The rather long titled There’s No Freaking Way I’ll Be Your Lover! Unless… was the big romantic comedy anime I watched in the Summer 2025 season, and I’d describe as the big “disaster lesbian” show, and I think is a series that worked out well, and I’ll be happy to watch more of.
Read moreWe have more Peter Cushing & Christopher Lee this week, with the Public Domain horror classic, Horror Express.
Season 2 of DanDaDan starts on a messy cliffhanger that, I will admit, makes for a rough start, with Momo Ayase facing assault (with sexual overtones, but not actually sexual) in a Hot Springs, while Okarun and Jin are facing physical assault from a bunch of incredibly powerful old grannies in the home that Jin and his parents are renting. The question because, how well does it handle the payoff?
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We kick off chapter 5 with a very role-play-heavy session.
Read moreKicking off my October Spooky Horror reviews with the underrated Cannon films horror-comedy House of the Long Shadows.
While the first season of Call of the Night was a series that was heavy on vibes and less on horror, the second season of the series does delve a little more into Vampire society – and also is something that really gets that while our little low-fi Camarillia is generally very chill, vampires are monsters – and even if the group that Ko is around doesn’t act like monsters, other Vampires can be monstrous.
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My Dress-Up Darling was one of the first shows we did for Anime Explorations, and it was a show we generally really enjoyed. Yes, it was a somewhat horny-on-main romantic comedy anime, but it was tonally light, and didn’t feel leering in the way that other fanservicey series did, combined with a romance between Gojo and Marin that was very sweet, so I’ve been looking forward to a second season, and was quite pleased when we finally got one this year. I already had some high expectations, but this season blew those right out of the water.
Read moreI cover chapter 4 of the adventure, including a few of the difficulties of our first dungeon exploration.
This month we’re watching the anime adaptation of Alexandre Dumas’ The Count of Monte Cristo.
The first season of Sakamoto Diaries was a fun season, with some interesting characters and some fun writing and fight scenes. the concept of “What if John Wick’s wife didn’t die, and he retired to run a combini?” worked for me. However, the second season had a really strong fall off for me, and I dropped it before the season finished, so I should probably talk about why.
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