Every week, I visit about 215 anime sites looking for posts that celebrate amazing moments in anime or otherwise blow me away with their wit and charm. These are my five favorite posts for the week. I hope you enjoy them as much as I did!
You can see a list of the sites I check here: Massive List of Sites!
Seasonal Previews
The 2026 Winter season is underway, and bloggers have released one more wave of previews. I hope I caught all of them over the last three weeks or so!
- Anime Feminist: 2026 Winter Premiere Reviews
- Chikorita157’s Anime Blog: Winter 2026 Anime Preview, 2025 Year in Review and Plans for 2026
- JuryFX’s Blog: Winter 2026 Anime Week 0: Winter 2026 Anime Season Preview
- MyAnimeGo: The 10 Must-See Winter 2026 Anime
- Too Old for Anime
Anime Hanabi
Angelic Layer Episode 1
I enjoy learning about interesting series that I’ve never heard of. It’s even more cool if the new interesting series is from CLAMP. They were behind xxxHOLiC, one of my all time favorite anime series. momomanamu, on the site Anime Hanabi, just reviewed the first episode of Battle Doll Angelic Layer, and I loved the details she mentioned — especially the part about the hobby store and the police response. Talk about unexpected! But it made perfect sense in context. Go see what I mean!
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Confessions of an Overage Otaku
Oh, So Trope-ical: The Found Family
SPY x FAMILY, Fruits Basket, and Farming Life in Another World — these are series that feature a trope near and dear to my heart: the found family. Okay, maybe not so much the third one, though I think there’s a case to be made. There’s something very warm and peaceful about this trope. So when I saw this post by The Overage Otaku on the site Confessions of an Overage Otaku, I looked forward to reading his perspective. Of course, the post delivered! I particularly liked his selection of examples that used this trope. Go see if he picked your favorite examples!
More Posts from Confessions of an Overage Otaku
Moonlit Media Room
Gachiakuta (2025), Season 1 Review
I’ve read several blog posts about Gachiakuta, and most of them made the case for the show’s appeal that it’s already on my backlog. But my backlog is a vast and complex place. Shows constantly jockey for position. So I’m always looking for reasons to increase or decrease a show’s priority. This post by Cassandra on the site Moonlit Media Room just made the case that I need to watch this show sooner than later. Her notes about the show’s world building really caught my attention. I’m always looking for fiction with complex, layered, and/or nuanced worlds. What else did she like about the series? There’s one way to find out!
More Posts from Moonlit Media Room
The Review Heap
Ghost in the Shell (1995)
There’s an emotion that I almost never mention on this site. It’s “reverence.” I’m about to use it now. Not in its sacred sense. Rather, in it’s artistic and cultural sense. There are only a handful of shows that I’d say evoke a sense of reverence. One of them is Ghost in the Shell. It’s one of nine shows I’ve rated a ten on My Anime List. Why would I use such a word for this movie? Well, I’d love to tell you, but I don’t have to. I came across the perfect description in the form of ashleycapes’s post on The Review Heap. You want to know why we’re still talking about a movie that came out in 1995? You won’t find a better explanation than this.
More Posts from The Review Heap
Shallow Dives in Anime
Full Metal Alchemist: The Anime that one Dipshit in College never shut-up about.
What else is there to say about the 2003 version of Full Metal Alchemist that’s not already been said multiple times? It’s a surprisingly easy question to answer. Despite dozens or perhaps hundreds of articles and posts discussing almost every aspect of the series, there’s one thing that no one has ever examined before: Dewbond’s personal perspective on the show. And that’s exactly what he just gave us on Shallow Dives in Anime. Dewbond brings his trademark honesty to this interview. His discussion of his major two takeaways hit home. Can you guess his opinion of the show? Go see if you were right!
More Posts from Shallow Dives in Anime
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- Anime Feminist: Weekly Round-Up, 1-6 January 2026: Wheels & Roses Pilot, Sugar Sugar Rune Streaming, and Princess Ai Retrospective
- Lesley’s Anime and Manga Corner: Anime and Light Novel Blog Posts That Caught My Eye This Week (January 9, 2026)
Angelic Layer and Chobits are directly connected. Sketchy Ichiro married Chitose, the apartment manager in Chobits, though he’s dead by the time Chobits begins. He created the battle dolls, and also the first persocoms, including Chi.
That’s cool! Thanks for making that connection!