The Frame

Kai's anime desk for filler trials, fandom verdicts, broadcast memory, and the seasonal shows pretending they are not already causing problems.

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From Kai's Anime Desk

Did streaming make anime bigger, or just make everybody impatient faster?

This week's column looks at the difference between discovering a show on a schedule and inhaling twelve episodes before the group chat wakes up.

Seasonal Signal

Momentum watch: The quiet show is getting loud. The loud show is getting nervous. Kai is pretending not to enjoy this.

Weekly Poll

Which is the better anime discovery experience?

Scoped Thread

Spoiler tags, one-level replies, no anonymous posting. We are building a discussion section, not releasing a cursed scroll.

Kai pinnedTag spoilers. "The manga did it better" is not a spoiler tag.

ReaderI miss waiting for the next episode, but I do not miss missing one and having no idea what happened.

ReaderMy first late-night anime was Yu Yu Hakusho. I thought I was awake illegally.

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