Seasons change, but Star Crossed Anime stays the same… is what I’d like to say, but things are changing around here, too. SuperMario, one of our veteran contributors, has decided to take a step back from episodic posts beginning this fall. He’ll still be assisting with season previews and first impressions on a quarterly basis, though, and we’ll be glad for his continued presence on the site. The rest of us will be plugging away at a sneaky-good batch of fall anime, plus a new Throwback Thursday series after Lenlo’s coverage of Haibane Renmei wraps up in a couple weeks. The results of our First Episode Awards can be found after the jump, as well, so click through for our early read on the season’s offerings. Will any of our picks land in the Anime of the Year post this January? You’ll have to stick around to find out!
Fall 2021 Lineup
Lenlo
– 86: Eighty Six
– Kimetsu no Yaiba S2
– Throwback Thursday
Wooper
– Heike Monogatari
– Weekly Summary column
Amun
– Ousama Ranking
Armitage
– Blue Period
Continue reading “Fall 2021 Coverage & First Episode Awards”
It’s tough being a visual novel fan as we are the niche within a niche within a niche. Anime fans are likely to read manga and some even read light novels and some may even read web novels. But rarer than that is the anime fan that reads visual novels. So being a western VN fan can be quite painful when you see that some of the most highly lauded visual novels remain in a language you do not understand. Thankfully in recent times a lot of greatest hits of the Visual novel industry have been localised but among the white whales of long sought after localisations is Muramasa. Sadly the rights to localise this title lay in the hands of JAST who is a company rather known to take years for a single release and seem to have an iron grip on all Nitroplus works. Considering how long it takes for them to do a single release many thought that we may never be able to experience Muramasa. But straight out of nowhere JAST announced that Muramasa would release within a month pretty much catching the entire VN community off guard. Thus here we have it, the once claimed untranslatable VN is now available to read for English audiences. I might as well say from the outset that this is one of those VN were going in blind is the best option and while I will be avoiding spoilers it may be best to experience this on your own before looking at this review provided you are interested. That said if you don’t have an interest then maybe this little review of mine could get you intrigued. If you wish to know if I recommend this visual novel then my answer is absolutely yes. 
