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Tag: SHOSHIMIN: How to become Ordinary

Top Five Anime Openings (OPs) for Spring 2025

It’s time once again to drop our picks for the top five openings of the anime season! Here are our selections for the best OPs of spring 2025: Here are the OPs we selected: What’s your favorite OP of the season? Are there any we missed? We hope you enjoy our selections! Please follow us… Read More Top Five Anime Openings (OPs) for Spring 2025

06.27.202507.01.2025 Staff2 Comments

Top Five Anime Openings (OPs) of the Summer 2024 Season

The summer 2024 has been on fire—at least when it comes to the music. While it lacks the big splashes of last season, like YUNGLUD’s “Abyss,” summer 2024 has provided great openings one after another from series like The Elusive Samurai, Roshidere, and Oshi no Ko. I don’t envy our man Ryan in selecting and… Read More Top Five Anime Openings (OPs) of the Summer 2024 Season

09.11.202412.03.2024 Staff1 Comment

First Impression: SHOSHIMIN: How to Become Ordinary

Kobato and Osanai have a deal. The socially awkward boy and quiet girl will help one another “become ordinary.” To do so, they will follow a series of rules for what it means to be an ordinary person. Having been classmates in middle school and now attending high school together, the two will work together… Read More First Impression: SHOSHIMIN: How to Become Ordinary

07.06.202407.06.2024 Twwk1 Comment

Summer 2024 Anime First Impressions

While the spring 2024 season had its expected triumphs like Sound Euphonium and Laid-Back Camp S3, there were perhaps a higher percentage of positive surprises than in recent seasons, like the Bartender reboot, WIND BREAKER, and Go! GO! Loser Ranger! While we don’t typically post a preview ahead of new anime seasons, we can help… Read More Summer 2024 Anime First Impressions

06.26.202410.28.2024 Staff2 Comments

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