Karen's Anime Blog
Because there's always time for more anime
recent posts
- About Downtime, Part 2
- About Downtime
- This Week in Anime: August 10, 2025
- Clevatess Episode Six
- Reborn as a Vending Machine, I Now Wander the Dungeon S2 Episode Six
- The Fragile Flower Blooms With Dignity Episode Five
- My Dress-Up Darling Episode 17
- Rascal Does Not Dream of Santa Claus Episode Five
- This Week in Anime: August 3, 2025
- Takopi’s Original Sin Episode Six (END)
Tag: review
-
This one has a pretty ridiculous premise, and I don’t want to spoil it: just know that a yakuza gets a middle school choir boy to give him singing lessons at a karaoke bar, and the details as to why are priceless. You definitely have not seen this premise before. This was a nice first…
-
It’s getting a little late in the season for “First Look” posts, but I thought I would be remiss not to mention this one. It didn’t originally catch my eye for this season, but I kept seeing people rave about it on social media after the first episode, so I decided to jump in. It’s…
-
It’s time to check out HIDIVE’s sole new show this season, Bad Girl. High schooler Yuu has a massive crush on her upperclassmen Atori, but can’t seem to get the older girl’s attention. She eventually decides that the problem is Atori’s role as the school’s Public Decency Officer: Good girls who follow the rules must…
-
Ruri Rocks is a gorgeous looking anime. It’s a slice of life anime about two girls who enjoy hunting for minerals, but the outdoor environments are so beautiful, it feels like it’s a fantasy anime with an enchanted forest. Like at any moment, elves are going to come out dancing or something. I would recommend…
-
Arrgh, this show makes me so mad. Shizuku, the female lead, is one of the most annoying characters I’ve ever seen in anime. She books a spot at a campground with very little camping experience, doesn’t bring a tent, then crashes the male lead’s campsite. She then proceeds to act like everything the guy has…
-
When we last left our intrepid vending machine hero and his friends, they had just gotten bamboozled by the Demon Lord, who purposely baited them into sending their best warriors to fight him while his minions terrorized the villages. The group hurries back, but it’s too late; Clearview Lake Stratum’s main town has been all…
-
I think there is value in reading someone’s impressions of a show before you devote time to it, but sometimes, it’s best just to go in blind. Turkey! is one of those times. Please stop reading and go watch the show if you haven’t already. …..Are you sure you don’t want to watch it? I’m…
-
This is the third Clover Works show this season, along with Rascal and My Dress-Up Darling. Netflix licensed it, but they’re not releasing it in the US until the fall. So I did what any good aniblogger would do: I hopped a flight to Japan, watched the first episode, ate some melon bread, then flew…
-
This is one of my favorite shows of the season so far, and it’s about a whole lot of nothing. Okay, not really– conversations count as something— but there really isn’t a plot. It’s just two girls chatting, over snacks. Wada and Yamamoto are two girls who are unpopular in school. One a teacher’s pet…
-
We seem to be in the middle of a witch boom. We’ve got Witch Watch (great show by the way), Maebashi Witches and Once Upon a Witch’s Death from last season, and Secrets of the Silent Witch for summer. I’m a big fantasy reader, so this is relevant to my interests. So far, this show…
Karen's Anime Blog 