@crunchyroll.com Yeah, you need to fix your shit, like for real. It's either subtitles missing for a few hours or whenever the audio is supposed to be on English, I hear Japanese. AGAIN, fix your shit!

OK, last one for the season and yeah, it's the big one.

Our penultimate blog post before one last post of the season!

Hey, in case you don't want to use Crunchyroll, 3rd season is on HiDive!

The proliferation of betrayed by my party slop shows is bad obviously, but I'm not entirely sold on the idea all the isekai villainous shows are any better. It's just slightly more progressive slop.

I hate the whole "Western Culture shouldn't influence anime" discourse. If that means less dime-a-dozen isekai/fantasy... well, 'slop', then I'm for it. Also, I'm starting to hate the word 'slop'. That's just a buzzword used too often for people to talk about stuff they don't like.

Welp, it's either a Swedish pop star might be into hentai or how the Golden Globes are a shit show.

NEW #DecibelBoost: music happenings at the Golden Globes, plus new tracks from IDK and Pusha T, Puscifer, Robyn, and more! decibelboost.surrealresolution.com/2026/01/14/e...

At some point as an adult anime fan you have to accept that the majority of it is made for children and teenagers and adjust your expectations accordingly.

The weirdest people you know latched on to that "we're not gonna change anime for the West" comment as some anti-woke rallying cry.

OK, this time, I do got a custom message for this --- Y'all Fire Force fans might hate me for this.

Well, I guess HIDIVE does have that show after all.

TIME of the SEASON Winter 2026 Edition: SEQUELS/EXTRA Cuts – pt. 1 Welp, nothing new is coming up today and some of the sequel seasons won't come in a few days to some weeks or so, and I figured... Well, I got the sequel seasons to do but here's the thing. There's only a few I just watched and…

TIME of the SEASON Winter 2026 Edition: YOU and I are Polar OPPOSITES Welp, things are getting near the end of the first impressions and it seems like I'm not watching much but I think I might just avoid some shows or at least wait until the dubs for them. Funny enough, there's been a lot of…

Me, when January started: OK, I'm gonna try and not fill myself with anime I know I'm not going to give two shits about. Me, now: 22..... well, it's not 30 but damn....

Here's a random pic of my cat sleeping on my bed.

Hey, it's that show that I remember from a few y-- Oh, it's not Interviews With Monster Girls?

So, check on your deceased loved one's dead accounts. They might have a ghost or something.

Your obligatory HiDive show because why not -- well, there's 3 of them.

Decibel Boost is back for 2026 and we start with what we've been doing last year: laughing at Drake and his misfortune. Also, fuck Adin Ross as well.

Spoiler: It's not the next Blumhouse movie coming out.

As bad as One Punch Man S3 was, it was not on my Worst of list. Was it bad? Yeah, I was disappointed but it feels like putting it on a worst of list is too trendy at this point. Also, I've watched over approximately 130 anime in 2025. I've seen anime worse than OPM S3 (and S2 was decent - shut up!)

Oh, hey, this anime looks cute and nice and won't have any details that might fuck you up.

That "any localization that isn't a 1000% accurate transliteration is racist censorship besmirching great art" bullshit should have died with the 90s tbh If "the dub" really has shitty dialog and lacks memorable characterization... maybe the original version also wasn't very good to begin with?

A human-zee? HUMAN-ZEE? I'm sorry but damn, the name seems so uncreative.

Need a breather after watching the big shows of the season? Here you go.

You can't be reviewing a Rom-Com about childhood friends... you know it'll be bad!

Is this torture? Well, it's not that bad.

Hey, something that... might interest me in the slightest.

If you don’t want Jasmine Crockett to be a senator, don’t vote for her. But we saw y’all blowing her up—until she decides to run for higher office.

Yep, sounds like a fantasy anime to me.

He's right. I'mma call it dogshit. What about that?

First anime to look at this year and it's.... about an introverted boy band member?

Welp, more dumb shit from both Drake and that limp bitch Adin Ross. He must like getting sued.

Tomorrow....maybe.

Most of y'all need to read this.

Welp, it's 2026. I think I have some things I need to change from last year. Regarding Time of the Season... I need to subject myself to less titles that I'm going to not that much attention to. As in, not trying to have over 100 titles near the end.

2025 was.... well, it was 2025. Yeah, ngl, bad shit happened. I mean, to me -- this isn't regarding to everything else. We know that a lot and I mean, a lot. This is more about airing both grievances and good shit going on and I'm going to do that. WARNING: This might go long.

Thankful that this year, 2025, Shinichiro Watanabe put out the anime version of me as a major character in Lazarus. Douglas Hadine is a Nigerian-American doctorate candidate who was expelled for punching a racist professor in the face. My nigga 😤.

My top 10 Best Anime of 2025

My top 10 Worst Anime of 2025.

Here it is, folks. My Best Anime of 2025 List.

Yeah, this should be up.... in about... 4 PM (Central) / 5 PM (Eastern) / 2 PM (Pacific)

If anything, Lazarus gets respect for saying everything that Captain Planet & Arjuna tried to say, but lost in preachiness & poorly-aged junk science. I think that at some level, Lazarus' reception was purely on people expecting Bebop, but getting a reminder that we didn't learn from prior works.

Lazarus was great IMHO, expectations were just entirely misplaced on it. The expectations of a spiritual successor to Bebop were subverted by Watanabe as like Bebop, he did an homage to the anime of ~25 years prior, but in 2025, that means nodding GitS:SAC, Blue Sub & Bebop like Bebop nodded Lupin.

Wow.... I knew they would make the dumb decision to put Lazarus as the #2 worst anime of the year but really....?

Time for the HONORABLE MENTIONS!!!!

Time for the year-end tradition of listing our favorite albums of the year! In other words, you get the audio version of my list of top albums.

Hope y'all are having a good Christmas today!! Usually I wait until tomorrow to post this but hey, I can't wait! It's my Top Worst Anime of 2025!! Again, I get a bit pissed off near the end. Enjoy!

Oh, man..... I get angry near the end of this. Just a warning.