Episode 02 - While the seemingly one-sided love between the main characters is already starting to grow wearisome (incestuous undertones aside), at least this episode centers in on one of the more [...]
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Episode 01 - I can straightforwardly say that No Game No Life should be watched purely for entertainment. With a invincible duo for protagonists, a fantasy world that works right to their advantage, [...]
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Episode 01 - Soredemo is a series that is based on a manga series, one that I’ve been following for a few months now. And admittingly, this introductory episode was rather different from what I had [...]
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Episode 01 - Mahouka’s original source material, a light novel series, has been quite popular in Japan (selling a few million volumes, I believe). Thus, it comes as no surprise that it is one of the [...]
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Hey everybody, as you guys may have noticed, I was abroad in Japan for approximately 11 months (until July 2013). One of the biggest questions I have been asked by prospective visitors to Japan, as well as fellow students who will be study abroad, is how to handle for cell phone service. Well, here’s everything [...]
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Episodes 01 + 02 So far, for this season, there have been two surprise premiers for me. The first would be Hataraku Maou-sama, which had a surprisingly funny and creative premier episode. The other would be this premier, Suisei no Gargantia. Unlike Maou-sama, though, this starter did almost the exact opposite; rather than be a [...]
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Episode 01 - Anime adaptations of video games tend to be more of a hit-miss in terms of quality, or at least, that’s been my experiences with such. There’s the likes of the Persona 4 anime, which didn’t have proper pacing or character development (but it did admirably well considering the limitations it had in [...]
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Episode 01 For a first episode, Date a Live’s intro wasn’t the worst by any means (there is definitely worse from this season). However, there were definitely some glaringly noticeable issues from the outset. On the plus side, the production quality seems decent enough, but nearly everything else, from the characters to the plot, rather [...]
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Episode 01 - Karnival’s premier episode was, contrary to my expectations, a rather decent opener. At the same time, though, Karnival does nothing particularly unique to stand out or catch attention; it has a rather common anime main character setup, has a hint of fantasy and magic, topped off with a mysterious organization out to [...]
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Episode 01 - Urgh, while I normally give a new anime series a minimum of two to three episodes before I decide to drop it, this first episode was bad enough to really make me reconsider. The plot synopsis itself is certainly one of the more wacky ones out there that I’ve seen, I can [...]
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