TV Reviews8/10
‘No Game No Life’ Still Hasn’t Earned Its Reputation 12 Years On
No Game No Life: Madhouse's 2014 anime about shut-in gamers Sora and Shiro, the Ten Covenants, and why the twelve-episode series still holds up.
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TV Reviews8/10
Detective Conan Has Been Running for 30 Years, and It’s Still Finding New Ways to Kill People
Detective Conan has aired 1,212 episodes from 1996 to 2026. A look at the cast, the genre mix, and why the case-of-the-week anime still works.
TV Reviews8.5/10
Rurouni Kenshin Still Can’t Escape Its Own Killings 30 Years On
Rurouni Kenshin ran 94 episodes on Fuji TV from 1996 to 1998. A look at its pacifist killer premise, cast, studio change, and Samurai X dub.
TV Reviews8.4/10
Demon King Academy’s Overpowered Hero Makes the Case for a Power Fantasy That Argues Back
Anos Voldigoad reincarnates 2000 years after dying for peace, only to find a weak demon society that won't believe he's the real Demon King.
TV Reviews8.4/10
Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion Still Holds Up
Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion review — how 50 episodes of masked rebellion, Knightmares, and two leads on opposite sides still hold up.
TV Reviews8.1/10
Digimon: Digital Monsters Review: A Digital World That Holds Up
Digimon: Digital Monsters ran 104 episodes on Fuji TV from 1999 to 2001. A look at the Digivices, the Digimon Kaiser arc, and its 8.1 TMDB score.
TV Reviews8.7/10
How a 1990s basketball anime turned a delinquent into a national icon
Slam Dunk ran 101 episodes on TV Asahi from 1993 to 1996. Inside Sakuragi, Rukawa, the Shohoku roster, and why the basketball anime still lands.
TV Reviews9/10
Sailor Moon Let Its Heroine Age, and That Changed What a Girls’ Show Could Do
Sailor Moon ran five seasons and 200 episodes on TV Asahi from 1992 to 1997. A look at Usagi's growth, the voice cast, and why it still holds at 9/10.
TV Reviews8.2/10
Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters Turned a Children’s Card Game Into a Life-or-Death Epic
Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters ran 224 episodes from 2000 to 2004 and still holds up, scoring 8.2/10 on TMDB across 1,052 votes.
TV Reviews8.2/10
The 2003 Fullmetal Alchemist Anime Went Its Own Way and Still Holds Up 23 Years Later
Fullmetal Alchemist's 2003 anime invented its own ending when the manga ran out. A look back at Dante, the bleak finale, and why it still holds up.
Sekiro: No Defeat Review: Two Hours of a Story That’s Missing Half Its Tale
A grim tale of a two-hour film that compresses a vast samurai saga into a hollow legend, failing to honor the souls of its swords.
TV Reviews8.4/10
Assassination Classroom: A Deadly Teacher, a Real Classroom, and an 8.4 That’s Earned
Assassination Classroom ran two seasons and 47 episodes, turning a killer teacher and a misfit class into one of anime's best-loved stories.