It’s that time of year again, time for mai review of the top anime that I watched in 2025. Considering that mid last year I stopped writing seasonal anime reviews, now is only real time to put some thoughts into the shows that I watched and the state of anime in general but once again …
Author: Northernhell
2025 Retrospect – In Ruin We Remain
Managed Decline: I look at the clock as my alarm wakes me up from my slumber; it’s 6:30am, shit; time to get going I guess. I drag myself out from my bed and take a quick shower, gotta keep it quick if I don’t want to miss my bus. There is a special bus that …
Anirevo Toronto 2025
In 2019 there was once an anime convention called IFF, the International Fan Festival; it died/was postponed indefinitely when covid happened when the pandemic hit in 2020. In 2023, it’s successor arrived, picking up the pieces of what was left of the former organization and had a convention called Anime Toronto; that too, was run …
Fishman Lobster Clubhouse 2025
It has been some time since I was last at Fishman Lobster Clubhouse, the now famous worldwide Chinese lobster restaurant serving mountains of Hong Kong style deep fried lobster and other seafood fare. For me, it has been almost two years since I was last here in fact, last time was in 2023 for my …
CNE 2025 Summer of Insanity Special
Not wanting to end the summer on a quiet whimper I decided to go to the CNE, alone in fact because no one else wanted to couldn’t go. Fuck yea boi, summer of insanity solo journey. I originally wasn’t going to go but when I woke up this m gorning just past 1pmish I was …
Evangelion Wind Symphony 2025
So after coming back from New York and AnimeNYC and Hololive All for One concert, I am going to see the Evangelion wind symphony in Toronto at home. Part of me actually forgot that this was like the next day after coming back from New York but it’s alright. Let’s see how this event went.
New York Trip 2025 – Day 5
Alright, fun’s over unfortunately, gotta go back home and gotta make sure I get there in one piece without dying. Just like I came to New York, I am going to use the subway and the Q70 shuttle bus to get to Laguardia airport, it’s so cheap but as I would find out later today, …
New York Trip 2025 – Day 4
Ok then let’s do this and close off our trip, last day of AnimeNYC and last day of Hololive All for One Concert. It was a pretty long day yesterday and I expect to be similar to that more or less, perhaps inherently more chill because it’s Sunday after all at a con and it’s …
New York Trip 2025 – Day 3
Alright let’s do this thing again. It’s only been like 4-5 hours since I last completed my previous daily post of memories in the super late night but I gotta wake up again and do it all over again except this time the hololive concert is day 1 of the All For One third EN …
New York Trip 2025 – Day 2
Alright then, that was a good first day 0/1 yesterday wasn’t it right? Well, from here on out, it’s all going to be about hololive and AnimeNYC convention run time so buckle up, it’s going to be rough over the next few days since I have 3 concerts back to back starting from here. Let’s …









