Welcome to the Sweet Sixteen! The first two rounds are complete and 15 matches remain in total until a champion is crowned in this year’s AniMarch Madness! Here’s the updated bracket: During the last round, one of the number two seeds fell, with Naruto Shippuden losing to Bleach, perhaps strengthened by an excellent new season… Read More AniMarch Madness 2023: Sweet Sixteen, Day 1
Thank you to everyone who voted yesterday! Round two is off to a rousing start and it continues today with four more matches! Take a gander at the round two bracket and vote below to help us decide who makes it to next week’s sweet sixteen matches! Remember that in addition to voting below, you… Read More AniMarch Madness 2023: Round 2, Day 2
It’s the final day of round one of AniMarch Madness, where you vote to decide which anime will win our single-elimination tournament. We’ve got eight more on the slate for today! Vote below and head on over to our other platforms and vote there as well: Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, Discord, and Mastodon.
It literally took a global pandemic to slow down the rapid growth of anime’s popularity. But the industry has surged back, and after a year during which studios were playing catch-up, 2022 felt like it was largely business as usual and maybe better than that, with dozens of new series released each season, new studios… Read More Best of 2022 Anime
Happy Post-Thanksgiving Day, friends! It’s hard to believe that it’s already that time of the year again, when some of the best deals of the season are happening. It can be tempting to “celebrate” Black Friday for its financial benefits alone, but this year, we at BtT wanted to do something a little different. As… Read More Camping Out For Black Friday (Anime Style)
You Like Me, Don’t You? Vol. 1 This high school romcom is…wildly uneven in terms of quality. On the one hand, it’s got: the stereotypical loser guy (Soukichi) and popular girl (Kasumi) combo in a literature club; cliché, forced romcom scenarios; wonky or missing punctuation; sentence fragments; capitalization errors; ambiguity; tacky emphasis on the female… Read More Reader’s Corner: Cat + Gamer, The Magical Revolution of the Reincarnated Princess and the Genius Young Lady, and When a Cat Faces West
While there are far fewer new anime this winter 2022 season than in the fall, there’s no shortage of wonderful openings! So many, in fact, that we couldn’t include many of our favorites, settling on these five awesome OPs: “Naked Hero” by Vaundy (Ranking of Kings) “Sansan Days” by Spira Spica (My Dress-up Darling) “Kaze… Read More Five Best Openings (OPs) of the Winter 2022 Anime Season