Magical Girl Site (Mahou Shoujo Site): Season 1/ Episode 8 “Last Summer” – Recap/ Review (with Spoilers)
What begins as a peaceful day off devolves into us learning about two pending tragedies. One of which is right around the corner.
Anime
In this sub-category, you’ll find TV series that are generally Japanese anime, but also animation from across the world.
Magical Girl Site (Mahou Shoujo Site): Season 1/ Episode 7 “Joint Strategy” – Recap/ Review (with Spoilers)
As the girls from the other site meet Aya and co., so increases the sisterhood and the unfortunate seeming rather blissful.
Steins;Gate 0: Season 1/ Episode 6 “Eclipse of Orbital Ordering – The Orbital Eclipse” – Recap/ Review (with Spoilers)
Just when you are left thinking Steins;Gate 0 is just dragging us along, they present a trigger which may force Okabe into some real action.
Magical Girl Site (Mahou Shoujo Site): Season 1/ Episode 6 “Fake” – Recap/ Review (with Spoilers)
The purpose of Nana creating magical girls gets revealed, alongside so much more.
Steins;Gate 0: Season 1/ Episode 5 “Solitude of the Astigmatism – Entangled Sheep” – Recap/ Review (with Spoilers)
While Shiina is introduced, so is the idea Okabe and Suzu weren’t the only ones looking for her. Which, with Moeka around, raises red flags.
Sword Art Online (Alternative Gun Gale Online): Episode 5 “Leave The Last Battle To Me” – Recap/ Review (with Spoilers)
There might actually be something that could make this spin-off interesting. However, how much longer can we get strung along?
Magical Girl Site (Mahou Shoujo Site): Season 1/ Episode 5 “Revenge and Resolve” – Recap/ Review (with Spoilers)
Multiple characters have their life on the line and it seems someone we may know, Game of Thrones style, might actually die.
Steins;Gate 0: Episode 4 “Solitude of the Mournful Flow – A Stray Sheep” – Recap/ Review (with Spoilers)
Steins;Gate 0 attempts to inspire interest by noting Okabe feeling a world line shift, and it being noted Suzu didn’t return to the past alone.
Sword Art Online (Alternative Gun Gale Online): Episode 4 “Death Game” – Recap/ Review (with Spoilers)
We’re right back where we started and the action is… okay. But it is the ending of the episode which brings interest.
Magical Girl Site (Mahou Shoujo Site): Season 1/ Episode 4 “The Successor and the Transfer Student” – Recap/ Review (with Spoilers)
We finally learn why Sarina and friends bullied Aya as well as who, or what, is inside Yatsumura’s home.
Batman Ninja – Recap/ Review (with Spoilers)
Batman Ninja’s beautiful and intricate art is wasted on a story which is not only dull but perhaps features more mecha action than ninja/samurai styled fights.
Steins;Gate 0: Season 1/ Episode 3 “Protocol of the Two-sided Gospel (X-Day Protocol)” – Recap/ Review (with Spoilers)
Mayushii’s feelings for Okabe are addressed, just as much as him forgetting the Kurisu he has been speaking with is just AI.
Shiyan Pin Jiating (Jikken-hin Kazoku: Creatures Family Days): Season 1/ Episode 3 “Reality” – Recap/ Review (with Spoilers)
Episode 3 follows up on the idea that, despite Tanis being a genius, he won’t be able to do everything for his siblings.
Magical Girl Site: Season 1/ Episode 3 “The Princess and the Poisoned Apple” – Recap/ Review (with Spoilers)
While we don’t learn more about the Tempest, we do learn about Yatsumura’s past and meet another magical girl with a very weird object.
Sword Art Online (Alternative Gun Gale Online): Episode 3 “Fan Letter” – Recap/ Review (with Spoilers)
It seems this will be the last episode covering what happened before the events of the first one – thank god.
Shiyan Pin Jiating (Jikken-hin Kazoku: Creatures Family Days): Season 1/ Episode 2 “Flutter” – Recap/ Review (with Spoilers)
Taking care of your older siblings can be quite a chore when you’re the baby of the family. Maybe even a responsibility to big to handle on your own.
Steins;Gate 0: Season 1/ Episode 2 “Epigraph of the Closed Curve – Closed Epigraph” – Recap/ Review (with Spoilers)
As Okabe seeks closure, it seems he is only drawn deeper into his trauma as Maho gets closer to him.
Children of the Whales: Season 1/ Episode 1 “It Was Our Entire World” [Series Premiere] – Recap/ Review (with Spoilers)
The foundation is laid for an interesting adventure in Children of the Whales, especially as it pushes from the idea we are seeing the last of mankind to something else.
Magical Girl Site: Season 1/ Episode 2 “Tempest” – Recap/ Review (with Spoilers)
After a very memorable introduction, we are now introduced to what Aya and even Yatsumura have to worry about. Making it seem this series might actually be good.
Violet Evergarden: Season 1 – Recap/ Review (with Spoilers)
Violet Evergarden is one of the few animes which match beautiful visuals with a story that will, in time, rock your heart and inspire tears.
Sword Art Online (Alternative Gun Gale Online): Episode 2 “GGO” – Recap/ Review (with Spoilers)
We meet Karen’s real-life friend as well as one of Llenn’s first virtual friends, alongside seeing Kohi’s first days in a VR environment. Yeah, it’s kind of boring.
Doreiku: Season 1/ Episode 1 “Choice” [Series Premiere] – Recap/ Review (with Spoilers)
While Doreiku might be strange, especially due to the show being about enslaving people, what most do with the power is uninspiring.
Shiyan Pin Jiating: Season 1/ Episode 1 “Family” – Recap/ Review (with Spoilers)
This weird little family comedy, which hints at a sad, if not outright traumatic past, really shouldn’t be as hard to find as it is.
Steins;Gate 0: Season 1/ Episode 1 “Missing Link of the Annihilator -Absolute Zero-” [Season Premiere] – Recap/ Review (with Spoilers)
After many years, Steins;Gate returns and with a bit of a reintroduction episode for the premiere, you get quickly reacclimated and excited for what the season will hold.
Caligula: Season 1/ Episode 1 “When You Lose Your Composure, You Cannot Reach The Truth Or Reality” [Series Premiere] – Recap/ Review (with Spoilers)
Most of Caligula’s premiere is dedicated to its lead talking like the most boring lecturer you’ll ever meet, and it is hard to say if the end of the premiere makes up for that.
The Ancient Magus’ Bride (Mahoutsukai no Yome): Season 1 – Recap/ Review (with Spoilers)
Beautifully tragic. Essentially that is what The Ancient Magus’ Bride is. A story dealing with neglect, ostracism, outright abandonment, and trying to figure out a way to more than just deal with it but find stable sources of joy.
Garo – Vanishing Line: Season 1 – Recap/ Review (with Spoilers)
Garo – Vanishing Line is bloated and surely not going to push you to look into the other series under the Garo umbrella.
Sword Art Online (Alternative Gun Gale Online): Episode 1 “Squad Jam” [Season Premiere] – Recap/ Review (with Spoilers)
Sword Art Online returns! However, it is without our beloved Kirito and Asuna… so is it still worth seeing?
Magical Girl Site (Mahou Shoujo Site): Season 1/ Episode 1 “Magical Girl Site” [Series Premiere] – Recap/ Review (with Spoilers)
Magical Girl Site, despite not being all that gory, maybe one of the most f’d up shows you’ve seen in a while.
Violet Evergarden: Season 1/ Episode 13 “The Auto Memory Doll And ‘I Love You'” [Season Finale] – Recap/ Review (with Spoilers)
Violet Evergarden ends with closure for fans and the character, and once again you need to plan to shed tears.
Kokkoku: Season 1 – Recap/ Review (with Spoilers)
Kokkoku ultimately is like walking down a dead end street, reaching the end, and continuing to walk forward, into an empty lot, hoping to find something valuable.
Citrus: Season 1 – Recap/ Review (with Spoilers)
Citrus has its moments. Especially when addressing female homosexuality in Japan. However, despite the growth of character Yuzu, it’s more about tantalization than substance.
FLCL: Season 3/ Episode 1 “Flying Memory” [Season Premiere] – Recap/ Review (with Spoilers)
Because Netflix isn’t the only one who can do surprises, the first episode of FLCL: Alternative dropped and, well the show is as weird as you remember.
Garo – Vanishing Line: Season 1/ Episode 24 “Future” [Season Finale] – Recap/ Review (with Spoilers)
The final episode does what most of the season failed to make you do, care about the fate of the characters.
Violet Evergarden: Season 1/ Episode 12 – Recap/ Review (with Spoilers)
The long-simmering rebel groups of Gardarik make their move and push Violet to disobey Major Gilbert’s final order.
Kokkoku: Season 1/ Episode 12 [Season Finale] – Recap/ Review (with Spoilers)
Kokkoku comes to a uninspiring end that decides to push a character who, at the last minute, could give Juri hope.
The Ancient Magus’ Bride: Season 1/ Episode 24 [Season Finale] – Recap/ Review (with Spoilers)
And so The Ancient Magus’ Bride ends with a bit of compromise. Most of which lead you to believe there could be a season 2.
Citrus: Season 1/ Episode 12 – Recap/ Review (with Spoilers)
So do Mei and Yuzu end up together? Really, you need to ask?
Garo – Vanishing Line: Episode 23 – Recap/ Review (with Spoilers)
It’s the same ole, same ole, for Garo – Vanishing Line as villains are slain without really getting to have their moment.
