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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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” →

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” →