THE WEEEEB AWARDS [Best Anime of 2019]: Rising, Slaying and Singing.

1. Carole & Tuesday – Shinichirō Watanabe, director of Cowboy Bebop and Samurai Champloo, brings us this masterpiece. Music has always been a major part of his work — sometimes it feels like another character — but he cuts out the middleman and outright makes it about musicians on Mars. In 24 episodes, you run …

THE PROMISED NEVERLAND / THE RISING OF THE SHIELD HERO [Premiere Reviews]: Twist and Shout.

The Promised Neverland, or Yakusoku no Neverland, is the type of anime I would never watch unless otherwise highly recommended, similar to that of Made in Abyss in its youthful cutesieness. The two shows also have the theme of curious orphans, with the dreaded "don't go near the gate to the dangerous forest" warnings here …