First, Koyomimonogatari. Episode 4 brings us back to Araragi helping to clean Kanbaru’s room, way back when, and follows it along with the usual come-ons and Araragi taking a bath and hearing a tale [...]
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Anime Herald Anime Herald - We'll talk nerdy to you. The Toonami hype train’s left the station, and fans are already onboard. Next stop, Dimension W! Last week, we reported that Dimension W‘s English [...]
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And we’re back with another new story. I don’t watch live news too often, but is it normal for them to do this “zoom in on the chest and dramatically pan up to the face” motion? Because I would have [...]
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「アフリカの風」 (Afurika no Kaze) "The Wind of Africa" Anime children love grumpy men. The post Dimension W – 06 appeared first on Random Curiosity.
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It has begun! And in more ways than one. We're about at the half way point for this series now, and Its reassuring to see that we're also getting to what I'd say is the very good stuff. Its definitely [...]
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Despite their intimate level of involvement in the case, Kyouma and Mira felt like background tourists in the Lake Yasogami arc. This week finds the show back on track, largely because despite the [...]
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  Needed more rhinocerus pizzle. Impressions: Ha ha ha ha ha. Look at that crazy foreigner. He thinks all Japanese people are samurais. What a silly racist. Pay no attention to how we believe all [...]
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Anime Herald Anime Herald - We'll talk nerdy to you. Toonami’s taking its lineup to a whole new dimension! Earlier today, Funimation announced that Dimension W will air on Adult Swim’s Toonami block. [...]
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Anime: Dimension W Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Seinen Studio: Studio 3Hz Source Material: Manga   Plot: In the year 2072, the world’s energy problems seem solved by a network of cross-dimensional [...]
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Water enemies! Don’t you love it when the antagonist conveniently has a weapon that you can use against his own allies? First off…they just figured out that these guys are made of water? That was my [...]
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「亡者の可能性」 (Mōja no Kanōsei) "The Possibilities of the Dead" Sometimes, when science fiction tries to explain itself, it just becomes more confusing. The post Dimension W – 05 appeared first [...]
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So I’m finally watching anime again. I’ll have to start catching up, and I’ve started with Dimension W. Which, alas, is a rather vexing show. So we begin the show with some radio newscaster woman or [...]
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Not all episodes are created equal and not all storylines are given their due time either. With Dimension W's first foray into a multi episode story, we got a conclusion that definitely felt strangely [...]
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Part 2 of the Lake Yadogami Mystery was a little better than Part 1, with both fun and moving moments to be had, but to be honest it did not assuage my original concern that the mini-arc was simply [...]
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Last episode of Dimension W wasn’t very good. I wrote some words about it here. The biggest problem beyond last week’s apparent lack of energy and care by the creators was how little sense the mystery [...]
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  Also, some attempted rape, apropos of nothing. Impressions: Well, I guess it was a fitting followup to last week's twenty minutes of absolutely completely nonsensical setup. Juuuust enough action in [...]
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Midway through this post I realized that with my more limited time there’s no way to catch up if I write about every episode, so I will say even less per show than I was before.  At least until I get [...]
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When did Dimension W turn into a ghost story? Also, that whole thing about the “image log” in her memory made no sense…ghosts can magically disappear from pictures? I thought that usually that was the [...]
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「八十神湖に潜む謎」 (Yasogami Mizuumi ni Hisomu Nazo) "The Mystery Hidden in Yasogami Lake" And then, things got super weird super fast. Again. The post Dimension W – 04 appeared first on Random [...]
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Dimension W, for good or for ill, embodies the soul of a classic science fiction anime series from the early 2000s. Up til now, I'd say that's worked very much in its favor, both as a manga and [...]
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