Hand puns will be very low hanging. Impressions: Certainly taking a lot of inspiration from Trigger/Gainax, painfully so as this is a very cut and paste premise from a zillion mecha/mecha adjacent [...]
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“So, to sum up Hikaru’s story,” says one of Hikaru’s friends, as they walk to school in a futuristic Japanese city, “last night, Hikaru, a troubled third year in Kitakagami junior high school, was [...]
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  Why? Impressions: God only knows why I would have assumed this, but I expected the torture rape stuff to be toned down at least a little, but no. Of course not. Full crotch shots in rape angles with [...]
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Takuya Ohara and Rika Honjoji are coworkers at a travel agency, but despite working in the same office, they don’t often talk to each other. You see, they’re both introverts, so neither of them goes [...]
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Sport runs in the veins of the Inomata family. In her time, Taichi’s mother played basketball at the same high school her son goes to. Less suited for team efforts, her son has taken up badminton, [...]
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Keroro Gunsou Episode 131 ケロロ軍曹/Sgt. Frog Anime Review SPOILER Summary/Synopsis: Giroro stuns his platoon by requesting leave. He refuses to tell Natsumi where he’s going. As such, Natsumi hides in a [...]
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  Snap me off a stick of that kot kat square. That's four and halfway for the day. I need to actually do some work stuff for a bit, so Dandadan, mechy arms, dragon cheat power, and ugh, that cheating [...]
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On the 49th day since the death of his beloved dog, Hanako, storybook writer Hotaru Yūyami spots a pink mushroom growing in his yard. Not thinking much of it at first, Hotaru goes about his daily [...]
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  I wasn't aware that cats weren't allowed in Alaska. Impressions: I guess at least the constant silly faces from the dude and the Looney Tunes noises make it clear that it's meant to be a comedy, but [...]
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  Maybe stop going to casinos, my guy. Two down, six to go. Impressions: This one missed the mark pretty hard too. Starting off with a hanging is certainly a choice, and he doesn't do himself many [...]
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  Not sure this is the correct way to deal with grief. Eight premieres to get through. It'll be a haul. Impressions: What a frankly bizarre episode. Dude is sad about his dead dog, so a literal [...]
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The cart driver was actually Lelouch and somehow Brittania is back oppressing elevens. But really the biggest plot hole is how does she fit these enormous boobs into her boy disguise? This was [...]
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I do appreciate when shows go with two episodes to start a series. Sometimes you just can’t really establish the premise in just a single episode without it becoming overly rushed. Getting two [...]
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Goshima Kirie is a normal high school girl in a normal sleepy town, but one day things start getting…abnormal. Her boyfriend Saitou Shuuichi begs her to move out of town with him, believing it to be [...]
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Chizuko is a middle school girl who stays at her grandfather’s place for a week. Yep, her mother is on a business trip. Besides noticing something strange while on the way there, she finds something [...]
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After a three-and-a-half year hiatus, Re:Zero returns with a super-sized  90-minute episode that seems intent on packing in every member of its sprawling cast in various combinations. Emilia and [...]
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Things are working their way to completion. Shadow of the Erdtree is mostly written up, now it’s just time to go take some relevant pictures. It’s a bit of a mess in composition but it gets most of my [...]
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By Asato Asato and Shirabii. Released in Japan by Dengeki Bunko. Released in North America by Yen On. Translated by Roman Lempert. On the bright side, this is one of the short story volumes coming out [...]
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The Fall Anime Season of 2024 seems to be filled with supernatural and spiritual anime series. Is this a form of soft disclosure from the Japanese anime industry?
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Subaru Natsuki hasn’t been this happy in a long time. A year has passed since he was first summoned to this fantasy world. Gone are the sloth and envy that held him back: these days he’s working out, [...]
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