Occult Academy was easily the most disappointing TV anime that I finished in 2010. I got a bit excited for it because the A-1 Pictures "Anime no Chikara" project had turned out the amazing Sora no Woto earlier this year (I didn't see Senkou no Nigth Raid until later, but it was still better than Occult Academy), and because the character design and animation directing were being handled by Chiba Takahiro, who was also responsible for Kamichu and worked on Read or Die. (The team from those 2 shows seems to work together a lot, and I'm a big fan).
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I’ve been busy for the previous week, so I’ve only watched the most recent episode now. That was awesome, even if I was forewarned by /a/’s denizens of transformation sequences. I’m sure that the mediocre episodes in the middle of the show were to build up this final arc, and its beginning was awesome. One [...]
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For each episode so far, I’ve been formulating bizarre theories for what’s actually happening in Occult Academy. This is partly [...]
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Maya’s dead? Yeah riiiight! Well, well, well… we were expecting this, weren’t we? Finally an episode of Occult Academy that I can talk about incessantly! Finally things have picked up with the storyline and nobody’s beating around the bush anymore (was getting tired of all the fillerish episode arcs). Everything [...]
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Seikimatsu Occult Gakuin (Occult Academy) episode 11 dares to go places you wouldn’t have guessed. As this series moves towards its conclusion, passions, bubbling below the surface, erupt, Fumiaki is seduced, beaten, and abandoned, Maya is killed, and a white witch emerges. Fumiaki’s girlfriend surprises him in more ways than one. First by showing up [...]
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I feel as though I’ve watched something I shouldn’t have… but then the second half of the episode happened and suddenly it went from rated XXX to BAMF. Everyone knew Mikaze and the VP were up to something, but now everything is out in the open, out of their trenches, and ready for war! Just ready for [...] Related posts:Seikimatsu Occult Academy 9 Seikimatsu Occult Academy 5 Seikimatsu Occult Academy 7
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Warning big spoilers below, so please stop reading if you haven’t watched this episode!! Wow, that’s the first thing that comes to mind when I think about this episode! It’s perfect, I’ve been going on about Mikaze for the past two months and now she’s finally exposed! I’ll admit she’s not what I was expecting, [...]
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After allowing itself to get sidetracked well and truly with a rather pointless side story over the past couple of episodes, this eleventh instalment of Occult Academy throws us right back into the serious business of Nostradamus' Key. What, you didn't really think they'd forgotten all about it, did you?While Maya is already planning their next potential target from the world of the occult which
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Episode 11 – MAYA’s Death – マヤの死 (Maya no Shi) I had expected some sort of major change with the end of this show in sight, but oh boy, I didn’t expect THIS much of a curveball. I had been worried that the creators for this show were taking their time a little too much, [...]
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Wow…. these are the kinds of episodes that blow you away. It did to me at least. I already mentioned at the shoutbox that we had a beyond awesome staff working on this episode: Sayo Yamamoto, the director of Michiko e Hatchin doing the storyboard and the script written by Hiroshi Ounogi, who also wrote [...]
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