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

• Anime Orbit: At The End of a Long, Long, Long Road in The Final Episode of The POKÉMON Anime
• Vote on the Next Let’s Watch for the Spring 2023 Season
• Anime Orbit Seasonal Check-in: Beyond the Royal Rainbow in THE MAGICAL REVOLUTION OF THE REINCARNATED PRINCESS & THE GENIUS YOUNG LADY
• (REVIEW) What Actually is The LOVE LIVE! SUNSHINE!! LIVE-ACTION FILM SPECIAL MOVIE?
• Revisiting Darling in the FranXX 5 Years Later, Part 3 – Episodes 11-15

Manga

• The Manga Shelf: Unexpected Queer Romance in the B-Plot of I BELONG TO THE BADDEST GIRL AT SCHOOL
• The Manga Shelf: The Curious Case of SKELETON DOUBLE
• The Manga Shelf: Forget Everything Else About CHAINSAW MAN PART 2, Let’s Talk About How Cute Nayuta Is
• New Manga First Impressions: Cracking the Code on CIPHER ACADEMY
• ONE PIECE Every Day – Chapter 62

Anime Archives
Reviews – Full reviews of a given anime or similar.
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.
Seasonal First Impressions – First impressions of currently-airing seasonal anime. Generally written within 24 hours of their premiere.
Anime Orbit – Seasonal check-ins, state-of-the-medium writeups, fluff columns, pieces about weird trends or old shows I’m watching. They all go here.
KeyFramesForgotten – A Podcast, co-hosted with Julian M. of THEM Anime Reviews, in which we discuss anime that the public has largely left behind, why they did so, and if those anime deserve a second chance.
Twenty Perfect Minutes – Posts about single anime episodes I just really, really like.

Manga Archives

The Manga Shelf – A column where I spotlight interesting, weird, charming, or just plain fun manga that I’ve been reading recently.
One Piece Every Day – Your daily dose of pirate manga. (CANCELLED)

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