Tag: anime
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Weekly Shonen Jump Issue #29 (2026)
Each week we will be providing some thoughts on what we read in the latest issue of Weekly Shonen Jump magazine. We also detail the T.O.C. (table of contents) for each issue and preview the following week’s issue. This week’s table of contents order: HAL FORMULA (New Series/Cover/Lead Colour/56p) by Terasaka Kento1 – Akane-banashi2 –…
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Weekly Shonen Jump Issue #28 (2026)
Each week we will be providing some thoughts on what we read in the latest issue of Weekly Shonen Jump magazine. We also detail the T.O.C. (table of contents) for each issue and preview the following week’s issue. This week’s table of contents order: Animal Signal (New Series/Cover/Lead Colour/54p) by Haruhara Robinson (Story) & Tsutsui…
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Weekly Shonen Jump Issue #27 (2026)
Each week we will be providing some thoughts on what we read in the latest issue of Weekly Shonen Jump magazine. We also detail the T.O.C. (table of contents) for each issue and preview the following week’s issue. This week’s table of contents order: Someone Hertz (Cover & Lead Colour)1 – Ichi the Witch2 –…
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Weekly Shonen Jump Issue #24 (2026)
Each week we will be providing some thoughts on what we read in the latest issue of Weekly Shonen Jump magazine. We also detail the T.O.C. (table of contents) for each issue and preview the following week’s issue. This week’s table of contents order: Kagurabachi (Cover & Lead Colour)1 – Ichi the Witch2 – ONE…
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Weekly Shonen Jump Issue #22-23 (2026)
Each week we will be providing some thoughts on what we read in the latest issue of Weekly Shonen Jump magazine. We also detail the T.O.C. (table of contents) for each issue and preview the following week’s issue. This week’s table of contents order: SAKAMOTO DAYS (Cover & Lead Colour)1 – Ichi the Witch2 –…
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‘Akane-Banashi’ | First Impressions
Akane-Banashi is one of those shows that immediately feels different, not because it’s loud or flashy, but because it commits fully to something most anime would treat as background detail. Rakugo is the entire foundation here, and instead of dressing it up or over-explaining it, the series just trusts you to sit with it. That…
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A Look Back on 20 Years of ‘Fairy Tail’
There are some series you watch, enjoy, and move on from, and then there are the ones that quietly grow with you. Fairy Tail sits firmly in the latter camp. Twenty years on, it feels less like a relic of a different era and more like a time capsule of what made anime and manga…
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‘Dandelion’ Anime | Review
There’s something quietly fascinating about Dandelion existing at all. Long before Hideaki Sorachi became synonymous with Gintama, he penned this strange little one shot that already carried his signature chaos. Now, years later, it’s been resurrected as a short anime with Sorachi’s involvement, and somehow it feels both like a time capsule and a victory…
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‘Nippon Sangoku: The Three Nations of the Crimson Sun’ | First Impressions
After two episodes, Nippon Sangoku already feels like something operating on a completely different wavelength. Set in a dystopian future Japan, the series wastes no time establishing a world that feels fractured beyond repair. The country itself has been split into three competing kingdoms, each with its own power structure, ideology, and sense of control.…
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‘Gals Can’t Be Kind to Otaku?’ | First Impressions
It has been a while since a rom com anime grabbed me in the same way Gal Can’t Be Kind to Otaku? did with its first episode. There is a certain lightness to it that feels instantly easy to settle into, like the show knows exactly what it wants to be and does not overcomplicate…
