As Claire and Rae face off against a Chimera that got summoned. Can they join forces and defeat it? Also, what will Lampert and Lene’s fate be, given what they have done? Of course, we see Rae and [...]
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Thanks to Rae buying Claire time to set up an extremely magical ray spell the two are able to defeat the chimera before it can hurt anyone. The battle requires that Claire trust Rae to keep the [...]
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  I don't like this character. Impressions: I'm fine continuing in this vein, but at episode 9, it feels long overdue, and there are still a ton of blemishes. I don't much like the way they're doing [...]
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Strangely, the actual game came out three years after it’s anime adaptation. You know everybody loves Jujutsu Kaisen? And I do mean everybody. My entire huge Asian family is watching the show, has [...]
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The fall 2023 anime season has come in hot and it’s no surprise that some of the most breathtaking series of the season also feature some of the best openings! Check out our picks for the top five OPs [...]
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Ichikawa and Yamada’s date went so well and they made such big strides in their budding relationship, but what fresh villainy is this? Ichikawa in an arm sling, between Sekine and Loverboy and with [...]
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「麦稈」 (Mugiwara) "Wheat Stalks" Even on vacation, Mao Mao doesn't get a break
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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. During the course of reading 86, we’ve been following soldiers who [...]
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「本物の勇者」 (Honmono no yuusha) "A Real Hero" I definitely think the less conventional Sousou no Frieren is, the better it fares.
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As voices from the past go through Yuuji’s head as he wanders Shibuya Station in search of another battle, a half-burned Nanami also shambles along, both in the station and in his Happy Place: a [...]
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It is refreshing to feel like the story has woken up and is starting to move again. It’s refreshing to have a main character in this show wondering about the motivations of the Undergu Empire who has [...]
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「霹靂-弐-」 (Hekireki -Ni-) "Thunderclap, Part 2" & 「理非」 (Rihi) "Right and Wrong" Stan Sukuna.
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Shangri-la Frontier 8 starts with a terrific action scene that has little but Sunraku running around and dodging attacks, which sounds dull, but the animators put so much into each little dodging [...]
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We are back at it again with the light novels in this seventh episode of AGBC Part IV: Book Club is Not Crash. This time, we’re reading The Apothecary Diaries Vol. 2, continuing the story of Maomao [...]
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By Hiromu and raemz. Released in Japan as “Chitose-kun wa Ramune Bin no Naka” by Gagaga Bunko. Released in North America by Yen On. Translated by Evie Lund. This has spoilers for the entire volume, [...]
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I consider Space Battleship Yamato 2199 to be perhaps the best franchise remake ever. Outside of legacy and possibly 2D vs. 3D animation preference for battles, it improves on the original Space [...]
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We know the stakes: Rentarou and Kusuri need to reverse the other girls’ affliction or they’ll remain kiss zombies forever. But because they have superhuman strength and speed, avoiding them on the [...]
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Time to wrap up the Sakuna arc. We continued the story inside Sakuna’s mental planetarium as she explained her full backstory to Komari before things got dirty. We learned she’s part of a loving [...]
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When Maomao wakes up on her first morning home, it takes her a beat to remember she actually is home; the chickens certainly leave no doubt. Before she’s fully awake, she’s being led briskly to a [...]
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Ichikawa is in his emo finest when he arrives thirty minutes early for his meetup with Yamada, only to find she’s just as early as him, and for the same claimed reason (making sure they “got the place [...]
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