The Hozuna Blog
Reviews, deep dives, and what's new in anime: where to watch it, and why it's worth your time.
Dr. Stone Review: Anime's Most Exhilarating Chemistry Lesson
TMS adapts Riichiro Inagaki and Boichi's manga into a rousing, genuinely educational shonen whose hero relies on applied chemistry. Its science sometimes bends under the simplifications the genre demands, but the excitement holds.
When the Sequel Wins: Anime Second Seasons That Beat the Original
The second seasons that outdid their originals did not serve up extra helpings of the same appeal. They removed it, and Vinland Saga offers the clearest proof.
Studio White Fox and the Art of the Slow-Burn Thriller
White Fox is defined less by a visual signature than by its willingness to let a series pass as something lighter for half its run. Better still, the studio makes that disguise enjoyable in its own right.
Anime's Best Hidden Gems: Excellent Shows People Overlooked
Overlooked shows are usually easy to find and awkward to recommend. Daily Lives of High School Boys may be anime's clearest example.
Spy x Family Review: The Cold War's Coziest Family
A near-perfect crowd-pleaser whose spy-assassin-telepath household is funnier and more moving than its premise has any right to be, even as its central mission barely inches forward.
Tsuki ga Kirei Review: Anime's Most Honest Story of First Love
Tsuki ga Kirei trades sweeping romantic gestures for read receipts and nervous pauses. It lets a middle school crush be as awkward as the real thing, and even its stiff 3DCG crowd scenes cannot spoil how affecting it is.
Hinamatsuri Review: The Funniest Anime You Probably Skipped
A deadpan yakuza-and-psychic-girl comedy that smuggles one of anime's most quietly moving redemption arcs in under its absurdist gags, undercut only by an anime-original ending that shortchanges its best character.
Why Shoujo Anime Still Matters
Shoujo was never a genre. It was the address printed on a magazine, but the storytelling methods developed on those pages now shape much of the anime people love.
The Anime Crime Saga: Why Mob Stories Fit Anime So Well
Anime often handles gangster stories better than live action because mob drama needs a real ending. Anime is unusually good at providing one, and 91 Days makes the strongest case.