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Here at The Nihon Review, we’re all civil enough to have the occasional respectful disagreement on anime (although it doesn’t actually happen all that often, arguably to do with the fact that the site possibly attracts like-minded people). Just yesterday we uploaded a review written by Kavik Ryx in which he panned Gasaraki, one of [...]

Yes, I know the topic of moe has been done to death on this blog, but I feel like throwing my two cents in. However, I am shifting the focus a little bit: to the Superflat genre of anime. The Superflat movement is an artsy, postmodern movement that currently receives most attention in the West [...]

Now that Sorrow-kun has laid the groundwork of some sample titles for the year, I’ll focus on my area of interest: action. Much like my colleague, I’m not willing to confidently say anything about the overall quality of this season, but this is the first season where I’ve seen the first episodes of about half [...]

It’s an interesting season so far.  I wouldn’t say “brilliant” (it’s way too early to make that call) but it’s different from what we’ve seen so far this year in just the sheer magnitude of titles that are at least worth checking out.  I’ve got a massive list of titles that I’ll be following this [...]

Finally the last part of a post series that exactly no one is interested in.  But I intend the finish what I started, and the reason I didn’t finish it earlier is because it’s the middle of the busy review-writing period.  I’ve had three reviews published in the last couple of weeks and another three [...]