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That's right not only are we giving you our review of Makoto Shinkai's newest work, Suzume, we're also covering the Kaguya-Sama movie that dropped a couple of weeks ago. I think it's pretty obvious we were enthused about both Suzume and Kaguya-Sama: Love Is War- The First Kiss That Never Ends, but did they live up to the hype? We'll let you know. We also have the remainder of first impressions for everything for this season except the two titles that haven't dropped yet in this episode. There's a lot in this one whether you're looking for a movie to watch or a new show we've got you covered. Stay tuned for this season's power rankings real soon! 

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We've got a pretty stellar season shaping up this Spring, and we've got a boatload of titles already hitting our queues. This episode brings you our first impressions of the first episode of another 12 new titles as well as 6 of the returning titles for the season. This is part 2 of 3 for this season's first impressions before we culminate in the eventual powercast. There are plenty of new fantasy and romance titles as well as some pretty crazy idol shows, so there's plenty for everyone regardless of what kind of genres you're into. We're also talking about Oshi No Ko this episode which probably deserves its own special mention because there's some serious hype there. Rankings will be live soon, but this is plenty to keep you busy in the meantime!

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Spring has sprung it would seem and we already have a metric shit ton of new and returning titles eagerly vying to monopolize all of our free time. It's the start of a new season so as is tradition we're catching the premiers of everything we can and giving you the elevator pitch on a selection of them before attempting to put them all into one glorious ranking. There's a lot of hype going into this season already, and we've immediately got a few pretty great shows, and one or two that maybe are a bit more of a reach. If you're curious about the new season here's a good little bit to get you going. 

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Two Awardscasts in a row! Another season has come and gone, and new shows are already threatening to eclipse the titles we just finished watching. All jokes aside Winter was a pretty solid season, and maybe the first time ever we had an isekai show in the top five which feels like personal growth on our end. As always we'll run through our tier list telling you where all your favorites shows new and returning ended up before moving on to the awards part of the show. We've got a couple of categories that would be at home on any awards show, and a few that we made up because we can. Join us to crown the first bgbfg of the new year and look back on a good start to the year for anime.

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Finally it's here. 2022 is over and done for real, and we were this close to beating Crunchyroll to the punch and proving our awards show to be the coolest one. In all seriousness due to a couple of titles still finishing their runs and us wanting to include as much as we could we waited until we were good and ready to put this one out. There were a lot of standout titles from 2022 and overall we'd call it a solid year for anime as a whole. This episode is a look back on some of our favorite shows, some that grabbed our attention or made us think, or just plain entertained us. As always we have a handful of the normal categories you'd find on any awards show as well as a good few that we made up too just for good measure. What did  you think of anime in 2022? We'd love to hear your thoughts!

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Jim and Pam ain't got nothin on this episode, because we're ranking the top 5, plus a few extra, of the best office romance in anime. Ok real talk this is a somewhat specific genre with only like ten shows that fit the category, but hear us out, there's some good shit in the land of office romances and we want to talk about it. We're also talking the bizarre and potentially frustrating release schedule for Attack on Titan The final part part three the first once removed on its mother's side and a half. Is it ruining the ending? Is it just for ratings? We don't know but we sure as hell can speculate. We're also bringing back the episode of the week/weak to get you up to speed on the titles we really enjoyed or maybe didn't this weekend. 

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What can we say? February kind of got away from us and between dog health problems, people health problems and some other stuff we took a couple more weeks off than we planned. But we're excited to be back and talking about more anime! This episode we're starting off with a Vibe Check for a bunch of titles we were maybe unsure about in the beginning of the season. We're talking Tomo-chan, Angle Next Door, Tokyo Revengers, and Trigun-Stampede just to name a few. We're a good ways through the season so we wanna see how we feel about these now that they've had some room to breathe. From there it's all things Aggretsuko Season 5! We got surprisingly political with this last season, which may have been the final season period. We're giving our takes on it as well as the series as a whole and our undying respect to the death metal red panda that captures the spirit of millennial rage. We've got a little glimpse into the anime awards for 2022 to round out the episode, Crunchyroll has dropped their winners so we'll be doing the same soon!

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It's still the middle of winter for us here in the midwest, but a ray of warmth and sunshine has finally arrived it seems. Summertime Rendering has been out for almost a year in Japan and finally Disney has decided to get its act together and release it in the west. We're both pretty stoked on the show and feel it was well worth the wait, but if you need convincing we've got an in depth spoiler free review to get you to watch it. We also had the release of Junji Ito Mainiac: Japanese Tales of the Macabre over on Netflix. This one's maybe a little more up in the air, but if you're curious we have our thoughts on it as well. Lastly we had a fair bit of little news come out this week, some cool and some not so cool, but we'll do our best to keep you informed and give you our take on current anime events as well. 

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It's here! Winter 2023 is in full swing and there are 37 new titles and another 18 returning. If you're bad at math that's 55 shows that we watched at least 3 episodes of  and are now ranking based on our own personal preference with a questionable degree of objectivity. If you want to know what we're watching this season as well as a little bit about every new title out right now then this massive episode is a great place to start. Since it's the new year  we'll remind you how this goes, we've got a one sentence summary for every new show this season as well as a select few that we've singled out in our tier system to talk more about why we rated it where we did. There's a lot of solid titles on offer this season, and plenty that are enjoyable despite their lack in quality as well, so here you go! What are you watching this season?

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Holy crap we actually remembered this title. We've had isekai roundups before, but this is our first annual fantasy jamboree! This is just like any other episode of our first impressions for a new season except it is almost exclusively dedicated to fantasy themed titles this time. We've previewed a couple of fantasy titles in our past two episodes, but we have 10 brand new titles and 5 returning fantasy shows to get into this week so we have you thoroughly covered. It's a surprisingly strong season for this type of show, and that's coming from us who don't generally like this genre. So if you're looking for a new op protag kun to fall in love with, or some top tier sword wielding waifus to obsess over then this is a good episode to get you started. Stay tuned for the powercast next week!

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