Grisaia no Kajitsu, the original game of the series which went on to be praised and prominent, is coming to the PSP next month - and the PV is hilariously sadistic, playing upbeat music to world destruction.
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Jintai is definitely amongst the top of this easy to outdo season - yet obligatory praise aside, it's worth recognizing how the series has quite a morbid side, specifically within the horrifically exquisite ED.
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The main male protagonist and his future kidnapper a.k.a. the main female protagonist. Another effort to reduce my anime backlogs sees me watching yet another 2008 anime title titled World Destruction. Just like Ga Rei Zero reviewed in this blog before this one, this series has been rotting on my hard disk drive for years already. [...] Related posts:Review: The World God Only Knows (神のみぞ知るセカイ) Review: Legend of Legendary Heroes (伝説の勇者の伝説) Review: Kino no Tabi (キノの旅 – the Beautiful World) Review: The Sacred Blacksmith (聖剣の刀鍛冶（ブラックスミス）) Review: Seikon no Qwaser (聖痕のクェイサー) Related posts brought to you by Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.
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The main male protagonist and his future kidnapper a.k.a. the main female protagonist. Another effort to reduce my anime backlogs sees me watching yet another 2008 anime title titled World Destruction. Just like Ga Rei Zero reviewed in this blog before this one, this series has been rotting on my hard disk drive for years [...] Related posts:Review: The World God Only Knows (神のみぞ知るセカイ) Review: Legend of Legendary Heroes (伝説の勇者の伝説) Review: Kino no Tabi (キノの旅 – the Beautiful World) Review: Seikon no Qwaser (聖痕のクェイサー) Review: The Sacred Blacksmith (聖剣の刀鍛冶���ブラックスミス���) Related posts brought to you by Yet Another Related Posts Plugin.
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    Before I run off to the Anime and Hollywood keynote speech (which I'll be liveblogging, so stay tuned!), I just got a press release from FUNimation announcing the cast of El Cazador de la Bruja, the supernatural adventure series from NOIR and Madlax director Koichi Mashimo. The cast includes Maxey Whitehead as the sweet and innocent Ellis, and Trina Nishimura as sexy gunswoman Nadie.FUNimation also announced that they've acquired Sands of Destruction, which some of you may know as World Destruction, starring Maaya Sakamoto and Mamoru Miyano. Score!
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Hey, aniblogosphere? I’m in love with this girl, and she loves me. There are some obstacles to us being open about our relationship around people in real life. Last night, one of those obstacles disappeared. It feels like a huge weight has been lifted, and even though shit’s not perfect yet I kind of just wanted to [...]
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In a world covered by sand, humans are mere second-class citizens compared to beastmen- a situation that some live with, but others resent. For Kyrie, the situation means keeping his head down and disguising himself with the aid of a pair of cat ears, but maintaining a low profile becomes impossible when he gets tangled [...]
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Hey, look, a reset end. I guess I didn’t waste my time at all with this show! I had a more detailed look at the series done, but Yukan! had some downtime in the middle of me editing this post, so I’ll make this short. Birdy will forever go down as one of my most disappointing series. The first episode had style and flair, great animation and a good premise, but as soon as we got deeper into the (if you could call it this) plot, everything started going down hill. Why? ...
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After frequently coming close to ending the world via the medium of boredom, World Destruction is finally over, and I do have to admit that the final episode was... well, rather cool. It's been apparent from pretty early on that despite being a slightly annoying weakling throughout the series, Kirie is actually an important part of the story, and the last episode really ramped up his importance
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Seriously, I want the anime to go on. But it’s also good news to me too as I’ll be away from THAT for about a week or two to continue mugging for my upcoming papers (Unless you want me to pass, I’ll fail all my papers big time and you won’t be able to hear [...]
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Well, at least you know what’s going on Dr Alligator, because I sure as hell don’t. Finally we’ve gotten to a point where I acturally care about what’s going on in this show. And it only took 12 episodes to do it. Too bad the next one’s the finale ORZ. Though it was still endlessly cliche [...]
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Episode eleven of World Destruction left us with a cliff-hanger... Quite literally. Ho-ho. Sorry, I had to get that one out of my system. Anyway, with the Destruct Code stolen and Morte and company left in the winter continent, what next for our brave trio? Quite simply, they get caught in another rather clichéd plot device. Sorry, I mean... they get caught in (cue booming voice) the
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This week’s episode is very interesting. Very. Interesting. And I’m serious about it. So far there aren’t as much comedic part as the previous episodes, I think it’s one of the best we’ve seen so far. Probably one of the most intriguing episodes in the series before it ends next week (I really wish that [...]
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Episode eleven of World Destruction featured a brief appearance from a penguin, which guarantees it bonus points in my book. But is that enough to raise this episode above the abject medicority which has passed for much of this series? Well, it goes without saying that a penguin alone won't sway my opinions, but I think it is fair to say that this is probably the best episode of World
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I can has bad subs? The only thing remotely entertaining about this episode was the decent fight between Morte and Lia (I don’t care what anyone says, Lia’s the easiest name to use). But even that was kind of stupid since Lia’s two revolvers seemed to have around 20 bullets in each cylinder, and she only [...]
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Lolz, surrounded by puny robots. Thanks for the ‘egg’ comments in the previous WD post, now that my morale to write this post for this week’s episode has gone down. Even my back pain didn’t forgive me for this one. Our dear Salvation members have more lines this time and Toppi goes into hibernating mode as [...]
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Your wish is in command, lord Alligator. I-am-a-robot-. Okay, that’s a really lousy (And sucky) attempt to imitate a robot voice. Our next stop for today is to become robots and also sound like one (Don’t follow me. It’s really bad, it’s the truth) and somehow my fingers aren’t going to co-operate with me on this entry. [...]
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Take stock story themes and use them to make your show seem like crap! Though I say these things, this episode wasn’t half bad. The episodic storyline (if you can call it that) was just horrible though, “the robot has a heart theme” is just so corny it’s painful. They even had the echo as Toppi [...]
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I hate to be the kind to cheer with glee that a particular series is coming to a close as it always seems a bit harsh, but reaching the ten episode milestone of World Destruction has left me feeling somewhat relieved, such is the abject mediocrity of this series. Indeed, this particular episode could well be a poster boy for "ideas that have been used before in myriad other movies and anime
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As our intrepid trio that make up the World Destruction Committee reach Autumnland (can was stop with the lands named after seasons now please?), we move away from the gang being chased down by the World Salvation Committee or generally getting involved with the wrong sort for once, with the series instead taking a more emotional turn in this ninth instalment. As always, Morte is less than
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