Fairy Tail: 100 Years Quest Cour 01 フェアリーテイル 100年クエスト Since Fairy Tail: 100 Years Quest just did a recap episode, marking the end of the first cour (in this case, the summer season of 2024), I figured I’d give a review of what we’ve seen thus far. The Story, Thus Far Natsu, Erza, Lucy, Happy,
Fairy Tail: 100 Years Quest Chapter 103 Manga Review (Nakama Power! #FairyTail #FairyTail100YearsQuest)
Fairy Tail: 100 Years Quest Chapter 103 Manga Review フェアリーテイル 100年クエスト SPOILER Summary/Synopsis: “Lucy” is killed, but to Kiria’s annoyance, it turns out to be Gemini. Further, a naked Lucy is secured within the Celestial Spirit (clock), Horologium. After they return to the spirit realm, Lucy dons Stardress Aries. As such, Kiria resumes giving Lucy
Fairy Tail: 100 Years Quest Chapter 102 Manga Review (Death Match #FairyTail #FairyTail100YearsQuest)
Fairy Tail: 100 Years Quest Chapter 102 Manga Review フェアリーテイル 100年クエスト SPOILER Summary/Synopsis: Lucy taunts the nude and embarrassed Kiria. As such, Kiria decides that since they are both women, she’s fine and attacks. However, Laxus shows up, causing Kiria to drop and hide her naughty bits. Laxus gives her his coat, so she’s ready
Why Watch Both Vandread and Vandread: The Second Stage
Why Watch Both Vandread and Vandread: The Second Stage In my early anime fandom days (2004-ish), I was introduced to Vandread and its sequel, Vandread: The Second Stage. It quickly became a favorite anime series of mine, so much so that even in my poor days, I purchased all eight DVDs. In 2008, I wrote
New Railgun Series Confirmed!
New Railgun Series Confirmed! The A Certain Official Project (とあるプロジェクト公式) Twitter/X account announced on the 16th that the 4th season of A Certain Scientific Railgun is confirmed. Here’s the tweet. 【特報】 『#とある科学の超電磁砲』TVアニメ第4期制作決定⚡️#超電磁砲 #超電磁砲4期 #とある pic.twitter.com/igJtGJXQyI — とあるプロジェクト公式 (@toaru_project) February 16, 2025 Here’s the link to the post. The A Certain Scientific Railgun T series got
Fairy Tail: 100 Years Quest Chapter 101 Manga Review (The Heat is On #FairyTail #FairyTail100YearsQuest)
Fairy Tail: 100 Years Quest Chapter 101 Manga Review フェアリーテイル 100年クエスト SPOILER Summary/Synopsis: The sight of the fire dragon god Ignia causes Selene to worry. She leaves the crow Shade and enters the labyrinth to deal with the threat. In the dungeon, Ignia informs Natsu and Suzaku that he’s there to burn something. However, he
Fairy Tail: 100 Years Quest Cour 01 Review (#FairyTail #FairyTail100YearsQuest)
October 7th, 2024 
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Ranma 1/2 01 (And so it begins. #ranma #らんまアニメ)
October 6th, 2024 AstroNerdBoy Ranma 1/2 01 らんま1/2 YEARS ago when I lived in Japan, I was formally introduced to Japanese animation due to a nutty title called Ranma 1/2. I received a culture shock due to the casual, animated nudity shown in the late afternoon on broadcast TV. That, combines with the wacky premise with a panda, it
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Tags: MAPPA, Netflix, Ranma 1/2, Ranma 1/2 2024, What I'm Watching 
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Mahoromatic Review (Community Anime Reviews Rescue)
October 5th, 2024 AstroNerdBoy Mahoromatic Review Mahoromatic: Automatic Maiden まほろまてぃっく Since the Community Anime Reviews site has periodic down periods, I’m republishing some of my OG reviews from there. I have corrected obvious spelling errors though. I will add new notes in parenthesis, labeled “ANB note.” 😅 I won’t count these as part of the “Back to the Vaults”
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Lupin the 3rd: Part III 46 (Runaway Bride! #LupinIII)
October 4th, 2024 AstroNerdBoy Lupin the 3rd: Part III 46 Lupin III Part 3 46 ルパン三世 – Part III Ep. 46 SPOILER Summary/Synopsis Zenigata discovers the bound and gagged pilots of a charter jet, carrying a priceless Hina-matsuri Doll set. Lupin and Jigen fly the jet away. When Lupin opens the chest, Zenigata is there with the dolls. Lupin
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Keroro Gunsou Episode 131 (Space Battles #SgtFrog)
October 3rd, 2024 AstroNerdBoy Keroro Gunsou Episode 131 ケロロ軍曹/Sgt. Frog Anime Review SPOILER Summary/Synopsis: Giroro stuns his platoon by requesting leave. He refuses to tell Natsumi where he’s going. As such, Natsumi hides in a storage container Giroro attaches to his hover craft. In their HQ, Keroro’s platoon monitors Giroro’s flight and discover he lands in Satsuma, Kagoshima, Japan.
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“Takeshi’s Castle” and “MXC: Most Extreme Elimination Challenge”
October 2nd, 2024 AstroNerdBoy “Takeshi’s Castle” and “MXC: Most Extreme Elimination Challenge” When I lived in Japan, I was introduced to an insane series called Takeshi’s Castle. I loved it so much, I wrote a piece about it for the early days of this blog in late 2006. Fast forward to early August, Discotek Media announced that they license-rescued
Sweetness and Lightning Volume 05 Manga Review
October 1st, 2024 AstroNerdBoy Sweetness and Lightning Volume 05 Manga Review Amaama to Inazuma Manga Volume 05 –> Buy Sweetness and Lightning Volume 05 from Amazon.com! * * * S P O I L E R S * * * The Story, in Brief Tsumugi invites male classmate Suguru-kun over to her house after he has difficulty dealing with
Fairy Tail: 100 Years Quest 13 (New Cat #FairyTail #FairyTail100YearsQuest)
September 29th, 2024 AstroNerdBoy Fairy Tail: 100 Years Quest 13 フェアリーテイル 100年クエスト SPOILER Summary/Synopsis: Lucy, Cana, Gray, and Juvia decide to let Mirajane and Elfman handle Madmole and Skullion. Elsewhere, Touka embraces Happy as “Natsu-sama”. She had been hiding in a barrel, captured by some bandits, when Natsu and Happy defeated them. After clearing things up with Touka, she
