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A Reflection on a Decade

A Reflection on a Decade

Near the beginning of this decade, I looked at the anime medium as a source of fresh ideas full of creativity and passion, completely unlike the everyday drivel that filled the American airwaves. For the first few years when I feasted on the cream of the crop my belief was seemingly reaffirmed. As my internet [...]

20 Decade Highlights (Kavik Ryx)

20 Decade Highlights (Kavik Ryx)

With a relatively unique decade in anime at its close, everyone is bound to place their own superlative on it. And of course, many people will be quick to label it as the worst. Only truly getting into anime mid 2004, it would be highly presumptuous of me to put such a label on it. [...]

Looking Back, Looking Forwards: This Decade in Anime

Looking Back, Looking Forwards: This Decade in Anime

As this decade draws to a close, we celebrate the last ten years in anime. Certainly, the industry has progressed far in the last ten years: anime has become more popular, both domestically and worldwide; it has matured significantly as an art form, featuring cutting-edge CG technology and beautiful, streamlined animation; and it has become [...]

Sorrow-kun’s List of 50 Great Anime of the Decade 2000-2009

Sorrow-kun's List of 50 Great Anime of the Decade 2000-2009

Our staff’s review of the decade continues, and today I’ll be taking on the massive task of trying to list the best fifty anime that came out this decade, as I saw them. As is fairly obvious by now, I can only list the anime that I saw, and I’ve taken the policy of not [...]

AC’s Top 20 Anime of the Decade

AC's Top 20 Anime of the Decade

This has been a decade of mixed reactions for some people. A handful may see it as a period of renaissance, paying tributes to giant robots and classic mecha of the 80s and 90s in the form of instances such as Tengen-Toppa Gurren Lagann and Gundam SEED. Others see it as the period of the [...]