Looking forward to reviewing this season's crop in another month or two, but for this week, featured items are a series from a while back, Monthly Girls' Nozaki-kun, and a movie from two years ago, Sing a Bit of Harmony, plus five others of varying goodness after the break. The new shows this season have been a mixed bag. Heavenly Delusion was my early front-runner for favorite, but it's gotten off track, and a wonderful installment of Insomniacs After School

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I've been sitting on 99 stories for a while now, almost 6 months, and I haven't published anything in 2023 except a couple new minifics in my anthology. But I've got one nearly ready to go!

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I recently retired a number of things that I was holding out hope of getting another season for, so that replenished my stash of reviews a little. Features this time are a series from three years ago, Dorohedoro, and a movie from four years ago, Her Blue Sky, plus the usual pretty good or not good stuff, including a recent one that just finished back in the winter, after the break.

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Unlike volume 25, I don't have anything special going on for this nice round number. I'll talk a little about some new shows that just started, but to keep it above the fold, I'll go ahead and say the features this time are Death Parade, from nearly ten years ago, and Wonder Egg Priority, from just a couple of years ago. Those plus four other reviews (most of which are in a continuity, as I alluded to last time) after the break.

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Been a long time since I did a writing blog...

When you hit that "publish" button and make your story publicly readable, what sort of responsibilities do you have about it? In most cases, the real answer is "none," or at least "none beyond the ones you decide to take on voluntarily," but there are common ones that most authors would agree they'd try to uphold.

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Some oddball stuff this week—I would have had enough for a post last week, but I discovered a series I'd finished had 2 sequels and several OVAs/specials, so... next time for those. Featured items are a recent series, Blue Period, and a movie from a decade ago, Wolf Children, after the break, plus four others that all rated as pretty good.

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Yay for a couple of movies giving me a quick infusion of additional things to review! Featured items this time are a series from just a couple of years ago, Darwin's Game, and another from a decade ago that had a lot of big names involved, Kids on the Slope, plus four other good to not good things, after the break.

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A good problem to have: I finished quite a few things in the last two weeks, and I really liked a lot of them, so I'm overflowing with feature-worthy items and already have enough to last the next couple of blogs. It's the other stuff I'm short on. Features this week are a series from last year, Healer Girl, and a Ghibli movie, The Tale of the Princess Kaguya, plus four other items after the break.

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A few things did finish last week, but unfortunately, one of them (The Yakuza's Guide to Babysitting) didn't come to a conclusion at all, which I assume means I need to wait for a second season now. Featured items this week are Listeners, from just a few years back, and Vampire in the Garden, from this past spring, plus four other things of varying goodness after the break.

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Yay, Christmas vacation time means more anime watching! Though I used that time to get into more multi-season things, so not a lot more finished. Still, some of the fall season shows ended, and I have two of those as this week's featured items: Akiba Maid War and Bocchi the Rock, plus a few other good to not-so-good ones (also mostly recent), after the break.

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