Who we are

About Us

BingeAnimeNow started because we kept sending each other long voice messages about what to watch next. This is the less annoying version of that.

Why this site exists

There are already good places to look up which anime won awards, or which ones appear on every "top 10" list, or which ones have the highest ratings on aggregator sites. BingeAnimeNow is not trying to compete with those.

What those places do not do well: tell you what to watch on a Tuesday evening when you are tired, have about an hour, and do not want to think too hard about it. Or on a Sunday morning when you want something that will make you feel a feeling you cannot quite name. Or when you are stuck in a genre and want something adjacent but not identical.

The mood-first approach came from noticing that "what is good" and "what I want right now" are different questions. Rating systems answer the first. We are more interested in the second.

The no-spoilers default came from getting burned too many times. We write about what a show is doing without telling you what happens in it.

Editorial approach

Each dispatch is written by someone who has finished the show or knows it well enough to say where to start and where to stop. We are not reviewers in the traditional sense — we are not scoring or ranking. We are writing letters to someone who is about to make a decision about how to spend two hours.

We never write about a show we have not watched. We do not cover every new release. We cover what we actually have something to say about.

BingeAnimeNow does not accept sponsored posts or paid placements. What appears here reflects what the writers actually think is worth your time.

Who writes it

Valentijn Oosterbeek

Co-founder, Lead Writer

Nadia studied cultural studies at Radboud University Nijmegen and spent three years working as a subtitler for a localization company handling Japanese media. She has been watching anime since her early teens and started writing about it seriously in 2019, focusing on how emotional storytelling in animation differs structurally from live-action drama.

Drama Iyashikei Psychological

Tom van der Berg

Co-founder, Writer

Tom worked as a secondary school media teacher in Arnhem for six years before leaving to write full-time. His background is in comparative media: he spent his graduate years writing about how adaptation works across formats, which is why he tends to write about the structural decisions in anime rather than plot or character takes. He watches more comedy than anything else.

Funny Action Sports

A note on the tools

The Mood Finder is built on the same logic we use when making personal recommendations — it asks about your current energy, not your taste history or your watchlist. The signal board on the homepage is a rough cut of the same idea. Neither replaces reading a dispatch, but both are faster if you have already decided you just want a title.

Try the Mood Finder