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• 1 2024
  • 1 January 2024
    • 2023 Year in Review
• 5 2021
  • 5 January 2021
    • Brent's Anime Rec: Venus Wars
    • Digging Deeper into: Tenchi Muyo! In Love
    • Winter 2021 Anime Pre-Preview
    • Digging Deeper Into: Ghost in the Shell (1995)
    • 2020 Anime Awards
• 64 2020
  • 5 December 2020
    • Digging Deeper Into: My Neighbor Totoro
    • Digging Deeper Into: Grave of the Fireflies
    • Digging Deeper Into: The Wings of Honneamise
    • Macross Plus Is A Perfect Intro Anime for Adults
    • Have We Hit Peak Anime Production?
  • 12 November 2020
    • Digging Deeper into: Megazone 23
    • Brent's Anime Rec: Moshidora
    • Brent's Anime Rec: Princess Tutu
    • Digging Deeper Into: Urusei Yatsura 2
    • Is Mecha Dead?
    • I Just Love: Interstella 5555: The 5tory of the 5ecret 5tar 5ystem
    • Digging Deeper Into: Arcadia of my Youth
    • 6 Influential But Forgotten Mecha Shows
    • Brent's Anime Rec: The Cat Returns
    • Digging Deeper Into: Vampire Hunter D
    • 5 Classic Harem Anime That Are Actually Interesting
    • Digging Deeper Into: Project A-Ko
  • 9 October 2020
    • Digging Deeper Into: Castle of Cagliostro
    • Digging Deeper Into: Blood The Last Vampire
    • Fall Anime Preview 2020
    • Brent’s Anime Rec: Grimgar of Fantasy and Ash
    • Digging Deeper: Horus, Prince of the Sun (1968)
    • A Brief History of Anime: The 2010s
    • A Brief History of Anime: The 2000s
    • Digging Deeper Into Akira
    • Digging Deeper: Hakujaden
  • 9 September 2020
    • Digging Deeper Into: Okko's Inn
    • A Brief History of Anime: The 1990s
    • Digging Deeper: Momotaro's Sacred Sailors
    • Brent's Anime Rec: Kodocha
    • A Brief History of Anime: The 1980s
    • Digging Deeper into Angel's Egg
    • A Brief History of Anime: The 1970s
    • Digging Deeper into Metropolis
    • A Brief History of Anime: The 1960s
  • 9 August 2020
    • A Brief History of Anime: 1900-1959
    • Digging Deeper into Pom Poko
    • Brent's Anime Rec: K-ON!
    • The heartwrenching contrasts of war in "In This Corner of the World"
    • Digging Deeper into A Silent Voice - SPOILERS
    • How Heavy Are Those Dumbbells You Lift?
    • Brent's Anime Recs: Robot Carnival
    • Abstract Realism in "Night is Short, Walk on Girl"
    • The Anime Aesthetic in Land of Lustrous
  • 8 July 2020
    • Brent's Anime Rec: Gunsmith Cats
    • Brent's Anime Rec: Gunbuster
    • What First Gundam Did First
    • Brent's Anime Rec: My Dear Marie
    • 2020 Summer Anime Preview Guide
    • Brent's Anime Recommendation Corner: Infinite Ryvius
    • Why Was Char Like That?
    • Brent's Anime Recommendation Corner: Battle Athletes Victory
  • 4 June 2020
    • How First Gundam's Animation Improves
    • Brent's Anime Recommendation Corner: NieA_7
    • Brent's Anime Recommendation Corner: His and Her Circumstances
    • Pani Poni Dash: Screwball Comedy with Brains
  • 4 May 2020
    • Brent's Anime Recommendation Corner: Quiet Country Cafe
    • Intertwining Parody and Plot in Combustible Campus Guardress
    • How do you make a Girls und Panzer film? Like this.
    • I Needed An Ending From "If It's For My Daughter, I'd Even Defeat a Demon Lord"
  • 3 April 2020
    • Visual Style in The Secret of Kells
    • Slow Worldbuilding in Made in Abyss
    • Is Bubblegum Crisis a Ripoff of Blade Runner?
  • 1 March 2020
    • How the Dagger of Kamui Stylizes Its Animation

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