The Orange Child – Review/Summary (with Spoilers)
The evolution of self-image is explored as a Black child growing up in France finds a way to be empowered by his Blackness.
Non-English
The Non-English tag focuses on productions which either entirely are not in English, or primarily aren’t.
Carnaval (2021) – Review/Summary (with Spoilers)
Despite seeming like a generic party film/ girls trip, there is more to Carnaval than meets the eye.
Horimiya: Season 1 – Review/ Summary (with Spoilers)
While Horimiya starts off cute, with a potentially beautiful and complicated story, it eventually boils down to something silly and at times bloated.
The Promised Neverland: Season 2 – Review/ Summary (with Spoilers)
The Promised Neverland: Season 2 is a proverbial sophomore slump compared to season 1 as it presents no credible threats or reasons to get invested.
To Your Eternity: Season 1 Episode 1 “The Last One” – Recap/ Review (with Spoilers)
To Your Eternity begins as a slow show, one which may come off potentially dull, but by the end, you’ll realize it hooked you without you knowing.
Shadow House: Season 1 Episode 1 “The Shadow and Her Doll” – Recap/ Review (with Spoilers)
Shadows House begins with establishing its core relationship, featuring two strikingly different opposites.
Super Cub: Season 1 Premiere Episode 1 “The Girl With Nothing” – Recap/ Review (with Spoilers)
Super Cub is the epitome of the slice of life genre. It presents an everyday person, in animated form and focuses on the simple joys and dullness of life vs. the occasional chaos.
Joran: The Princess of Snow and Blood: Season 1 Premiere Episode 1 “Confidential File 101, The Blue Flower of Carnage” – Recap/ Review (with Spoilers)
In a supernatural revenge story, we watch blood get shed in the name of a country and personal vengeance.
Higehiro: Season 1 Premiere, Episode 1 “The Teenage Girl Beneath The Lamplight” – Recap/ Review (with Spoilers)
In a show with one of the longest titles we ever had, you have a 26-year-old taking in a teen runaway and trying to keep their relationship appropriate.
Redo of Healer: Season 1 – Review/ Summary (with Spoilers)
Redo of Healer is your classic, starts off violent and shocking, but as you become adjusted to the sex and violence, you realize there isn’t much there.
Violet Evergarden: The Movie (2020) – Review/ Summary (with Spoilers)
Closing out the franchise, Violet Evergarden: The Movie gives Violet the closure she has desperately needed and the tears you expect.
Mushoku Tensei: Jobless Reincarnation: Season 1 – Review/ Summary (with Spoilers)
Mushoku Tensei: Jobless Reincarnation may get to be a bit much at times, with its ecchi, but beyond that, it is one of the most consistent quality shows we’ve seen in a long time.
Caught By A Wave (2021) – Review/Summary (with Spoilers)
Caught By A Wave is a simple romance with enough drama to keep it from getting dull, but never enough to make you take situations mentioned too serious.
Tribes of Europa: Season 1 – Review/ Summary (with Spoilers)
Tribes of Europa does well in getting you interested in a post-apocalypse Europe, but more so in how the world and cultures shifted than its characters.
Boogie (2021) – Review/Summary (with Spoilers)
Boogie tries to be a coming of age tale, romance, drama, and feature its leads heritage to varying degrees of success.
Tribes of Europa: Season 1 Episode 1 “Chapter 1” – Recap/ Review (with Spoilers)
Netflix has a new epic on its hands and considering the vast and complicated world in Tribes of Europa, there is more going for it than against it.
A Writer’s Odyssey (2021) – Review/Summary (with Spoilers)
If you’re missing the big-budget productions Hollywood is too scared to release theatrically, A Writer’s Odyssey can help you with your fix.
Would You Rather: Season 1 – Review/ Summary (with Spoilers)
Would You Rather gives you a raw teenage experience, sans the usual sex and drugs.
The Criminals – Review/Summary (with Spoilers)
Many young adults worldwide take advantage of privacy, which isn’t legally available to our two leads. But will they risk getting arrested to get it?
If Only You Were Mine – Review/Summary (with Spoilers)
The seduction of someone older and more mature meets realizing their maturity doesn’t mean they are ready for you.
Stanley – Review/ Summary (with Spoilers)
Stanley buries the lead with sex and ends before you feel it gets to the good part.
The Den – Review/ Summary (with Spoilers)
A man with a secret finds himself in the company of the other person who knows what he lusts for.
Redo of Healer: Season 1 Episode 1 “The Healer Starts Over!” [Series Premiere] – Recap/ Review (with Spoilers)
Redo of Healer is a revenge story that may make you think of The Rising of the Shield Hero, but this is far more graphic, violent, and Keyaru’s revenge is active.
Wonder Egg Priority: Season 1 Episode 1 “The Domain of Children” [Series Premiere] – Recap/ Review (with Spoilers)
What begins as a story about an adorable recluse becomes a rather bloody tale about how the lead character’s friend committed suicide.
Mushoku Tensei: Jobless Reincarnation: Season 1 Episode 1 “Jobless Reincarnation” [Series Premiere] – Recap/ Review (with Spoilers)
Mushoku Tensei: Jobless Reincarnation is a reincarnated/transported to another world anime featuring ecchi, magic, and a notable amount of potential.
Adachi and Shimamura: Season 1 – Review/ Summary (with Spoilers)
Adachi and Shimamura takes the slow and steady approach to love. Thus giving you something which may feel annoyingly slow at times, but often authentic.
Horimiya: Season 1 Episode 1 “A Tiny Happenstance” [Series Premiere] – Recap/ Review (with Spoilers)
In Horimiya, two high school teenagers show a side of themselves no one at school gets to see and maybe, just maybe, it might blossom into a romance.
I Remember – Review/Summary (with Spoilers)
I Remember asks you to forgive it’s lead tells, as he gets the chance to live out his dream of dating the girl who always seemed out of his league.
Exes Baggage (2020) – Review/Summary (with Spoilers)
Exes Baggage presents your usual will they or won’t they drama as you become so invested in the leads’ relationship you feel as if they must end up together.
Cadaver (2020) – Review/Summary (with Spoilers)
Despite how creepy and seemingly perfect for the season “Cadaver” appears, it fails to live up to what you likely imagined.
Magatsu Wahrheit: Zuerst: Season 1 Episode 1 “The Getaway: Part One” [Series Premiere] – Recap/ Review with Spoilers
Magic, guns, swords, an empire dealing with rebel forces, and two people sucked into the madness on opposing sides, “Magatsu Wahrheit: Zuerst” seems promising.
Adachi and Shimamura: Season 1 Episode 1 [Series Premiere] – Recap/ Review with Spoilers
While there is some ecchi for those who need it, largely “Adachi and Shimamura” keeps things cute, with a dash of complicat
Jiang Ziya (2020) – Review/Summary (with Spoilers)
Like “Ne Zha,” “Jiang Ziya” feels like an epic that can appeal to children but doesn’t lose the adults watching in the process.
Rent A Girlfriend: Season 1 – Recap/ Review (with Spoilers)
While “Rent A Girlfriend” began with the possibility of being more than another male fantasy anime, it shifts to being what was expected.
Whipped (2020) – Review/Summary (with Spoilers)
“Whipped” may feel longer than it needs to be and has an unnecessary twist, but the end result is what you hope for and expect.
The Paramedic (2020) – Review/Summary (with Spoilers)
The Paramedic is a stern reminder of why closure isn’t needed, no matter what your ex says. Take what you can, and DON’T LOOK BACK!
#Alive – Review/ Summary (with Spoilers)
#Alive, with its small speaking cast, but high stakes, makes for an awesome, albeit simple, zombie movie.
Freaks – You’re One of Us (2020) – Review/ Summary (with Spoilers)
Freaks – You’re One of Us lays the groundwork for a potential superhero franchise, just on a smaller scale than what we often see.
The Hater – Review/ Summary with Spoilers
In this over two hour epic, you watch a young man play the long game in ways that will stun you and leave you thinking, “It can’t end like this?”
