What this season lacks, is quantity. The amount of series that really stand out here. There are the obvious stand-outs of Shingeki no Kyojin and Aku no Hana, in terms of comedy there are the hilarious Maou-sama and Azazel-san, and also Gargantia has potential, but beyond that… I don’t really sense enough ambition, not to [...]
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We seem to be experiencing some turbulence and shadow demons, so please fasten your seatbelt. Oh thank God my exams are over. Time for summer-lovin’ and blogging until I have to go back to school in September. I’m a bit out of it still (my head’s still full of gene and enzyme names) and don’t [...]
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「はじめての手のひら」 (Hajimete no Tenohira) "The First Hand" As far I'm concerned, RDG is still in the beginning stages of introductions and setting the story up. This week episode was primarily focused on the school trip to Tokyo and Izumiko's hunt to meet her mother.
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Izumiko’s true identity finally reveals itself. Compared to last time, I thought this episode improved a bit as it finally shows why supernatural events happen around Izumiko. Besides not being able to use technology, she is constantly afraid and that someone is out to get her throughout the episode when she is in Tokyo. After [...]
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Izumiko gets a new cell phone from her mother Yukariko in the mail and with it, an invitation to meet up in Tokyo. Izumiko and Miyuki use their school’s class trip to Tokyo to do so, but everywhere Izumiko looks, she sees dark, shadowy, threatening figures. Sagara surprises them by appearing, and telling them they [...]
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Izumiko might have her "manservant", but it's certainly done little for her nervous disposition even if her friends seem to be enjoy the presence of this sporty new male newcomer in their midst. Of more concern to Izumiko is the forthcoming school trip to Tokyo, which certainly isn't her "thing"; it's a situation made worse when she receives a mobile phone together with a letter from her mother
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