12 Days 2020, Day 6: Short Awards 2020

December 19, 2020December 19, 2020 Hainiryun12 days of anime, Anime Shorts, BanG Dream! Girls Band Party!☆PICO, CG anime is good actually, Eagle Talon, Existential terror, Grand Blues, Hentatsu, Inexplicable dunking on Shimane, Kapibarasan, That is the Bottleneck, When all is ash Teekyu will remainLeave a comment

As is now something of a tradition for my 12 days posts, day 6 is our 5th annual Short awards. Every year I use this day to highlight some of the more interesting short anime that aired over the course of the year. In any year the quality of short anime tends to vary wildly and that held true here for the most part. On the plus side there wasn’t much in the way of actively unpleasant stuff like some previous years have had so good job on that front 2020. Anyways, lets get into it shall we.

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12 Days 2019, Day 6: Short Awards 2019

December 19, 2019 Hainiryun12 days of anime, Anime Shorts, Bananya, Pirikarako-chan, Senryu Girl, Strike Witches, Teekyu, There's no best sequel award this year since there weren't that many of them and I wasn't super into any of the ones that did happen, When all is ash Teekyu will remain, When is Teekyu coming back to once more destroy/save anime though?Leave a comment

Well this is the third year in a row I’ve done this so I guess it counts as a tradition now (technically it’s the fourth but I hadn’t quite pinned down the format at that point so lets just ignore year one). I watch a lot of short anime, I sort of make a point of trying to watch as many as possible, because I think they’re often unfairly looked down on because of their length and the perceived lack of effort that entails. There are some absolute gems floating around outside the bounds of the standard run time though, and each year I like to use one of these 12 days posts to highlight a few of the more interesting offerings each year. Continue reading “12 Days 2019, Day 6: Short Awards 2019” →

Winter 2019 Shorts Roundup

April 5, 2019 HainiryunActually posting stuff in a reasonable timeframe, Anime Shorts, Girls being GOOD FRIENDS, Manaria Friends, Mini Toji, Put Anne and Grea in a better show please, Rainy Cocoa, The perils of misplaced horny, Ueno-SanLeave a comment

And here we are again, it feels like it’s only been a few weeks since I last wrote one of th… oh right. But hey, this one’s actually appearing in a timely manner for once, so that’s nice. This season was relatively sparse on the whole, with only four of the seven airing shorts licensed In terms of quality I mostly found myself with extremely mixed feelings on arguably the season’s flagship short, which was a little disappointing. But enough preamble, let’s get to the rundown. Continue reading “Winter 2019 Shorts Roundup” →

Fall 2018 Shorts Roundup

March 13, 2019March 13, 2019 HainiryunAnime is corrupting the youth, Anime Shorts, BanG Dream! Girls Band Party!☆PICO, CG anime is good actually, Himote House, Jingai San no Yome, Pushing the medium of anime in directions it should probably never be pushed, Skull-Face Bookseller Honda-San, Space Battleship Tiramisu, THE IDOLM@STER SideM Wakeatte Mini!, The IM@S franchise has too many characters and I know about five of themLeave a comment

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Well it sure has been a while. Between real life getting in the way and a sort of collapse of my desire to write after I couldn’t keep up with the weekly Endro! posts (Obviously those are no longer happening, but I do have a post about a specific character in the works which may or may not see the light of day at some point). I’ve been sitting with this half finished for a couple of months now. But it’s still technically the winter season so I’m not late with this yet! Fall was an unusually solid season for shorts, although I went in with unrealistically high expectations for one specific show the generally solid performance of everything else helped to cushion the blow of its being merely good.

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12 Days of Anime 2018, Day 11: Atarashi! – Exploring the gdgdverse

December 24, 2018December 24, 2018 Hainiryun12 days of anime, Anime Shorts, Anime that are too clever for their own good sometimes, CG anime is good actually, gdgd Fairies, gdmen, Himote House, Naria Girls, Straight Title Robot Anime, Tesagure! Bukatsu-mono, The "nobody's schedules lined up" episode of Tesagure is a masterpiece. Actually a lot of Tesagure episodes are masterpieces1 Comment

Over the years short anime have kind of become my thing. I’ve always had a bit of a soft spot for them but it’s only in the last few years that I’ve switched to “watch nearly every short every season” mode. Because of that there are naturally some gaps through which shows which are extremely my sort of thing have slipped. This year I filled one of those gaps. Despite Straight Title Robot Anime; one of my favourite series ever being a part of it I had previously missed out on the rest of the gdgd series.

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12 Days of Anime 2018, Day 6: Short Awards 2018

December 19, 2018 Hainiryun12 days of anime, Anime Shorts, BanG Dream! Girls Band Party!☆PICO, Hataraku Onii-san!, Micchiri Neko, Skull-Face Bookseller Honda-San, When all is ash Teekyuu will remain, Wooser's continuing quest to have more screentime in other shows than his own, Yama no SusumeLeave a comment

Recurring feature time! In previous 12 days runs I’ve used day 6 to highlight a few of the most interesting short anime to air during the year, it’s a good tradition so lets keep it going.

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Summer 2018 Shorts Roundup

October 4, 2018 HainiryunAnime Shorts, BanG Dream! Girls Band Party!☆PICO, Existential terror, Extremely Ominous Koalas, Hataraku Onii-san!, Mad respect for straw, My Sweet Tyrant, Nobunaga no Shinobi, Shows that care a ton about things I'm not into, The Idolm@ster Cinderella Girls Theater, The IM@S franchise has too many characters and I know about five of them, Yama no SusumeLeave a comment

Well that season sure flew by. It certainly doesn’t feel like I’ve gone another 3 months without writing anything.

This season’s shorts had one unusual thing in common. With a single exception everything was a sequel or a continuation. As such it’s a lot of “if you liked this already it’s still good” for the most part. But enough preamble. In the spirit of the swiftly passing season let’s get right down to it. Continue reading “Summer 2018 Shorts Roundup” →

Spring 2018 Shorts Roundup

July 24, 2018July 24, 2018 HainiryunAnime Shorts, Crossing Time, Love To Lie-Angle, My Sweet Tyrant, Nobunaga no Shinobi, Seriously though that one kid in crossing time ep 2 is the worst, Space Battleship Tiramisu, The perils of misplaced horny, Visit Scenic Gunma!, When is Teekyu coming back to once more destroy/save anime though?, You Don't Know Gunma YetLeave a comment

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I swear I start every one of these lamenting my seeming inability to write more often, maybe I’ll actually do something about that some day.

Well that certainly was a season of shorts. As is so often the case I feel like last season’s batch can best be described as hit or miss. Some of them were really great, and some fell flat for me at least. With that said let’s just dive right into the roundup. Continue reading “Spring 2018 Shorts Roundup” →

Winter 2018 Shorts Roundup

April 18, 2018July 24, 2018 HainiryunAnime Shorts, Existential terror, Extremely Ominous Koalas, gdgd Fairies, gdmen, Hataraku Onii-san!, Kaijuu Girls, Mitchiri Neko, Nobunaga no Shinobi, Straight Title Robot Anime, Tesagure! Bukatsu-mono, Wooser's continuing quest to have more screentime in other shows than his ownLeave a comment

This is actually being written in a somewhat timely manner for once? Wonders never cease.

Sadly this season was pretty thin on the ground in the shorts sphere, there weren’t that many to start with, and only four actually got picked up for streaming. But on the plus side they were fairly consistently decent, and in some cases pretty great, so it could be far worse. Continue reading “Winter 2018 Shorts Roundup” →

Fall 2017 Shorts Roundup

February 24, 2018March 17, 2018 HainiryunAnime Shorts, I continue to be very good at posting things in a timely manner, I don't like alcohol, Love is Like a Cocktail, Rainy Cocoa, Taishou Mebius Line, The Idolm@ster Cinderella Girls Theater, The IM@S franchise has too many characters and I know about five of them, There sure were a lot of sequels this time around, We Love RiceLeave a comment

What do you mean we’re halfway through Winter already? I guess I should stop procrastinating then. With that in mind let’s get to Fall’s batch of shorts. Continue reading “Fall 2017 Shorts Roundup” →