Please spay or neuter your devils. Impressions: A pretty decent episode overall, even if the technobabble and magical machine to turn everybody into gorillas suck the life out of everybody in the area seemed a bit randomly thrown in and straight out of the Legion of Doom’s playbook. At least I was wrong about Christina, as she [...]
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  Oh good, now the show is using verbs as nouns. Yes, yes, I’m awake already. Impressions: A pretty decent episode, though it’s pretty late in the game to just now be introducing new stuff that really doesn’t seem like it’s going to have the staying power to last through the final four episodes and they could [...]
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I don’t really get this arc yet, but I’m pretty much satisfied with moe-moe housewife Syuri “Yukari” mode. Also, LOL at missile-spam, Macross-style at the end. ©2009 Kurogane's Anime Blog. All Rights Reserved..
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The struggle over a stabilizer leads to a confrontation with Susugihara. Impressions: Well things have started to progress with the characters. The stabilizer was the main focus here as Tomoharu and company tried to keep a hold of it. Now this was far from an easy task with Susugihara going after them with a pretty powerful asura [...]
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  Tomo’s house became a bad sitcom setup awfully fast. Impressions: Well, not too bad of a setup episode, but that’s all it was, and I really don’t like this new character at all. The obligatory loli, Nia, falls into just about every bad loli stereotype. She’s uppity, spoiled, a genius, and has enough ribbons in her [...]
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Not only does my title kind of rhyme, but it makes perfect sense. Asura Cryin’ is freaking awesome, and episode 6 did not disappoint at all. You may have noticed that I didn’t write a review on episode 5. That’s because it was an episode that was made pretty much to set up for episode [...]
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  Haven’t I used that subtitle before? Oh well. Impressions: Honestly not the most compelling of episodes, but after they went to town last week, it’s understandable. About half of it was a flashback where we learn that a few years ago, everybody’s faces were really badly distorted, but mostly pretty round and fat. You also hadn’t [...]
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I was very much relieved to read that Aroduc approved, overall, of the past three episodes of Asura Cryin’ : Ep 4 - As surreal as much of this episode was, this show is actually turning out so much better than the first two episodes indicated. Ep 5 - Not as good as the last couple, [...]
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[ EX004: Feelings Without Destination ]   Wow, I could not take that bathroom scene seriously at all. At all.
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TAAN: I can’t think right now, almost literally. The past several days have been pretty bad for me, I guess, since I’m like this right now. But anyways, this episode was far too confusing when I tried to summarize it, so I decided to hold off on it for a while until I thought of [...]
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  When all else fails, stick something up your butt. Impressions: A great episode marred only a little bit by somewhat anticlimatic ending, along with one of the more bizarre developments, even for this series. The various treatments for Tomoharu’s cold were entertaining enough, but I think Shuuri wins the award for forcing Tomo to grop Takatsuki in [...]
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FIRST HALF SECOND HALF The age-old third-episode second-half-of-episode-four curse strikes again. FIRST HALF SECOND HALF FIRST HALF SECOND HALF FIRST HALF SECOND HALF (What the hell are those things in the back?) I’m really Cryin’ now!
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Having watched three episodes of this show now, I have to admit that I’m still very much confused as to where this show is heading. Which is why I’ll keep this very brief. From the PV and description, Asura Cryin’ is really very misleading in both its title and what the show was to be about. [...]
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TAAN: Well, since everyone else is talking about work in their intro thing, I might as well too. I have far more work than I actually acknowledge right now, and it’s all due to my horrible habit of being unable to escape the allure of sleep. Once I’m awake, I can stay up forever, but [...]
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Before I go into the fact that this series gets better every episode, and that this episode was awesome as well, I would like to shortly state that: I can’t decide who I like better, Takatsuki or Misao. Takatsuki has different colored eyes, her seemingly split personality, and the fact that she can catch and melt [...]
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  I liked her better when she was posing and exploding things. Impressions: Not as good as the last couple, but still worlds beyond the first two episodes. I really don’t like the addition of amnesia as a convenient plot device, nor the little gremlin stolen right out of some bad kiddy RPG. Kurosaki isn’t even [...]
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I felt inclined to say Asura Cryin is awesome after the 2nd episode, but after watching this 3rd episode, the dilly dallying and the messing around of that science-club meganekko was just irritating. Are they trying to lengthen the episode? If they are trying to save money with that, I don’t think they are doing [...]
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[ EX002: The Destruction of the Imminent Future ]   Hey, morning coffee.
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   If only she was Horie. Impressions: As surreal as much of this episode was, this show is actually turning out so much better than the first two episodes indicated. There’s still the clumsy CG mechs, the clumsily crowbarred in T&A, and the world is about five degrees stranger than it really needs to be, but Kurosaki’s [...]
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TAAN: You know, this series reminds me a lot of another one with a certain kid with a godly brother (with similar names, even) pulling the strings from some unknown location. And they both share random stuff about spirals. Anyways, here’s the second and third episodes. Episode 2: Summary: So Tomoharu wakes up after the battle last [...]
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