A Mangaka’s Weirdly Wonderful Workplace Episode 5 – “My Senpai Calls Herself My Rival” If there's one thing that you may be wondering while watching this show (assuming you're someone who only follows the story through the anime), I'm sure it's probably nothing along the lines of "someone else is…

A Mangaka’s Weirdly Wonderful Workplace Episode 4 – “It’s a Job I Can’t Do Alone” Before I get into the writeup I typically do, I just wonder: how similar is the mangaka process to the graphic novelist process? Someone correct me if I'm incorrect, but I believe that in some instances, graphic…

A Mangaka’s Weirdly Wonderful Workplace Episode 3 – “I’m So Swamped, I’d Even Take Help from a Cat” I would've watched this yesterday, but with non-emergency family stuff that occurred that day where I wasn't told when we were going to head out until basically the day before (with me feeling like…

🚨Sleuths get your magnifying glasses ready!! 🔎 #DetectiveConan Collection 2 drops November 1st, in TWO weeks!! The blurb teases “Allies and Rivals: The Detective Boys and Kid?!” (We presume Heiji as well.) We can hardly wait the fortnight! @tmsanime.com

A Mangaka’s Weirdly Wonderful Workplace Episode 2 – “She’s a Truly Dependable Assistant” Sorry if this post ends up being shorter than my typical posts here. I'm on more of a crunch to write this due to the fact that for a while, Crunchyroll didn't have proper English subtitles available for this…

Sara Watches Detective Conan: Episode 7 Before I get to my regular coverage of this episode, I need to point out something that I noticed happened on the English subtitles for this episode that I haven’t seen occur in any other Detective Conan episode on Crunchyroll before this point in time. What…

I initially got this screenshot for an upcoming post to my blog to show that subtitles for this episode were screwed up. I can't believe it now serves as a time capsule for the labeling of the Detective Conan anime on American Crunchyroll...especially since I watched this episode YESTERDAY!

Sara Watches Detective Conan: Episode 6 Valentine’s Day...is still way too far away for me to be making any meaningful comments about it. Look, it’s October, what exactly do you want me to say? Chocolate is delicious? Anyway, with an important holiday like that existing, surely Detective Conan’s…

Sara Watches Detective Conan: Episodes 4 and 5 Early Detective Conan is fun. There are so many awesome cases, and the fact that these are being done back in the time of 90s, when technology isn’t as advanced as it is today. While that isn’t necessarily an issue, I think it creates a lot of cases…

How it feels analyzing each Detective Conan chapter/episode to see if I can figure out who the culprit is before Conan can. Anyway, for those of you who followed me here to get notified of my DetCo posts, next one's coming October 6th at 5:30 PM PDT! :]

A Mangaka’s Weirdly Wonderful Workplace Episode 1 – “A Certain Mangaka and Their Editor” I genuinely thought that for me to find this series, considering the subpar way that Crunchyroll has labeled their Fall 2025 shows so far, I was gonna have to play "Season 1 Russian Roulette" when looking for…

Secrets of the Silent Witch Episode 13 – “A Book’s Worth” Yeah, I know, this writeup is coming out much later compared to when my other writeups for this series came out. But the wait for me to be able to watch this episode was pain! Thankfully, I didn't have to deal with needing to look through…

Why, in this age of rampant misinformation, are we still just sharing things uncritically? Why run with something so fake? You don’t need a bullshit story about Crunchyroll and the Israeli government to have a reason to cancel your sub, the service already sucks and they don’t deserve your money!

Okay you know what it is about the Crunchyroll - Israel thing that id just bothering me? It’s that I am not a professional, I am not a journalist, I’m just someone that likes to know where stories come from and it really took five minutes for this one to come apart.

With all of the issues going on at Crunchyroll today, I want to give a shoutout to Netflix for getting the second season of the Ranma 1/2 anime out on time with the correct subtitles. Thank you, Netflix!

Oh, if Crunchyroll doesn't clean up whatever THIS is by Monday, trying to find my one Fall 2025 simulcast that isn't a continuation of a show is gonna be HELL.

Sara’s Top 5 Favorite Anime Characters In lieu of a Secrets of the Silent Witch episode due to the fact that the series delayed the 13th episode to October 4th instead of airing it on October 3rd (the day that I'm writing this), and because I can't think of anything to rant about that's connected…

Sara Talks Anime Plans – Fall 2025 Anime Season Edition "I'm just testing out things with my art style!" I tell myself as I casually kind of steal Gosho Aoyama's eye style. In my defense, I think there's still enough tells between my style and Aoyama's style to prevent our styles from being…

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Me (behind the camera) and the boy of the hour Conan Edogawa are waiting for this week's movie for Detective Conan Cinema Saturdays! :]

Secrets of the Silent Witch Episode 12 – “Monica Becomes a Delinquent” Oh boy, the episode that I was fearing. I am so happy to state that this episode didn't go down the path that I thought it was going to go down based on the title. It really scared me there for a second. You know what I fear,…

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With You and the Rain Episode 12(.0) – “I Can Hear the Sound of the Rain” Yeah, I know, the numbering I did for this episode is odd. But I'm not gonna let you guys be as caught off guard as I was with how this episode was...ordered? Is that the proper terminology that I should be using here? Look,…

Food for the Soul Episode 12 – “Thanks for the Feast!” I’m going to also limit this post to being my thoughts, because this episode is one where I think you not only need to watch the rest of the series, but also the episode itself to truly feel the impact of the episode...and as a result, I don’t…

Secrets of the Silent Witch Episode 11 – “My Friend” I'm going to take the translated title as a victory despite the fact that the translation I got from the next episode title reveal thing was off by one letter, as Google Translate doesn't know the context of the series, so it couldn't know that…

Clevatess Episode 12 – “Return of the King” I would like to take back everything I said about this series not getting a second season, as before watching this episode, I learned that, yes, this series was in fact getting a second season. Though, knowing my luck, we'll probably have a wait time…

Sara Watches Detective Conan: Episode 3 Now, after the first two episodes, you may be asking: how would Conan navigate investigating a murder in his child body, if investigating a kidnapping case already proved to be more difficult than expected? Well, we get to see the first steps taken towards…

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With You and the Rain Episode 11 – “New Things, Old Things” With all the news coming out in the world, it can be hard to find peace, serenity, and calm within all of it. And, in all honesty, that's perfectly fair, since in a lot of cases, it can be hard to fully separate yourself from what's…

Food for the Soul Episode 11 – “Are You Free for Christmas?” Gonna try something different for this review: instead of taking the time to detail what happens in the episode and intersperse my thoughts within those descriptions, this review is going to exclusively focus on my thoughts about the…

Just got my writeup for Episode 3 of Detective Conan finished and scheduled to go up on my blog on September 14th at 5:30 PM PDT! I'm honestly curious to see how you guys react to it once it goes live!

Secrets of the Silent Witch Episode 10 – “Bernie Jones and Everett the Mute” After I spent last week complaining about recap episodes, I was excited to see this episode. After all, if this series, which had been consistently releasing regular episodes weekly up until that recap episode, needed to…

Clevatess Episode 11 – “Fake Hero” Hoo boy, this episode was a bit of a doozy. Makes me feel justified in delaying my writeup for this episode by a day. In fact, I don't think I would've been able to do as good of a writeup as I would've wanted, due to what I had going on that day. It wasn't…

Sara Talks Anime! Annoucement – Clevatess Episode 11 Writeup Delay Since I've already got the Episode 10 writeups up and ready, I think it's fair for me to post this. I will be delaying the release of my writeup for the 11th episode of the Clevatess anime by 24 hours to ensure that I have enough…

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With You and the Rain Episode 10 – “A River That Cannot Be Crossed” Fuji's writers block is so severe, it seems like the remaining episodes will be an arc detailing how Fuji deals with her writer's block...as if the other episodes haven't been evidence of it. Then again, the last episode was more…

Food for the Soul Episode 10 – “I’m Home” Home. A simple word that many people probably already know well. A lot of people also have a place they can connect to that simple word. And sometimes, it’s good to return to your roots. Unless your roots were harmful to you. Then, yeah, it’s good to stay…

I Hate Recap Episodes I know, this is the time where I would usually be posting a write up of the latest episode of Secrets of the Silent Witch. Unfortunately for me, however, this week's "episode" of Secrets of the Silent Witch is a recap episode, which I have chosen to skip, as it contains…

Sara Watches Detective Conan: Episodes 1 and 2 When I decided to start this little project, my plan was to just do a simple watchthrough. No posts to pair along with it. Then I decided “well, what if I decide to do writeups for it so that people can see how well I’m going along with it?”, and…

Clevatess Episode 10 – “Margo and Drel” Welcome back to Sara talks about the series known as Clevatess because that's just my Wednesday activity for the blog now. Maybe at some point after this post goes up, you guys will get more content from me that's outside of what I've built you guys up to…

genuinely curious what in "ruri rocks" is preventing my posts from going out to bsky as automatic posts. ah well. #Anime #RuriRocks

With You and the Rain Episode 9 – “A Secret” Ah yes, another episode of the anime where if someone with my review style writes about it, the main joke of the series probably wears down quicker than it does in the series itself, so each review is a fight with myself to not constantly talk about the…

Food for the Soul Episode 9 – “Let’s Try Running a Stall!” It’s the time of year for the Japanese schools to host their festivals or fairs or whatever and open their stalls and whatnot. At least, at the time this episode of Food for the Soul takes place. Look, I’m an American who grew up around…

Secrets of the Silent Witch Episode 9 – “The Hidden Secret” Another Friday, another episode of Secrets of the Silent Witch that comes out, at least until this series reaches it conclusion at the end of the anime season. And, like I predicted, the only thing that stayed the same between my Google…

Clevatess Episode 9 – “War Zone Hiderat” After last episode, there was a question that I had that I had no clue how they were going to answer it, and the answer to that question was ultimately going to determine some of my thoughts on this episode. After all, it was a reasonable question to have…

Okay, now this being 8 for 8 with a far later scheduled post time of 5:30 PM (compared to 12 PM) is just confirmation that no matter what I do, Bluesky is just never gonna auto post my Ruri Rocks posts here. :/ #Anime #RuriRocks

With You and the Rain Episode 8 – “The Cry” Life is hectic. That is the one constant that remains throughout life, no matter how much we fight to try and change that fact. Be it technical issues, craziness in politics, or just situations that are outside of your control, there's no way to make a…

Secrets of the Silent Witch Episode 8 – “My Responsibility” This is the first time that the official title that Crunchyroll used and the title that I Google Translated lined up. This is likely going to be not only the first, but also the final time that this will occur. I mean, I'm sorry, but I…

Food for the Soul Episode 8 – “The Air Conditioner Is…Broken?” Ah, summer. The time of year when the heat gets to be more oppressive than Dr. Eggman’s father. (Mom, if you’re reading this, then I do NOT expect you to understand that last sentence. It is a reference to something, though.) Yes,…

Sara Talks Anime! Announcement – Temporary Delay of Posts Yeah, betcha didn't expect me to need to make a post like this. And I didn't either. Trust me, it's not going to be like the Summer 2023 season on Lesley's Anime and Manga Corner for this delay. In fact, it's so temporary, it'll only apply…