And here we go with the final part of my Winter 2016 top picks countdown.   1. Grimgar of Fantasy and Ash Writing these end-of-season posts, I’m beginning to see a recent trend of gravitating towards [...]
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Part 3 of my countdown of the Winter 2016 season.   2. Shouwa Genroku Rakugo Shinjuu Of all the shows airing in the winter season, Shouwa Genroku Rakugo Shinjuu (Showa and Genroku Era Lover’s Suicide [...]
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Part 3 of my countdown of the Winter 2016 season   3. Erased Back when the winter season first began I remember writing a rough impressions post on Erased, savaging it from art to story. However, then [...]
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Part 2 of my countdown of the Winter 2016 season.   6. Osomatsu-san I originally dropped Osomatsu-san early on, having loved the grand parody of the first episode but fearing the slightly morose and [...]
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Part 1 of my countdown to the Winter 2016 season.   8. Durarara S2 Considering how I ended up coming back to Durarara despite rage-quitting during the first arc of X2, it feels odd that I’ve somehow [...]
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Now that the season is finally coming to an end I figured I’d write something about the shows I ended up dropping, prior to the actual reviews. All in all the expectation that winter 2016 would turn [...]
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And finally, here we are with some of the lesser shows airing this season, either in quality or length. I haven’t included everything I ended up watching, with the likes of Undefeated Bahamut [...]
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  Bubuki Buranki While I still don’t particularly like the rise of cgi adaptations for sci-fi anime productions, I do get the need for them. Given the detail and scale required to bring such [...]
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  Grimgar of Fantasy and Ash Here we are again with this season’s variation on the trapped in the game genre (Or arrrrre they? Wink wink!). Ok, technically there’s also that God’s Blessing one and [...]
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  Dagashi Kashi It’s nice to see Studio Feel slowly start to break away from their trashy ecchi reputation. Sure, they still churn out cheap shorts like Bikini Warriors, Galko-chan and that one about [...]
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