Rare Encounter

Spice Girls, grey beards, and chopstick abuse.

With special guest Casey.

Show opening theme: It's called Hentai and it's ART

Light saber chopsticks

None of these people know how to hold 'em.

Amazon.com | Chop Sabers Light Up LightSaber Chopsticks, Blue Pair: Chopsticks & Chopstick Holders

And people buy this crap!

Anime

Next season's picks

AniChart: Winter 2021 Seasonal Chart

coldacid's picks

Horimiya

CloverWorks is animating this adaptation of the manga.

Episode one airs on [2020-01-10 Fri].

Hortensia Saga

Interesting sounding fantasy. Don't know anything about the game that serves as the source material, though.

Episode one airs on [2021-01-07 Thu].

Mushoku Tensei: Jobless Reincarnation

Been following the manga for some time now, although the original source is a light novel series. Interested to see how it turns out on the screen.

Episode one airs on [2021-01-11 Mon].

AbleKirby's picks

Bungou Stray Dogs Wan!

Cute looking spin-off of Bungou Stray Dogs.

Episode one airs on [2021-01-13 Wed].

Kai Byoui Ramune (Dr. Ramune -Mysterious Disease Specialist-)

The anime Dr. House.

Episode one airs on [2021-01-10 Sun].

Casey's picks

Yakusoku no Neverland 2nd Season (The Promised Neverland Season 2)

She's never seen the original show, but there's 20 days in which to watch it all!

Episode one airs on [2021-01-08 Fri].

Sequels

Winter 2021 is the season of sequels.

Attack on Titan: The Final Season

Another season of Shingeki no Kyojin with a non-standard number of episodes (16 in this case). There's no way that they're going to cover the remainder of the manga in this.

Already airing; episode one aired on [2020-12-07 Mon].

Re:Zero 2nd Season Part 2

Wouldn't that normally be called "season 3"?

Episode one airs on [2021-01-06 Wed].

The Seven Deadly Sins: Dragon's Judgement

The manga is complete, but the anime has a few seasons to go. Here's season four; think they'll stretch it out to season seven?

Reincarnated as a Slime 2nd Season

Let's continue seeing isekai from the monster perspective.

Episode one airs on [2021-11-12 Fri].

Log Horizon: Destruction of the Round Table

Maybe now we'll also get some new volumes of the light novel already?

Episode one airs on [2021-11-13 Sat].

Otona no Bouguya-san II

Lewd armour shop returns for another cour of short episodes.

Episode one airs on [2021-01-09 Sat].

Yami Shibai 8

Long-running supernatural horror shorts. Started off pretty spooky, last few seasons have been more like spoopy.

Episode one air date has yet to be announced.

Yuru Camp△: SEASON 2

Also known as Yuri Camp. Cute girls going cute camping.

Films

Space Battleship Yamato 2202

Movie compilation of the "Ai no Senshi-tachi" OVA.

Arrives in theatres in Japan on [2021-01-15 Fri].

Evangelion: 3.0+1.0 Thrice Upon A Time

End of Evangelion. Again.

Arrives in theatres in Japan on [2021-01-23 Sat].

Higurashi Gou

No, Rika! Blue lives matter!

Higurashi no Naku Koro ni Gou (Higurashi: When They Cry - GOU) · AniList

Prisma Illya

Fate/kaleid liner Prisma☆Illya · AniList

The Day I Became A God

The show has become too sad. Have some fried chicken instead.

Kamisama ni Natta Hi (The Day I Became a God) · AniList

Journey of Elaina

Is Elaina's hero Niké really her mom? The show keeps hinting, but doesn't offer any proof. Meanwhile, trouble's afoot after last week's backstory.

Majo no Tabitabi (Wandering Witch: The Journey of Elaina) · AniList

Strike Witches: Road to Berlin

Strike Witches: Dai-501 Tougou Sentou Koukuudan ROAD to BERLIN (Strike Witches: Road to Berlin) · AniList

Crunchyroll now owned by Sony

As if Crunchyroll wasn't bad enough already, now it's going to be a Soyny service.

AT&T to Sell Crunchyroll to Sony for $1.2 Billion | Hollywood Reporter

SuperRT

A ray-tracing coprocessor for the Super Nintendo. Pretty neat hardware project.