Summer 2023 Anime Season Preview

Just reminding everyone how goddamn amazing the Jujutsu Kaisen ED is. Somehow this season they’ve managed to not pack in a single sequel I actually want to watch, so maybe I’ll return and try finish the first season of Jujutsu Kaisen instead. It wasn’t like I wasn’t enjoying it, but the arc with the depressed……

Is Death Note still one of my favourite anime of all time

My very first post announcing the start of the Favourite Anime Project lead with a picture from Death Note. The idea behind starting this project was that I no longer had any idea what my favourite anime was anymore. I did used to know, back when I was a teenager and every anime I had……

Is Roujin Z still one of my favourite anime of all time

Roujin Z was an absolute gem of a find for me when going through old anime OVAs. Here was something written by the author of Akira, as well as being one of the first anime Satoshi Kon worked on, even if it was mostly on background art. It was a darkly funny anime about the……

Is Kino’s Journey still one of my favourite anime of all time

When I originally saw Kino’s Journey, I thought it was such a smart, thoughtful anime. Each episode had a meaning, almost like a Aesop’s fable. The simplicity of its story was deliberate to make it clear what the message of its tale was. That was when I was but a mere teenager. Then a new……

Is Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann still one of my favourite anime of all time

Gurren Lagann was the goddamn best shit back when it aired. A supposedly dying Gainax out of nowhere dropped the single best super robot anime of all time, with a previously un-celebrated director Hiroyuki Imaishi making a huge splash with the show. That’s my memory of it anyway. I’ve loved some of Imaishi’s latest anime,……

Spring 2023 Anime Early Impressions part 2

I thought this season of Birdie Wing would struggle to live up to the lesbian golf mafia mania of season 1, but then someone got a DNA test via their ability to create rainbows with their golf swing and I decided maybe Birdie Wing still had something to offer us all in these trying times.……

Is Dominion Tank Police still one of my favourite anime of all time

Around 2010 I went back in time (metaphorically speaking) and dusted off an old VHS player (metaphorically speaking) to watch a whole bunch of old anime OVAs. Between all these cyberpunk ladies with big hair and their government regulated one boob flash per anime, there was one that stuck out for having an especially sharp……

Spring 2023 Anime Early Impressions part 1

I’m here to report that Dr Stone is still amazing, or more like Dr Swag. Also the author should put all his female characters in sunglasses because that way they no longer look like weird fish people. The rest of this post shall be about a bunch of the new anime from this season. Renamed……

Is Puella Magi Madoka Magica still one of my favourite anime of all time

Madoka was an absolute sensation when it aired. It was the new defining anime, kickstarting a new era in anime fandom. At least, that’s what it felt like at the time. Over a decade later and, while it certainly has maintained in anime fandom consciousness, it hasn’t been nearly the same cultural touchstone it felt……

Spring 2023 Anime Season Preview

BIRDIE WING BIRDIE WING BIRDIE WING time to watch the lesbian golf mafia murder each other with bogeys hell yeah! err-hum. Welcome to Day the The Cart Driver’s anime season preview for the spring 2023 season! We’ve had the customary dark days of winter and now I’m sure there’s a bunch of great anime coming……