"Love, Once More!" Make no mistake, the Cute High Earth Defense Club is a flat-out mahou shounen parody of the mahou shoujo genre, unique in that it sells out nothing in committing to the premise.
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Sequel seasons pretty much ruin even the most beloved of series. But not with Magical Boys, now this is how you do a sequel. Which is basically to give us exactly the same thing as from season 1. [...]
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Sequel seasons pretty much ruin even the most beloved of series. But not with Magical Boys, now this is how you do a sequel. Which is basically to give us exactly the same thing as from season 1. [...]
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As previously reported, Orange Rouge officially opens pre-orders today for their “Binan Koukou Chikyuu Boueibu Love!” Yufuin En Nendoroid figure, which comes with three expressions including his [...]
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Orange Rouge has released today pre-order information and a rich preview for their “Binan Koukou Chikyuu Boueibu Love!” Yufuin En Nendoroid figure, which comes with three expressions including his [...]
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From ORANGE ROUGE comes the announcement of a Nendoroid figure dedicated to “Binan Koukou Chikyuu Boueibu Love!” Yufuin En. At the moment we have only the artwork for the poseable figure to share so, [...]
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Binan Koukou comes to a fantastic close, totally “More Better” than I ever could have expected. While not a 10, the last episode captures all the wonderfulness that made this my favorite series of [...]
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A wombat, a dead teacher and five students who couldn’t care less save the world with the power of love making. This one was pretty entertaining. Quite funny when it jacked the stupidity up to eleven. [...]
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A question I’ve seen pop up quite a few times is “why are there no magical boy series?”. Ignoring that the male equivalent to mahou shoujo is superhero tokusatsu à la Kamen Rider or Super Sentai, I [...]
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It seems someone brought a crate of Red Bull to the writers' room for this episode.It's always nice when a series finishes with its best episode, and for my money Binan Koukou Chikyuu Bouei-bu [...]
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School festival, curry making, cameos of all our previous monsters, and finally we learn the true agenda of the porcupine and the fish alien as well as see the beginning of a two part show down [...]
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It's all happening...It's always nice when a series finishes with its best stuff, and that's what seems to be happening with Binan Koukou Chikyuu Bouei-bu Love!.  After delivering its comic tour [...]
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This sort of thing is especially important in an all-boys school, you know...I was worried about Binan Koukou Chikyuu Bouei-bu Love! having "legs" comedically speaking, but if anything the series [...]
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Binan Koukou kinda phoned it in this week. Rather, it didn’t have many jokes and the central plot, which featured Yumoto getting a cold and putting on glasses that changed her personality, was… yeah. [...]
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This image sums up why Binan’s characters are so entertaining to watch. When present with a riddle-slinging, overly self conscious melon monster this week, Yumoto Red is astounded and deeply excited [...]
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Who knew it was so creepy when goldfish smile?Thus might just have been my favorite episode of Binan Koukou Chikyuu Bouei-bu Love! yet, at least in terms of consistent laughs:Is saying someone is [...]
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I miss Gero-san...It's a bit of  crazy week for me so some of the posts are going to be a bit short, including this one.  Sorry about that...I'd judge this to be the most "serious" episode of [...]
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  I feel like the things I like about Binan Koukou change each week. At least, the particulars do but, if I boil it all down to a core, each particular leads to the same place: a sincere, fun loving, [...]
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Equal parts deconstructive, funny, disturbing and ridiculous, this week’s Binan Koukou sure did layer on… the layers. However, for all its academic and philosophical implications, what made episode 7 [...]
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Binan Koukou rolled into my cue a week late this week, so it’s back-to-back review time! Sadly, that’s about as enthusiastic I’m going to get this time… I’m not saying it was a bad, per say, but [...]
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