Summer 2023 may be a little slow as it has to do with anime series, but it’s been surprisingly strong in the OP department! In fact, our man Ryan included an extra “honorable mention” one that you may not have yet seen but technically counts toward this season. Watch for it in the video! We… Read More Five Best Openings (OPs) of the Summer 2023 Anime Season
Welcome to Doki Doki News, your source for updates in the world of anime, gaming, and otakudom, for the week of May 28th! Check out the latest episode in our player below, or subscribe to us on Apple, Spotify, or SoundCloud, where you can also find breaking news episodes! Are you a fan of Bongou… Read More Doki Doki News: Silent Hill: Ascension Trailer, Farming Life Dub, and Bungo Stray Dogs (Season 5)
Welcome to AniMarch Madness! Our tournament of 64 begins today! Last week, you helped narrow the field through a series of play-in matches. Now we’re on to the real thing! We’ll post eight matches a day starting today and running through Thursday. The winners will advance to round two next week, while the losers are… Read More AniMarch Madness 2023: Round 1, Day 1
The new anime season is off to quite a start, with old friends returning (One Punch Man, Bungou Stray Dogs, Fruits Basket), great directors leading new series (Sarazanmai, Carole & Tuesday), mashups, surprises, and everything else you can imagine. Peter, David, and Holly of Team FtK lead us through the new offerings for spring and… Read More TangleCast 55: Spring 2019 Anime First Impressions
Anime often revels in deviant storytelling. Add that to its cultural roots, and it’s easy for misunderstanding and stereotyping to occur among Western audiences. Christians, especially, seem hesitant to embrace anime due, in part, to its oftentimes default spiritual content. Witches, demons, spirits, and magic frequently flavor Japanese storytelling, which can sound worse in word… Read More Something More: Belonging in Bungou, Berserk “Sunday School,” and Dangerous Flying Witches
Flying Witch Flying Witch Japesland – 6/10 There’s really not too much to Flying Witch as a creative work, which means my review will be similarly brief. It’s relaxing, entertaining, and generally competent at what it attempts to accomplish. That, however, is as far as it goes: competent. Characters? Good. Pacing? Good. Setting? Good. Everything else?… Read More Spring Anime 2016 Review (Part 3/3)
Bungou Stray Dogs is a decent action anime about an orphan weretiger and the “Armed Detective Agency” that gives him a job and a place to belong. Between the quirky characters and the action, it has all the ingredients for a basic, fun show. Still, I found it unremarkable until the seventh episode, “Love for… Read More Annalyn’s Corner: Bungou Stray Dogs and Messy Justice