The Idyllic Spirit of Childhood Passions

Welcome back to my episodic mutterings for season one of Chihayafuru. In the second and third episodes, Chihaya continues to reminisce about the time she met a young boy, named Arata Wataya, who would change her entire life by introducing her to the game of Karuta. Chihayafuru has a marvellous way of expressing the stories…

My Neighbour Seki Episodes 16 to 18: From Shogi vs Chess to Fukuwarai

Episode 16: Seki plays Shogi vs Chess, and Yokoi decided to get some karmic retribution for Seki’s dirty tactics. This was hilarious because the whole karma bit came back to bite Yokoi in the rump and it was great. I wonder if Shogi was the mangaka’s favourite game as it’s made an appearance quite a…

My Neighbour Seki: The Master of Killing Time – Episodes 7 to 9: Crafty Imaginations

This week’s episodes were all entertaining in their own way and really highlight the imagination that both Seki and Yokoi have. One of the things that I’m really starting to appreciate is Yokoi’s mind. She can get pretty creative and it contributes to her killing just as much time as Seki-kun, which is just too…

My Neighbour Seki: The Master of Killing Time – Episodes 1 to 6: Impressive Use of Subtle Nuances

My Neighbour Seki: The Master of Killing Time ( となりの関くん ) is a seinen, comedy, anime short series adaptation of the manga written by Takuma Morishige and it revolves around a girl named Rumi Yokoi and the boy who sits beside her, Toshinari Seki, who kills time in some theatric ways during their class period.…

Goblin Slayer Episodes 11 & 12: The Ultimate Horde of Goblins & Goblin Slayer’s Face is Revealed!

Episode 11: In this episode, the inevitable has happened: signs of goblins scouting the farm where Goblin Slayer resides have popped up, which means they’re planning a grand-scale attack. In an effort to save the people who gave him a home, Goblin Slayer makes a risky request. I wish all of the episodes were like…

Goblin Slayer Episodes 9 & 10: A Magical Portal & Making Friends

Episode 9: So, the motley crew found a magical portal Gate that they believe leads to the goblins home world and is how these goblins have been invading the sewers underneath the city. To be perfectly honest, I kind of checked out of this episode a little bit because I found myself feeling bored. I…

Mid-Season Episodic Mutterings: Fairy Gone – Decomposing from Disappointment (Spring 2019)

The first two episodes of Fairy Gone didn’t impress me in the least, as it came off very cliché. Actually, I did like the fight sequence in the second episode and was curious to learn more about the dynamics of fairies during battles because of it. However, that also compelled me to go ahead and…

Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba – Seasonal Mumblings Pt. 1 (Eps. 3 to 6)

Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba was a series that I honestly wasn’t expecting to like. The PV made the animation look weird. But then I watched the pilot and the second episode, and I fell in love with it as so many other folks have. It’s not a perfect masterpiece, but it’s a shōnen that…

Mid-Season Episodic Mutterings: Kono Oto Tomare! (Spring 2019)

Happy Friday morning, chums! Today, I’m going to kick-off my weekend by talking about the Spring 2019, slice-of-life anime, Sounds of Life. This was an anime that I gushed about a bit in my first impressions, even though everything about it was very basic and a tad cliché. The music geek within my heart just…

Mid-Season Episodic Mutterings: Attack on Titan Season 3 Part 2 (Spring 2019)

Part 2 has finally arrived!! Attack on Titan Season 3‘s second half is my most-anticipated release for the Spring 2019 season, as I’m sure it is for tons other folks out there. I was originally going to hold-off on watching it until all ten episodes had been released, yet my excitement and impatience teamed up…

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