


SAO fans finally have confirmation of a new season for 2014, by way of an ever so brief announcement shoved in at the end of the Extra Edition swimwear/recap special.
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Kono Manga Ga Sugoi 2014 views on the light novel illustrators to keep an eye on over the next year have been attracting much attention from art lovers, novel fans and those with an eye to the coming round of adaptations…
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Otaku and critics alike have been busy scrutinizing light novels and manga released throughout the year in an attempt to discern which among them stand triumphant – in the opinion of 2014’s Kono Manga ga Sugoi at least, which also handily delivered its choices by genre.
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Loli mayhem ensues with the commencement of the “Shinobu Time” arc of Monogatari’s barely original second season, providing a wealth of supernatural loli-centric fanservice, both in the form of outright molestation and a conceivably innocent meeting of lips…
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Underdog anime Nokome has been resorting to a flurry of panchira and suggestive banana brandishing in its 3rd outing, much to the edification of fans.
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Underdog anime Nokome persists in its plea for attention with some raunchy additions to its recent second episode, the highlight being the temporary reassignment of the male protagonist’s sex…
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Nadeko fans have been divided by the shocking finale to Otorimonogatari, with opinions ranging from her being “the worst bitch of all the 2013 heroines” to her being the ultimate in “zankoku-kawaii” – although most are at least united in befuddlement over what actually happened.
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Choices anime Nokome – in the best tradition of light novel titles known long-windedly as Ore No Nounai Sentakushi Ga, Gakuen Lovecomedy wo Zenryoku de Jama Shiteiru (“The choices in my head are totally interfering with this school love comedy!”) – fortunately also includes the choice of not watching subsequent episodes, something many viewers of its first outing are apparently already keen on doing…
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Autumnal moe anime Outbreak Company’s storyline of spreading an epidemic of moe throughout the world seems to mirror its real-world goal of gathering moe fans with a smorgasbord of random moe elements – at, amongst this demographic at least, it even seems to be proving reasonably successful.
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International OreImo fans have been outraged by the gall of the latest Kickstarting beggar to appear, after he was caught shamelessly ripping off artwork in the most blatant manner possible from everything from Ore no Imouto to Senran Kagura…
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The universal loathing the Haganai movie has attracted from fans and even the creator of the franchise himself looks only to have deepened with the release of more promotional shots of the cast – and Yukimura and Rika fans in particular, although it looks as if staff are saving the worst for Sena’s admirers…
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Kyoukai no Kanata, Kyoto Animation’s offering for the autumn 2013 season, has been generating some anticipation with its latest trailers, spurring hope amongst moeblob fans that the studio may yet recover its Type B laurels after the disasters of Tamako Market and Free!
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