#2024anime — Public Fediverse posts

Choosing the 2025 Crunchyroll Anime Awards

https://thenewleafjournal.com/choosing-the-2025-crunchyroll-anime-awards/

After choosing my own 2024 anime awards, I offer my take on the Crunchyroll awards and nominees (their nominees differ greatly from my overall selection).

Somehow, an anime about people playing a virtual reality video game leads into a discussion of the Soseki-tsuki ga kirei legend.

https://thenewleafjournal.com/tsuki-ga-kirei-in-shangri-la-frontier/

2024 TV Anime Category Awards

https://thenewleafjournal.com/2024-tv-anime-category-awards/

Handing out specific category awards for the best anime of 2024.

I rank what I think are the six best TV anime of 2024 along with 15 notables and honorable mentions.

https://thenewleafjournal.com/the-best-anime-of-2024/

It's time to go over my top five anime of 2024. Did any of your favorites make it onto my list? And if not, what were your top five anime of the year?

READ: https://doublesama.com/top-5-anime-of-2024/

#Anime #2024Anime #HappyNewYear

I selected the best freely available English-language sources on Halloween in Japan to learn about its growing popularity there in recent years.

https://thenewleafjournal.com/halloween-in-japan-through-english-sources/

Having already written about aesthetics and hair color in Days With My Stepsister, I figured that I may as well review the whole season.

https://thenewleafjournal.com/days-with-my-stepsister-anime-review/

Aesthetics and Hair Color in Gimai Seikatsu

https://thenewleafjournal.com/aesthetics-and-hair-color-in-gimai-seikatsu/

In a two-part article, I first discuss how the superlative aesthetics in Days with My Stepsister elevate an otherwise mediocre anime before examining how the show handles the topic of anime character hair color in its world.

PSA: Sound! Euphonium Movies On Tubi TV

I invite readers to catch up on the Sound! Euphonium anime series for free on Tubi TV before I cover the third and final TV season in my 2024 anime review at the end of the year.

https://thenewleafjournal.com/psa-sound-euphonium-movies-on-tubi-tv/

#2024Anime #ASignOfAffection #KimiNiTodoke #SoundEuphonium #TheDangersInMyHeart

A Jellyfish Can’t Swim in the Night features three teenage girls whose hair is shown to have undergone some dramatic color and style changes over the years.

https://thenewleafjournal.com/hair-color-in-jellyfish-cant-swim-in-the-night/

Additional Thoughts on A Sign of Affection

I reviewed the A Sign of Affection anime after having written five articles about hair color in the show. A report on the show’s production gave rise to additional thoughts.

https://thenewleafjournal.com/additional-thoughts-on-a-sign-of-affection/

#2024Anime #ASignOfAffection #LoveStory

The Dangers in My Heart S2 Anime Review

https://thenewleafjournal.com/the-dangers-in-my-heart-s2-anime-review/

While the first season of The Dangers in My Heart missed my 2023 top-six list, the second season proved to be the first genuine anime of the year candidate for 2024.

Bottom-tier Character Tomozaki – S2 Review

A comprehenshive spoiler-lite review of the second season of the Bottom-tier Character Tomozaki anime.

https://thenewleafjournal.com/bottom-tier-character-tomozaki-s2-review/

#2021Anime #2024Anime #BottomTierCharacterTomozaki #JapaneseSchools

The winter 2024 adaptation of A Sign of Affection gave me five articles about anime hair color. Having written so much about it already, I decided to write a full review of the eseason itself, separate from its great hair color topics.

https://thenewleafjournal.com/a-sign-of-affection-anime-review/

History of My Anime Hair Color Project

I commemorate the unexpected dominance of my first two articles about hair color in A Sign of Affection in our February article ranking with a history of my anime/manga/game hair color project. Let’s start in 2012…

https://thenewleafjournal.com/history-of-my-anime-hair-color-project/

#2021Anime #2022Anime #2023Anime #2024Anime #ASignOfAffection #AnimeHairColor #HairDye #JapaneseLNAndMangaHairColor #KimiNiTodoke #Oregairu #RavenOfTheInnerPalace #TheApothecaryDiaries #VideoGameHairColor

Tomozaki Anime and Big Tech Social Media

Examining the promotion of “Pinstagram” as a tool for social climbing in school in season two of Bottom-tier Character Tomozaki-kun.

https://thenewleafjournal.com/tomozaki-anime-and-big-tech-social-media/

#2024Anime #BottomTierCharacterTomozaki #ChildrenAndTechnology #Instagram #JapaneseSchools #SocialMedia

A Sign of Affection Ep 7 Hair Color Notes

Episodes 2 and 5 of A Sign of Affection indirectly established that main characters Yuki Itose and Itsuomi Nagi dye their hair. Episode 7 brought further notes about their hair color and one on Itsuomi’s friend, Shin Iryū.

https://thenewleafjournal.com/a-sign-of-affection-ep-7-hair-color-notes/

#2024Anime #ASignOfAffection #AnimeHairColor #HairDye

Itsuomi’s Hair Color in A Sign of Affection

Episode 5 of the A Sign of Affection anime adaptation provided definitive proof that one of the two main characters, Itsuomi Nagi, has been dying his hair. I examine the evidence.

https://thenewleafjournal.com/itsuomis-hair-color-in-a-sign-of-affection/

#2024Anime #ASignOfAffection #AnimeHairColor

Yuki’s Hair Color in A Sign of Affection

https://thenewleafjournal.com/changing-hair-color-in-a-sign-of-affection/

Examining overwhelming circumstantial evidence of Yuki Itose’s use of hair dye in the first two episodes of the A Sign of Affection anime adaptation.

Examining unusual hair colors in the main characters of Ming China-inspired The Apothecary Diaries.

https://thenewleafjournal.com/hair-color-in-the-apothecary-diaries-anime/