Looks like the new opening and ending won’t be getting much use in this second cour either, not that I am complaining of course. This week I  wouldn’t be surprised if people were getting sick of [...]
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I honestly didn’t think a second cour episode of Re:Zero could match the cinematic majesty of episode 7, but, well…here we are, eight episodes later, and this show is still topping itself. My [...]
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Well, we don’t usually give a review on the first cour of anime show, given the fact that the second part will air next autumn season. But since I’m not certain I would cover its second half, plus I [...]
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Consider this a mini-review because, for better or for worse, a lot of the problems from the first cour carried over to the second cour. Aniplex’s 2-cour “titan” Asterisk finally comes to an end and [...]
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「告白の時間」 (Kokuhaku no Jikan) "Confession Time" After an entire cour of build up and a one week delay, AssClass has finally upped the ante and is getting serious! The post Ansatsu [...]
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Akagami no Shirayuki-hime is the curious tale of two halves. The fantasy shoujo romance show was another one of those split cour series that had its first cour in Summer of one year and the second one [...]
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Gonna push the Phantom World and Grimgar reviews back a day to chime in about the new season. So let’s get to it. Ushio & Tora 2 I had hoped Ushio & Tora’s last cour would go the route of Noragami [...]
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「風が吹く」 (Kaze ga Fuku) "The Wind Blows" Ushio to Tora returns for its final cour in what starts off as endearing and romantic before everything is turned upside down and we're flung back [...]
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Heavy Object is a show that has a solid premise and pretty much just goes with it for the entirety of its 2-cour run. Very much a David vs Goliath setup taken to some interesting extremes. The main [...]
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Well that ended better than I expected it to, while still maintaining some of that traditional conclusion disappointment. I'm of course, referring to Dimension W, the 1-cour anime series that has long [...]
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Filler after filler after filler. We are reaching the end of this cour now, and a lot of things are happening in all sorts of shows. Okay, so perhaps I gave up on Shouwa Genroku Rakugo Shinjuu and [...]
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The official website to the upcoming Spring anime series, 「Bungo Stray Dogs」, has updated with a second promotional video. The show will have it televised premiere on April 6th. In addition, it has [...]
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PoS (which is no a POS) follows up a big, exciting, official race with…another big, exciting, official race! Good form, especially if this is just a single-cour series. An anime about a game of [...]
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Then came the second episode, and all was right with the world. Okay... Maybe not quite, but I still really liked this second episode of Akagami no Shirayuki-hime's second cour a lot more than I did [...]
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And we're back, for the last cour of the second Durararara!!x2 Series. Durarara!!x2 has, since its very start, been a pretty hard case of "careful what you wish for". Since the first season ended, [...]
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This third and final cour of Durarara!!x2 is subtitled Ketsu (結) Japanese for (among other things) “sintering” (compacting a solid mass without melting it) and Chinese for “knot.” (It can also mean [...]
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For the record, 39 cm equals 15.35 inches.  Stick that in your pipe and smoke it.The first cour of the second season of anime's most lavishly produced and slickest sports anime comes to an end in [...]
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What, you were expecting anything less?It won't be appearing in this year's LiA Top 10 list (thanks to split-cour status) but I can safely say this - Ushio to Tora will certainly be making an [...]
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「グラヴィシーズ」 (Gurabuishiisu) "Gravisheath" With its first cour wrapping up, let's jump into some final impressions with a little bit of talk about the Urzaiz sisters. Because let's be honest [...]
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Every single year I keep meaning to do the one thing: catch-up. Catch up on old shows, start new ones, follow each cour in each year like some uber-religious weeaboo. But it’s usually the case that I [...]
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