The government can't stop 9 because he is a serious teenager.
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Color me intrigued (and a bit irked).An interesting thing happened with Zankyou no Terror this week.  The series got sillier and less believable, and became considerably more engaging in the [...]
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At its core, Zankyou no Terror is a story about alienation. Lisa is alienated from her mother and the rest of the world. The terrorists are alienated from everyone but one another. The detective is [...]
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「HIDE & SEEK」 Talk about a packed fifth episode. The post Zankyou no Terror – 05 appeared first on Random Curiosity.
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Despite the seemingly random (to the public at large) destruction and disorder they’ve caused, Nine and Twelve’s activities as Sphinx have been highly controlled at every level. They’re not launching [...]
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Oh shit what’s this a timestamp breakdown of something that isn’t Sword Art Online?!? I know, crazy. The reasoning’s pretty simple – unlike with Ping Pong, my thoughts on this show seem to take the [...]
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(Note: Episodic notes are still mostly to be found on the Episodics Notes’ page, but up to a couple every week will have their write-up appear on the main page, when I think they warrant it. For those [...]
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Since I forgot all these in the third week post, I thought I might as well give them a little treatment. In case I forget them again when it’s time for the mid-season post. Akame ga Kill Petite, [...]
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I’m unclear as to whether I should be rooting for these terrorists or not. But it sure feels like the show wants me to do so. I’m not convinced though. My adult mind still says bad is bad. And the [...]
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What a witty metaphor! Seriously, this series desperately needs some self-awareness when it comes to referencing present-day-stuff. Zankyou no Terror isn’t a series I hold in high regard right now. [...]
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Sasuga, indeed.I won't deny that there are times I wish I loved Zankyou no Terror as much as I admire it.  But I do admire it an awful lot.  It's just so relentlessly beautiful in its execution - [...]
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“At the place where the king who solved the riddle received a scary prophecy, whose name would you carve on its entrance?” Let’s just say, if you’re a detective chasing Sphinx and don’t know anything [...]
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「BREAK THROUGH」 There's a certain type of poignancy about episodes like this. The post Zankyou no Terror – 04 appeared first on Random Curiosity.
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What did I say last week? “Give me more of the teens,” I said. “They make the show better,” I said. Well, you know what? Zankyou no Terror did exactly what I wanted it to, and turned in the best [...]
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(Note: Episodic notes are still mostly to be found on the Episodics Notes’ page, but up to a couple every week will have their write-up appear on the main page, when I think they warrant it. For those [...]
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For this post, I’d like to talk about Zankyou no Terror. Specifically, I’d like to talk about how it handles its narrative visually. *I’ll just refer to the show as Zantero hereafter. It should hardly [...]
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What does it mean to be a rare beast? Is it a good thing or a bad thing? I think ultimately the question to that can only be answered by the beast itself. Is the rarity treasured, viewed as a weapon, [...]
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Hoo boy. This was another crime procedural episode, but that didn’t matter at all because holy crap was this episode thematically focused. The very first comments of the young police officer set the [...]
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Twelve isn’t content to wow a bunch of dummies; he wants a counterpart: someone at least clever enough to decipher Sphinx’s riddles; someone to make a game of this, because when you’re raised in a [...]
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Apparently humanity’s solution in their battle against ghouls is to hire humans who are even creepier than the ghouls. Just as a heads-up for those few who weren’t already aware of it: Nickelodeon has [...]
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