Welcome to the Directory. Here you can navigate to the various things on my blog.

Below you’ll find the Recent Post Feed, showing the several most recent pieces I’ve written. Below that is the Archives, where you can find links to simple, text-based lists of all of my work, sorted into various categories. All are in chronological order, from newest to oldest.

Alternately, if you’re feeling truly adventurous, you can consult the Articles by Month auto-archive, and take a gander through literally everything I’ve ever written, one month at a time. Your call!

Recent Post Feed

Anime

• Brief First Impressions on: FATE/STRANGE FAKE
• Ranking Every 2025 Anime (That I Actually Finished) From Worst to Best
• Let’s Watch UMAMUSUME: CINDERELLA GRAY – Episode 23 – “A New Era”
• Let’s Watch UMAMUSUME: CINDERELLA GRAY – Episode 22 – “Gray Phantom”
• Let’s Watch UMAMUSUME: CINDERELLA GRAY – Episode 21 – “The Arima Kinen”

The Weekly Orbit

• The Weekly Orbit [9/29/25]
• The Weekly Orbit [9/22/25]
• The Weekly Orbit [9/08/25]
• The Weekly Orbit [9/01/25]
• The Weekly Orbit [8/25/25]

Manga

• New Manga First Impressions: Shot Through The Heart – Love, Loss, and the Ephemeral Beauty of a Grassroots Fandom: The Story of LOVE BULLET
• New Manga First Impressions: The Iron Eyes and Human Heart of DEEP RAPUTA
• The Manga Shelf: Your Planet is Doomed – The End of Romance and the Alienation of Humanity in UCHUUJIN NO KAKUSHIGOTO
• Remembering Akira Toriyama
• The Manga Shelf: Year of the Dragon – RURIDRAGON’s Triumphant Return

Anime Archives
Reviews – Full reviews of a given anime or similar.
The Weekly Orbit – Week-by-week breakdowns of what I’m watching and reading. Seasonals as they air, classic anime, random manga, whatever.
Other Articles – Seasonal check-ins, state-of-the-medium writeups, fluff columns, pieces about weird trends or old shows I’m watching. They all go here. Formerly known as “Anime Orbit,” currently searching for a better name.
Seasonal First Impressions – First impressions of currently-airing seasonal anime. Generally written within 24 hours of their premiere.
Let’s Watch – Column where I follow an anime as it airs and detail my thoughts and analyses of each episode as it comes out.
Twenty Perfect Minutes – Posts about single anime episodes I just really, really like.
Podcast Archives – An archive of my various audio projects, all co-hosted with Julian M. of THEM Anime Reviews.

Manga Archives

The Manga Shelf – A column where I spotlight interesting, weird, charming, or just plain fun manga that I’ve been reading recently.

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